Society
The Capitalist Mindwash and Oprah For President
Enough of the rags to riches celebrity graft narrative – Oprah for President? Please, no. (read more)
television
Society
The Many Uses of Dead Baby Whales
Blue Planet II’s weekly reminder that you are a sh*t (read more)
News
Entertainment TV and Populist Voters: The (somewhat obvious) Link
People exposed to entertainment television are more likely to vote for populist politicians (read more)
News
Can You Die From Watching TV?
Excessive daily TV watching may increase risk of death (read more)
News
Do You Want Shinier Computer Graphics? You Got ‘Em
UCSD technicians unveil new techniques for creating shiny computer graphics for film, games and TV. Report (read more)
Society
All Wrong: the misguided adventures of an art world hero (Grayson Perry)
The roving potter lines up his newest quaint exhibits: the northern working classes (read more)
News
The Damage Television Does to Your Kids: Proven!
Falling TVs causing increasing number of severe neck and head injuries in children (read more)
Features
TV at its most cynical. The Magician’s Apprentice (Doctor Who)
Audience figures for Saturday night’s mess are the lowest ever for a Who series opener. You’d think they would have got the hint. (read more)
Society
A Talent Show Without the Talent? X Factor Returns… Again
Even after so many years of being served up candy floss, there are still so many people thinking, in all honesty, that it has something to do with musical talent, vocal prowess or even the nursing of embryonic talent. (read more)
News
Piling it On : Television and Obese Children
Kindergartners and first-graders who watched as little as one hour of television a day were more likely to be overweight or obese (read more)
Society
Charlie Brooker is Rubbish – A Meditation
Brooker’s nosedive into Planet Shite was neither inevitable nor certain. We all get older, but we don’t have to get old. (read more)
Society
Breaking Bad: The Aesthetics of Aspirational Evil
Vince Gilligan has said in interviews that Breaking Bad started as an idea of creating show in which a sympathetic protagonist became a terrifying antagonist. Revisiting the show, this becomes clear. (read more)
News
Big Bird and Your Brain
Using brain scans of children and adults watching Big Bird on Sesame Street, cognitive scientists are learning how children’s brains change as they develop intellectual abilities like reading and math. (read more)
Art
Television the Drag on the Nation
Television has struggled enormously to cope with the technological paradigm shift of the internet (read more)