Doctor Who (BBC 1963-89, 1996, 2005- ) has attracted much attention on this blog (see here, here and here for recent examples). In this post, I’m going to engage with the series to push back against TV Studies’ implied ‘zone of liveness’ by analysing one episode as a case study – ‘Dinosaurs on a Spaceship’ (2012) – for the purpose of demonstrating how employing emergent and alternative theoretical perspectives can prompt re-evaluation

Historically, female filmmakers’ work in television has functioned as a form of invisible labour, with television being seen as definitively distinct from cinema, the site of ‘real’ and hard-won work.

So… Annihilation (dir. Alex Garland, 2018) is now on DVD and Blu-ray and can be purchased on Amazon Prime… anyone else noticed this? As of 1st April 2019, Annihilation is available on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK and USA. No, I have not been commissioned by Amazon or Alex Garland to promote this fact.

Hi, my name is Elke and I am a compulsive overworker. When I say ‘compulsive’ I literally mean I cannot help myself. I am ‘acting from a compulsion’ as the Oxford English Dictionary defines it. When I work less than 10 hours I feel guilty, after all there is always more to do, more to learn, more to improve. Even going down to 10 hours has been a bit of a struggle: before having children, I was regularly working 12 hours a day.

ITV News at Ten, Wednesday 26 March, 24 minutes into the bulletin: Tom Bradby, the senior presenter, suddenly starts giggling.

In November 2017, Variety magazine published an open letter in which 18 women from the cast and crew of US teen drama series, One Tree Hill (The WB/CW, 2003 – 2012) accused the programme’s showrunner, Mark Schwahn, of sexual harassment.

The Eighth Annual Screen Industries in East-Central Europe Conference (SIECE) is following up with the previous year’s topic by providing a forum for discussing the online strategies of public service broadcasters and their possible transformations into a new kind of media services.

Call for Presentations: Horror, Cult and Exploitation Media III: A Research Workshop for PhDs and Early Career Researchers **Friday 3 May 2019, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK **

Cinema and Television History Institute (CATHI), De Montfort University, Leicester. Keynote speaker: Dr. Shelley Cobb (Associate Professor of Film, University of Southampton). £5 conference free: to be paid in cash upon registration MA travel bursaries available – email cath.postgrad@gmail.com for more information.

As you all know, public broadcasting’s most important task for capitalism is developing genres and audiences, then delivering them to a less-creative private sector for the purposes of profit. Think football, cricket, and basketball.

Keynote Speakers Christopher Breward, National Galleries of Scotland Pamela Church Gibson, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts Shaun Cole, Winchester School of Art, University of Southhampton Andrew Reilly, University of Hawaii Convenor Vicki Karaminas, Massey University, New Zealand