TV and Cars offers a compelling lens on television in a mobile media
era. Cars are vehicles for television, a fixture of the shows and ads
that drive TV. In this original approach to contemporary television,
Paul Grainge looks beyond questions of speed, spoilers and cylinders to
explore the small screen intimacy of cars - the way people interact,
sing and dwell in the habitat of automobiles. Considering the
industrial, cultural and aesthetic relation between TV and cars, Grainge
examines how comedy entertainment such as sitcoms, talk shows, web
series and vlogs have been drawn to the practice of 'passengering'.
Getting under the bonnet of popular 'drive-and-talk' series like The
Trip, Carpool Karaoke, Peter Kay's Car Share and Comedians in Cars
Getting Coffee, this engaging interdisciplinary excursion finds new
ways to look at both television and the social life of cars.