{"id":49,"date":"2021-05-28T09:43:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/tvresearchgroup\/?page_id=49"},"modified":"2025-09-08T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T11:54:54","slug":"our-recent-publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/tvresearchgroup\/our-recent-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Our recent publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recent and Forthcoming<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Forthcoming<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minor, L. (in press). The \u2018milf\u2019: a brief cultural history, from Mrs Robinson to Stifler\u2019s mom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dunleavy, Trisha and Weissmann, Elke (eds.) (2024) <em>TV Drama in the Multi-Platform Age<\/em>, Palgrave Macmillan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weismann, Elke (2024) &#8220;Gender and the Youthification of German Television: Zeit der Geheimnisse and Generational Change in High-End TV Drama&#8221;, in Dunleavy, Trisha and Weissmann, Elke (eds.) (2024) <em>TV Drama in the Multi-Platform Age<\/em>, Palgrave Macmillan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weissmann, Elke and Tyrrell, Belinda (2024) &#8220;From Climate Crisis to Environment(al) Hope: Community, Affect and Local Television&#8221;, in Cottell, S. (ed.) <em>Communicating a World in Crisis<\/em>. Peter Lang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2023). &#8220;Animated Animals: Cartoons, Children and Animal Studies&#8221;, in Schluchter, J-R. (ed.)<em>Tiere \u2013 Medien \u2013 Bildung: Perspektiven der Animal Studies f\u00fcr Medien und Medienp\u00e4dagogik.<\/em>&nbsp;M\u00fcnchen:&nbsp;Kopaed Verlag,&nbsp;p. 113-124.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2023). &#8220;Recorded Stand-Up from Radio to Netflix&#8221;, in Double, O. (ed.).<em>The Cambridge Companion to Stand-Up Comedy.<\/em>&nbsp;&nbsp;Cambridge: Cambridge University Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2023). &#8220;\u201cDogs are supposed to be able to instinctively live with purpose\u201d: Brian, <em>Family Guy<\/em>, and the Inevitable Anthropocentrism of Satire&#8221;, in Susan, M. &amp; Robert, M. (eds.) <em>Animal Satire.<\/em>&nbsp;Cham: Palgrave Macmillan,&nbsp;p. 313-331&nbsp;19 p.&nbsp;(Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature; vol. Part F1300).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2023). &#8220;&#8216;I&#8217;m Waiting for You&#8217;: <em>Detectorists<\/em> and the Comedy of Landscape&#8221;, in Marshall, J. and Irwin, M. (eds.)<em>UK and Irish Regional Comedy<\/em>, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watts, Robert (2023). &#8220;&#8216;Zero tolerance for candy asses&#8217;: World Wrestling Entertainment and Fast &amp; Furious as transmedia storytelling&#8221;. In Gulam, J., Elliott, F. &amp; Feinstein, S. (eds.)\u00a0<em>Full-Throttle Franchise: The Culture, Business and Politics of Fast &amp; Furious.<\/em> New York:\u00a0Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,\u00a0p. 233-250.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dunleavy, Trisha and Weissmann, Elke (2023). &#8220;Cultural Diversity in Internationally C.oproduced High-end Drama&#8221;, <em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>, Vol. 18 (2), pp. 117-127.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weisssmann, Elke and Tyrrell, Belinda (2023). &#8220;Local Community Climate Activism, Television and Social Change&#8221;. <em>Social Alternatives<\/em> 42 (2), pp. 38-44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weissmann, Elke and Tyrrell, Belinda (2023). &#8220;A Future for the Climate. Devolution and Participation in Climate Documentaries&#8221;. In Mair, John, Riley, John and Beck, Andrew (eds.): <em>Toxic News? Covering Climate Change<\/em>, London: Bitesize Books, pp. 107-115.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weissmann, Elke (2023): &#8220;From Traditional Regionalism to National Distinction. German Television Co-Productions Through Time&#8221;. <em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>, e-publication before print. Available at <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/17496020231211545\">(sagepub.com)https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/17496020231211545<\/a> (accessed 05 December 2023). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Past Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2022). <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/the-popular-entertainment-side-of-broadcasting-should-receive-muc\">\u201cThe Popular Entertainment Side of Broadcasting Should Receive Much More Attention\u201d: The BBC, Comedy, and Nation-Building at Home and Abroad.  <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/the-popular-entertainment-side-of-broadcasting-should-receive-muc\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Critical Studies in Television, <\/em>17(4)<\/a>. (Accessed 15 September 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minor, Laura (2022). \u2018U OK hun\u2019? Classed femininities, meme culture and locating humour in the celebrity \u2018hun\u2019. <em>European Journal of Cultural Studies<\/em>, 26(6), 840-862.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watts, Robert (2022). &#8220;Resurrection, revelation, reception: Rescuing John From Cincinnati from the HBO narrative&#8221;. In Cardwell, S., Bignell, J. &amp; Fife Donaldson, L. (eds.). <em>Substance\/style: Moments in television.<\/em> Manchester:\u00a0Manchester University Press,\u00a0p. 156-177\u00a022 p.\u00a0(The Television Series).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elke Weissmann and Belinda Tyrrell (2022) <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/community-led-television-local-voice-and-climate-action-report-fo\"><em>Community-led Television, Local Voice and Climate Action: Report for Liverpool City Council and Liverpool City Region Combined Authority<\/em> \u2014 Edge Hill University<\/a> (accessed 15 September 2022).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrea Wright (2022) \u2018Of Gods, Monsters and Men: Science, Faith, the Law, and the Contested Body and Mind in <em>The Frankenstein Chronicles <\/em>(2015-) and <em>The Alienist<\/em> (2018-)\u2019. In J. Leggott, J.A. Taddeo and Byrne, K (eds.) <em>Diagnosing History: Medicine in Television Costume Dramas<\/em>. Manchester University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hannah Andrews (2021): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/gp\/book\/9783030646776\"><em>Biographical Television Drama<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, Hannah. (2021): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/angelo-restivo-breaking-bad-and-cinematic-television\">Angelo Restivo, <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> and Cinematic Television<\/a><strong>. <\/strong>In:&nbsp;<em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>, 16 (1): p. 69-71<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perelandra Beedles (2021)&nbsp;\u2018The Gendered&nbsp;Practice&nbsp;of the TV&nbsp;Opt&nbsp;Out\u2019&nbsp;in&nbsp;Liddy, S and O&#8217;Brien, A (eds)&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Media-Work-Mothers-and-Motherhood-Negotiating-the-International-Audio-Visual\/Liddy-OBrien\/p\/book\/9780367536015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media&nbsp;Work, Mothers and Motherhood-Negotiating the International Audio-Visual&nbsp;Industry<\/a>&nbsp;.&nbsp;<\/em>Routledge&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2021) \u2018Chornobyl, <em>Chernobyl<\/em>, and Anthropocentric Storytelling\u2019, <em>Series: International Journal of TV Serial Narratives <\/em>7:1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2021) \u2018Liveness and the Live Episode in Television Comedy\u2019 in Jonathan Cohn, Jennifer Porst and Phil Scepanski (eds)&nbsp;<em>Very Special Episodes: Event Television and Social Change<\/em>, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 174-185.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2021) \u2018Comedy Form\u2019 in Louise Peacock (ed)&nbsp;<em>A Cultural History of Comedy \u2013 Volume 6, The Modern Age<\/em>, London: Bloomsbury, 23-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elke Weissmann (2021): \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/18902138.2021.1905397?journalCode=rnor20\">Imagining the Welsh Nation in a Post-patriarchal, Post-national World: <em>Y Gwyll\/ Hinterland<\/em> and the Re-construction of Trans\/National Masculinity\u2019<\/a>. <em>NORMA: International Journal of Masculinity Studies<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elke Weissmann (2021) &#8216;Who&#8217;s Nostalgia? Differentiation in German television\u2019s audience address&#8217; in <em>Journal of Popular Television<\/em>, Vol 9 (3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, Hannah. (2020): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/drag-celebrity-impersonation-as-queer-caricature-in-the-snatch-ga\">Drag celebrity impersonation as queer caricature in The Snatch Game<\/a>.&nbsp;In:&nbsp;<em>Celebrity Studies<\/em>.