BBC – The Reprobate

The Sad Demise Of The Single Drama On TV

Once upon a time, TV was the home of adventurous, challenging and provocative single dramas – we should all mourn their loss.

The bizarre 1980 BBC news report that attempted to convince viewers that dinosaurs were being genetically engineered in Hertfordshire.

Remembering a more innocent time, when Royal scandals simply involved celebrities in funny costumes throwing buckets of water at each other.

Just what is it with the need to nag people into abstinence at the start of the year?

Continuing our crime movie month with a look at a flawed but interesting film adaptation of a BBC serial from 1955.

The author and broadcaster explores how we reached our current state of extreme tribal division over everything in a new podcast series.

Continuing our Hammer Films retrospective with a look at the folk horror science fiction classic.

The German Fairy Tale film that caused collective childhood trauma for a generation of viewers. Or so they claim…

The long-unseen 1960s BBC adaptations of Georges Simenon’s classic crime novels re-examined.

The disproportionate importance given to whatever a small number of people are discussing on social media is something that needs to end.

The BBC TV documentary exploring the rise of the psychedelic underground in 1967.

How the throwaway comments of a single campaigner led to hysterical press reports around the world.

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