Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends: Weird ’90s
Graham Williamson discusses Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, a staple of 90s television weirdness (and even weirder subjects)…
Here, you’ll find writing including articles, essays, analyses, retrospectives, insights and love letters to everything British horror television…
Graham Williamson discusses Louis Theroux’s Weird Weekends, a staple of 90s television weirdness (and even weirder subjects)…
Author K B Morris examines the 1974’s BBC Play for Today, David Rudkin’s Penda’s Fen, and its exploration of the notion of Englishness…
Author A.J. Black returns with the latest in his Horror in the Britcom series. This time, he explores the (Nor)folk horror lurking in and around Steve Coogan’s hilariously appalling Alan Partridge…
J.D. Collins dissects what makes Mark Gatiss’s BBC Horror documentaries so entertaining, and also how elements can be seen in his work…
K B Morris explores the conflict between fate and free will in John Bowen’s 1970 folk horror television play, Robin Redbreast…
Graham Williamson revisits 1977’s fictional hoax, Alternative 3. ‘One of the most intoxicatingly, terrifyingly paranoid programmes ever broadcast on British television…’
A decade before Brian Clemens’ Thriller, NBC in the US broadcast an identically-titled anthology show of its very own, introduced British horror legend, Boris Karloff. Jane Nightshade takes us back to 1962…
Scorpion Tales occupies a lower tier in the pantheon of great British horror television of the 1970s, but did it deserve more than a single series? Andrew Screen investigates the programme’s six-episode run…
Time-travel or ghost story? Robert Taylor takes a look at Moondial, a classic children’s drama that puts the resilience of children, in the face of adversity, at its heart…
Mark Anthony Ayling revisits Mark Gatiss’s 2008 horror anthology, Crooked House, and the ordinary – and extraordinary – fears contained within…