Lesley Henderson is Lecturer in Sociology & Communications at Brunel University, West London. She was previously Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Glasgow Media Group. She has published several articles and papers on television production, content and reception and has two books forthcoming: Researching the Media: Issues, Ethics, Methods and Processes and Qualitative Research Design.

The book is clearly written, and represents a valuable contribution to work on media fiction... Social Issues in Television Fiction should also serve as an ideal means to prompt students to become more interested in the process through which such programmes are produced, as well as the importance of understanding how such 'issues' are incorporated into serial drama, and take the shape which they do.

• PART I: MAPPING THE FIELD; 1. Television Fiction in Context: Education and Entertainment; PART II: INSIDE THE INDUSTRY; 2. Making 'Good' Television; PART III: STRUGGLES OVER TELEVISION PRODUCTION; General Introduction; 3. Family Secrets: Sexual Violence; 4. A Woman's Disease: Breast Cancer; 5. Casting the Outsiders: Mental Distress; 6. Social Issues, Production and Genre; PART IV: SOCIAL ISSUES AND TELEVISION AUDIENCES; 7. Public Understandings, Sexual Violence and Safe Spaces; PART V: TELEVISION FICTION AND PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE; 8. Conclusions.

Lesley Henderson is Lecturer in Sociology & Communications at Brunel University, West London. She was previously Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Glasgow Media Group. She has published several articles and papers on television production, content and reception and has two books forthcoming: Researching the Media: Issues, Ethics, Methods and Processes and Qualitative Research Design.

The book is clearly written, and represents a valuable contribution to work on media fiction... Social Issues in Television Fiction should also serve as an ideal means to prompt students to become more interested in the process through which such programmes are produced, as well as the importance of understanding how such 'issues' are incorporated into serial drama, and take the shape which they do.

• PART I: MAPPING THE FIELD; 1. Television Fiction in Context: Education and Entertainment; PART II: INSIDE THE INDUSTRY; 2. Making 'Good' Television; PART III: STRUGGLES OVER TELEVISION PRODUCTION; General Introduction; 3. Family Secrets: Sexual Violence; 4. A Woman's Disease: Breast Cancer; 5. Casting the Outsiders: Mental Distress; 6. Social Issues, Production and Genre; PART IV: SOCIAL ISSUES AND TELEVISION AUDIENCES; 7. Public Understandings, Sexual Violence and Safe Spaces; PART V: TELEVISION FICTION AND PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE; 8. Conclusions.

Lesley Henderson is Lecturer in Sociology & Communications at Brunel University, West London. She was previously Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Glasgow Media Group. She has published several articles and papers on television production, content and reception and has two books forthcoming: Researching the Media: Issues, Ethics, Methods and Processes and Qualitative Research Design.

The book is clearly written, and represents a valuable contribution to work on media fiction... Social Issues in Television Fiction should also serve as an ideal means to prompt students to become more interested in the process through which such programmes are produced, as well as the importance of understanding how such 'issues' are incorporated into serial drama, and take the shape which they do.

• PART I: MAPPING THE FIELD; 1. Television Fiction in Context: Education and Entertainment; PART II: INSIDE THE INDUSTRY; 2. Making 'Good' Television; PART III: STRUGGLES OVER TELEVISION PRODUCTION; General Introduction; 3. Family Secrets: Sexual Violence; 4. A Woman's Disease: Breast Cancer; 5. Casting the Outsiders: Mental Distress; 6. Social Issues, Production and Genre; PART IV: SOCIAL ISSUES AND TELEVISION AUDIENCES; 7. Public Understandings, Sexual Violence and Safe Spaces; PART V: TELEVISION FICTION AND PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE; 8. Conclusions.