To make good art, you must be specific. Perhaps that is too sweeping a statement – and so rather contradictory – but it is a fundamental principle I live by. It is no good chasing the lowest common ...

If you live in a part of the world where January is a hardscrabble month of inclement weather, you might well be tempted to lock yourself away for the rest of the year, fearing the sun will never ...

One of the best shows I watched last year was Scavengers Reign, a lushly animated sci-fi series about an interstellar cargo ship that crashes on a planet full of strange, dangerous life. Sadly, it was ...

The description “genre-defying” gets thrown around a lot these days – it is a convenient sticking plaster for any film or series that hasn’t quite figured out what it wants to be. That said, it is an ...

Covering almost a third of our planet, Asia’s biodiversity and vast range of environments were ripe for the David Attenborough treatment. He narrates this seven-part series, which touches on ...

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I recently wrote a piece for New Scientist lamenting the lack of a wildly popular TV drama about climate change. A few short weeks later, along comes Families Like Ours (BBC iPlayer), a wildly popular ...

Good things come to those who wait, or so we say. But there is nothing worse than patience unrewarded by time, especially when weeks have stretched into years of anticipation. Sitting down to watch ...