Goliath . It began last year, and the second season became available this past northern summer. It’s on Amazon Prime, and boasts the signature of David E Kelley and Billy Bob Thornton, inter alios . The second season trailer brings home so much to me. I’ve stayed in the hotel where the protagonist lives and works. I’ve poked my nose into the sawdust-on-the floor cracker bar where he drinks.
Call for papers: Maison Française d’Oxford 2019 Interdisciplinary Conference: Race, Gender and Technology in Science-Fiction 25-27 April 2019 The Maison Française conference committee invites proposals that examine the themes of race, gender and technology in science-fiction from the classical period to the present, in all media (print, film, television…) and from any continent.
Association of Art Historians 2019 Annual Conference, Brighton 4-6 April: CFP: Stranger Things: Locating design in science fiction and fantasy films Session Convenors: Sally-Anne Huxtable National Museums Scotland s.huxtable@nms.ac.uk Robyne Calvert The Glasgow School of Art r.calvert@gsa.ac.uk
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Centre for Law, Society and Popular Culture Westminster Law School Television drama, law and national identity Symposium Announcement and First Call for Papers: Friday 6 September 2019, University of Westminster Television drama plays a seminal role in the cultural life of nations, and the way in which it depicts national identities merits scholarly exploration.
British TV and the Working-Class Homecoming: Stand Up, Nigel Barton/ The Land of Green Ginger “It’s like a tightrope between two worlds… and I’m walking it!”- Nigel Barton Programme Stand Up, Nigel Barton (1965, The Wednesday Play) The Land of Green Ginger (1973, Play For Today) As university fees sit at record highs and the cost of accommodation and living in major university cities continues to spiral, the gap
About 20 minutes into ‘The Woman Who Fell to Earth’, the probationary PC Yasmin Khan (Mandip Gill) – provoked by her own recent alien encounters – returns to the station for an update on the evening’s activities: YASMIN: I’m just wondering whether there’s been anything else out of the ordinary tonight. RAMESH : It’s the nightshift in Sheffield. Everything’s out of the ordinary.
I’ll start this piece with a confession: that in recent years I’ve fallen slightly out of love with Doctor Who . I liked Peter Capaldi’s Doctor, though I felt he was never as well served by the stories and scripts he had to deal with – new Who ’s equivalent of Sylvester McCoy, perhaps? And the series never seemed to have a stable time on Saturday nights, having to accommodate a certain celebrity dance show.
For a long time The Doctor’s Aussie fans had to wait longer than their UK counterparts for new episodes. The darkest times were around the first run of the Eccleston and Tennant era, where we once famously didn’t get our Christmas episode until close to Easter. There were, of course, other ways to time travel to achieve equality, but let’s just say this created a torrent of problems.
Jodie Whittaker’s debut as the thirteenth Doctor seems to have been a success. Among many others, Hannah Mays in the Guardian reported the high viewing figures for the first episode: An average of 8.2m viewers watched Whittaker’s first outing as the Doctor, beating the ratings for political thriller sensation Bodyguard, which attracted 6.7m viewers when it debuted in August.
Disclaimer: A different version of this blog appeared in The Conversation There’s a freshness of purpose to this episode from its very first moments, as a new aspect ratio immediately gives way to remediating YouTube, with Ryan Sinclair (Tosin Cole) vlogging about the “greatest woman” he’s “ever met”. When the Doctor’s gender-shifting has been such a topic of press coverage, it’s an opening that teases the viewer, playing with