FINANCIAL TIMES: Wanted: crime, history and science experts for TV side-hustle

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David Kirby, senior lecturer in science communication studies at Manchester university, says: “Audiences are very sophisticated and have a greater expectation about what should be in a show. The internet pokes holes in things.” He points to astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s tweets that picked apart Gravity, a film about two astronauts stranded in space: “Mysteries of #Gravity: Why [Sandra] Bullock’s hair, in otherwise convincing zero-G scenes, did not float freely on her head.”