Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that there has been a lot of anticipation about an event scheduled for this late Spring: yep, the cicadas have been hatching in the USA. Also, there’s been the Friends reunion special. Both of these events have been causing a lot of noise. For the purposes of this blog, let’s focus on the latter.

This interview was first published in Welsh on Golwg/Gwerddon On March 15, 2021, Euryn Ogwen Williams, one of the most widely influential and long-standing figures in British broadcasting, passed away. Many obituaries have paid tribute to his longevity, creativity and generosity across a range of broadcasting areas during his long and illustrious career.

19 July – 6 August 2021, Online; hosted by Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK Where to, Television Studies? What directions are there to investigate? What are the themes that are important as the medium morphs and changes? What methodological challenges do these changes pose to Television Studies and what place does television history continue to hold within our discipline?

Space and place are crucial categories of analysis when looking at our societies and their functioning, as noted by Michel Foucault who saw a deep connection between power, social order, and space.

This interview was first published in Welsh on Golwg/Gwerddon Fig. 1: Euryn Ogwen Williams. Source: S4C On March 15, 2021, Euryn Ogwen Williams, one of the most widely influential and long-standing figures in British broadcasting, passed away. Many obituaries have paid tribute to his longevity, creativity and generosity across a range of broadcasting areas during his long and illustrious career.

Oooohhh… BBC One’s Line of Duty (2012-2021 maybe sort of) was a bit good wasn’t it? Wasn’t that captivating television? In fact, I may have mentioned that before. Apologies. Sorry.

Preliminary title: Audiovisual Content for Children and Adolescents in the Nordics: Production, Distribution, and Reception in a Multi-Platform Era Editors: Pia Majbritt Jensen, associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark Eva Novrup Redvall, associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Christa Lykke Christensen, associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark **Contact: ** Pia

The more identities a man has, the more they express the person they conceal. — John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (207)   The spy is the quintessential protagonist for our digital globalist era.  A secret agent works undercover, slips in and out of various aliases, while piecing together bits of information that sometimes lead to a deeper understanding of what’s going on.

Why is there so little TV scholarship about TV and sport? Compared to the reams about Netflix, there’s hardly a decent book to be found anywhere, and nothing it seems after Garry Whannel’s Fields in vision : Television sport and cultural transformation of 2005, and Toby Miller, Geoffrey A. Lawrence, Jim McKay, and David Rowe’s Globalization and sport : Playing the world from 2000.

**A conference hosted by Journalism@Newcastle and Ethical Space , the International Journal of Communication Ethics .  ** **23 June 2022 – Deadline for abstracts 29 October 2021 ** True crime has a long and popular history in journalism, literature, drama, radio, film and television – and now the podcast.

Fig. 1: Sir Humphrey Burton Sir Humphrey Burton, 90 in March and now publishing his long-awaited autobiography In My Own Time , is that rare beast: a television executive liked by programme-makers. Twice the Head of BBC TV’s Music & Arts department, amongst so many other distinctions, Sir Humphrey’s fingerprints remain visible across television more than three decades after departing it. Let me test that claim.