By Dennis Broe One of the key phrases circulating within the streaming TV series industry is “post-peak” TV. The boom is over, except for possibly Netflix one... Continue reading
by Dennis Broe Adolescence, Netflix’ four-part single-take, real-time series about a schoolboy knifing, is the streamer’s most popular series of all time in Britain and in many... Continue reading
Mussolini, the march on Rome, 1922 by Jon Baldwin Mussolini: Son of the Century is an eight-part historical drama biopic which has just completed its run on... Continue reading
by John Green Malcolm Hulke – known to friends and colleagues as “Mac” – is one of those now forgotten scriptwriters for TV and cinema, who was... Continue reading
By Dennis Broe As Trump and Musk unleash a new kind of barbarism and open class war on American workers based around the cuts to domestic spending... Continue reading
Poldark series All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed which was not of man’s own contriving.Winston Graham Ross Poldark (1945) Introduction The recent drama, Victoria (2016-2019) on... Continue reading
Jamaican cop confronts Scotland Yard in Get Millie Black Part 2 Honourable Mention Operation Sabre—A tight, taut Serbian series which recounts how a Prime Minister falls victim... Continue reading
Big Tech Regulator Lina Khan, out with the good air, in with the bad The year in the media, both in the streaming business and in broadcasting... Continue reading
Mr. Bates and the Post Office Part 1 It has been a strange television season. The general trend continues from last year – trimming and cutting back... Continue reading
Dennid Broe concludes his analysis of reactionary reflexivity by focusing on TV news coverage Nowhere is the hardening of the once playful strategy of reflexivity discussed in... Continue reading