Adapting Television Drama

Dr Christopher Hogg is Senior Lecturer in Television Theory at the University of Westminster, UK. Chris specialises in television drama and television acting, with a particular interest in bringing together industry and academic perspectives. He is the co-author (with Dr Tom Cantrell, the University of York) of the book Acting in British Television (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), and the co-editor (also with Cantrell) of the collection Exploring Television Acting (2018).

“Clearly expressed and lucidly argued, Christopher Hogg’s Adapting Television Drama plots its way through a complex field with clarity. It offers a distinctive contribution to adap­tation studies in centring the voices and careers of television’s ‘agents of production’ rather than a source text. … Adapting Television Drama presents the production process of adaptation as necessitating a delicate dance between embodying a source, appealing to funders and satisfying while also challenging audience expectations.” (Faye Woods, Adaptation, November 3, 2022)

• 1. Adapting Television Drama: A General Introduction.- 2. Producing Adaptations.- 3. Writing Adaptations.- 4. Designing and Directing Adaptations.- 5. Casting and Acting Adaptations.- 6. Adapting Television Drama: A General Conclusion.