&nbsp;11,&nbsp;4,&nbsp;p. 417-430<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2020) \u2018Comedy Form\u2019 in Louise Peacock (ed)&nbsp;<em>A Cultural History of Comedy \u2013 Volume 6, The Modern Age<\/em>, London: Bloomsbury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2020) \u2018The Parrot, the Albatross, and the Cat: Animals and Comedy in&nbsp;<em>Monty Python<\/em>\u2019 in Kate Egan and Jeffrey Weinstock (eds)&nbsp;<em>And Now For Something Completely Different: Critical Approaches to Monty Python<\/em>, London: Routledge, 141-54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weissmann, Elke (2020): \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/not-another-article-on-the-wire-how-hierarchies-of-gender-undermi\">Provocation II: Not Another Article on The Wire: How Hierarchies of Gender Undermine TV Scholarship and Lead to Abuse\u2019<\/a>, in <em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>, Vol. 15 (4): 399-408.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, H. (2019) <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/distorted-recognition-the-pleasures-and-uses-of-televisual-histor-2\">Distorted Recognition: the pleasures and uses of televisual historical caricature<\/a>. In:&nbsp;<em>Screen<\/em>.&nbsp;60 (2),&nbsp;p. 280-297.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parkinson, Claire (2019): &nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/animals-anthropomorphism-and-mediated-encounters\">Animals, Anthropomorphism and Mediated Encounters<\/a><\/em>. London, New York: Routledge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weissmann, Elke&nbsp;(2019):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/popular-crime-and-populist-investigation-the-icsii-franchise-and-\">Popular Crime and Populist Investigation: The&nbsp;<em>CSI<\/em>&nbsp;Franchise and Multimedia Participation<\/a>. In:<strong> <\/strong><em>Crime and Detection in Contemporary Culture.<\/em>&nbsp;Vr\u00e1nov\u00e1, M., Vernyik, Z. &amp; Levente Palatinus, D. (eds.). Szeged, Hungary:&nbsp;Americana Books,&nbsp;p. 122-142<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, H. (2018): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/real-peoples-lives-rarely-fall-into-a-three-act-structure-writing-2\">\u2018Real people\u2019s lives rarely fall into a three-act structure\u2019: Writing biographical drama for British television<\/a>.<strong> <\/strong>In:&nbsp;<em>Journal of Screenwriting<\/em>.&nbsp;9 (1),&nbsp;p. 41-56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2018) \u2018Everything for Someone: For an Inclusive Definition of Public Service Broadcasting\u2019 in Des Freedman and Vana Goblot (eds)&nbsp;<em>A Future for Public Service Television<\/em>, London: Goldsmiths Press, 161-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2018) \u2018<em>Will and Grace<\/em>\u2019 in Douglas Howard, David Lavery and David Bianculli (eds)&nbsp;<em>The Finale: Considering the Ends of Television Series<\/em>, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 439-44.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2018) \u2018Comedy and the Nation in&nbsp;<em>The Trip<\/em>\u2019 in Nick Marx and Matt Sienkiewicz (eds)&nbsp;<em>The Comedy Studies Reader<\/em>, Austin: University of Texas Press, pp unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett and Rimmer, Mark (2017) \u2018Pure and Simple: Comedy and Music in&nbsp;<em>Car Share<\/em>\u2019 in Liz Giuffre and Phil Hayward (eds)&nbsp;<em>Music in Television Comedy: Notes on Laughs<\/em>, London: Routledge, 170-85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pateman, Matthew (2018): <em>Joss Whedon<\/em>, The Television Series, Manchester: Manchester University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weissmann, Elke (2018):&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/local-national-transnational-y-gwyllhinterland-as-crime-offor-all-2\">Local, National, Transnational: Y Gwyll\/Hinterland as Crime of\/for all Places<\/a>. In: <em>European Television Crime Drama and Beyond.<\/em>&nbsp;Turnbull, S., Peacock, S. &amp; Hansen, K. T. (eds.). London:&nbsp;Palgrave,&nbsp;p. 119-137.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wright, Andrea (2018): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/traditions-festivities-and-finales-thechanging-role-and-reception-2\">Traditions, Festivities and Finales: The Changing Role and Reception of the <em>Downton Abbey<\/em> Christmas Special<\/a>.&nbsp;In:&nbsp;<em>Journal of Popular Television<\/em>.&nbsp;6 (1),&nbsp;p. 85-103.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, H. (2017): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/from-unwilling-celebrity-to-authored-icon-reading-amy-kapadia-201-2\">From unwilling celebrity to authored icon: reading Amy (Kapadia, 2015)<\/a>. In:&nbsp;<em>Celebrity Studies<\/em>.