The history of television culture and production
Launched by the BBC in 1985 as a successor to Play for Today, Screen Two featured an eclectic range of over 150 single dramas, including The Firm, Edward II, Priest, Contact and Truly, Madly, Deeply. On the occasion of its Read More …
Friday 19th September, 14.30 – 16.00 Room 104, Senate House, London, WC1E 7HU This event will ask how 1980s Black British Workshop films are being re-shown today—in galleries, cinemas, and online—and what political and cultural work these screenings can do Read More …
Helen Littleboy’s new two-part documentary series Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army launched on BBC Two on 27th July, subsequently becoming available on BBC iPlayer. Helen, who lectures at Royal Holloway and is a TV Centre associate, is the Read More …
Two PhD researchers associated with the Centre, and supervised by TV Centre director Professor John Hill, have joined the AHRC-funded research project ‘Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible’ led by Professor Helen Hanson at the University of Exeter. Read More …
From January to March 2025, PhD research student, Ben Stoll, supervised by John Hill and Manishita Dass, visited the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas following the award of an AHRC Fellowship. While there, he researched material on Black British Read More …
PhD researcher Jess Boyall has co-curated an exhibition, series of screenings and live performance programme at Ormside Projects, 24th – 28th November 2024. Drawing on the London Community Video Archive’s extensive collection, the programme showcases films, live performances, and sonic Read More …
BBC Northern Ireland began broadcasting over the radiowaves in 1924 and to coincide with this anniversary the Belfast Film Festival put together a special archive television event around the first programme to be made locally, Ulster Mirror. Launched in 1954, Read More …
TV Centre associate, Lydia Yeoman has successfully passed her PhD entitled ‘Magical Realism, Emotion, and Gendered Television Forms: A Practice-Based Enquiry’. Her thesis, supervised by Professor Adam Ganz, examines the emergence of magical realism in American prime-time television during the Read More …
Professor John Hill and PhD student Rose Baker were both speakers at the Irish Screen Studies Seminar at Ulster University, Belfast, 7-8 May 2024. John delivered a keynote address on Irish screen studies in tribute to his friend and former Read More …
Two researchers, supervised by Professor John Hill and involved in the work of the Centre, have successfully completed their PhDs. Daryl Perrins’ thesis entitled ‘They Can’t Stop Us Singing’: Film, Television and the Representation of the Welsh Working Class’ provides Read More …