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BYUtv’s Extinct Offers a Unique Lesson in Modern Television-Making

Abbey White

Within the last decade, the TV industry has experienced its version of climate change. This rocky evolution is best encapsulated by the phrase “peak TV.” Where the “Golden Age” offered the possibility of narrative and network risk and opportunity, “peak … Continue reading BYUtv’s Extinct Offers a Unique Lesson in Modern Television-Making

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Solar eclipses have been a science fiction theme for thousands of years

Abbey White

Storytellers have long fixated on the awe-inspiring phenomenon that is a total solar eclipse. From ancient myths about dragons eating the sun to hundreds of more contemporary depictions — in Stephen King’s 1992 novel Dolores Claiborne, the 2006 film Apocalypto, or any number of … Continue reading Solar eclipses have been a science fiction theme for thousands of years