Since the 1990s, the screening of sex on American, British and Asian television screens has become increasingly prolific. Considering not only the specificities of selected sexualised images in relation to popular series, this study also concerns itself with the ramifications of TV sex as well as discussing the various techniques that are used by TV producers/programme makers to establish the cultural worth of their texts in series such as Shameless, The Tudors and True Blood.

The contributions draw attention to shifting representations of sex on television away from the authoritarian state and patriarchal order, toward a more democratic form of representation. As a significant and under-represented aspect of contemporary television studies, this is the first full-length academic collection to consider the wide-ranging representations of sex in society on contemporary television.

Focuses upon contemporary expressions and representations of televisual sex, discussing British, US and Asian television, to engage with ideas of gender, genre and dramatic politics.

Eleven essays analyze sex and sexuality in contemporary television programming (three focusing on the vampire genre), with two of the chapters presenting material from beyond the familiar Anglophone world... Television, Sex and Society is welcome for what it adds to our knowledge of the relationship between these three vast subjects, to how it employs the existing literature in its analyses, and especially for bringing a couple of non-English-language programs and genres to the attention of English-speaking scholars and students.