• R.I.P GBBO As We Know It

    It’s hit the news, it’s covered social media, and it’s enraged loving fans. Yes, The Great British Bake Off is moving to Channel 4 for the next series, and if that weren’t bad enough, we have now lost Mel and Sue as presenters. What next, no Mary Berry? At...
  • “An endeavour to do something new to reflect the world where it’s at:” Impact Interviews William Burdett-Coutts

    The Edinburgh Digital Entertainment Festival, running from the 4th-16th August 2016 is in full swing in Edinburgh and Impact got an exclusive interview with William Burdett-Coutts, CEO of the festival and the man behind Riverside Studios, the company presenting the festival, for a chat about the future of cinema...
  • TV Review – Love Island

    For years, Big Brother has been the queen of trashy reality TV, at the forefront of the Daily Mail gossip column and has produced some class celebrities out of the general public (Nikki Graham anyone?). However, this year, despite the best efforts of Marco Pierre White Jr., Big Brother...
  • Scrapbook – Tim Burton Films

    In celebration of Burton’s new film Alice Through The Looking Glass, Impact Film and TV looks back at some of his greatest classics… Beetlejuice This film is weird; ask someone why they like this film and they might struggle to say as it is cinematic Marmite. It has quite a...
  • TV Review – The A Word

    The fantastic six-part drama The A Word concluded on the BBC this week, leaving viewers impressed with its raw honesty and emotion whilst dealing with the sensitive topic that is autism. Being on the autism spectrum has a plethora of meanings, and consequences for people who suffer from the...
  • Trailer Watch – Top Gear, Series 23

    Top Gear is back! Except it’s not actually the Top Gear we all love, because Jeremy Clarkson is nowhere in sight (too busy wizzing around on that scooter obviously), there’s no May and definitively no Hammond. As an ardent lover of the ‘old’ Top Gear, and a staunch cynic,...
  • Scrapbook – Worst Sequels

    2016 is an outstandingly chaotic year for sequels. Recently, the deplorable Alvin & the Chipmunks 4 was released, Batman V Superman is out now, Ghostbusters, The Purge and Jason Bourne are all getting sequels this year to name but a few in a very crowded market. We have put...