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**‘Wanna be on top?’: America’s Next Top Model and evaluating presentational performance as televisual skill**
James Bennett / London Metropolitan University

April 8, 2010 James Bennett / London Metropolitan University 4 comments

A comparison of the performance styles of American and Australian ‘Top Model’ hosts Tyra Banks and Johdi Meares.

The BBC Presenter Pay Scandal: The Political Economy of Television Fame
James Bennett / London Metropolitan University

January 22, 2010 James Bennett / London Metropolitan University Leave a comment

A look at the recent pay scandal surrounding BBC’s Jonathan Ross — and what it tells us about the economics of fame today.

**Television Celebrity: Extras and the Cultural Value of TV Fame**
James Bennett / London Metropolitan University

November 13, 2009 James Bennett / London Metropolitan University One comment

James Bennett examines Ricky Gervais, Extras, and the show’s meta-textual mediation on television celebrity.