Critical Introduction, Lucy Fife Donaldson & James Walters.- Section One: Performance and television form.- 1. In small packages: Particularities of performance in dramatic episodic series, Sarah Cardwell.- 2. The performing lives of things: Animals, puppets, models and effects, Jonathan Bignell.- 3.The enduring act: Performance and achievement in long television, James Walters.

- 4. Faces of allegiance in Homeland: Performance and the provisional in serial television drama, Elliott Logan.- Section Two: Television performance and collaboration.- 5. Approaching performance in contemporary Coronation Street (1960-), James Zborowski.- 6. Don't Curb Your Enthusiasm: visible bonhomie and the ontology of improvisational comedy,Tom Brown.- 7.

Tears, Tantrums and Television Performance, Amy Holdsworth and Karen Lury.- 8. Comedy, performance and the panel show, Alex Clayton.- Section Three: The television performer.- 9. An actor diversifies: A diachronic examination of the work and career of Tony Curran, Gary Cassidy and Simone Knox.- 10. The same, but different: adjustment and accumulation in television performance, Lucy Fife Donaldson.

- 11. Analyzing Aniston: Tonal complexity and the non-comedic approaches to sitcom performance, Lydia Buckingham.- 12. Soft upper lip - Coach's facial expressions in Friday Night Lights,Timotheus Vermeulen.