Television/Death investigates the presentation of death, dying, and life after death on television. It seeks to answer questions such as 'What role does and has television played in our coming to terms with death?', 'How is death mediated in a variety of genres?', 'How has television imagined life beyond death', and 'How does television mediate the processes of bereavement and grief?'. Wheatley also argues that television is the posthumous medium par excellence and looks at how the dead return via incorporation into new television programmes or through projects to bring television programming out of the archive. Helen Wheatley is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick.

Helen Wheatley is Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She is co-founder of the Centre for Television Histories and works collaboratively with archives and curators to engage the public with the history of British broadcasting. Her most recent book, Spectacular Television: Exploring Televisual Pleasure (2016) won the BAFTSS Award for Monograph of the Year in 2017. She has research interests in various aspects of television history and has published widely on popular genres of television drama, including the monograph Gothic Television (2006). She also has an ongoing interest in issues of television history and historiography, the topic of her edited collections Re-viewing Television History: Critical Issues in Television Historiography (2007) and Television for Women: New Directions (2016, with Rachel Moseley and Helen Wood).