Eggo Müller has just released his new book on television entertainment, which offers a theory of entertainment and analyses its revaluation in the past 25 years. The book us available at Herbert van Halem Verlag in Cologne or at amazon.de for the equivalent of € 25,-. Here’s the abstract: ‘Since the introduction of commercial broadcasting in Europe and the emergence of…

Welcome to the Website/blog of the Centre for Television in Transition, Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Obviously, this site is under construction, as the Centre is. The Centre brings together the work of the television and media scholars at the Department of Media and Culture Studies who study the cultural transition of television from its early beginnings…