DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

ALEX STRACHAN

MIKE HUGHES

KIM AKASS

MONIQUE NAZARETH

ROGER CATLIN

GARY EDGERTON

TOM BRINKMOELLER

GERALD JORDAN

NOEL HOLSTON

 
 
 
 
 
2012
Aug
13
 
 
Television turned London into a global media village, and the cities Opening and Closing Ceremonies shared moments that were beguiling, bonkers and utterly British...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
7
 
 
One of the key problems for television scholars is availability. Some shows live on only in memory, but not in tangible form like DVD. Other television producers have carefully orchestrated how their shows are preserved and marketed. And then, there's the digital age to consider...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jun
5
 
 
Why are we revisiting Borgen, the Danish political drama our newest contributor, Janet McCabe, reviewed back in April? Because for a VERY short time you can see all of Season 1 online and get in step with the new Season 2 episodes...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
May
19
 
 
From across the pond, and our newest contributors, comes this enticing report about one of the best new shows the U.S. hasn't seen — yet. It's BBC Four’s The Bridge, a co-production between Denmark and Sweden...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Apr
28
 
 
Janet McCabe reports that the popular Danish series Borgen - soon to be remade by NBC - is finding fans around the globe, thanks to drama packed with ambiguity and moral complexity...
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

Akass & McCabe

Kim Akass has written extensively on US TV. She is one of the co-founding editors of the television journal Critical Studies in Television as well as (with Janet McCabe) series editor of ‘Reading Contemporary Television’ for IB Tauris.  She is webmistress of the TV studies website CSTonline and is currently researching the representation of motherhood in the media.

Janet McCabe is Honorary Research Fellow in TV Drama at Birkbeck, University of London, as well as Research Assistant (Critical Studies in Television) based at the University of Glamorgan. She has (along with Kim Akass) co-edited several collections, including Reading Sex and the City (2004) and Quality TV: American Television and Beyond (2007), with their latest collaboration, TV Betty Goes Global, published this November. She has written widely on feminism and television, and her book, The West Wing, for the TV Milestone Series, is forthcoming.

For more, visit the CST Online website.
 
 
 
 

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