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Category Archives: Television

A Golden Age of Serial Drama

March 31, 2016by relhayman 1 Comment

   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 […]

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Film, Television

Second Series Syndrome

March 3, 2016by relhayman Leave a comment

  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 […]

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Television

Agatha Christie: Forever the Queen of Crime

August 9, 2015by relhayman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Literature, Television, Theatre

Inside the Anthology Series

July 21, 2015by relhayman Leave a comment

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 […]

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Television

The Biopic: Story of the Facts

March 22, 2015by relhayman 1 Comment

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. […]

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Film, Television

The Craze for Crime Fiction

August 17, 2014by relhayman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Culture, Literature, Television

BBC3 to Netflix: the Migration of Television

March 6, 2014by relhayman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Media, Television

The Fascination with Nordic Noir

February 1, 2014by relhayman 1 Comment

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 […]

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Culture, Television

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