DEMOSERIES invites proposals for the International Symposium “What is a good series?” that will take place November 21 and 22, 2022 at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne.

Submissions for a special issue of IJFMA Vol. 8 No. 2 (2023) are now open “Precarity and the Moving Image” Audiovisual Arts (both in their intra-cinematic elements and through its extra-cinematic contexts) have always been a vehicle to display and discuss precarity, as well as affected by it in their modes of production. The notion of Precarity, however, in itself, is also a very open and problematic concept.

Conference Convenors: Carmen Gregori-Signes, Claudia Alonso-Recarte, Miguel Fuster-Márquez, Sergio Maruenda-Bataller Secretary: Joaquín Primo-Pacheco We are delighted to announce that the Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya at the Universitat de València and the Institut Interuniversitari de Llengües Modernes Aplicades de la Comunitat Valenciana (IULMA) will be hosting, on the 19th-21st of October 2022 in Valencia, Spain, the

Borgen is back – worldwide! While the high-end TV series Borgen: Power & Glory (2022) has been available to Danish viewers since February 2022 on Danish public service broadcaster DR, it was not until 2 June that the new season launched on Netflix worldwide.

When, in years to come, my mind flits back to the 2021/22 academic year, it will not so much be global events (which have, let’s face it, been unremittingly depressing) that I recall. Rather, I will look back on this twelvemonth as a period of departures – and returns.

When it comes to television, my wife and I occasionally like to give series second chances. Just because we felt a show stank on its original airing doesn’t mean that we simply caught it at the wrong time for us with where we were in our lives.

Edited by: James Rendell and Kate Egan Submission deadline: 31st July 2022.

Iluminace 1/2023: Television and COVID-19: How to Deal with Global Pandemics While Broadcasting (Extended deadline for abstracts July 15, 2022;

Last month ITV announced that I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here (2002-) would be returning to Australia.

The research project ’Reaching Young Audiences: Serial Fiction and Cross-Media Storyworlds for Children and Young Audiences’ (RYA) seeks to provide detailed knowledge about the production and reception of film, TV and online fiction for children, tweens and teens through in-depth analysis of the current strategies for creating engaging fiction for young audiences and extensive qualitative case studies of their media use.

A two-day research symposium   Symposium organizers: Prof. Rayna Denison (University of Bristol) and Dr. Cristina Formenti (University of Udine) “On the stroke of 5:15, I happened to be walking into the radio and television department of Harrods and there, on a third of the television sets in the place was Kermit, waving his green arms about. Everybody, customers and assistants alike, paused and edged towards him.