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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Words are Cool: The Magic of Moffat’s Doctor Who
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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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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“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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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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Summer Media: River Monsters
One of them belches like Jabba the Hutt when pulled out of water. And yet I find myself wondering why animals and American television haven’t been even better friends.
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Damages: A Tale of Two Women
Taking power away from a man is a dangerous thing. Or so says high-stakes attorney Patty Hewes of FX’s Damages.
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The Melancholy of Friday Night Lights
Friday Night Lights and its viewership seem suddenly caught in a state of nostalgia, uncannily aware of how very much there is to lose, and what has already been lost.
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Generation X Has a Midlife Crisis at Midcourt
The 2010 NBA Finals are seeing generational conflict both on the court and on the sidelines.
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Summer Media: Castle
Kicking off our new Summer Media series with ABC's charming Castle.
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Holding My Breath: Women, Work, and Parenthood
To the series’ credit, it often “goes there”—into those contentious waters of clearly gendered dilemmas about women’s work, motherhood, and guilt that were a mainstay of a lot of 1980s and 1990s drama.
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When Sports Talk Radio Converges: The Relevance of Callers’ Hometowns
The town names of callers allow listeners to construct an imagined regional map, an extended network of communication of which they are one point in their material environment that they comprehend through the car window
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The New Reality of The Hills
It appears that in season six the world inside The Hills has effectively merged with the world outside The Hills. For this jaded fan, The Hills is once again must-see TV.
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