The BBC has announced California Avenue, a new drama from the BAFTA-award winning writer and director Hugo Blick (The English, The Honourable Woman, Marion and Geoff) for BBC iPlayer and BBC One. This six-part series brings together a star cast led by multi-award...
This year the BBC turns 100. Fundamental to Britain and funded by licence fee payers, the BBC has garnered a worldwide reputation for quality. For this special post highlighting the highlights of the corporation's massive contribution to television, I've decided to...
From just the title of this new lavish costume drama based on the novel by Anthony Trollope, it’s easy to already picture the protagonist of the tale – a brash, arrogant, young man who has succeeded in life through his very inflexibility, the very traits that will...
No-one does political thrillers like the BBC, and in an age when focus-group wisdom prescribes an attention span of two episodes (hence endless ITV two-shot dramas), no-one holds out for a good, old-fashioned six-parter like the BBC, either. Thus we have State Of...