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
Lisa Kerrigan
All articles by Lisa Kerrigan
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
Lists
The best British TV of 2023, as picked by BFI curators
By Xavier Alexandre Pillai, Josephine Botting and others
All about...
All about... how we archive television
By Lisa Kerrigan, Charles Fairall and others
Lists
The best British TV of 2022, as picked by BFI curators
By James Bell, Ros Cranston and others
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
10 great
10 great Channel 5 programmes
By Elinor Groom, Lisa Kerrigan and others
Best of 2021
The best new British TV of 2021, picked by BFI curators
By Lisa Kerrigan, James Bell and others
Best of 2021
The best TV of 2021: the year in television
By Lisa Kerrigan
Features
Thunder on Sycamore Street: the rediscovered 1950s TV play about prejudice in suburbia
By Lisa Kerrigan
Lists
The best British TV of 2020, picked by BFI curators
By Robin Baker, Josephine Botting and others
Play for Today at 50
The lost Play for Todays we’ll never see
By Lisa Kerrigan
Britain on Lockdown
Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #8
By Lisa Kerrigan
Britain on Lockdown
Britain on Lockdown: The online videos shaping the crisis #5
By Patrick Russell, Jez Stewart and others
BFI Recommends
BFI Recommends: Fan Fever
By Lisa Kerrigan
Features
Inside broadcast: how TV has risen to the challenge of lockdown
By Lisa Kerrigan
Lists
The best British TV of 2019
By Josephine Botting, Mark Duguid and others
Lists
The best British TV of 2018
By Elinor Groom, Storm Patterson and others
Lists
The best British TV of 2017
By Bryony Dixon, William Fowler and others
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The best British TV of 2017 so far
By Lisa Kerrigan, Josephine Botting and others
Lists
The best British TV of 2016
By Steve Bryant, Ros Cranston and others
Lists
The best British TV of 2016 so far
By Steve Bryant, Gosta Johansson and others
Obituaries
Carla Lane, 1928–2016
By Lisa Kerrigan
10 great
BBC Three switchover: 10 great programmes
By Lisa Kerrigan, Kathleen Luckey and others
Features
The films that built Out of the Rubble
By Ros Cranston, Mark Duguid and others
Lists
The best British TV of 2015
By Steve Bryant, Gosta Johansson and others
Features
Provincial pleasures: 8 evocative films of Northern Ireland
By Lisa Kerrigan
Lists
ITV at 60: 5 key programmes that launched Britain’s second TV channel
By Steve Bryant, Lisa Kerrigan and others