TV DICTIONARY – “WHAT WAS THAT MIDDLE BIT ALL ABOUT?” ON THE GOOD LIFE, SPLIT SCREEN, AND THE INCORPORATION OF DVD EXTRAS by David Martin-Jones

Creating the video essay on The Good Life for the TV Dictionary – the entry was “see under lifestyle(s)” – was enjoyable. The hardest part was figuring out how to condense so much visually-arresting and often humorous material into a short space of time. Well, that and the way in which the nostalgic pleasures of…

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News Anchor ‘Floored’ After Reading Suicide Jokes Co-Worker Allegedly Slipped Into Teleprompter During Live Broadcast

A Kentucky news anchor says she was “floored” and “confused” when, during a recent broadcast, her teleprompter script included jokes about suicide that she unwittingly read on-air. In a thread on X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, Wave 3 News anchor Maira Ansari apologized to viewers who’d witnessed the incident. “Something horrible happened on our newscast…

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