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Fall Premieres 2015: ABC
Moving Into a Fuller House: Television Reboots, Nostalgia, and Time
Mark Lashley discusses "Fuller House" and the current trend of resurrected television nostalgia, and how the notion of television as an ephemeral or disposable media form is diminishing.
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Selma, “Bloody Sunday,” and the Most Important TV Newsfilm of the 20th Century
The most consequential TV newsfilm of the 20th century records the beating of voting rights marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. It led directly to the passage of the landmark Voting Rights Act. With the 50th anniversary commemorations of “Bloody Sunday,” network and cable news channels...
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As Seen on Shark Tank: Tech Entrepreneurship’s Portable Aesthetics
In a recent episode of ABC's Shark Tank, debate over what constitutes a technology takes on industrial dimensions as the stylistics of Silicon Valley shape popular images of entrepreneurship across industrial sectors.
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Fall Premieres 2014: ABC
Antenna contributors review ABC's Fall lineup.
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Antenna’s Pilot Season is Here
The hub for Antenna fall pilot season reviews.
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Mediating the Past: JFK and the Docudrama
On the 50th anniversary of JFK's assassination, this post considers how fictional depictions of Kennedy represent history and engage cultural memory.
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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy and Television News
An examination of the JFK assassination news coverage suggests that the networks did a woeful job in the early hours, but that a local third-rated ABC affiliate provided remarkable journalism that not only helped ABC scoop NBC and CBS, but also foreshadowed the future of TV news.
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Fall Premieres 2013: ABC
Antenna contributors review the new fall series from the alphabet network.
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All My Commodities: Valuing the Online Soap Opera
Prospect Park’s soap opera strategy tests traditional conceptions of televisual value within an evolving space of digital distribution.
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What Are You Missing? Feb 17-March 2
Ten media news items that you might have missed recently.
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The Cancellation of Don’t Trust the B and Gay Black Tele(in)visibility
As we bid farewell to Don’t Trust the B, we also bid farewell to a part of gay black visibility on network television. Luther was a character written in a mold that has (problematically) been deemed passé and disrespectful to the middle class, married/coupled, suburban model of gay televisibility. And for that, we should...
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The Soaps Rise Again?
Despite hard times and dire predictions for U.S. daytime soap operas in recent years, the present moment has in fact turned out to be one of the more exciting and promising in the genre's history.
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[Updated] Premiere Week 2012: ABC
Antenna contributors consider the 2012 Fall Premieres from ABC.
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The Broadcast Battleground of the 2012 Emmy Awards
While winners and losers may speak most directly to television's hierarchies, the Emmy telecast itself offers a space in which broadcast networks can reshape prevailing discourses of quality within the television industry.
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