Please extend TV coverage
Mainstream print media does a reasonable job of covering most popular culture. Looking at a local listings magazine and the culture supplement of a national newspaper, I see plausibly informed review and discussion of music, film, books, theatre, visual art, etc. Even video games, although they get far less space than the market shows they deserve, at least get considered attention.
But television criticism, especially of season-length shows, is almost absent. If I get anything, I get detailed vanilla listings of current programming. These are a pointless waste of swathes of space - appointment TV is dead. The little news and criticism provided obsesses on the same airing schedule and tends to focus on one-shot documentaries, and on recycling film reviews.
Actually, apart from Screenwipe, and a few online columns and show-specific fan journalism, I know of precious little decent regular media, print or otherwise, about this hugely important contemporary artform. What am I missing?
