We're still looking for contributors to write posts for the TV blog section WFTHN. These can be short, exploratory pieces; reviews; works in progress - we're flexible! If you're interested, or have any students/colleagues that might be, please email me @ [email protected]

Day 2 of #baftss2024 and a great panel to start off with: Louise Coopey Polina Zelmanova Hannah Hamad and Katerina Loukopoulou on representations of workers onscreen

Gutted to be missing the final day of #BAFTSS2024 today, but I had a great time catching up with lovely people & attending excellent panels (including mine - Polina Zelmanova, Hannah Hamad 👏) over the past couple of days. Looking forward to next year already, BAFTSS!

Cultural vandals. theguardian.com/education/2024…

"Mis-sold"??? A thread in which yet another Tory MP conflates value with "later-life earnings", fundamentally misunderstanding both why students choose creative degrees & what they want out of them. Completely out of touch & wholly predictable.

I'll be at Leeds Uni Media on Wednesday the 8th of May, from 15:45 – 17:00, talking about my forthcoming book 'Reclaiming Female Authorship in UK Television Comedy'. Please do come along if you're interested! 🎭 ahc.leeds.ac.uk/media/events/e…

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Fascinating! I'd love to get my hands on the complete data to see the splits along audience demographic lines too. 👏 More in Common

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WITCHER: A COMPANION! Have a perspective on Sapkowski's The Witcher or ANY of its Adaptations? Consider getting in contact! Deadline is 28th June, topics are not limited to just those below, so be as creative as you want! BAFTSS Association of Adaptation Studies

If this can make it through multiple editorial teams at two national newspapers, then imagine what’s happening in our schools, our courts, our industry sectors… White supremacy needs to be called out CONSTANTLY for what it is. Don’t sidestep the issue.

In the words of the late, great Benjamin Zephaniah, "form is temporary, boys and girls, but class, that is permanent." Up the Villa! 💜💙 #AVFC

Very excited to be a part of this volume! Not long now until I can read the other chapters (I've been looking forward to that for quite some time now) 😁

Get up, switch on the news & hear Rishi Sunak talking about defunding "Mickey Mouse degrees" yet again 🤬 I wonder what it is about the ability to think critically, understand media messaging, be creative & expand horizons that the Tories hate...

"No matter how major a writer it is, no matter how great the book, there always seems to be someone on hand who thinks he can do better, eager to take the story and “improve” on it." Interesting from GRRM, the author who advocates for separate book & TV canons for his own work.

You know what would have helped Sunak here? An advisor with a degree in media & communications. Not so Mickey Mouse now, huh, Rishi?

I'm back in Birmingham and getting ready to install 'Benjamin Zephaniah: The Brighter Flame'. From Friday, please do visit Victoria Square & Colmore Row to remember our great poet of the people 🖤

I've barely been on this hell site lately, but have finally gotten around to setting up a profile in the good place. I'm at loucoopey.bluesky.social if you're over there too 😁

I'm sorry to be missing out on catching up with everyone at #BAFTSS2025 tomorrow - it's still 2.5 weeks until the Easter hols & such is the life of a school data administrator - but wishing everyone presenting/shortlisted this year good luck!