British television has always known how to leave an audience hanging. Think of the closing seconds of a Doctor Who episode, when the music swells, a familiar wheeze fills the air, and a face from the shadows turns slowly towards the camera. Or the way Slow Horses lets a quiet meeting curdle into dread before … >
Across more than six decades of Doctor Who, the Time Lord has stared down Daleks, outwitted the Master and rewired reality with a sonic screwdriver. Yet some of the most gripping moments in the show have nothing to do with raw power and everything to do with chance. The Doctor, for all that godlike knowledge, … >
There was a time when watching a beloved drama meant planting yourself in front of a single television set at a fixed hour, possibly with a video recorder primed and praying nobody knocked the cassette out mid-cliffhanger. The ritual was rigid. Miss the broadcast of a Doctor Who finale and you waited months, maybe years, … >
Somewhere in the 24th century, Commander William Riker is leaning over a craps table, blowing on a pair of dice while the rest of the away team watches in disbelief. This isn’t a fever dream. It’s The Royale, one of the strangest and most quietly beloved episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, in which … >
Most science fiction imagines the future as a place of duty and discovery, all gleaming corridors and noble missions. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine did something cheekier. It planted a smoky, neon-lit bar right at the heart of its space station and let the dice roll. While the rest of the franchise reached for the … >
Hold your breath and wrap up warm as the third series of the popular thriller returns, here’s the latest we have on the next series of Vigil: The news is out and there’s even more to decipher now that a teaser has been dropped ahead of the next series of the BBC procedural. There’s more … >
Picture a typical weeknight in Britain a decade or so ago. The telly came on at a fixed time, the family gathered around for whatever the schedulers had decided, and missing an episode meant waiting weeks for a repeat. Now? An evening might start with three episodes of Slow Horses, drift into a phone game … >
Few science-fiction worlds have stretched as far or as wide as the one Gene Roddenberry first sketched out in the 1960s. The buzz around Star Trek: Year One — the much-discussed return to the franchise’s earliest days, exploring the foundational era of Starfleet — has reminded fans just how many directions their favourite universe can … >
The BBC knew for months that there would be no 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special without releasing this information, causing Doctor Who fans nearly half a year of false hope and contention. The BBC announced 2026 Doctor Who Christmas special in October 2025 alongside the news that the co-production partnership with Disney was at an … >
Russell T Davies, one of the UK’s foremost writers of television drama such as Doctor Who, Queer As Folk, Years And Years, Casanova, Cucumber, and It’s a Sin, has written a memoir to be released this autumn. Titled The Queerest of Folk: A Life in Television, the television writer and showrunner will take readers through … >