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Science programming on television is on decline. There are fewer programmes and those that remain tend to be made for wide audience appeal. Serious science programmes — programmes with some substance — do not appeal to those who decide what appears on our screens. Scientists, too, are often critical of science programmes and sometimes unhappy with the way they are portrayed on television.
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Taylor, R. (2003). Science on Television. In: Heck, A., Madsen, C. (eds) Astronomy Communication. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 290. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0801-2_4
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