TV's Betty Goes Global: From Telenovela to International Brand

Janet McCabe is Honorary Research Fellow in TV Drama at Birkbeck, University of London. She is author of The West Wing and Feminist Film Studies. She has co-edited collections on contemporary US television including Reading Sex and the City and Quality TV: Contemporary American TV and Beyond (2007, both I.B.Tauris). She is a co-founding editor as well as managing editor of Critical Studies in Television journal. Along with Kim Akass, she is series editor of Tauris' Reading Contemporary Television series. Kim Akass is Lecturer in Cultural and Contextual Studies (Film and TV), University of Hertfordshire. Among the books in contemporary television she has co-edited are Reading Six Feet Under (2005), and Quality TV: Contemporary American TV and Beyond (2007, both I.B.Tauris). She is the author of Telematernity: Watching Mothers on Television (I.B.Tauris forthcoming). She is a co-founding editor and managing editor of Critical Studies in Television, as well as series editor, with Janet McCabe, of Reading Contemporary Television series.