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A look at how The Gong Show and Battle of the Network Stars influenced a legion of contemporary reality shows, and defined network TV production models.

Tesla, RKO, Glen Campbell, and a century of art on radio towers and the melancholy of distance, all seared together with a tremendous ZAP! of low-frequency whistlers.

Wheeler Winston Dixon considers the ubiquity of Redbox kiosks and their implications for the DVD market.

A look at who actually benefits from body-conscious television spectacles like Extreme Makeover.

Considering the representations and constructions of Dominican identity on Saturday Night Live.

A discussion of online farming community Free Farm Game and its implications of online and offline agriculture and capitalism.

The authors contend that the narrative strategies employed by AMC’s The Killing would be best analysed through a feminist lens.

Taylor Cole Miller’s article explores the ways in which a small sample of Glee viewers interact with the text and make sense of Kurt, the show’s gay character. He explores the ways in which heterosexual women are drawn to Kurt while homosexual men resist him largely based on the notion that he subscribes to well-worn stereotypes of gay men in media.

Are depictions of homo-normativity on UK TV too close to hetero-normativity for the comfort of a mainstream audience?