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Netflix Orders Limited Series ‘The Corrections’ Starring Meryl Streep Netflix has picked up the limited series "The Corrections" starring Meryl Streep, Variety has confirmed.

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THE CORRECTIONS: Netflix Orders Meryl Streep-Led Adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's Novel - Give Me My Remote Cord Jefferson will direct the limited series.

#TheCorrections: Netflix orders Meryl Streep-led adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's novel:

THE CORRECTIONS: Netflix Orders Meryl Streep-Led Adaptation of Jonathan Franzen's Novel - Give Me My Remote Cord Jefferson will direct the limited series.

#TheCorrections is being adapted at Netflix, with Meryl Streep signed on to star in the limited series: www.givememyremote.com/remote/2026/...

Meryl Streep to Star in Limited Series "The Corrections" at Netflix The series adapts the novel by Jonathan Franzen.

Meryl Streep to Star in Limited Series "The Corrections" at Netflix

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Still plugging away at #TheCorrections, which seem more achievable than they have done at any point before now, albeit not necessarily within the time remaining. (And I can have no complaint about that latter fact.)

Struggling dreadfully to get this new literature review written. #TheCorrections

This thesis has pretty much broken me. #TheCorrections

Today, I have booked the day off work, but will be spending it frantically working on #TheCorrections

Wondering which of my favourite Doctor Who stories to watch tomorrow for my birthday (which will mostly be spent working on #TheCorrections).

Writing, this morning, feels like chipping away at a mountain with a tiny-bladed hobby knife.

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Today, I shall mostly be writing my new literature review.

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Text reads ' – not – Again, this '.

The fragments I have left after I've cut and pasted sections from #TheCorrections are often better than the writing itself.

No, Alastair, spending minutes deliberating over whether to use 'comprises' or 'consists of' is not a sensible use of the little time you have left to complete #TheCorrections.

Thanks, Nicola! I’ll be having a quiet night in with a good film and then get back to #TheCorrections tomorrow, hopefully without the headache that has rather messed up work for today.

Thanks, Alastair! Hope 2026 is joyous for you too – and that #TheCorrections aren’t getting in the way of some sort of Hogmanay celebration!

Back at my desk for more work on #TheCorrections. The past two days have seen slow (but definite) progress in preparing the new literature review; today needs to see some words on paper (well, in a Word document).

Starting off with a bit more planning before heading out to the shops for supplies.

Back at my desk for #TheCorrections.

Academic A has written two somewhat overlapping articles on mobile fictions (using another term for them). Unhelpfully, these articles (which appeared in consecutive years) have almost identical page numbers in the journals they were published in.

Yesterday wasn't as productive as it might have been, but I'm back at my desk again this morning, working on #TheCorrections.

Had a longer than usual lunch break an popped over to Falkirk to raid the charity shops – and picked up a book on the Carry Ons that should make an interesting accompaniment to my watch of them all this year. Now back at my desk, though. #TheCorrections

Have moved sideways into reading another article for the literature review. My new Copy/Paste/Cut USB buttons are proving very useful as I paste sections from the article into my notes.

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Back at the desk in my study, working on #TheCorrections. Today, I'll be gathering together my notes on the new reading I've done in an attempt to redraft my literature review.

I guess that finding that misrepresentation justifies my decision to search out the original article and not take A's word for it, but it's still annoying. Bad A!

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I'm reading A's article on mobile games. A cites KK's definition of mobile games, which I think might be useful for my own definition of mobile fictions. I therefore find and download KK's article, only to find that A has somewhat misrepresented KK's definition. Annoying.

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"In the preface to a special issue of the journal Paradoxa in 2017, Astrid Ensslin, Lisa Swanstrom, and Paweł Freli introduce the term ‘small screen fictions’ to denote the works that will be discussed in that issue (Ensslin et al 2017, 7). The term is hardly a new one: ‘small screen’ has been used since at least 1937 to denote television screens – whose defining smallness stood in comparison to the larger screens of the cinema – while the phrase ‘small screen fictions’ appears regularly in the literature of television studies to denote works created for television (Nelson 2006, 59; Kerrigan 2010, 73; Froula and Takacs 2016, 4; Wells-Lassagne 2017, 1). However, Ensslin et al are deliberately redefining the term here: aligning the ‘increasingly large screens of home televisions’ with the ‘the large screens of cinema multiplexes’ (Ensslin et al 2017, 7) from which the term ‘small screen’ previously differentiated them, they have shifted televisions out of the category of small screen devices to leave it occupied instead by ‘the smaller screens of laptops, tablets, and even mobile phones’ (8)."

This doesn't seem much for a couple of hours' work, but it's a starting point, at least.

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Now searching Google Scholar for instances of 'small-screen fictions' that refer to television series.

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So I pick away at the definitions and their implications. 'small screen fictions', I realise, is actually a careful redefining of 'small screen' to move televisions out of its scope, despite these having been the primary meaning of the term for the best paper of a century.

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As an undergraduate, what I was good at was close criticism, & it's still the thing I feel most capable of. And so this literature review explores the minutiae of phrasings in the scholarly literature on mobile fictions: how one writer refers to 'small screen fictions'...

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At my desk working once more on #TheCorrections, with a final submission deadline in view. Continuing to explore the terminologies of what I call 'smartphone stories' and others have called 'app fictions' or 'small screen stories', for my all-new literature review. (The original version was dire.)

I think - perhaps very unfairly - that this might be quite a bad article. Its main point so far seems to be 'I read some mobile fictions that were also published as print books, and they're really like print books.'

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