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Final reminder TV Futures : Third Annual Symposium (reconvened) Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures, School of Arts, Roehampton University Venue: Chapman Hall, Southlands College, Roehampton University, Roehampton Lane, London SW15 5PH, UK Date and time: Saturday, 2nd June 2007, from 9.30 – 4.30pm Fee: £12 or £5 for students (includes teas, lunch and book launch event) To register and for further information about the day please email the symposium organiser Andrea Esser at: [log in to unmask] TV Futures presents challenging and timely presentations on various aspects of the future development of the medium of television. The symposium will debate new developments in TV programming and scheduling, issues of textuality including textual convergence, technological convergence, the rise of interactive TV, the provision of TV material online, issues of marketing, strategy and business and changes in the cultural economy of television. Schedule 9.30-10am Registration 10.00-10.15 Introduction 10.15-11.00 Keynote Speaker Professor Jeannette Steemers (University of Westminster) ‘The changing production ecology of pre-school television in Britain’ 11.00-11.30 Coffee 11.30-1pm Panel 1 Panel Chair (tbc) James Bennett (London Metropolitan University) 'Interfacing the UK: The BBC, the digital immigrant and the future of public service broadcasting' Dr Andrea Esser (Roehampton University) ‘Television Content: Commercialisation and Transnationalisation’ Professor Paul McDonald (University of Portsmouth) ‘Fighting the “avalanche of piracy”: technological and legislative measures to combat illegal DVD production’ 1.00-2.00 Lunch 2.00-3.30 Panel 2 Panel Chair Dr Stacey Abbott (Roehampton University) Dr Paul Rixon (Roehampton University) ‘British Television: The Next Generation’ Kim Akass (Freelance writer and editor) and Dr Janet McCabe (Manchester Metropolitan University) ‘It’s not TV. It was HBO.’ Professor David Lavery (Brunel University) ‘Life on Mars, Lost, Heroes, and the Future of Television Narrative’ 3.30pm I.B. Tauris book launch Investigating Alias: Secrets and Spies (2007) edited by Stacey Abbott and Simon Brown. Crime Watching: Investigating Real Crime TV (2007) by Deborah Jermyn