&nbsp;8 (2),&nbsp;p. 351-354.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, Hannah (2017): &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/imagined-lives-invented-communities-the-biopic-and-american-natio\">Imagined Lives, Invented Communities: The Biopic and American National Identity\u2019<\/a>.&nbsp;In:&nbsp;<em>Adaptation<\/em>.&nbsp;p. 382-385.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Research output<\/em><em>:&nbsp;<\/em><em>Contribution to journal<\/em><em>&nbsp;\u203a&nbsp;<\/em><em>Review article<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, Hannah (2017): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/milly-williamson-celebrity-capitalism-and-the-making-of-fame\">Milly Williamson, Celebrity: Capitalism and the Making of Fame<\/a><strong> <\/strong>Book Review. In<strong>:<\/strong> <em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>, 12 (4),&nbsp;p. 449-450.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, H. (2017): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/women-we-loved-paradoxes-of-public-and-private-in-the-biographica-2\">Women We Loved: Paradoxes of public and private in the biographical television drama<\/a><strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;In:&nbsp;<em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>.&nbsp;12 (1),&nbsp;p. 63-78.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2017)&nbsp;<em>Animals on Television: The Cultural Making of the Non-Human<\/em>, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett with Horton, Erica (2017)&nbsp;<em>Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry<\/em>, London: Routledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weissmann, Elke (2017): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/watching-csi-a-study-of-british-audienceswatching-channel-5-and-f-2\">Watching CSI: a study of British audiences watching Channel 5 and Five USA<\/a>. In:&nbsp;<em>Critical Studies in Television.<\/em>&nbsp;12 (2),&nbsp;p. 174-190<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, H. (2016): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/bbc-four-biopics-lessons-in-trashy-respectability-2\">BBC Four biopics: Lessons in Trashy Respectability<\/a>.&nbsp;In:&nbsp;<em>Journal of British Cinema and Television<\/em>.&nbsp;13,&nbsp;3,&nbsp;p. 409-429<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, H. (2016): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/no-nonsense-two-up-two-down-by-gum-you-daft-hapoth-northerness-ja-2\">\u2018No-nonsense-two-up-two-down-by-gum-you-daft-ha\u2019poth-Northerness\u2019: Jane Horrocks, Gracie Fields and performing generic Northernness<\/a>.&nbsp;In:&nbsp;<em>Journal of Popular Television<\/em>, 4(2): p. 225-238.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2016) \u2018Make Me Laugh: Creativity in the British Television Comedy Industry\u2019,&nbsp;<em>Humor: International Journal of Humor Research<\/em>, 29 (2) 157-74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2016) \u2018\u201cIf This Was a Human\u2026\u201d: Pets, Vets and Medicine on Television\u2019,&nbsp;<em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>, 11 (2) 244-56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2016) \u2018A Special Freedom\u2019 in Chiara Bucaria and Luca Barra (eds)&nbsp;<em>Taboo Comedy: Television and Controversial Humour<\/em>, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 209-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2016) \u2018\u201cOut There, in the World\u201d: Representations of the Zoo and Other Spaces in the&nbsp;<em>Madagascar<\/em>&nbsp;Trilogy\u2019 in Michael Lawrence and Karen Lury (eds)&nbsp;<em>The Zoo: Images of Exhibition and Encounter<\/em>, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 137-52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2016) \u2018Old Jokes:&nbsp;<em>One Foot in the Grave<\/em>, Comedy and Age\u2019 in J\u00fcrgen Kamm and Birgit Neumann (eds)&nbsp;<em>British Television Comedy: Cultural Concepts and Contexts<\/em>, London: Routledge, 265-80.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Molloy, C.&nbsp;(2016): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/animal-cruelty-and-reality-television-a-critical-review-2\">Animal Cruelty and Reality Television: A Critical Review<\/a>.<strong> <\/strong>In<strong>:<\/strong> &nbsp;<em>Animal Cruelty: A multidisciplinary approach to understanding. Second edition.<\/em>&nbsp;Brewster, M. P. &amp; Reyes, C. L. (eds.).&nbsp;Carolina Academic Press,&nbsp;p. 379-395<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geraghty, C.,&nbsp;Weissmann, E.,&nbsp;Jermyn, D.,&nbsp;Lad, M.,&nbsp;Gorton, K.,&nbsp;McCourt, M.