Line of Duty is about systems and structures – but that doesn’t make it realistic
Jed Mercurio, the writer of Line of Duty, is a medical doctor who came to writing for television after answering an advert in the British Medical…
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The Fandom Menace: How backlash to the Star Wars prequel created a toxic fan culture
Twenty years ago this week, The Phantom Menace was released at the crest of the biggest wave of audience…
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BBC and ITV are in talks over a new, joint streaming service. But what’s it for?
Writers for newspapers with a vested interest in knocking the BBC are already sharpening their pencils, demanding to know…
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Why is ITV so bad at sitcom?
The last huge ITV sitcom was probably Men Behaving Badly – but even that, independently produced, floundered a bit until it…
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Can you ever separate the art from the artist?
Audience defensiveness on the part of the accused isn’t really about the accused at all. It’s about protecting the…
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There are very good reasons why the BBC can’t just load iPlayer with archive content
From the BBC’s point of view, that free content would not be free at all.
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Which TV show has had the most consecutive Christmas specials?
A scientific investigation.
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Taking a year off is not unusual for a British TV series – but it’s still bad for Doctor Who
The assumption that a show would return predictably every single year is another American import.
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Inside No.9’s live episode was an exceptionally clever, remarkable and unique piece of TV
Television history, urban myth, horror tradition, all bound together and delivered at a breakneck pace through live television.
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