*With apologies for cross posting* View the full Table of Contents at http://bit.ly/2axb0jW ARTICLES Introduction: situating television studies by Karen Lury In defence of the objectivity of evaluative television criticism by Ted Nannicelli ‘Quality television’ as a critical obstacle: explanation and aesthetics in television studies by Elliott Logan Broadcast drama and the problem of television aesthetics: home, nation, universe by Helen Piper Growing up and growing old with television: peripheral viewers and the centrality of care by Amy Holdsworth and Karen Lury People fever: on the popular passions of Peter Watkins’s La Commune (Paris, 1871) by Manuel Ramos-Martínez Rethinking television indies: the impact of American Playhouse by Chelsea McCracken Corruption and its (dis)content: the rise and fall of Chinese officialdom television dramas by Ying Zhu View the full Table of Contents at http://bit.ly/2axb0jW ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu