A couple of years back, I launched a Substack account for Curious British Telly, a sort of digital attic where I could squirrel away peculia...

It never ceases to astonish me that, in Britain during the mid-1980s, you weren’t strictly stuck with just BBC1, BBC2, ITV and Channel 4 fo...

The unstoppable rise of social media, paired with the bloated growth of British television to just shy of three million channels, has meant ...

As a child, my hobbies were far from eccentric. I whiled away the hours collecting coins, obsessing about  Doctor Who  and engaging in spiri...

The Playstation 5 is the pinnacle of modern gaming. With 16GB of RAM, an 8-core AMD Zen 2 processor, a frame rate of 120Hz and capable of di...

Once upon a time, community television in Britain was considered an exciting experiment, something that hadn’t been done before and could un...

"The series will outsell The Muppets series of the late 1970s" Vincent C Piano, CEO of Mizlou Programming, 1986 Over the years, th...

I doubt many people remember Up Our Street.  In fact I'd bet my bottom thrupenny bit that fewer than a handful do.   But that's the ...

One of the earliest programmes covered on Curious British Telly was the much underrated Prospects . Since that article , written over 12 yea...