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Booking opens for ‘Spaces of Television’ conference at University of Reading, 18-20 September 2013
Booking has now opened for the three-day, international ‘Spaces of Television’ Conference, held between 18-20 September 2013 in the Minghella Building at the University of Reading. The conference will include four keynote presentations: John Ellis (Royal Holloway): Everyday Spaces of … Continue reading
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Spaces of Television articles on other websites
A wide selection of ‘Spaces of Television’ articles have been published on other sites. Here are links to our articles on the Critical Studies in Television website: ‘TV history, the role of memory and Spaces of Television’ by Leah Panos … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Children's TV, CSO, Juliet Bravo, Police series
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Temple of Doom: Paul Temple (BBC, 1969-71)
(Review of The Paul Temple Black & White Collection, originally published on Tachyon TV, 2012) A common game played by fans of old British TV drama is identifying rival copycat productions in the eternal competition between the BBC and ITV. … Continue reading
Excited about apathy: Red Letter Day (Granada, 1976)
(Review of Red Letter Day: The Complete Series, originally published on Tachyon TV, 2011) Thanks to the canonical status of the BBC’s Wednesday Play and Play for Today, people have a selective memory when it comes to the single play. … Continue reading
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Tagged C.P. Taylor, Donald Churchill, Granada, Howard Schuman, Jack Rosenthal, Joe Melia, Neville Smith, Red Letter Day
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Plot inflation in Greater Weatherfield: Coronation Street in the 1990s
Snooping on Don Brennan from the Back Garden: Watching Coronation Street in the 1990s. For much of my twenties in the 1990s and early 2000s, before my eventual career as a Television Studies academic, I worked as a library assistant. … Continue reading
Spaces of Television panel and keynote at the ‘Doctor Who: Walking in Eternity’ Conference University of Hertfordshire, 3-5 September 2013
A keynote address and three papers of ‘Spaces of Television’ research are to be presented at the ‘Doctor Who: Walking in Eternity‘ conference held at the University of Hertfordshire between the 3rd and 5th of September. Project co-investigator Professor James … Continue reading
Spaces of Television panel and presentations at the ‘Television for Women’ conference at Warwick, 15-17 May.
Four ‘Spaces of Television’ papers are to be given at the ‘Television for Women’ Conference at the University of Warwick on May the 15-17. We are presenting a panel entitled “1970s studio drama and the woman viewer”: Leah Panos (Department … Continue reading
Spaces of Television papers at ‘Cops on the Box: Crime Drama on UK TV Screens’ Conference at University of Glamorgan, Cardiff, Friday March 15 2013
Three papers of ‘Spaces of Television’ research are to be presented at the ‘Cops on the Box: Crime Drama on UK TV Screens’ conference at the University of Glamorgan ATRiuM in Cardiff on Friday 15 March 2013. As part of … Continue reading
Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama: David Bowie in Baal (BBC, 1982)
Alan Clarke’s television production of Bertolt Brecht’s play Baal (BBC1, 2 March 1982) is being screened as part of the ‘Beyond the Fourth Wall: Experiments in TV Drama’ season at BFI Southbank on Friday 30 November. Booking details can be … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Clarke, Baal, Brecht, CSO, David Bowie, Experimental drama
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The Cherry Orchard (BBC, 1981)
Although only a handful of stage adaptations for British television were ever made on location on outside broadcast (OB), the technologies and working practices could also be used inside, as well as away from, the studio. This unusual method of … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Chekhov, Cherry Orchard, Outside Broadcast, Play for Today, Richard Eyre, Trevor Griffiths
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