Television Magazine

Television Magazine

Monthly Publication of the RTS

Television Magazine March 2025

March 2025

A white man in a red polo shirt sits next to a 13-year-old white boy in a grey jumper in a small blue-wallpapered room, playing a father and his son, opposite a white man playing their solicitor in a dark grey suit
Sheffield-based indie Warp has forged a name for making edgy drama. Steve Clarke hears about its...
A ravishing Netflix adaptation of Italian literary masterpiece The Leopard brings a fresh...
Siobhan Finneran as DI Liz Nyles
Cop show meets spy tale as two Happy Valley actors are reunited in a tense ITV drama set in the...
A digital head, imprinted with circuit boards, gazes across an infinite, void-like space covered by small screens
On the centenary of John Logie Baird’s demonstration of the Televisor, Simon Bucks imagines what...
Steve Clarke unlocks the secrets of a consummate spy thriller adapted from a classic John le Carré...
Reality TV is one of the great inventions of the modern world, if only because it gives an...
Richard Martin made Eddie Redmayne unrecognisable in The Day of the Jackal, leaving the icy...
Dope Girls: Julianne Nicholson as Kate in Trafalgar Square
The clubs and criminals of Soho provide the bohemian backdrop for BBC drama Dope Girls. Alison...
Flick through the TV channels and you may end up knee-deep in archaeology. It was ever thus, finds...
A selfie of a white man with grey-brown hair, wearing a red hoodie underneath a black leather jacket, as he stands in the newly revamped Doctor Who TARDIS
Doctor Who brought Edward Russell home to Wales... and like the Time Lord, he's still there...
Marcus Ryder finds inspiration in the commitment of UK media companies to improving employees'...
A group of four people pose together on a colorful TV game show set. The backdrop features the words 'Grand Prix' and 'rtve play'. The group includes a man in a white shirt, a woman in a vibrant pink patterned dress, and a person dressed as a bull mascot
There are some weird but wonderful shows out there in TV land. Television writers pick some of...
Authors and TV producers remain gripped by the 1980 Iranian Embassy siege in London. But who was...
Car S.O.S. hosts Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend
Car S.O.S. is back for a 13th series on National Geographic. It’s going to be emotional, says Roz...
A white woman with blonde hair, a man with dark hair and a moustache, a white woman in a blue patterned dress and an older white man in a suit stand linking arms against the artwork for The Au Pair
A villainous au pair sparks chaos in the Cotswolds in Channel 5's entertaining thriller. Matthew...
A panel of 3 men and two women sit on a stage in front of a screen with their pictures and names
How can broadcasters capture the attention and trust of a generation that is hooked on small...
Careers are a serious matter. But that didn’t stop this RTS Futures Careers Fair being a hoot....
There’s more to compiling a TV soundtrack than simply throwing music at it.
Two model pigs wearing hi-vis jacket, helmets and visitor passes hold hands, while the one waves down the lens
Film-makers from the University of the West of England (UWE) won three of the four main prizes on...
Graeme Thompson reports from a star-studded Gateshead ceremony
RTS Futures West of England took part in the BBC Academy’s Production Unlocked event in Bristol to...