Mary Irwin is an honorary research fellow at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. She is co-editor of UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity (2023). Her research interests include contemporary and historical television comedy.

This accessible study gives valuable visibility to a wide range of broadcast TV series chronically neglected as worthy of study. By unpicking different televisual narratives' significance in mediating an elusive tissue of everyday coupling relations and gender roles, Irwin simultaneously rescues women's stories of the post-second wave feminist moment from obscurity, both on and behind the screen. For these reasons and more, Love Wars offers an engaging read to fans as much as scholars.

• Introduction - Television Romantic Comedy: A Cinderella Story 1. ‘It had to be you’: Looking for Love in the Big City 2. ‘Now That I’ve Found You’: Perfect Couples and Happy Ever After’3. Love Wars: Couples in Conflict4. Second Time Around: Mature Love and Romance 5. ‘Odd Couples and Urban Families’: Friendship, Work and Love Conclusion - Television Romantic Comedy: The Case for. Why Aren’t People Writing about them? EndnotesBibliographyIndex

Mary Irwin is an honorary research fellow at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. She is co-editor of UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity (2023). Her research interests include contemporary and historical television comedy.

This accessible study gives valuable visibility to a wide range of broadcast TV series chronically neglected as worthy of study. By unpicking different televisual narratives' significance in mediating an elusive tissue of everyday coupling relations and gender roles, Irwin simultaneously rescues women's stories of the post-second wave feminist moment from obscurity, both on and behind the screen. For these reasons and more, Love Wars offers an engaging read to fans as much as scholars.

• Introduction - Television Romantic Comedy: A Cinderella Story 1. ‘It had to be you’: Looking for Love in the Big City 2. ‘Now That I’ve Found You’: Perfect Couples and Happy Ever After’3. Love Wars: Couples in Conflict4. Second Time Around: Mature Love and Romance 5. ‘Odd Couples and Urban Families’: Friendship, Work and Love Conclusion - Television Romantic Comedy: The Case for. Why Aren’t People Writing about them? EndnotesBibliographyIndex

Mary Irwin is an honorary research fellow at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK. She is co-editor of UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity (2023). Her research interests include contemporary and historical television comedy.

This accessible study gives valuable visibility to a wide range of broadcast TV series chronically neglected as worthy of study. By unpicking different televisual narratives' significance in mediating an elusive tissue of everyday coupling relations and gender roles, Irwin simultaneously rescues women's stories of the post-second wave feminist moment from obscurity, both on and behind the screen. For these reasons and more, Love Wars offers an engaging read to fans as much as scholars.

• Introduction - Television Romantic Comedy: A Cinderella Story 1. ‘It had to be you’: Looking for Love in the Big City 2. ‘Now That I’ve Found You’: Perfect Couples and Happy Ever After’3. Love Wars: Couples in Conflict4. Second Time Around: Mature Love and Romance 5. ‘Odd Couples and Urban Families’: Friendship, Work and Love Conclusion - Television Romantic Comedy: The Case for. Why Aren’t People Writing about them? EndnotesBibliographyIndex