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Adolescence and Celebrity Traitors triumph at Bafta TV Awards

The hit Netflix drama won four awards at the ceremony

Evening Standard · May 11

Tom Georgeson obituary

Accomplished character actor best known for his TV roles in Boys from the Blackstuff and Between the Lines

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24

The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year – that weren’t from 2025

We revisit forgotten noirs, rediscovered albums and retro games that stole the year

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025

‘Gissa job!’ How Bernard Hill created one of TV’s most tragic and unforgettable characters

Playing unhinged head-butting Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff made Hill a legend. But, from Titanic to The Lord of the Rings, his entire 50-year career was outstanding

The Guardian - UK · May 6, 2024

‘The timing was impeccable’: why it took a TV series to bring the Post Office scandal to light

Despite a two-year inquiry and years of campaigning, it was the four-hour drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office that enabled the British public to pay proper attention to the unbelievable horrors of this story

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2024

‘I was asked to show my legs at my first TV audition’: Lindsay Duncan on surviving peak chauvinism

As she plays an unsatisfied woman seeking dangerous thrills in the TV drama Truelove, the star remembers the shocking sexism she had to endure on her way to becoming one of our classiest actors

The Guardian - UK · Jan 2, 2024

The week in theatre: Boys from the Blackstuff; Vanya; Mlima’s Tale – review

Alan Bleasdale’s 80s TV classic about jobless workers hits home in James Graham’s adaptation; Andrew Scott is not alone in his one-man Chekhov; and Lynn Nottage adds imagination to a tale of ivory smuggling

The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023

‘The despair is the same’: Alan Bleasdale and James Graham on bringing back Boys from the Blackstuff

It’s a dream team: the creator of the 1982 BBC series and the writer of Sherwood. The pair meet in Liverpool to discuss putting Yosser and the lads on stage in a new era of economic desperation

The Guardian - UK · Sep 15, 2023

Jean Boht obituary

Actor who played Nellie Boswell in the popular BBC television sitcom Bread

The Guardian - UK · Sep 13, 2023

The week in TV: Succession; The Gallows Pole; Changing Ends; University Challenge – review

Succession bows out in Shakespearean style; Shane Meadows changes tack with a gobby, grubby period drama; Alan Carr meets his sitcom younger self; and a TV beast exits with a smile…

The Guardian - UK · Jun 4, 2023