Honey, I’m Homo: The L Word Along with Jill Soloway’s popular dramedy, Transparent, The L Word has succeeded in redefining or widening our understanding of concepts such as family and sexuality within the conventions of American popular culture.
by Katrine Bouschinger Christensen and Eva Novrup Redvall In the 2010s, Danish public service broadcasting gained international attention through the interest in Nordic Noir crime and Scandi dramas such as The Killing (2007-2012) and Borgen (2010-2013). This led to a number of publications on the particularities of the productions as well as the production strategies […]
Dear Santa, Well, another year gone. I’ve tried very hard to be good. I’ve tried to look after my family and friends, aimed to be more considerate to people doing difficult customer-facing jobs, and worked doing the best I can writing around half-a-dozen sets of DVD viewing notes, articles for Doctor Who Magazine and TV Years , and fanzine items for the likes of SiG and Celestial Toyroom . Oh, and some blogs.
As I have mentioned, the first original drama series on HBO was Oz – a transgressive and groundbreaking type of prison drama, but unfortunately a show that has been overlooked and forgotten by many viewers and scholars.
You know, fan conventions and academic conferences are very similar really. You sort of feel the same enthusiasm crackling when you walk into the reception area, and know that you’re going to be surrounded by people with whom you can engage directly because they’re speaking the shared language of the sub-culture. And there’s often great guest speakers and neat screenings.
Priests and paedophiles, families and fragmentation: Oz “It’s No Place Like Home.” Thus reads the tagline of the transgressive prison show Oz, which premiered on HBO in 1997.
In this series of blogs Andreas Halskov interrogates the work of Mary Harron.
In Ireland in recent weeks, national broadcaster, RTÉ, has not only been a news producer but a news item. The broadcaster, facing serious financial pressures, has indicated that it will aim to reduce its budget by selling off assets, reducing the pay of top earners and offering voluntary redundancies.
“You need to watch all the episodes,” stated Professor James Chapman during his keynote speech ‘The forgotten history of the television swashbuckler’ at Egham’s ‘Forgotten, Lost & Neglected TV Drama’ conference in April 2015. And he’s absolutely right. It’s one of the reasons that I enjoyed his Swashbucklers: The Costume Adventure Series volume [i] so much;
You may have read about or seen VH1’s reality show Cartel Crew , which began in January and is entering its second season. The Crew cast is formed of close relatives of dead or imprisoned narcos . These offspring may themselves have been in the joint, or benefited directly or indirectly from their parents’ illegal wealth, but now, they are putatively on the straight and etc.