"Competing desires, competing interests: Opening the dialogue between W" by Renee Middlemost and Stayci Taylor
TV consumption has changed dramatically since the premiere of Prisoner in 1979, with the rise of 'quality TV', and audience engagement via social media. These changing methods of engagement have also heightened the tension between fan and industry desires for fictional characters and texts. At the same time, traditional script development practices have been disrupted by the rise of online content and a 'bottom- up approach to development' (Christian 2018), whereby audiences have - conceivably - an increased sense of participation. This chapter will examine these new writin...
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