Archive for the ‘TV Industry’ Category
Wednesday was one of the more interesting days on Twitter I’ve ever seen, from the snarking about the new Pope (same as the old Pope), to the anger over Google mothballing Reader, to the more local disappointment of Wes Welker signing with the Broncos. But nothing generated more interest, excitement, and conversation amongst the TVitterati […]
Filed under: Fandom, Film, Film Industry, New Media, Television, TV Industry, TV Shows, Viewers | 8 Comments
Tags: Kickstarter, Veronica Mars
Like millions of others, I’ve had the Olympics on quite often over the past few days and will continue to care about sports that I know little about for another 11 days. And like thousands of others, I’ve enjoyed making fun of NBC’s erratic coverage, tape-delays, ethnocentrism, weak commentary, and inexplicable employment of Ryan Seacrest […]
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Tags: #NBCFail, nbc, Olympics, Ryan Seacrest
It’s time for another chapter of Complex TV to go live on MediaCommons Press—this time, the topic is Transmedia Storytelling. It builds on work I have done in recent years about how television narratives expand into other media, especially around Lost and its ARGs, but very few of the chapter’s ideas have been published elsewhere. As […]
Filed under: Complex TV, Fandom, MediaCommons, Narrative, New Media, Television, TV Industry, TV Shows, Videogames, Viewers | 1 Comment
Tags: breaking bad, Lost, transmedia
The television-obsessed corner of the Internets is burning up with discussion of Friday’s late TV news: Sony ousted Dan Harmon as Community showrunner. There are many good accounts to check out if you want the industrial details and critical analysis, like from Vulture‘s Joe Adalian, HitFix‘s Alan Sepinwall, and Macleans‘s Jaime Weinman. I want to offer a bit more […]
Filed under: Narrative, Television, TV Industry, TV Shows | 6 Comments
Tags: authorship, community, Dan Harmon
Complex TV: Authorship
I’m happy to announce that the next chapter of Complex TV has been posted. It’s focused on Authorship in contemporary serial television, and I think it’s all never-before-published material. I’ve been giving a talk based on this chapter for this spring, and have been really happy with the conversation it provokes – and I do intend […]
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Tags: authorship, breaking bad, buffy, community, Lost, The Wire
Television’s Two Leagues
I’m on my way down to the always-excellent Flow Conference in Austin today, where media scholars gather to engage in structured conversations rather than formal presentations. One of the highlights of the conference each year is a screening, and this year’s had me excited a couple of weeks ago when it was announced: an advanced […]
Filed under: Television, TV Industry | 23 Comments
Tags: lone star, terriers, the good wife
In teaching my course on The Wire last year, I had my students do collaborative research & writing projects on various “contexts” that the show engages with, such as urban education, the drug war, and Baltimore history. This year, I’ve decided not to use that assignment – in part because the old projects are still […]
Filed under: Teaching, Television, TV Industry, TV Shows | 21 Comments
Tags: hbo, The Wire
I’ve got a few random thoughts that have been piling up without sufficient mass to justify a full post. So here’s a compilation of stuff passing through my mind, Larry King style. – I’ve not tried to do a full account or analysis of the network upfronts or planned 2009-10 season. But in reading about […]
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Tags: breaking bad, in treatment, pushing daisies, up
Since I moved to Vermont in 2002, I have been on the board of Middlebury Community Television, our local public access channel. Yesterday, the board sponsored a community media forum, where we invited members of our community to come together to discuss the role of a small public access channel in a small town today […]
Filed under: Media Politics, Middlebury, Technology, Television, TV Industry, Vermont | 6 Comments
Tags: public access
Jump-starting Dollhouse
I’ve finally caught up with Dollhouse, which had been lingering a bit long on my TiVo. As anyone paying attention to the extratextual buzz knows, last week’s episode, “Man on the Street,” was hyped to deliver the narrative payoff and higher stakes that many feel the series has lacked. I concur with the consensus buzz: […]
Filed under: Narrative, Television, TV Industry, TV Shows | 6 Comments
Tags: alias, dollhouse
My textbook, Television and American Culture, has hit the streets (or at least the postal system – order yours now!). I received my first copy yesterday, and am happy to say that it looks great. This is due not to my own work (I’m solely to blame for the content), but the excellent staff at […]
Filed under: Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Television, TV Industry, TV Textbook | 6 Comments
Tags: abc, disney
A few people have asked me for my take on NBC’s odd move, announced a couple of weeks ago, to abandon to dark forces schedule Jay Leno in the 10:00 pm timeslot. I don’t have much to add beyond what Derek Kompare, Alan Sepinwall, and Jonathan Gray have said, save for one key perspective: the […]
Filed under: Television, TV Industry | 4 Comments
Tags: affiliates, leno, nbc
Rethinking Heroes and Mea Culpas
I’m down in Cambridge for a few days, attending a double-decker of conferences. First up, Futures of Entertainment 2, a two-day meetings of the minds between media industry folks and scholars, and then Unboxing TV, a set of meetings among a small number of television scholars exploring the future of both the medium and the […]
Filed under: Academia, Media Studies, Narrative, Television, TV Industry, TV Shows | 9 Comments
Tags: conferences, Heroes, MIT-FOE2
Just TV 