Fast, frenetic and a breath of fresh air from the drawn out soul searching in other zombie apocalyptic shows, Black Summer (Netflix, 2019) is a stripped bare, full throttle zombie series that sprints through eight action packed episodes. Created by Karl Schaefer and John Hyams, Black Summer comes from The Asylum, the same studio which made Z Nation (SyFy, 2014 – 2018) but the connection between the two shows is minor.

For the general conference cfp, see: https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/callforpapers/ For this particular special section call, see https://www.luc.edu/mmla/convention/permanentsectioncallforpapers/ at “Marxist Literary Group” This permanent section of the Midwestern Modern Languages Association organized by the Marxist Literary Group seeks to examine the economics, politics, and aesthetics of remakes, reboots, and

Riverdale : a comic book turned hit TV show, a comic strip turned murder mystery, a town that is both nowhere and everywhere.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Sherryl Vint (UC Riverside, USA) Sara Wasson (Lancaster, UK)   ‘Fantastika’ is an umbrella term that embraces the genres of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror but can also include Alternate History, Gothic, Steampunk or any other radically imaginative narrative space. The sixth annual Fantastika conference will aim to define, challenge and debate conceptualisations of embodiment.

In 2006, when I started out in television studies, the discipline was reckoning with the impact of HBO’s entry into the marketplace for television drama.  Academics tended to avoid words like ‘revolution’ but journalists flung them about with abandon, and contentious debates about ideas like ‘Quality’ (McCabe and Akass, 2007) and ‘Complexity’ (Mittell, 2006) were driving much of the conversation in TV studies.

During this year’s season of The Last Leg the usually neat and tidy Adam Hills declared he would “grow his beard til Brexit”. Beginning as a stunt, it became a weekly metaphor for the promise, and increasing disarray, the UK seemed destined for. Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. JavaScript kann nicht ausgeführt werden. A developing beard makes for strangely captivating television.

The media coverage of the Brexit Referendum in 2016 focused disproportionately upon the notion that Britain close its borders and reduce immigration if the country left European Union.  Media discourse on the issues of immigration, race and ethnicity are best described as negative, whilst Government policies on immigration, appear to promote a hostile environment in order to deter potential immigrants.

This blog is a coming together of two papers presented firstly at the State of Play: Television Scholarship in ‘TVIV’ Conference, 5 ^th – 7 ^th September 2018 Edge Hill University, UK, and second, Watching the Transnational Detectives Conference , 8 ^th – 9 ^th November 2018, University of London.

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.