Join us for Antenna's fall premiere event, beginning tomorrow - our contributors cover every new series premiering on American network television!
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Tags: Antenna, network television, television, television watching
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For today's television showrunner, Twitter is simultaneously rife with potential and littered with pitfalls.
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Tags: Bill Prady, Carlton Cuse, Damon Lindelof, Dan Harmon, Hart Hanson, Kurt Sutter, Louis C.K., showrunners, Sons of Anarchy, television, Twitter
Posted in Industry, Internet, Perspectives, Showrunners on Twitter, TV | 18 Comments »
For many academics, the coming fall television season offers excitement, but also the stress of managing what we watch.
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Tags: DVR, premieres, television, television watching
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: apps, Blockbuster, Digg, DVD, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, hyperlinks, independent film, internet, iTunes, magazines, music, Netflix, news media, Ping, print media, Redbox, Reddit, social media, streaming, Summer Media, television, Twitter, video games, viral, VOD, YouTube
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, digital media, distribution, DVD, Facebook, film, independent film, intellectual property, internet, music, online games, piracy, streaming, television, Twitter, video games
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And...we’re back. Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, books, DVD, Facebook, independent film, internet, marketing, movie theaters, movies, music, Netflix, print media, radio, social media, streaming, television, Tumblr, Twitter, video games
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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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Tags: "The Big Bang", Doctor Who, Narrative Complexity, Steven Moffat, television
Posted in Columns, Doctor Who & Authorship, Perspectives, TV | 7 Comments »
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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Tags: adaptation, Charlaine Harris, franchise, HBO, narrative, Narrative Complexity, seriality, Sookie Stackhouse, Southern Vampire Mysteries, television, True Blood
Posted in Perspectives, Summer Media | 9 Comments »
Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, advertising, blogs, box office, broadband, DVD, Facebook, file sharing, Google, Hollywood, independent film, iPad, magazines, movies, music, newspapers, Pixar, porn, television, Twitter, video games, YouTube
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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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Tags: sports, television, Tour de France, Twitter, YouTube
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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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Tags: gender, spirituality, television
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently.
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Tags: 3D, advertising, DVDs, Facebook, Hollywood, movie theaters, movies, music, music downloads, social media, television, Twitter, video games, viral marketing, VOD
Posted in Columns, What Are You Missing? | Comments Off on What Are You Missing? June 6-June 19
The controversy over the vuvuzelas is a reflection of the larger story here - that there are more ways than ever before to follow and participate in this first World Cup of the social media era.
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Tags: Facebook, internet, social media, television, Twitter, Vuvuzelas, World Cup
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Ten (or more) media industry stories you might have missed recently
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Tags: Apple, blogs, Cannes, Digg, DVD, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, hyperlinks, illegal downloads, indie cinema, iTunes, Miramax, movie theaters, music, Netflix, newspapers, Steve Jobs, streaming, television, Twitter, video games
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The themed episodes often bury narrative and character development, but this week saw a powerful blending of Lady Gaga’s music and persona and the storyline. Her promotion of both over-the-top performance and being a “freak” allowed the show to return to one of its favorite themes.
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Tags: Glee, Lady Gaga, musical, performance, television, theatricality
Posted in Columns, Current Events, Glee Club, TV | 20 Comments »