{"title":"Breaking boundaries: Smallness and the dynamics of European audiovisual industries in the age of streaming","authors":"Nino Domazetovikj, Tim Raats, Karen Donders","doi":"10.1177/17496020261441478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261441478","url":null,"abstract":"Much of the foundational work on small-nation screen industries in Europe was developed when linear broadcasting was the norm. Digital distribution and subscription video-on-demand business models have since reshaped sector dynamics. This study examines whether existing frameworks still capture the dynamics shaping audiovisual sectors in small nations. The findings show that the small-market perspective remains a useful analytical framework in a multiplatform environment as many of the established patterns of smallness persist in the streaming age. However, streaming also reshapes traditional definitions of small-nation broadcasting and screen sectors and reveals important qualitative differences among European small markets, opening up new opportunities to overcome some of the constraints of smallness.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147636045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A utopian desire called dystopia: Analysing transnational projections of anti-capitalist futures in four post-apocalyptic television series","authors":"Ruben Perez Hidalgo","doi":"10.1177/17496020261439539","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261439539","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that the transnational appeal of post-apocalyptic narratives lies in the fact that, even as they depict new forms of domination, they also envision the end of a world in which one of capitalism’s defining ideology of <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">homo economicus</jats:italic> is non-existent and its concurrent malady, the axis of alienation and exploitation, has been extinguished. Accordingly, through analysis of four post-apocalyptic television series – <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Station Eleven</jats:italic> (2022), <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Last of Us</jats:italic> (2023), <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The Collapse</jats:italic> (2019), and <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Offworld</jats:italic> (2022) – the article shows how these televisual texts articulate utopian possibilities emerging through the dystopian conditions generated by societal collapse.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147524049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Virtual Audience System as a new form of participation on television: Real-time fusion of different environments and audiovisual interactions into live broadcasts","authors":"Daniel Torras i Segura","doi":"10.1177/17496020261440277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261440277","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyses the features of the recently created Virtual Audience System (VAS), designed for viewers’ remote participation in television shows. The VAS creates a new audience, known as the ‘prodience’, which lies halfway between on-site and online audiences. The main characteristic of this new audience is its ability to remotely and synchronically participate from different sources and become part of the broadcast. The VAS audience blurs the boundary between medium and audience, expands the set and production and calls into question the unidirectionality of television. However, the VAS currently has a bigger impact on production than on reception.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147518776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Sex Education: School’s Out for Netflix DeborahShawStoneRob (eds). Sex Education: School’s Out for Netflix. (2025). Bloomsbury Publishing. 276 pp. ISBN 979-8-7651-0731-7.","authors":"Dhiman Roy, Priyanka Sana","doi":"10.1177/17496020261431714","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261431714","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147478242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Sally Wainwright GortonKristynJohnsonBeth (2025). Sally Wainwright. Manchester University Press. 220pp. ISBN 9781526142870.","authors":"Faye Woods","doi":"10.1177/17496020261431715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261431715","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147478243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: TV’s American Dream: US television after the Great Recession BarbaraSelznick. TV’s American Dream: US Television After the Great Recession. (2025). Bloomsbury Academic. 206 pp. ISBN 9781501389696.","authors":"Sarah Lahm","doi":"10.1177/17496020261431702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261431702","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147470921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Watching While Black Rebooted! The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences BerettaSmith-Shomade, (ed.). (2023). Watching While Black Rebooted! The Television and Digitality of Black Audiences. Rutgers University Press. ISBN: 9781978830028.","authors":"Brandale Mills Cox","doi":"10.1177/17496020261431716","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261431716","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147470959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Basketball spaces of discipline and desire in CBS’s The White Shadow (1978-1981)","authors":"Seth Rogoff","doi":"10.1177/17496020261431705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261431705","url":null,"abstract":"In 1978, responding to growing fascination with the perceived ‘ghetto’ roots of American basketball, CBS and MTM Enterprises launched the primetime serial <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The White Shadow</jats:italic> (1978-1981). The article analyses <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The White Shadow</jats:italic> ’s first season and argues that the show’s basketball spaces are contested sites of discipline and desire where ‘ghetto’ culture confronts normative White values. <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The White Shadow</jats:italic> ’s mix of progressive and conservative themes reflects the complex transitional culture between 1960s progressivism and the reactionary 1980s. Critical reception of the show and statements by <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The White Shadow</jats:italic> ’s cast, director, and producer display this ambivalence.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147393293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Distributing queer storyworlds in US, UK, Australian, and Canadian mainstream television drama","authors":"Damien John O’Meara, Whitney Monaghan","doi":"10.1177/17496020261431707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261431707","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the distribution of LGBTQ+ television from the 1990s to the beginning of the 2020s. It presents new data of what queer-oriented series were distributed and where, uncovering the relationship between ‘distributive logics’ and centrally queer themes in mainstream television drama. Examining the emergence and proliferation of the ‘queer storyworld’ in anglophone markets of the US, UK, Australia, and Canada, it reveals how queer televisual representation has developed alongside changing modes of television distribution, particularly through liminal moments of industrial experimentation. In more recent years, this has prompted greater complexity and layering of themes in queer televisual representation.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147393718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}