This article examines the quality of work life in Islam-based television by focusing on the emotional wellbeing of television production workers. It identifies the extent of religious television a humanised workplace at the turn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The study draws upon literature from media sociology and cultural studies approaches to creative labour in two folds by addressing the implications of 4IR for 1) human (television production workers), including such concepts as human emotional and spiritual intelligence, and emotional labour, and 2) for the quality of work life in television production, through the discourses of human-robot interaction (HRI) and humanised workplace. The analyses of an ethnographic data gathered from television stations in London and Kuala Lumpur indicate that television production work demands a different degree of emotional labour, depending on their professional roles, tasks, and the genre that they produced. The study concludes that doing emotional labour in the 4IR requires television production workers to renegotiate their professional roles not only with other humans, but also with robots/machines as robots/machines have increasingly taken over their production tasks. Such forms of negotiation and the rise of robots/machines resulting from the 4IR do affect the quality of work life in religious television.

By drawing on ethnographic data gathered from British and Malaysian Islamic television channels between 2012 and 2017, this article argues that different religiopolitical and sociocultural environments in which such television production workers as creative managers, producers and researchers exist, shape how they make creative decisions for religious programmes that they produced. This article points to the extent to which these television production workers from both the British and Malaysian television channels have various degrees of creative autonomy, and how �limited� creative autonomy affects their working life. The results show that the creative managers and producers of British Muslim television channel have lesser autonomy than their Malaysian counterparts. The clash between the Western and Islamic cultures and intergenerational clash are mainly the forms of religiopolitical and sociocultural factors that shape the creative autonomy in Islamic television production in Britain. Such representational issues relating to religious personalities, music artists and performances, and women, are among the constraints that these workers faced. By contrast, creative managers and producers in Malaysia, have some degree of autonomy. Unlike their British colleagues, religiopolitical and sociocultural factors concerning identity politics have less implication for their working life. Nonetheless, despite having a higher level of creative autonomy than their British equals, their creative decisions often are driven by the notion of giving what audiences want. Such commercial pressures as audience ratings and advertising force are the primary factors that shape the creative autonomy of managers and producers of Islamic programmes in Malaysia.

The new millennium witnesses a new phenomenon that is known as "back to religion" along with the impact of the article of Samuel Huntington (1993) "the Clash of Civilization." This new phenomenon promotes inter-religious dialogue as one of the methods of propagating the teaching of religion to achieve global peace. Inter-religious dialogue has never been broadcast in any form on Malaysian television due to multicultural sensitivities. The relationships between inter-religious dialogue and Islamic Da'wah, dialogue initiatives in Malaysia, as well as the concept of 1Malaysia and Interreligious dialogue will be discussed in the first portion of this article. The second part of it will be focusing on the search for inter-religious dialogue on Malaysian television which based on preliminary views of the producers and regulators who work with the government, private and satellite television broadcasters. The "theory of practices" focuses on media as practices and religion as practices has been explored to further clarify any prospect and potential for the broadcasting of inter-religious dialogue on Malaysian television in future. � Common Ground, Nur Kareelawati Abd. Karim, Muhammad Yusuf Khalid, All Rights Reserved.