Take control, but keep choice
It’s worth revisiting a topic that never goes off the radar: Concern about content. Everybody can agree that cable transformed the television landscape by vastly expanding viewing choices, but not...
View ArticleCable Saves Your Summertime
We’re still about a week away from the summer solstice, but it sure feels like summer already. The massive heatwave in Washington, D.C. this week helped set the tone, but the available programming on...
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Empowering Parents to Control Television
The Senate Commerce Committee this week held a hearing “Rethinking the Children’s Television Act for a Digital Media Age” to explore if rules governing television programming for children should be...
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Nature Versus Nurture: Q&A With The Creators of Orphan Black
A troubled woman named Sarah arrives on an anonymous train platform. She’s on the run and desperate. She spots a woman on the platform who, oddly, appears to be taking off her shoes, her jacket (which...
View ArticleFood Fight! How and Why Food TV Became Competitive Viewing
Cast your mind back to just a few years ago and it’d have been unimaginably awkward if you caught your dad settling down to watch the Food Network with a beer on a Sunday afternoon. But what was once a...
View ArticleSmoke And Mirrors: Why We Buy Into Period Shows
America has fallen in love with TV shows set in times-gone-by, whether it’s the opulence of Downton Abbey’s 1920s England, the mythological middle ages of Westeros, or the political intrigue of...
View ArticleHBO Is Right To Relish The 1920s
If America’s overly kempt youth had the chance to be reborn and live their lives at any point in history, it seems increasingly likely that they’d pick the era of speakeasies, excess, and social...
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