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Law and Television
How Podcasting Helped NBC’s Dateline Regain Its Popularity @TimBella @DatelineNBC @dateline_keith
The Washington Post’s Timothy Bella explores how NBC’s program Dateline is back, successfully drawing audiences through podcasting. He writes in part, Nearly 32 years after its TV debut, the once-dusty “Dateline” brand has found...
Pupul Dutta Prasad, A Review of Diana Rickard’s The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence @PupulDPrasad @NYUpress @ProfRickard
The New True Crime: How the Rise of Serialized Storytelling Is Transforming Innocence A Review by Pupul Dutta Prasad Crime stories focusing on unravelling the suspense and mystery surrounding criminal acts and their...
Elizabeth Rajapakshe on The Rookie and the Fallen Elite
Elizabeth Pajapakshe, Postgraduate Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (PGIHS), University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, has published “The rookie and the fallen elite”: an examination of the portrayal of female lawyers in the...
Call For Papers: Symposium on HBO’s Succession @DePaulLaw @BandesSusan
From Professor Susan Bandes, DePaul College of Law: Call for Papers The DePaul Law Review will devote the third issue of its 73rd volume (slated for publication in Spring 2024) to a Symposium addressing...
A New Legal Drama Featuring a Supreme Court Nominee
Legal dramas are always in season. ABC has ordered a legal drama, Judgement, from 20th Century Television and Joey Falco. The show centers on a Supreme Court nominee and explores her past, which is...
Ezra Rosser On the Law of Friends @EzraRosser @AUWCL @FriendsTV
The Law of F∙r∙i∙e∙n∙d∙s Ezra Rosser* Introduction A serious law professor would not write an article about the TV show Friends, but having just written a book and an article, I’m...
John Oliver on “Law & Order” @THR @iamjohnoliver @lawandordertv
From The Hollywood Reporter: John Oliver Criticizes ‘Law & Order’ and Dick Wolf for Unrealistic, Highly Favorable Portrayal of Police. The article by THR’s staff says in part, After expressing alarm that several real-life officers...
Open Culture On Better Call Saul As Storytelling @BetterCallSaul @openculture
From Open Culture, an essay on Better Call Saul‘s storytelling skills. Link here.
The Fictional Workplace: It Certainly Doesn’t Seem Pleasant @guardian @ameliargh
Amelia Tait examines popular culture workplaces in an article for The Guardian. She writes in part: For all its mundanity, The Office never went full-blown bleak (one colleague might ask you, “Will there ever be a...