Television

Ofcom put a number on Britain’s streaming plateau in July: 70 per cent of households now pay for at least

At midday on Tuesday 8 September, voting closes on the National Television Awards 2026 – and with it goes your

Most “best British TV” lists rank shows by prestige. This one ranks them by what happens at hour six of

Thirty-nine per cent. That’s the share of British podcast listeners who, when Ofcom asked them a new question this year

Somewhere in Britain last Sunday night, someone watched a drama about a country cooking in 40-degree heat while their own

“Netflix overtakes the BBC” made an irresistible headline this week, and most of the press ran some version of it

Ten minutes into The Dark, a man walks across a Highland moor with a naked body slung over his shoulder,

Nobody at the BBC, Sky or Channel 4 sat down and agreed a theme for the year, but one turned

The summer schedule used to be where good telly went to die. Repeats, the tennis, the odd limp new commission

Almost everyone now watches TV with subtitles on – and the young, sharp-eared lot most of all. What that says about telly’s audio, our phones and the death of trusting your ears.