{"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}
{"title":"Paul Rotha at the BBC and The World Is Ours revisited","authors":"Martin Stollery","doi":"10.1177/17496020261432057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020261432057","url":null,"abstract":"This article reassesses Paul Rotha’s tenure as BBC television’s Head of Documentaries (1953–55), primarily by reconsidering his signature television series, <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">The World Is Ours</jats:italic> (1954–56), as a more hybrid and collaborative production than has hitherto been acknowledged. It relates Rotha’s BBC work to the British documentary film movement’s embrace of a specific variant of postwar internationalism, to the changing style of his preceding film projects during the 1940s and early 1950s, and to emergent practices within postwar British factual television. This article broadens understanding of a period when new televisual forms were being developed and the question of television production for international markets gradually became more prominent.","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147393294","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: Push the button: Interactive television and collaborative journalism in Japan RodwellElizabeth, Push the Button: Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan, Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2024; 185 pp. ISBN 978-1-4780-2102-5 $99.95 (hbk), 978-1-4780-2576-4 $25.95 (pbk), 978-1-4780-2789-8 (ebk).","authors":"Julia Stolyar","doi":"10.1177/17496020251405115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020251405115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51917,"journal":{"name":"Critical Studies in Television","volume":"128 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-02-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147287303","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}