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Occupy TV?

October 12, 2011
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Occupy TV?

A look at the differences between how Occupy Wall Street is framed on Fox News, MSNBC, and the Daily Show versus how greater, more diverse coverage circulates on Twitter.
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: ABC

September 26, 2011
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: ABC

Premiere Week! Check back here regularly for our contributor's thoughts on all the new ABC programs. Responses thus far: Revenge, Charlie's Angels, Pan Am and Suburgatory.
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: CBS

September 26, 2011
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: CBS

It's premiere week! Check back regularly for our contributors thoughts on all the new CBS shows! Responses so far: 2 Broke Girls, Unforgettable, Person of Interest and A Gifted Man.
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: The CW

September 26, 2011
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: The CW

It's Premiere Week! Check back here regularly for our contributor's thoughts on all the new CW programs. Responses so far: Ringer, H8R, The Secret Circle and Hart of Dixie.
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: FOX

September 26, 2011
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: FOX

It's premiere week! Check back regularly for our contributors thoughts on all the new FOX shows! Responses so far: Terra Nova, The New Girl, and X Factor.
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: NBC

September 26, 2011
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Updated! Premiere Week 2011: NBC

It's Premiere Week! Check back here regularly for our contributor's thoughts on all the new NBC programs. Responses so far: Playboy Club, Free Agents, Up All Night and Prime Suspect.
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Ten: Second-guessing the Blessing?

September 16, 2011
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Ten: Second-guessing the Blessing?

Torchwood's finale is full of bi- action (bipolar showdowns, bilateral immortality, and SF's human/alien binary) as its showrunner seeks to second-guess audience expectations. But how much does it leave its viewers guessing?
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Nine: Global Drama?

September 9, 2011
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Nine: Global Drama?

'Miracle Day' offers a literalising, telefantasy take on "global" drama this week, as well as seeming to literalise an infamous aphorism at the same time...
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Eight: A Fatal Floor?

September 2, 2011
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Eight: A Fatal Floor?

This week it's a square of flooring that provides the mysterious detail, or the "figure in the carpet", if you like. As Torchwood: Miracle Day gets stranger and even more self-referential, will it ever give up its secrets?
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Seven: Who’s Buying Who?

August 26, 2011
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Seven: Who’s Buying Who?

Captain Jack flashes back in time, and we find out about the beginnings of Miracle Day. But just what is the episode saying about its sinful villains?
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Six: Stuck in the Middle?

August 19, 2011
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Six: Stuck in the Middle?

The slow pacing of 'Miracle Day' has been criticized, but this seems like an odd response to a thriller - a genre based on delaying its reveals. What about the pleasures of being caught up in the middle of a story?
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The Rise and Fall of @Sutterink: Showrunners [Off] Twitter III

August 14, 2011
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The Rise and Fall of @Sutterink: Showrunners [Off] Twitter III

While it was perhaps inevitable that Sutter’s lack of a filter would result in his Twitter account becoming a liability, the rise and fall of “@sutterink” has more to do with public perceptions of Twitter than with his actual commentary.
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The Media and the Riots in England: Unordered Thesis on Days of Disorder

August 13, 2011
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The Media and the Riots in England: Unordered Thesis on Days of Disorder

The two words that political leaders, have resorted to in the wake of the riots that have spread throughout England since unrest in Tottenham last Saturday night, are “simple” and "criminality”. However, none of these crimes is simple.
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Five: The Allegories of Life?

August 12, 2011
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Five: The Allegories of Life?

This series reaches its halfway mark with a terrifying version of the Holocaust. Science fiction allegory raises tough questions here, questions about what can be symbolically coded, and how.
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Four: Escaping Cliché?

August 5, 2011
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Torchwood Miracle Day, Episode Four: Escaping Cliché?

Torchwood continues to explore the consequences of a world without death. But how (if at all) does that transformation effect its narrative logic, and its use of thriller conventions?
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