“Disregard the universal. Pursue the trivial, preferably sideways. Truth is never on the main road.

When BritBox was announced, many wondered what impact it would make. Unless it offered something beyond the freely accessible programmes on BBC iPlayer and ITV Hub, what incentive would people have to start subscribing to another streaming platform? As someone with an interest in archive television, streaming services have offered little to appeal to my tastes.

While I have always been an avid television viewer, I have found that my content consumption behaviour has changed drastically; before I arrived at University in September, I was watching more television than ever before. This was mainly due to the reduced levels of physical contact with my friends but also due to a wealth of undiscovered programmes on streaming services. Fig.

Chapter proposals are invited for a proposed edited companion on the seminal television series The X-Files (1993-2018, Fox), its movies, spin offs ( The Lone Gunmen , Millennium ), and surrounding paratextual material (books, comics, fan fiction etc). The X-Files became a cultural touchstone of the 1990s, transforming from a cult TV show into a pop cultural phenomenon by the end of the decade.

The Tropics has long been associated with exotic diseases and epidemics. This historical imaginary arose with Aristotle’s notion of the tropics as the ‘torrid zone’, a geographical region virtually uninhabitable to non-indigenous peoples due to the hostility of its climate; it persisted in colonial imaginaries of the tropics as pestilential latitudes requiring slave labour;

Confirmed Keynotes: Dr Dima Ayoub, Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle East Studies, Middlebury College. Dr Golnar Nabizadeh, Lecturer in Comics Studies, Dundee University. Kenny Glenaan, BAFTA Scotland winning theatre, television and film director: https://www.kennyglenaan.com/ For the 2021 edition of the Association of Adaptation Studies conference, we are seeking proposals on the topic of Journeys: Memory and Migration.

Last week, a number of UK TV executives discussed strategies for programming television, particularly at this time, during the pandemic, during the BBC’s Digital Cities Virtual Events. And pretty much all came to the same conclusions: that what audiences want, right now, is warm-hearted, comfort-television.

On the 29th of October 2020, the BBC announced new plans to censor regulate the way that many of its employees use social media. The policy mainly applies to journalists but also extends to high-profile public figures such as Gary Lineker, former footballer and current presenter of Match of the Day.

Back in early February, as the first outbreak of COVID-19 swept across the globe and I began encountering nightly news reports detailing the escalating numbers of deaths, I somewhat glibly tweeted that it was time to dig out my box set of 1970s BBC drama Survivors (1975-7) as preparation for the ensuing events.

Ohferfuckssake is it that time again already? [1] Yes, it is. I’m back and you, you, you lucky things lovely people are either giving up around now or going on to see what I’ve been ‘thinking’ about for the last few months.

How are we all getting on, then? I have just heard that London is moving into Tier 2 at the weekend (or last weekend, by the time you read this), but to be honest it won’t make all that much difference to me, as I rarely welcome people across my threshold at the best of times. As to work, I must say the time is flying by – but not always in a positive sense.