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Future Television article

Future Television

Future Television article

In an era dominated by streaming services, on-demand content, and digital platforms, the traditional television format faces unprecedented challenges. With the evolving landscape of media consumption, can television survive?

Brian Moore

Brian Moore Revisited

Brian Moore

For 30 years ITV's principal sports presenter and football commentator, to a generation of fans, there was "only one Brian Moore!"

TV Chefs - Mary Berry

TV Chefs

TV Chefs - Mary Berry

A wry look at TV chefs, cookery shows and soggy omelettes.

Suzy B - Coronation Street

Suzy B

Suzy B - Coronation Street

"Flirtatious by nature, she was all woman and she knew it."

Bob Ross

Art For Art's Sake

Bob Ross

Another delve into daytime television in which Andrew Cobby looks at art programmes and asks - whatever happened to art for art's sake?

Antique TV Shows

Going...Going...

Antique TV Shows

Going...going...but not gone! There's a plethora of antique shows on television these days and they don't look like going anywhere soon. Andrew Coby bangs his critical gavel over the best buys and the bargain basement productions.

Doctor Who - Genesis

Doctor Who: Genesis

Doctor Who - Genesis

From concept to realisation: Doctor Who stands as a proud and eminently worthy monument to the too often forgotten and unsung individuals who ushered in the birth of that legend

The Daleks

Doctor Who: The Daleks

The Daleks

Daniel Tessier reviews the first two Doctor Who Dalek stories...the start of a television phenomenon.

Doctor Who

Doctor Who - New Beginnings

Doctor Who

One of the reasons Doctor Who has survived for so long on our screens is its unique ability to replace the lead actor. With each new regeneration comes a new body, a new personality, a new Doctor. In this article Daniel Tessier reviews each debut story from Hartnell to McCoy.

Doctor Who

Doctor Who - New Beginnings 2

Doctor Who

In the second of two articles Daniel Tessier reviews every debut story for each new Doctor - from Eccleston to Whittaker. Fantastic!

The Starlost

The Starlost

The Starlost

Creator Harlan Ellison earned a Writer’s Guild of America award for his original pilot script in 1974. The end product that reached the TV screens was dismal beyond compare.

Quatermass ll

Quatermass II

Quatermass ll

Daniel Tessier gives his verdict on the second series of the now legendary sci-fi show.

Quatermass IV

Quatermass IV

Quatermass IV

In the near future, civilization has broken down to the barest fragment of recognizable life.

The Black Adder - Series 1

The Black Adder - Series 1

The Black Adder - Series 1

After the 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field, a brave and kindly King Richard III returns victorious, only to be accidentally killed by Edmund Plantagenet. The first series of the classic historical comedy about the venomous but luckless Blackadder was almost its last.

Blackadder series 2

Blackadder Two

Blackadder series 2

Lord Edmund Blackadder, great grandson to the original, is a Tudor courtier attempting to win the favour of Queen Elizabeth l while avoiding execution by decapitation.

Blackadder the Third

Blackadder the Third

Blackadder the Third

In the Regency era, Mr E. Blackadder serves as butler to the foppish numskull Prince George.

Blackadder Goes Forth

Blackadder Goes Forth

Blackadder Goes Forth

Stuck in the middle of World War I, Captain Edmund Blackadder does his best to escape the banality of the war.

Blackadder - A Christmas Carol

Blackadder - The Specials

Blackadder - A Christmas Carol

A parody of Charles Dickens, a time machine based on Leonardo da Vinci's original plans, and some random dips into history. Daniel Tessier rather cunningly rounds up the whole Blackadder saga.