As many television scholars and producers have argued of late, television is in a transitional era. To Lynn Spigel and Jan Olsson, this is ‘television after TV’,1while Amanda Lotz writes of a ‘revolution’ in American television.2If this transitional time is notable for changes and innovations of form,3and of production, distribution, and transmission at local levels,4then it is also notable for its increas- ingly globalized nature. The age of the...
