Since ‘Friends’ premiered 25 years ago, both the television industry and the sitcom genre have undergone huge transformations.
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Gauche and awkward, a media star for the 21st century.
‘Will & Grace,’ ‘The X-Files,’ ‘Fuller House,’ ‘Arrested Development’ – the list goes on. If we’re in the midst of a TV renaissance, why are networks and their viewers looking to the past?
The new TV show Britannia dramatises the second Roman invasion of Britain. It captures the core elements of the story (despite inaccuracies) but recent archaeological finds offer thrilling insights into this time.
Astronauts traveling to Mars and beyond would face serious psychological challenges. A well-designed media program – based on an old-fashioned schedule – might help make life at least a bit easier.
“Gritty,” “authentic” are words of praise often used for TV director David Simon: No less so with The Deuce, his new series about the rise of the porn industry in New York City in the 1970s.
Los Pollos Hermanos is a chicken shop run by a drug lord in the TV series Better Call Saul. A pop-up version opens in Sydney today - and both ignore the savage reality of Mexico’s drug wars.
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Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Film Screen & Animation, Queensland University of Technology
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor and Head of College - Psychology, CQUniversity Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning & Design, Monash University
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Professor, Urban Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Melbourne; RMIT University
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Professor of Media Psychology, University of Michigan
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Professeur en communication internationale, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, University of California, Davis
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Professor of Journalism and Communication, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
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Associate Professor in Media, RMIT University
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Program Coordinator, Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research
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PhD Candidate in English, City St George's, University of London
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Tulane University