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TV Scholar #6: Lucas Ferraço Nassif
An interview with psychoanalyst and TV scholar Lucas Ferraço Nassif.
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What is Industry's Toheeb Jimoh watching?
Does the cast of Industry party as hard as its characters do? I ask the hard-hitting questions over here.
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What is The Night Manager's Georgi Banks-Davies watching?
On working with Tom Hiddleston, I Hate Suzie, and painstaking realism.
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What is director Valerie Weiss watching?
On the journey from a science PhD to directing television, working on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and an upcoming Scott Foley-led Prime Video series.
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What is Janicza Bravo watching?
Otherwise, she's swearing off episodic directing, for now.
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on wine and television
In conversation with Amari (@vin_dealer), a New York-based wine educator and digital creator, about all things wine and television.
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What is Chelsea Peretti watching?
The Brooklyn Nine-Nine actress plays a kooky therapist on Hulu/BBC One's Am I Being Unreasonable? and loves British comedies.
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TV Scholar #5: Professor Amy Holdsworth
On The Traitors, television as a technology of care, and autobiographical academic writing.
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What's Arcane and Fire Country's Kevin Alejandro watching?
The True Blood veteran on Arcane season two, working with the late Nelsan Ellis, and his family's favourite TV-watching snack.
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TV Scholar #4: Professor Helen Wheatley
Let's talk about death on television.
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TV Scholar #3: Dr. Brandy Monk-Payton
"We've always had these moments where Blackness has tested the limits of televisual mediation."
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An intimate Q&A with tvscholar (Part 2)
In defence of mid TV, on "networking" as a writer, and my dream interview subjects (your Instagram questions, answered).
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