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Don’t listen to the headlines linking binge watching to depression and loneliness. It can be a positive experience – but only if we think of it as a good thing.
Is it time the Premier League developed an on-demand, Netflix-style football watching service?
It’s not all child’s play.
Netflix has seamlessly adapted to new technologies and disrupted existing business models. But unlike traditional media enterprises, Netflix has never tried to attract a mass audience.
The recently broadcast TV mini-series, “Mars”, combines fiction and nonfiction in a way that places them in balance. This kind of combination is likely to feature in more television series and films.
The traditional TV schedule is still more important than we might think.
Netflix’s most ambitious and expensive original drama is historical fiction at its most lavish.
Streaming television may actually facilitate important forms of human interaction, like participating in politics.
The digital conqueror took to the stage in Edinburgh with some harsh words for the TV industry.
The Netflix series Stranger Things is a throwback to the glory days of cinematic horror. And as VHS disappears from our shelves, this show’s 80s-infused nostalgia is doubly poignant.
The era of the VCR is coming to a close, but it’s impact on the way we consume and produce content has been profound.
Contrary to popular belief, several recent studies suggest that plot spoilers don’t always make us like a film or books less – and may even make us like it more.
The popular TV series encourages us to question how we understand identity and community in light of religion.
If you like binge-watching Netflix, streaming audio or online gaming, then you should be celebrating this week. And if your business depends on reaching a wide audience online, you should join in.
A move by the US to open up more competition in pay-TV has sparked a debate about TV viewing data.
The European Union is considering imposing a local content quota on video streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon. With local storytelling under threat from global tech giants, could such an approach work here?
There’s a new video-on-demand service in Australia, and it might shake up the sector given its unconventional approach and appeal to young people who shun traditional television viewing.
If you want to safeguard the licence fee and shore up public-service content, time to introduce democracy to the BBC.
Both the outrage and relief prompted by the BBC White Paper miss the time bomb that will ultimately determine the Corporation’s future.
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