Comments on: TV on Tour http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/12/06/tv-on-tour/ Responses to Media and Culture Fri, 12 Feb 2016 19:35:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Erin Copple Smith http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/12/06/tv-on-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:26:56 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=549#comment-1114 Well, wouldja lookit that… Variety offers two reports on move TV on tour in the form of Glee and It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s respective tours.

Read more here and here.

]]> By: Jonathan Gray http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2009/12/06/tv-on-tour/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:45:48 +0000 http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/?p=549#comment-95 Actually my brother and I have long joked about writing Lost!, the musical, but note the exclamation mark, and it’s an adaptation of Paradise Lost not the TV show (or perhaps it could merge them both?).

More seriously, I think here of Nick Couldry’s excellent work on “media pilgrims,” visiting sets or sites of filming. He looks at the degree to which such experiences reify a sense of the media as center, or stand to challenge it, and he looks at the act in ritual terms.

But I think the interest extends beyond the media to a simple desire to know how things are put together (hence the awesomeness of this book), and there’s always the promise that we’ll not only get more of the show, but a window into how it’s put together. Certainly, part of my interest in paratexts and adaptation lies in the notion that we can see what makes a show tick in the moments when it moves platforms.

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