The New Television Handbook provides an exploration of the theory and practice of television at a time when the medium is undergoing radical changes‎.‎ The book looks at television from the perspective of someone new to the industry‎,‎ and explores the place of the medium within a constantly changing digital landscape‎.‎ This title discusses key skills involved in television production‎,‎ including‎:‎ producing‎,‎ production management‎,‎ directing‎,‎ camera‎,‎ sound‎,‎ editing and visual effects‎.‎ Each of these activities is placed within a wider context as it traces the production process from commissioning to post‎-production‎.‎ The book outlines the broad political and economic context of the television industry‎.‎ It gives an account of television genres‎,‎ in particular narrative‎,‎ factual programmes and news‎,‎ and it considers the academic discipline of media studies and the ways in which theorists have analysed and tried to understand the medium‎.‎ It points to the interplay of theory and practice as it draws on the history of the medium and observes the ways in w‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