&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Kies, B.(2016) <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/women-soap-opera-and-new-generations-of-feminists-2\">Women, Soap Opera, and New Generations of Feminists<\/a>.&nbsp;In:&nbsp;Critical Studies in Television.&nbsp;11 (3),&nbsp;p. 365-384<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weissmann, E. (2016)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/women-television-and-feelings-theorising-emotional-difference-in--2\">Women, Television and Feelings: Theorising Emotional Difference in Gender in <em>SouthLAnd <\/em>and<em> Mad Men<\/em><\/a>.<strong> <\/strong>In<strong>: <\/strong><em>Emotions in Contemporary TV Series.<\/em>&nbsp;Garcia, A. N. (ed.). Basingstoke, New York:&nbsp;Palgrave Macmillan,&nbsp;p. 87-101<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2015<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett and Ralph, Sarah (2015) \u2018\u201cI Think Women are Possibly Judged More Harshly with Comedy\u201d: Women and British Television Comedy Production\u2019,&nbsp;<em>Critical Studies in Television<\/em>, 10 (2) 102-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2015) \u2018Towards a Theory of Documentary Representation for Animals\u2019,&nbsp;<em>Screen<\/em>, 56 (1) 102-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2015) \u2018\u201cShoved Online\u201d: BBC Three, British Television and the Marginalisation of Young Adult Audiences\u2019 in Einar Thorsen, Heather Savigny, Jenny Alexander and Daniel Jackson (eds)&nbsp;<em>Media, Margins and Popular Culture<\/em>, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 219-31.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2015) \u2018The Panel Show\u2019 and \u2018Natural History Programming\u2019 in Glen Creeber (ed)&nbsp;<em>The Television Genre Book, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;edition<\/em>, London: British Film Institute, 109-11 and 154-5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2015) \u2018The Television Sitcom\u2019 in Martin Conboy and John Steel (eds)&nbsp;<em>The Routledge Companion to British Media History<\/em>, London: Routledge, 451-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, H. (2014): &nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/television-and-british-cinema-convergence-and-divergence-since-19-2\">Television and British Cinema: Convergence and Divergence since 1990<\/a><\/em>. London, New York:<strong> <\/strong>Palgrave Macmillan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Andrews, H. (2014): <a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/more-than-a-television-channel-channel-4-filmfour-and-a-failed-co-2\">\u2018More than a Television Channel\u2019: Channel 4, FilmFour and a failed convergence strategy<\/a>.<strong> <\/strong>In:&nbsp;<em>VIEW: Journal of European Television History &amp; Culture<\/em>.&nbsp;3 (6),&nbsp;p. 5-13<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett and Ralph, Sarah (2014) \u2018\u201cTrying to Ride a Naughty Horse\u201d: British Television Comedy Producers\u2019 in Andrew Spicer, Anthony McKenna and Christopher Meir (eds)&nbsp;<em>Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies<\/em>, London: Bloomsbury, 161-74.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mills, Brett (2014) \u2018Sitcoms\u2019 and \u2018Sketch Comedy Shows\u2019 in Salvatore Attardo (ed)&nbsp;<em>Encyclopedia of Humor Studies<\/em>, Thousand Oaks: Sage, 695-8, 698-700.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pateman, Matthew (2014):<strong> <\/strong><em>Firefly<\/em>: of formats, franchises and Fox. In&nbsp;<em>Reading Joss Whedon<\/em>, eds. Rhonda Wilcox, Tanya Cochrane, Cynthea Masson and David Lavery. Syracuse UP, pp. 153 &#8211; 168.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weissmann, E.&nbsp;(2014)&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/exploring-the-wild-wild-east-the-transnational-aesthetics-of-ripp-2\">Exploring the Wild Wild East: The Transnational Aesthetics of Ripper Street<\/a>. In: <em>Fernsehen: Europaeische Perspektiven. Festschrift Prof. Dr. Lothar Mikos.<\/em>&nbsp;Eichner, S. (ed.). Konstanz und Muenchen:&nbsp;UVK,&nbsp;p. 107-120<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/persons\/elke-weissmann\">Weissmann, E.<\/a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Thornham, H.,&nbsp;(2014),&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.edgehill.ac.uk\/en\/publications\/remaking-public-service-for-commercial-consumption-jamies-school--2\">Remaking Public Service for Commercial Consumption: Jamie&#8217;s School Dinners Comes to America<\/a>. In: <em>Remake Television. 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