• Plans to Decriminalise Non-Payment of TV License Fee Announced

    Dating back to when it was charged on the owners of radio sets, the license fee has been a method of funding the BBC since 1923. In light of recent government consultations, however, George investigates the government's recent plans to scrap the prosecution of non-payers and the far-reaching consequences. ...
  • Question Time Leaders Special: An Overview

    Last night Sheffield played host to the BBC’s Question Time leaders special. The two-hour show included questions from a hostile audience directed at the Labour, Conservative, Lib Dem and SNP leaders. Under the spotlight, all four were pressed on a range of issues. But how did each politician perform under...
  • TV Review: The Little Drummer Girl

    The six-part adaptation struggles somewhat to convey the intricacies of the tight plot, but more than makes up for it with gripping performances. “A tense and subtle thriller” The Little Drummer Girl, a recent BBC/AMC mini-series based on the 1983 John le Carré spy novel, is a tense and subtle...
  • Style Icon: Stacey Dooley

    I will get straight to the point, I am in love with Stacey Dooley. For those of you who do not know, Stacey is a BBC journalist and documentary presenter. Over her ten-year career, she has worked on documentaries that have seen her getting up close to ISIS, to one...
  • TV Review: Press

    With a premise less centred on cramming our screens with blood-spill and gore than the adjacently aired Bodyguard and Killing Eve, there was always a danger that BBC’s Press would float modestly under the radar. However, writer Mike Bartlett’s latest attempt, a drama absorbing itself in the unremitting world...
  • Trailer Watch – Doctor Who: The Ghost Monument

    This brief yet action-packed trailer immediately plunges the viewer into a new adventure. Picking up from episode one’s cliffhanger ending in which the Doctor and her companions are transported deep into space, the trailer opens with them on a desert terrain planet. How they got there is unclear, as...
  • TV Review: Killing Eve

    Offering a darkly comedic and exciting perspective on the relationship between an international assassin and the MI5 officer investigating her, Killing Eve offers an array of talent, all of which blends supremely well to offer one of the BBC’s most investing original dramas of recent memory. The work of...