A Golden Age of Serial Drama
It’s almost three years since Kevin Spacey, speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, declared television to be ‘entering a new golden age’. His claim has since been much-quoted, if […]
It’s almost three years since Kevin Spacey, speaking at the Edinburgh TV Festival, declared television to be ‘entering a new golden age’. His claim has since been much-quoted, if […]
It’s a familiar headline in the world of television: a popular drama series, initially transmitted as a self-contained, start-to-finish story, finds itself recommissioned for a sequel. From Broadchurch to […]
My younger self wasn’t much of a reader. At the start of every summer holiday, I’d be forced by my Mum to the library, reluctant to take any books home […]
Once associated with the early glory days of television, the anthology drama has lately experienced a welcome revival. The genre, sometimes known as a ‘portmanteau’, refers to a television series […]
Think of any remotely iconic individual of the last 200 years, and if their life hasn’t yet been dramatised for a major film, you can bet it’s on course to. […]
If there was ever a genre of fiction that’s kept at the very height of fashion, it’s the whodunnit. Scout the shelves of any bookshop, scan the listings of the […]
As part of its latest cost-cutting initiatives, the BBC today announced plans to draw the curtain on BBC Three and broadcast its content online. But while devoted viewers and celebrities […]
Like television’s answer to the Viking invasion, Scandinavian drama is triumphing in Britain. Ever since Stieg Larsson’s novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo became an international bestseller in 2008, our screens […]