[Commlist] New Book: Television Goes Back to the Future

Anthony Smith and Laura Minor have recently published a Palgrave Pivot 
entitled /Television Goes Back to the Future: Rethinking TV's Streaming 
Revolution/.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-01609-6 
<https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-01609-6>

The book examines the extent to which the practices of television's past 
are shaping its online future. Challenging industry and scholarly claims 
of digital disruption, it demonstrates how streaming giants like 
Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime Video, alongside public service 
broadcasters like the BBC and Channel 4, maintain deep continuities with 
television history, adapting established industry practices online 
rather than abandoning them. We look at how media institutions have 
applied conventional broadcast television practices around live 
transmissions, linear scheduling, commercial interruption, and episode 
release cadences to streaming platforms; how narrative and genre norms 
continue to underpin American television drama and British TV sitcoms in 
online contexts; and how globalised streaming services cultivate 
country-specific programming and retain close ties to traditional 
practices of national broadcasting systems in South Korea.
As Professor Elizabeth Evans (University of Nottingham) writes: 
"/Television Goes Back to the Future /provides a necessary and 
insightful counter to persistent claims that digital technologies are 
revolutionary. Smith and Minor offer an essential exploration of how 
television is as much about continuity as it is about change".


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