Janet McCabe is Research Associate ‎(‎TV Drama‎)‎ at Manchester Metropolitan University‎.‎ She is Managing Editor of Critical Studies in Television and author of Feminist Film Studies‎:‎ Writing the Woman into Cinema ‎(‎Wallflower‎,‎ 2004‎)‎‎.‎ Kim Akass is Research Fellow ‎(‎TV Drama‎)‎ at Manchester Metropolitan University and is co‎-editor of Critical Studies in Television‎.‎ Janet McCabe and Kim Akass are joint Series Editors of the Reading Contemporary Television Series at I‎.‎B‎.‎Tauris‎.‎ They have co‎-edited and contributed to Reading Sex and the City ‎(‎2004‎)‎‎,‎ Reading Six Feet Under‎:‎ TV To Die For ‎(‎2005‎)‎‎,‎ Reading The L Word‎:‎ Outing Contemporary Television ‎(‎2006‎)‎ and Reading Desperate Housewives‎:‎ Beyond the White Picket Fence ‎(‎2006‎,‎ all I‎.‎B‎.‎Tauris‎)‎‎.‎