The dedication of a single authored monograph to one television show is becoming increasingly rare. BFI unceremoniously dropped their TV Classics series ten years ago; Manchester University Press’s indefatigable Television Series now produces books on entire genres alongside volumes that focus particular auteurs. Given commercial imperative cover as many programmes possible within study, the ...

Focusing on the work of the left-wing film and television director Roy Battersby, this article seeks to shed light on the issues at stake in the controversies surrounding the production and reception of ‘radical television drama’ during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Through an examination of a number of BBC productions that were either cut (Five Women), banned (Hit Suddenly Hit) or the subjec...

Promotion of regional cultural production is seen as critically important both in ensuring a television content that reflects diversity voices and strengthening hubs to ...

Mobile devices have disrupted and reinvented traditional media markets and distribution: iTunes and the iPod now rule music industry distribution channels, Twitter has reinvented Journalism practice, iTunes and the iPad are disrupting book publishing via ebooks and ibooks, and the television and movie industry are struggling to respond to the impact of iTunes, YouTube, Vimeo and mobile devices....

The wide spread dissemination of high-resolution flat-screen display devices will remediate the presentation of video, and therefore the aesthetics of video production. This technology will become the basis for a new video medium, which will relate to the current television in the way that television now relates to film. Many techniques and particular devices will be shared between the old and ...

This paper presents an approach and a computational model, implemented in a software system, for the creation and delivery of interactive moving image productions made with filmed material that level the aesthetic and editing quality of existing linear film and television programmes. They have been validated through a number of productions, notably through a dramatic production delivered on a n...

In this work, a real-time image-based camera tracker is designed for live television production studios. The major concern is to decrease camera tracking expenses by an affordable vision-based approach. First, a dense keyframe model of the static studio scene is generated using image-based dense tracking and bundle adjustment. Online camera tracking is then defined as registration problem betwe...