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Television: United Kingdom

Brunsdon, Charlotte (1998), 'Structure of anxiety: recent British television crime fiction', Screen 39:3, Autumn. An interesting analysis of crime/police shows on British television.

Carroll, Rory (1998), 'Massacre in Albert Square', The Guardian July 20. Cutting characters on Eastenders.

Cole, Williams Rossa (1996), 'The decline of dissent?', Dox 10 Winter. Dexcribes the effects of market forces on British television documentaries.

Culf, Andrew (1997), 'Around the clock', The Guardian Feb 3. Plans for a BBC 24-hour TV news service.

Deakin, Simon & Stephen Pratten (2000), `Quasi markets, transaction costs, and trust: the uncertain effects of market reforms in British television production', Television & New Media 1:3, August. How 'reforms', such as the requirement on broadcasters to 'outsource' a chunk of programming, has changed British television.

Dugdale, John (1997), 'Make (over) or break', The Guardian Dec 15. Reviews the broadcasting year (1997) in the UK.

Fraser, Nicholas (1997), 'The new moronism', The Media Guardian June 2. A BBC producer bewails the state of Brioish television but it can't really be that bad!

Horsman, Mathew (1996), 'Manifesto for a new media age', New Statesman Nov 15. Argues thatBritish television, like television elsewhere, must face de-regulation.

Lee, Stewart (1998), 'And here's another funny thing, why can't we make sitcoms like theirs?', The Guardian Aug 3. Comparisons of British and American sitcoms.

Mitchell, Austin (1997), 'Saving the Beeb from itself', The Guardian Feb 17. Media commentator, politician and semi-New Zealander Mitchell argues for less thoughtless change at the BBC.

Pratten, Stephen (1998), 'Needs and wants: the case of broadcasting policy', Media, Culture & Society 20. Debates on the social purpose of broadcasting in Britain.

Saundry, Richard & P. Nolan (1998), 'Regulatory change and performance in TV production', Media, Culture & Society 20. The impact of technological change and de-regulation on employment practices in British television.

'Whyfree television is doomed', New Statesman Aug 30 1996. An anonymous senior ITV executive argues that the traditional broadcasters in the UK (BBC, ITV and Channel Four) have to 'become pay-TV operators'

Willis, John (1997), 'May the 4 be with you', The Guardian Oct 20. Reviews the performance of fifteen years of Channel 4.


        

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