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Pandemics seemed like ancient history or even like a fictional story before COVID-19 struck. In fact, we are so fascinated by natural biological disaster films that the cinematic space is arguably overcrowded with pandemic and epidemic movies. But how have pandemics been presented on screen since the lockdowns began?...

Talia Krais *This article contains spoilers for It’s A Sin* The hit TV drama ‘It’s A Sin’ focuses on the tragedy that the AIDS crisis produced in London during the 1980s. The misinformation, uncertainty, anxiety, rational and irrational reactions to the emergence of this new disease strikes a resonance within...

Deontaye Osazuwa highlights colorism in the UK TV industry explaining why dark skin women should be the ones tell their stories....

Annabel D’Monte Recently, I’ve felt like I have been consuming so much mindless television that my brain has started to turn to mush. So, in an attempt to rectify this I decided to watch something a little different. I began searching for something more meaningful that would inform and...

Utopia was nominated for 17 awards, and won several, most notably the International Emmy Award for best drama series. Yet most people have never heard of Utopia, let alone seen it. Little do they know, they may have missed out on one of the best TV shows of all...

Channel 4’s latest sci-fi offering has been the new Electric Dreams, a series of standalone episodes based on the work of famous writer Philip K. Dick. It comes only a couple of years after the release of The Man in the High Castle, another of Philip K. Dick’s works,...

12th September 2016. Everyone remembers the moment they heard the news: the news that Love Productions had betrayed the nation by selling that apogee of British culture to Channel 4. I don’t need to tell you which show I’m talking about here – everyone and their mothers (and fathers...