In Britain, America and many other countries television audiences and advertising revenues are declining. At the same time digital television and new models are emerging. This book looks at the reinvention of television. Who will be the winners and the losers and what will be the consequences? What will television look like and who will make it ? How will viewing behaviours change?

Ordo Romanus Primus (ORP) is a descriptive account in Latin of the papal mass at Easter in Santa Maria Maggiore, probably at some time in the seventh or eighth century. It is the first such account, and differs from earlier evidence of the Roman rite by its relative disregard for the spoken text, which is usually only cited in ORP as providing cues for the ceremonial action. The 'action', however, is detailed, is often surprising, and gives a three-dimensional approach to a rite which, in its textual form, only tells the half of what was happening. The whole action is set on a large canvas,...

In Britain, America and many other countries television audiences and advertising revenues are declining. At the same time digital television and new models are emerging. This book looks at the reinvention of television. What will television look like and who will make it ? How will viewing behaviours change?