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  Longer Length, Reduced Risk?: Mini-series as Pilots

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  Charlotte Howell University of Texas at Austin

  September 14, 2012

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  narrative chessboard for a series run.  Added to this textual strategy, critical reception and industrial ... Animals ' ratings over the course of its run leave the option of pick-up in question, there remains ... three hours long.  From the length and the distance betweeen initial airing and series run, producers ...
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  “A Trek for Our Time”: The Continuing Relevance and Resonance of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

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  Allison McCracken DePaul University

  March 19, 2007

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  women in leading roles and foreground non-normative gender and sexual roles. During its run, DS-9 was ...
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  Stranger in a strange land: Quality television's episodic failures

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  Cory Barker Bradley University

  April 21, 2011

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  FlashForward and recently, Lone Star. It also recalls the controversial conclusions of long-running programs ...
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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica

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  Lisa Nakamura University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

  July 09, 2007

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  Yellow Fever: Born Digital on Battlestar Galactica stereotyping Sci-fi representation race digital Battlestar Galactica Asian Curator's Note Sharon Valerii, played by Korean-Canadian actress Grace Park, is a young, pretty, highly educated Asian woman ...