‘The Country Boy’ (BBC1, 1989)
❉ A forgotten eco-drama from the writer of Break In The Sun and Running Scared.
Grange Hill
‘Jossy’s Giants’ revisited on DVD
❉ David Lewis looks back on the fondly remembered childrens drama, released on DVD this month.
Win Silver Tickets for cult TV convention ‘TV Utopia’!
❉ Win two Silver Tickets for TV Utopia, a unique event celebrating your favourite British television from the last fifty years!
This Is England: ‘Johnny Jarvis’ on DVD reviewed
❉ A valuable social document capturing the mood of post-punk England.
Ronnie Corbett’s ‘The Prince of Denmark’ reviewed
❉ “If you squint, you could almost convince yourself that you’re watching a Fawlty Towers prequel.”
Looking Back on ‘Grange Hill’
❉ Birthed in the wake of punk, Grange Hill spanned three full decades.
Stars on 45: Tim Worthington’s ‘Top of the Box’
❉ When is a record label not a record label? When it’s BBC Records.
How they SHOULD have saved BBC Three…
❉ Could the Beeb have kept BBC Three going and return it to its former glory? We offer an alternative hypothesis…
The making of ‘The Children of Green Knowe’
❉ This anarchic show pushed the barriers of television as far as they could go – in the best possible taste.