Christina Jeurling och Tomas Seo sammanfattar TV året 2008 i Voccine podcasts helgspecial. 2008 var ett turbulent år för TV med writers strike, lågkonjunktur och ett spännande valår som ställde allt på sin spets.

Voccine pratar om att dom ”gamla” serierna som Mad Men, House och 30 Rock fortfarande höll under det gångna året medan de flesta av dom nya serierna som t.ex. Fringe och 90210 var besvikelser.

2009 ser ut att bli ett mycket spännande år då vi bl.a ser återkomsten av Buffy-skaparen Joss Whedon med sin nya serie Dollhouse. Jay Lenos överraskande besked att han stannar på NBC och sänder på nya prime time tiden vardagar kl 22 innebär stora förändringar för TV-tablån, som Voccine ser det. Fem drama serier som försvinner och tre timmar ”snack TV” per kväll på kanalen. Den gamla devisen stämmer alltså ”talk is cheap”.

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Welcome to part two of the Voccine Buffy special with Christina Jeurling and Tomas Seo. Here we continue the discussion on Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s place in the pop culture zeitgeist and talk about why the series has become a serious subject to study at university.

We start to discuss the different approaches to the vampire myth in Joss Whedon’s Buffyverse and Alan Ball’s adaptation of True Blood.

In this episode we have interviewed Dr. Rhonda Wilcox, Professor of English at Gordon College in Georgia, the coeditor of Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies and the founding editor of Critical Studies in Television: Scholarly Studies in Small Screen Fictions.

So what happened after the Buffy series ended? Tomas and Christina discuss life after Buffy, like the season 8 comic book, the Dr Horrible project and track the careers of some of the Buffy actors, writers and creators.

We have also interviewed Scott Allie, writer and editor at Dark Horse Comics and editor of the Buffy Season 8 comic books. Joss Whedon is the Executive Producer and writer of several of the season 8 comics and many of the Buffy writers are also on board including Jane Espenson and Steven DeKnight. Scott Allie is now hard at work adapting Robert E. Howard’s (creator of Conan the Barbarian) Solomon Kane adventures.

The second Buffy Special also includes part two of our interview with writer/producer Steven DeKnight, his life after Buffy: Angel, Smallville, Dollhouse and beyond!