From Netflix to Comcast, the US takeover of UK broadcasting now looks unstoppable Marking its 70th birthday two months ago, ITV talked with justifiable pride of “seven decades at the forefront of high quality, unashamedly entertaining, popular television”. But barely had the champagne corks stopped popping than ‘the third channel’ announced it was in discussion to sell itsContinue reading “We’re seeing the future of British TV – and it’s American”
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Notes from a Small Screen: Watching British Television, 2015-2023
Despite what you might have read elsewhere, television in the early 21st century wasn’t all about Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones and Succession. So what were the people of Great Britain actually watching in the last days of the second Elizabethan age? And who will bear witness to it? This book will. Drawn from eightContinue reading “Notes from a Small Screen: Watching British Television, 2015-2023”
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