Mad Men gears up for its fourth season with a big public relations push. What makes the show so special and can it continue to live up to its buzz?
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Mad about Mad Men: Antenna takes a Look at AMC’s High Profile Drama
Words are Cool: The Magic of Moffat’s Doctor Who
The fifth season of Doctor Who saw the introduction of a new showrunner. In this post, Matt Hills considers his impact on series.
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Summer Music Festivals: Just 20,000 People Standing in a Field, or a Life Raft for the Music Industry?
The music industry may be on hard times, but music festivals are booming. What gives?
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Televising New Orleans in 2010…or Why Sonny isn’t Watching The Real World: New Orleans
The Real World: Back to New Orleans, like Treme, brings to life how "authentic" New Orleans has taken on new and often multiple meanings for tourists, volunteers, and television watchers
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Army Wives, Safe Soldiers, and Online Smokescreens
As everyone else was drooling over the final episodes of LOST, I fully admit that I was focusing on my weekly fix of Lifetime’s Army Wives. Despite its lack of cultural cachet, to me the show continues to illustrate an interesting tension between niche marketing, media convergence, and politically charged topicality.
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Summer Media: My Gallic Season
Evan Davis reports from New York City on recent developments in French Cinema.
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What Paul the Octopus tells us about the World Cup….or why globalisation spells the slow death of FIFA’s treasured tournament.
What is more remarkable than the accuracy of the predictions made by Paul the Octopus was the absence of compelling onfield stories and game play that allowed for Paul to become the major story of the World Cup.
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Summer Media: Reading Sookie Stackhouse
True Blood begins its third season on HBO this summer, but perhaps more fun than catching up on the show's previous seasons is reading the series of novels and short stories on which the show is based.
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Report from the On, Archives! Conference
The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research hosted a major conference this past week that featured a symposium on broadcasting in the 1930s, several thought-provoking keynote addresses, and presentations on all manner of issues pertaining to archives and the historical past.
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One Future of Network Television: A Literal Cottage Industry
At the TWiT Cottage and around the web, a new kind of network television is taking hold.
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Sheesh, What’s It Take to Make a Teenage Heartthrob These Days?
Robert Pattinson, like Brando and Dean before him, doesn't play by the star promotion rules and yet is a heartthrob because he appeals to heartthrob-hungry girls in unexpected ways.
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What Are You Missing? June 20-July 3
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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“Africa’s Heartbreak”? A Report From Malawi
If "Africa" exists, it is only in brief moments, so to pity Africa and feel sorry for "its" loss is to fall into a nasty discursive trap.
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Louie, Luckily
FX's Louie and new possibilities for half-hour television comedy.
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Summer Media: Vive le Tour!
July brings with it one of my most cherished media rituals in the form of the exhilarating spectacle of suffering that is the Tour de France.
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Redemption and Regression in the Saving Grace Series Finale
By refusing a happy or even reassuring ending, Saving Grace's finale stayed true to the series' brand of realism and defied expectations, but in bringing the story full circle it also returned to some of the series' initial shortcomings.
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