TV & Radio 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… By James Cooray Smith
TV & Radio Is Samwell Tarly the true hero of Game of Thrones – or just a Mary Sue? By James Cooray Smith
TV & Radio ITV versus BBC One: Which channel will win this year’s Christmas TV war? By James Cooray Smith
TV & Radio The current series of Poldark is a sequel, a prequel and an adaptation of real events By James Cooray Smith
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… By James Cooray Smith
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… By James Cooray Smith
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… By James Cooray Smith
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… By James Cooray Smith
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. By James Cooray Smith
Which TV show has had the most consecutive Christmas specials? A scientific investigation. By James Cooray Smith
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. By James Cooray Smith
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. By James Cooray Smith