Lists
The best British television of 2024
From Baby Reindeer to Mr Bates vs. the Post Office: BFI curators pick out their TV highlights of the year.
By Josephine Botting, Ros Cranston and others
The best British television of 2024
All articles about British TV
Interviews
“Nobody loves a dirty joke more than Judi”: Richard Eyre on directing the greats
By Alex Ramon
Features
World TV Day 2024: how archive TV provides a portal to the past
By Lisa Kerrigan
Features
Archiving Netflix: how and what we preserve from the streamer’s programming
By Lisa Kerrigan, Michael Norman and others
Obituaries
Alvin Rakoff obituary: veteran director of British film and TV
By David Parkinson
Obituaries
Maggie Smith obituary: scene-stealing star who became a national institution
By David Parkinson
Features
The night the country didn’t sleep: 40 years of Threads, the BBC’s traumatising TV movie
By George Bass
Interviews
Clio Barnard on directing Sherwood series 2: “The thing that television can do is create a national conversation”
By Lou Thomas
Interviews
Starve Acre and its roots in 1970s folk horror: “Stranger things were being made on television at the time, frankly”
By Adam Scovell
Interviews
Ghost Stories for Christmas: Mark Gatiss on the enduring appeal of the BBC’s ghostly festive tradition
By Adam Scovell
Lists
The best British TV of 2023, as picked by BFI curators
By Xavier Alexandre Pillai, Josephine Botting and others
Then and now
60 years of Doctor Who: in search of classic Who locations
By Adam Scovell
The NHS at 75
The NHS on the box: in praise of the great British hospital soap
By Mandeep Kaur-Lakhan
Lists
The best British TV of 2022, as picked by BFI curators
By James Bell, Ros Cranston and others
Obituaries
Ron Peck obituary: filmmaker behind Nighthawks, Britain’s first feature set in the gay community
By William Fowler
Lists
40 years of Channel 4: 10 C4 gems currently streaming
By Josephine Botting, William Fowler and others
Lists
100 BBC TV gamechangers
By Lisa Kerrigan, Nadia Attia and others
News
BFI appointed exclusive sales agent for the Associated-Rediffusion television catalogue
BFI appointed exclusive sales agent for the Associated-Rediffusion television catalogueFeatures
50 years of Ghost Stories for Christmas, the BBC’s classic strand of festive terror
By George Bass
Best of 2021
The best new British TV of 2021, picked by BFI curators
By Lisa Kerrigan, James Bell and others
Features
Thunder on Sycamore Street: the rediscovered 1950s TV play about prejudice in suburbia
By Lisa Kerrigan
Features
Beyond the tombstone: how British TV responded to the AIDS crisis
By Simon McCallum
Lists
The best British TV of 2020, picked by BFI curators
By Robin Baker, Josephine Botting and others
Play for Today at 50
Folk horror and Play for Today, the ‘National Theatre of the airwaves’
By William Fowler
Lists
The best British TV of 2019
By Josephine Botting, Mark Duguid and others
Lists
Monty Python: the 10 funniest sketches
By Neil Mitchell
Features
6 Black writers who blazed a trail in British TV drama
By Stephen Bourne
Lists
The best British TV of 2018
By Elinor Groom, Storm Patterson and others
Features
When sitcoms go large: Britain’s curious demand for the TV comedy film spin-off
By Jon Spira
Lists
10 peerless funny women of British TV comedy
By Hannah Gatward