Television Magazine

June 2021

Small Axe: Lovers Rock (Credit: BBC)
Key people in the creation of BBC One’s Small Axe share the backstory of Steve McQueen’s film...
A new training fund is aimed at workers in genres such as specialist factual who want to build...
As the BBC boosts its local activities, Graeme Thompson feels optimistic about the region’s future...
It’s a Sin’s Russell T Davies, long-time collaborator Nicola Shindler and Channel 4...
Matthew Bell explains how broadcasters are covering the Euros, which kick off this month.
Steve Clarke alternately giggles and squirms at a biting satire on media mendacity.
The comedy anthology Inside No. 9 is notoriously always one step ahead of its audience.
Kate Waters has worked on Coronation Street for the past decade, choreo­graphing the conflicts that...
Charlene Chika Osuagwu (credit: Charlene Chika Osuagwu)
Charlene Chika Osuagwu reflects on the first anniversary of George Floyd’s death –...
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Young people in production are routinely bullied and harassed, made to work punishingly long hours...
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Does the BBC need a new regulatory system following Lord Dyson’s report into Martin Bashir’s 1995...
Weird, wacky and all-conquering – Stuart Kemp hides his identity to enter the formats factory that...
BritBox lifts the lid on its first original drama, The Beast Must Die, an ambitious thriller with...
Love Island (credit: ITV)
TV advertising is rebounding but reforms are necessary to ensure the sector’s long-term future,...
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Shilpa Ganatra salutes We Are Lady Parts for subverting stereotypes and allowing young Muslim women...
Narinder Minhas reviews Maggie Brown’s second instalment of her history of an unfailingly turbulent...
Rhodri Talfan Davies (credit: BBC)
BBC director of nations Rhodri Talfan Davies tells the RTS how the broadcaster’s ‘Across the UK’...