• 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...
  • Holby City’s Sapphic Surgeons

    Happy Pride Month. At the DIVA Awards 2018, an award ceremony run by DIVA magazine celebrating LGBT+ women, Holby City won the LGBT Series or Storyline award, beating Netflix mega-hit Orange is the New Black and Canadian web-series Carmilla. The winning storyline was simple: two middle-aged women fell in...
  • Student Suicide Rates – Rising and Relentless

    For the first time in UK history, it has come to the public’s attention that suicide rates amongst students have topped those of non-students. The figures have risen by 56% between 2007 and 2016, according to a conference in New Zealand, and though it is not specified what type...
  • Where does Sport belong on the Box?

    Eighty years ago, live sport made its introduction to UK TV with the screening of Bunny Austin’s tennis match against George Rogers at Wimbledon on the BBC. It was the start of a long love affair between sport and TV, which has continued to blossom ever since. But that’s...
  • BBC’s Roman Britain: modern multiculturalism or the probable truth?

    At the beginning of August, a small animation published by the BBC in 2014 caught the attention of an Infowars editor. (For those not in the know, Inforwars is an American radio show that is most famous for its enthusiastic and rage-fuelled host, Alex Jones). This led to a...
  • BBC TMS’ Alison Mitchell presents Careers in Sport forum at the David Ross Sports Village

    University of Nottingham students were recently offered the incredible opportunity to hear from and talk to a selection of Nottingham’s talented alumni who have all excelled in careers relating to sport. The panel, headed by BBC Test Match Special’s Alison Mitchell, offered students the opportunity to engage with alumni who...