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  "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic

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  Ryan Bowles UC Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media Studies

  April 19, 2011

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  "It's Not You...It's Nielsen": Cancellation Heartbreak and Measurement Magic TV Failure ratings Production Culture Nielsen cancellation Audience Measurement Curator's Note Success is never giving up, or so they say. Failure, on th ...
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  The Failure of Failure in Terriers

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  Jason Mittell Middlebury College

  April 18, 2011

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  The Failure of Failure in Terriers working class TV Failure Terriers FX failure Curator's Note One of the taglines promoting FX's 2010 series Terriers read "Too Small to Fail," a reference to the perilous economic status of the central ...
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  Spike VGAs: Celebration or Ghettoization?

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  John Vanderhoef UCSB

  September 14, 2011

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  Spike VGAs: Celebration or Ghettoization? video game awards TV Failure spike vgas gender and gaming gaming culture Curator's Note Since 2003, the Spike TV Video Game Awards (VGAs) have aired every December to the collected groans of most gamers, desp ...
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  Guilt by Association: The Grammys, The Recording Industry, and Representing Popular Music Culture

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  Kyle Barnett Bellarmine University

  September 13, 2011

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  Guilt by Association: The Grammys, The Recording Industry, and Representing Popular Music Culture TV Failure recording industry popular music Grammys Curator's Note As a University of Texas grad student, my colleagues studied film or television and I ...