In this eloquently persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs and how “entertainment values” have corrupted even the way we think. Postman believes that public discourse, the advancing of arguments...
Michael Palin set out from the Reform Club with an ambitious plan: to circumnavigate the world, following the route taken by fictional hero Phileas Fogg 115 years earlier.
Blake's 7 is a much-loved classic TV science fiction series, in which a band of rebels fight the despotic Federation, heading by Supreme Commander Servalan.
The highly anticipated return of Dalziel and Pascoe, the hugely popular police duo and stars of the long-running BBC TV series, in a psychological thriller.
The doctor accidentally stumbles upon a craft and to his disbelief he finds they are experimenting with time itself, will he be able to prevent certain disaster?
First broadcast on BBC1 in 1968, The Dominators sees the TARDIS materialising on the planet Dulkis, currently under threat from two alien Dominators and their robotic servants, the Quarks...
The first doctor becomes the second in this exclusive recording of Doctor Who's original regeneration story, starring Patrick Troughton with linking narration by Anneke Wills
Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright travel with the mysterious Doctor Who and his granddaughter, Susan, to the planet of Skaro in the space-time machine, the TARDIS
Neil Postman, an author and academic, and Steve Powers, a television journalist, reveal the difference between what TV news says it is presenting and what it actually delivers, entertainment fodder versus genuine news. They explain why TV news has become a “cash cow,” pointing to the symbiotic...
In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York Observer, Candace Bushnell introduces us to the young and beautiful who travel in packs from parties to bars to club
Come with us to Shepherd's Bush on a decrepit horse and cart, and view the young-ish Harold Steptoe and his beloved father Albert in their natural habitat of the scrapyard at 24, Oil Drum Lane.
Something is watching. In Cardiff’s secret heart, the members of the Torchwood team struggle to define and locate the intruder, and contain it before anyone gets hurt.
