Television Sound Operators by Heath, Tim

“…Despite notable recent efforts, this lack of academic engagement is perhaps at its most pronounced in regards to the sub group of television operators who record, mix, and edit the soundtrack of British television. However, hands on methodologies continue to gain traction in the area of film and television research and, in doing so, create new opportunities to engage with below the line practices and bring into focus the hidden work of production personnel. …”
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De Lost in Austen à Lost Austen ? Une réflexion sur l’élaboration d’une fiction transfuge by Claire Colin

“…This paper deals with the four-part 2008 British television series Lost in Austen, written from a Guy Andrews’s screenplay and directed by Dan Zeff, as an adaptation of the popular Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. …”
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Serial Sacrifices: a Semiotic Analysis of Downton Abbey ideology by Piero Polidoro

“…The goal of this article is to analyze from a narrative point of view British television drama Downton Abbey (six seasons from 2010 to 2015), to show how a coherent ideological system is expressed by a television series. …”
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The War Game et Who Bombed Birmingham ?  : usage politique du mode réflexif by Georges Fournier

“…At a very early stage in the evolution of British television, docudrama was exploited to steer a very large audience towards political and societal issues that needed a national consensus to be addressed. …”
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Cringe Histories: Harold Pinter and the Steptoes by Jonathan Bignell

“…This article argues that cringe humour in British television had begun at least by the early 1960s and derived from a theatre history in which conventions of Naturalism were modified by emergent British writers working with European avant-garde motifs. …”
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How long is a good story? Compressed narratives in British screen advertising since 1955 by Emily Caston

“…The sixty second commercial has held a privileged status with the British television advertising industry since 1955. Recent scholarship in the useful film paradigm offers a promising starting point to analyse the design craft of the industry, as does scholarship on early advertising film. …”
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Deep Mapping and Screen Tourism: The Oxford of Harry Potter and Inspector Morse by James Cateridge

“…Building on the travel writing of William Least Heat-Moon and other recent work in the spatial humanities, two case studies of major screen tourism drivers are considered and analyzed. The British television drama Inspector Morse (1987–2000) explores the ambiguity of Oxford intellectualism through its central character. …”
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Lip Reading Sentences in the Wild by Chung, J, Senior, A, Vinyals, O, Zisserman, A

“…Our key contributions are: (1) a Watch, Listen, Attend and Spell (WLAS) network that learns to transcribe videos of mouth motion to characters, (2) a curriculum learning strategy to accelerate training and to reduce overfitting, (3) a Lip Reading Sentences (LRS) dataset for visual speech recognition, consisting of over 100,000 natural sentences from British television. The WLAS model trained on the LRS dataset surpasses the performance of all previous work on standard lip reading benchmark datasets, often by a significant margin. …”

Young Danish audiences and British screen content: A critical reflection on transnational consumption, geo-linguistic regions, and cultural proximity by Bengesser Cathrin, Esser Andrea, Steemers Jeanette

“…Drawing on survey and interview data from a pilot study undertaken online in Denmark (March–July 2020), this article provides exploratory insights about how young audiences in Denmark (aged 16–34, with a background in higher education) engage with British television and film as viewing shifts from broadcast television to online on-demand services. …”
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Margaret Thatcher in Spitting Image by Yves Golder

“…It provides a study of the representation of Margaret Thatcher’s political image in the British television show called Spitting Image. This TV show was broadcast on ITV from 1984 to 1996. …”
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The image of the father in Downton Abbey: manifestation of identity in virtuous actions by Elba Díaz-Cerveró, Rafael Hurtado, María G. Crespo

“…The British television series Downton Abbey (directed by Julian Fellowes) could be considered a media phenomenon without precedent. …”
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“Us refugees, the flotsam and jetsam of death”: the monsters of Being Human as migrants and asylum seekers by Ilaria Villa

“…Being Human was a British television series broadcast by BBC Three between 2008 and 2013. …”
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Human behavior in golden balls game by Eung, Chhor Sang, Lam, Chia Chee, Heng, Wendy Jie Ying

“…We examine guilt aversion and gender discrimination in a Prisoner's Dilemma game setting, using data of the British television game show “Golden Balls”. Given the naturally competitive setting with real monetary rewards, we can observe the decisions made by the contestants in a controlled setting, guarded with strict and well-defined rules. …”
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Deep audio-visual speech recognition by Afouras, T, Chung, J, Senior, A, Vinyals, O, Zisserman, A

“…Both models are built on top of the transformer self-attention architecture; (2) we investigate to what extent lip reading is complementary to audio speech recognition, especially when the audio signal is noisy; (3) we introduce and publicly release two new datasets for audio-visual speech recognition: LRS2-BBC, consisting of thousands of natural sentences from British television; and LRS3-TED, consisting of hundreds of hours of TED and TEDx talks obtained from YouTube. …”

Perpetual memory. Episode Review «The entire history of you« of Black Mirror (2011) by Natacha Salomé LIMA

“…<em>The</em><em> </em><em>entire</em><em> </em><em>history</em><em> </em><em>of</em><em> </em><em>you</em><em> </em>is an episode of the British television drama series which presents a futuristic scenario of a very old situation: jealousy. …”
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‘I’ve been nowhere and done nothing’. The characterization of Daisy Mason in the British drama Downton Abbey by Cecilia Lazzeretti

“…The article aims at investigating the characterization of Daisy Mason in the British television drama Downton Abbey and is based on a corpus of transcripts of episodes in Series One, Two and Three. …”
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BBC’s "Sherlock" and Europeanness: A Case Study on the Circulation of a European TV Crime Series in Italy by Luca Antoniazzi, Sara Casoli

“…To some extent Sherlock has triggered both reflections on British television and self-reflections on Italian culture. …”
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Lesbian Desire and Mainstream Media: Sarah Waters’s Tipping the Velvet on the Screen by Lea Heiberg Madsen

“…This article explores the adaptation of the novel, broadcast on British television in 2002, and discusses whether or not its re-presentation of female same-sex erotics discredits the issue of lesbianism. …”
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Seven and up: individual differences in male voice fundamental frequency emerge before puberty and remain stable throughout adulthood by Meddy Fouquet, Katarzyna Pisanski, Nicolas Mathevon, David Reby

“…Here, we measured the F0 parameters of men who were recorded once every 7 years from age 7 to 56 as they participated in the British television documentary Up Series. Linear mixed models revealed significant effects of age on all F0 parameters, wherein F0 mean, minimum, maximum and the standard deviation of F0 showed sharp pubertal decreases between age 7 and 21, yet remained remarkably stable after age 28. …”
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Women Lawyers on TV – the British Experience by Peter Robson

“… This paper examines the portrayal on British television of women as protagonists in TV dramas and how this has altered in the past half century. …”
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