Alien Nation conference

Last week I went up to Newcastle for Alien Nation, a two-day conference about telefantasy (i.e. British SF, fantasy, and horror television). James Chapman's Inside the TARDIS and Catherine Johnson's Telefantasy battled for citation supremacy, but surely the fairy godmother of the conference was Network DVD, purveyors of retro television series to the discerning. Gone are the days when washed out Nth generation video copies of UK Gold repeats were the only available window onto childhood memories. Network, we salute you. (Warning: clicking on the link to Network will result in serious damage to your finances.)

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