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- Afghan leader says he backs ban on hit Indian soaps
- KABUL AFP — Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai defended a decision by his government to ban a handful of Indian soap operas, saying they violated his nation's moral standards and culture. The culture ministry has given several privately run television stations until Tuesday to stop showing certain popular serials based...
- Research articles 2008-04-21
- The write stuff: U.S. serial print culture from conservatives out to neo-Nazis
- ABSTRACT Insufficient scholarly attention has been devoted to alternative or "oppositional" serials from the political right, even though a number of scholars have used these materials as primary sources for studies in several academic disciplines. This overview reviews some of the terms used to describe these serials, explores the...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- South Korea soaps winning global audiences, rival Latin America
- BARCELONA, Spain AFP — South Korean soap operas are winning global audiences and have become major rivals to Latin America's racier telenovelas, participants at an industry conference held in Spain said. Jordanian television distributor Media Marketing and Production started buying the rights to air South Korean serials in the...
- Research articles 2007-10-06
- Kuwait: Shiite marriage TV drama hits sectarian nerve
- KUWAIT CITY AFP — A Kuwaiti-produced television soap opera highlighting a Shiite form of temporary marriage known as "Mutaa" was bound to be controversial in the Muslim world, even without the title "Sins have a price." The 30-episode serial prodded what has long been a sensitive difference between the...
- Research articles 2007-09-16
- Kuwaiti PM seeks to axe 'derogatory' Shiite TV serial
- KUWAIT CITY AFP — Kuwait's premier Monday vowed to try to stop the broadcast of a TV serial deemed derogatory to Muslim Shiites, as stones were thrown at two stations set to air the programme during Islam's holiest month. The assurance came during a meeting between Sheikh Nasser Mohammad...
- Research articles 2007-09-10
- Heroes welcome? We shall see...
- It'll take a host of heroes to save this season. As happy as the networks may be to put a disastrous summer behind them, they face a fall that may not be much brighter with a new crop of shows that is their least interesting and...
- Research articles 2007-09-07
- Critic's corner
- *Here's yet another upside to Fox's last-minute scheduling cave-in: We get two episodes tonight of Bones (8 ET/PT). The first, new one finds the team caught in the middle of a Blair Witch-themed murder. The second is a strong repeat from last season that finds Bones caught between a blind...
- Research articles 2006-11-29
- 'Heroes' goes to Texas
- HEROES. 9 tonight, Channel 10. I'VE HEARD grumbling this fall about serials that aren't exactly moving at the speed of "24." ABC's "The Nine," for instance, while widely admired for its characters, seems to pack most of its action into those tantalizing flashbacks, making the present day feel just a...
- Research articles 2006-11-20
- What's on your must-see-TV list?
- Do you have time for prime time? If you get home from work at 6, throw together a quick dinner and try to get to sleep by a decent hour, how many minutes can you spare for Dr. McDreamy and Jack Bauer? I ask...
- Research articles 2006-10-17
- Mysterious 'Nine' will try to hook island fans
- I'm trying to picture the pitch meeting: "OK, it's like 'Lost,' only set in a bank." That sort of, kind of seems to be the premise behind ABC's promising but peculiar new drama "The Nine," which premieres at 9:01 p.m. today. ...
- Research articles 2006-10-04
- My Network TV.(News)(Brief article)
- Byline: claire atkinson News Corp. may have the most expensive show on broadcast TV, thanks to Fox's "American Idol,'' but its new entry, , is selling at rock-bottom prices. The joint venture of Fox Station Group and Twentieth Television is airing two English-language telenovela...
- Research articles 2006-09-25
- TV gambles on more serials
- Vanished is a twisting tale of abduction woven into a shadowy, century-old conspiracy that producers hope will hook viewers into a weekly TV habit. The Fox drama, which premieres Aug. 21 (9 p.m. ET/PT), is but one of a crop of serialized sagas looking to be the next TV...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Russian gangsters shoot mafia TV serial after their own heart
- VLADIVOSTOK, Russia AFP ? Dissatisfied with the way Russian television serials depict the underworld, real-life mobsters shot their own show, which a local television channel in Russia's Far East just started broadcasting, channel officials said. The program, called "Spets," was shot by the owner of a shady car market...
- Research articles 2004-07-20
- Is the big deal dead? Status of the crisis in scholarly publishing.(Leading Libraries)
- Cornell University Libraries announced to the library community in early November 2003 that it was going to cancel over 200 titles it currently receives from Reed-Elsevier. Harvard University Libraries and the California Digital Library, representing the University of California library system, have announced similar actions. Libraries...
- Research articles 2004-03-01
- TV saga to challenge Russians over life under Stalin
- MOSCOW AFP ? For filmmaker Dmitry Barshevsky, a clear sign that Russia may be on the road to democracy is the fact that television channels are competing for the right to air his "Moscow Saga", a 24-part serial on the Stalinist era, in prime time. The serial, currently in...
- Research articles 2004-01-21
- Remembrance of things past
- Television seems to be moving backwards, I'm pleased to say. Take I Was A Rat, the new children's serial on BBC I Sunday. It's based on a novel by Philip Pullman, a young persons' writer who has the misfortune to work at the same time as J.K. Rowling. If she...
- Research articles 2001-12-15
- Teens Stoke Passions with Tabitha and Timmy - Swatch, YM team for soap opera promotion - Brief Article
- While the beyond-camp antics of witch Tabitha and her talking doll Timmy get many adults to slavishly tune in to NBC'S so-bad-it's-good soap opera Passions, YM decided that a promotional tie to the serial's attractive teen cast would be a great draw for its young readers and partner Swatch. Together,...
- Research articles 2001-02-12
- Immune Technologies' I-MOD ER Moves Forward
- Business Editors/High-Tech Writers JUPITER, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--June 22, 2000 BioNet Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:BNTK) President Alan Schafler and Lea Dowd, CEO for Immune Technologies, are pleased to announce that I-MOD ERTM, Immune Technologies' immunomodulator for equine respiratory diseases, continues to move forward in pre-licensing. The USDA has received the...
- Research articles 2000-06-22
- The Scheherazade of soaps.
- Can the once highly popular 'All My Children' rebound from its sagging ratings? ABC TV thinks so. But to make sure, it's brought back Agnes Nixon as the show's head writer; Nixon had been a consultant. Considered by many to be the first lady of serial dramas,...
- Research articles 1999-05-31
- `Good Entertainment & Good Family Life': Listener Readings and Responses to Gwen Meredith's The Lawsons and Blue Hills.
- Gwen Meredith's radio programs 'The Lawsons' and 'Blue Hills' attracted loyal listeners for decades. These programs began in the 1940s as a means to communicate practical farming information within a fictional setting, but the programs' dramatic elements soon became dominant. 'Blue Hills' replaced 'The Lawsons' in 1949 and was broadcast...
- Research articles 1998-09-01
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