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Call for Papers: ‘Spaces of Television: Production, Site and Style’ University of Reading: Wednesday 18 – Friday 20 September 2013

Posted on October 14, 2012 by billysmart

 The culminating conference arising from the AHRC-funded ‘Spaces of Television’ project will be held at the University of Reading from Wednesday 18th to Friday 20th September, 2013. Proposals are invited for papers and/or panels on the theme of ‘Spaces of … Continue reading →

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Roger Marshall interview part III: Writing for television in America and the U.K., Euston Films and ‘The Sweeney’

Posted on October 1, 2012 by billysmart

Last February, I had the good fortune to interview one of the great screenwriters of British TV drama, Roger Marshall in his Richmond home. His extensive C.V. has included episodes of The Avengers, The Sweeney, The Professionals, two plays for … Continue reading →

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Conference Report – ‘Performance and Television Space’, University of Glamorgan, 20 April 2012

Posted on October 1, 2012 by billysmart

‘Performance and Television Space’, a one day symposium held at the University of Glamorgan on 20th April 2012, was the second in a series of three conferences organised by the research project ‘Spaces of Television: Production, Site and Style’. This … Continue reading →

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Roger Marshall interview Part II: ‘Missing From Home’ (1984) and Douglas Camfield

Posted on September 13, 2012 by billysmart

Last February, I had the good fortune to interview one of the great screenwriters of British TV drama, Roger Marshall in his Richmond home. His extensive C.V. has included episodes of The Avengers, The Sweeney, The Professionals, two plays for … Continue reading →

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Spaces of Television panel and papers at Westminster ‘Theatre Plays on British Television’ conference

Posted on September 10, 2012 by billysmart

Four presentations of ‘Spaces of Television’ research can be heard at the ‘Theatre Plays on British Television’ one-day conference at the University of Westminster on Friday 19 October. We are presenting a panel entitled ‘Spaces of television, spaces of theatre’: … Continue reading →

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Roger Marshall interview Part I: ‘Public Eye’

Posted on September 5, 2012 by billysmart

  Last February, I had the good fortune to interview one of the great screenwriters of British TV drama, Roger Marshall in his Richmond home. His extensive C.V. has included episodes of The Avengers, The Sweeney, The Professionals, two plays … Continue reading →

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Recording ‘Public Eye’ (ABC) on location in Birmingham (1966)

Posted on September 4, 2012 by billysmart

  Few major British television drama series of the 1960s have a worse survival rate than that of the first three series of Public Eye (ABC, 1965-68/ Thames 1969-75). Of the 41 episodes of the first three series made by … Continue reading →

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The Spaces of Television project

Posted on August 7, 2012 by billysmart

The project concerns television fiction produced in the UK from 1955-94. It will analyse how the material spaces of production (in TV studios and on location) conditioned the aesthetic forms of programmes, and how fictional spaces represented on screen negotiated … Continue reading →

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