[Commlist] New book: BBC Television Comedy Since the 2000s: Corporate Innovation and Changing National Identity

New monograph: */BBC Television Comedy Since the 2000s: Corporate 
Innovation and Changing National Identity 
<https://www.routledge.com/BBC-Television-Comedy-Since-the-2000s-Corporate-Innovation-and-Changing-National-Identity/Symons/p/book/9781041296645>/*. 
Routledge.

Over five chapters, the book explains how new executive voices, indie 
companies, and technological innovations in the early 2000s transformed 
BBC comedy, reaching a modern, "globalized Britain," and its indifferent 
working-class. Towards the end, it gets into Brexit and a "roll back" to 
British cultural norms.

*Contents*:

 1. Reinventing BBC TV Comedy: New Corporate Strategies and Risk-taking,
    2000-2020s
 2. BBC Three’s Experimentation: Working Class Subcultures
 3. iPlayer and Streaming-Only: Famalam
 4. Comedy Feeds and YouTube: Man Like Mobeen
 5. “Global” BBC Star: Romesh Ranganathan6. ConclusionBBC Interviews

It also includes *interviews *with some of the BBC's brilliant minds:

  * Fiona Campbell (Controller of BBC Three, iPlayer and Youth)
  * Stuart Murphy, CBE (the first Controller of BBC Three)
  * Lucy Lumsden (the first BBC Commissioner of Comedy for BBC One, Two,
    Three and Four)
  * Graham Duff (creator of /Ideal/, with Johhny Vegas)
  * Henry Normal (prolific BBC comedy writer, producer, and co-founder
    of Baby Cow with Steve Coogan).

*Recommendation*:_

"While the history of television's last two decades is typically 
dominated by discussion of streaming and online platforms, this book 
demonstrates the BBC's comedy department since 2000 was a more ripe site 
for novelty and experimentation. Discussing groundbreaking series 
including /Famalam/, /15 Stories High/and /Asian Provocateur/, Symons 
makes clear comedy's vital contribution to the BBC's societal remit, and 
humour's potential for disrupting social and programming norms. 
Featuring extensive and fascinating interviews with key players 
responsible for series such as /Ideal /and /Man Like Mobeen/, this book 
is essential for anyone interested in contemporary UK television and 
humour, making a convincing case for the centrality of comedy to the 
BBC's public duties."

Brett Mills, /Honorary Professor, University of East Anglia, author of 
The Sitcom and Television Sitcom./

_Contact for discussion/collabs, etc.:_
(alexsymons /at/ yahoo.co.uk)

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