It Was 20 Years Ago...
February 21, 2020The Day the Earth Caught Fire January 2020 marked 20 years since I was first involved in a project for Network. I worked at BBC Television Centre and one of […]
Men of Character: Geoffrey Bayldon
February 15, 2020Only a few actors have the power to create an indelible moment on television, one where their voice becomes an essential aspect of a childhood memory that abides for years. […]
Celebrating Tommy Cooper: The LWT Series at 50
February 7, 2020“I’ve taken a course of Penicillin. Tablets, injections – every time I sneeze, I cure somebody.” Tommy Cooper. For those of a certain age, the name alone is enough to […]
Women of Character: Joan Sims
February 3, 2020The writer Deborah Ross once referred to Joan Sims’s ‘brilliantly cheering, seaside-postcard, iconic face’. It was an image that the actress did not entirely welcome; in 1955 she complained that […]
The Many Genres of Basil Dearden
January 24, 2020Initially known for his Ealing dramas such as They Came to a City (1944) and The Captive Heart (1946), director Basil Dearden would go on to achieve something all filmmakers […]
23 Things You Never Knew About Rupert Bear
January 20, 202023 essential facts about one of the UK’s favourite children’s characters… 1. Rupert Bear was dreamt up in 1920 by Mary Tourtel (1874-1948), wife of the then-News Editor of The […]
45 Years of The Sweeney – Vehicles and Villains
January 2, 2020There is a select group of motor vehicles that became as much associated with a television programme, as the human stars; from the mighty Wolseleys of Justice in Gideon’s Way, […]
The Art of the Christmas TV Special
December 16, 2019Many years ago, early December was marked by a minor but enjoyable ritual – the scanning of the Christmas TV Times and the Radio Times. The programme listings would be […]
Top 10 Network Horror Releases of the 2010s
December 13, 201910. Dream Home This extremely gruesome horror comedy is an extended shaggy dog story about the soaring price of a sea-front flat in Hong Kong. Over one night, bank employee […]