Dear all, On July 4, 5 and 6, Taylor Swift will perform in Amsterdam, consequent to the Celebrity Studies Conference in Amsterdam (1 – 3 July 2024). The combination of these events offers a unique opportunity to gather, celebrate, and critique the multifaceted persona(e) of an increasingly iconic performer and songwriter.

Television careers offer many potential benefits: opportunities for creative expression, a sense of making a difference in the world, flexibility and autonomy – but often at a price.

While improvised or unscripted television has been a feature of media industries for decades, most such series are either comedy or reality television. Suspects (Channel 5, 2014-2016), on the other hand, was an unscripted crime drama featuring improvised dialogue. For those unfamiliar with the series, Suspects follows a group of officers from an unspecified London CID.

The mid-1990s were an unusual time to grow up in the US (at least I thought so). The success of The X-Files (Fox 1993-2003; 2016-2018) had led to an explicit spinoff ( Millennium, Fox 1996-1999) as well as a glut of similar conspiracy and alien-related series.

So, this morning, the day has already got off to a good start with the unprompted arrival of what I like to think of as a ‘Nice one!’ e-mail. They don’t have to be long.  They don’t have to be complicated.  And – indeed – they were a thing taught to me in the technology field before we even had e-mails.  I have no idea what I liked to think of them as back then.

British television series par excellence Doctor Who (1963-present) has been the subject of a wide variety of academic works.

Call for Papers: ‘A word, after a word, after a word is power’: The Hulu Adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017-2024): A one-day multidisciplinary symposium. Friday, September 13, 2024 University of Northumbria at Newcastle We are inviting proposals for 20-minute conference papers on the Hulu Adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale , Margaret Atwood’s famous 1985 dystopia.

This week, the nominations for the British Academy Television Awards will be announced. There will be nominations for a range of TV craft roles, including directors, cinematographers, sound recordists and editors, as well as production design, hair and make-up, and costume;

The Flowing Image: The Ocean On-Screen 28-29th August 2024 Hybrid MS Teams &

Call for Papers: Special issue of Journal of British Cinema and Television on the theme of transmission and transmitters Proposals are invited for a special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television on the subject of television and cinema transmission. Transmission is one of the key technologies underpinning television and cinema.

Organizers: The Audience Network at Lancaster University (ANLU) Confirmed Speaker: Prof. Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London) Deadline for submission of abstracts: 29 March 2024 Notification of Acceptance: 12 April 2024 Since its first engagements with television, radio, and popular culture (Williams 1974; Hall 1973;