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The Bill stops here

Andrew Bowden notices it’s very strange to be living in Sun Hill

Somebody's Watching Me

Chase Erwin on ten years of living under Big Brother’s gaze

Back to the Late Shift

NBC hasn’t learned its lesson not to alienate its viewers… or its talent.

Thirty Years of Grange Hill - Part III

Popularity and hard hitting plots.

Thirty Years of Grange Hill - Part II

The series is here to stay

Thirty Years of Grange Hill - Part I

School’s out forever

Previous articles

Rise and fall of a comedy king

Benny Hill and the winds of change in TV comedy

Cinema for television

From ITC to Euston…

What The Papers Say: 50 years

Granada is 50: we profile their longest-running programme

What The Papers Say: The People

50 years of presenters & readers

Riding Through the Glen

David Brockman tells the story of ITV’s earliest hit series

LWT as BBC3

The London Television Consortium had a hard lesson to learn

Making the Break

Philip Stevens on making early ITV commercials

The Jazz625 Story

Director Terry Henebery talks to Louis Barfe

Death of a Princess

David Brockman on the controversy 25 years on

Strange Magic - 1

Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV - part 1

Strange Magic - 2

Russ J Graham follows science fiction on TV - part 2

The God Slot

David Brockman on British religious television

Suds or substance?

David Hastings tracks the rise of the docusoap

For better or worse

Perhaps television, on balance, was always awful, ponders Glenn Aylett

Everything I know

…was taught to me by Blue Peter, says Russ J Graham

Southerner station

David Brockman remembers the station that served…

Poetry in motion

David Brockman on poetry replacing presentation

The Big Three

David Brockman looks into a new genre from Anglia

Wrong-footed Four

Carl Ellis on sci-fi and fantasy programmes on Channel Four

New horizons

Carl Ellis on how satellite (nearly) always treats imports better

About Britain

David Brockman on regional contributions of the ITV network

TV Asylum

Carl Ellis looks into the world of import and export

Daytime Hours

Andrew Hesford-Booth watches television during the day

Sharp Set

Andrew Hesford-Booth on presentation comedy programmes

Black and White Lives

David Brockman remembers monochrome

The Crossroads Option

Kif Bowden-Smith on the workings of an optional network

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