The history of television culture and production
A special issue, on Scottish television drama, of Visual Culture in Britain (Volume 18, Issue 3) inspired by ‘The History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK’ project and drawing on papers delivered at the ‘Television Drama: The Forgotten, the Read More …
Following the release of The Frighteners on DVD in May 2017 there have been four more releases this year in the Forgotten TV Drama DVD range (in association with Network). The second release comprised three Nigel Kneale plays. The Crunch Read More …
A special issue of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television (Volume 37, Number 1, 2017) edited by Lez Cooke, John Hill and Billy Smart, has now appeared. The articles contained in this issue derive from our conference, ‘Television Read More …
John Hill and Lisa Kerrigan of the British Film Institute presented the results of a survey, conducted in association with the Media Studies Commission of FIAT/IFTA, of academic archival access and forms of research collaboration undertaken by members of Fédération Read More …
On 3rd and 4th November 2017 the Centre is co-hosting two events in Belfast. These include some Forgotten TV Dramas on the evening of 3rd November and an all-day Missing Believed Wiped event on 4th November, supported by Northern Ireland Screen, Film Hub NI and the Belfast Film Festival. On Read More …
Broadcast only once – or at most twice – in a time before on-demand, catch-up or the video recorder, most of the drama made for British television up until the early 1980s has lain unseen for decades. Since 2013, the Read More …
In February 2017, Lez Cooke, John Hill and Billy Smart programmed a second season of ‘Forgotten Dramas’ at BFI Southbank as part of the AHRC-funded ‘History of Forgotten Television Drama in the UK’ project. Here they report on the screenings Read More …