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When doing the research for my book on television branding I spent a lot of time in archives fast-forwarding through the carefully catalogued television programmes to view the junctions or interstitials in between. I was primarily interested in trying to
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The concept of prequels is not one that, on first consideration, sits easily in the television landscape. Given the serialised nature of so much modern television drama, which essentially hinges on keeping viewers hooked on what will happen next, the idea
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Elementary (CBS 2012-). Arrow (CW 2012-). Game of Thrones (HBO 2011-). these recent American television programmes are all based (to varying degrees) on texts rooted in cult appeal, around particular fan communities, and with different claims to authentic
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It wasn’t something I deliberately set out to do. It was a result of a combination of factors. Whatever the reasons, despite my interest in the series, by the time I sat down to watch the first episode of the first season of Game of Thrones on Sky Atlan
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This is written whilst on a sabbatical tour of California, ostensibly to advance my research on Shirley Temple 'double' competitions in New Zealand in the 1930s but there have been other diversions along the way, more of a television nature. Through agenc
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She started off as a deep jungle Amazonian warrior in the 1940s, became a '70s television star, and was demoted to a vulnerable, metropolitian Clark Kent doppelganger in the '80s.
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I talked to a cab driver the day after Margaret Thatcher died.
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I do not intend all my blogs to be about 3D, but two days at the excellent 3D Creative Summit, organised by Ravensbourne, has provided a number of useful ideas on which to ruminate. From the discussions a number of main themes emerged. The first is that
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Ricky Gervais’ sitcom Derek concluded its first season around the time Michael Haneke’s Amour won the Oscar for best foreign language film, and my viewing of both overlapped in a way that made comparison perhaps a bit more obvious that it otherwise would
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Who says that hearing voices is a bad thing? As far as my television viewing habits go, I’ve been hearing them more frequently as of late, or, at least, I’ve been hearing those voice-overs that continue to characterize and add character to so many televi
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