In this deep-dive review – and my only video to be demonetised by YouTube – I revisit V for Vendetta – the powerful political action thriller based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Set in a dystopian UK ruled by a totalitarian regime, the film explores themes of freedom, resistance, and

In this episode of The Channel I take a look at the final season of The Tomorrow People, a four-part serial called War of the Empires and first broadcast in the UK in 1979. The result of a script with two re-writes, just four days shooting in the studio, and a possible commentary on British

First broadcast in 2001, and featuring just 13 episodes before it was axed, The Lone Gunmen is a must-watch TV series – if only for the number of fictional plots that became a reality.

In this edition of The Channel I step back to 1968/1970 to take a look at Land of the Giants. A classic Irwin Allen series that placed the crew and passengers of a spacecraft on a planet where everything is bigger than on Earth. Huge props, big ideas, camera tricks, and no computer graphics.

The original Prisoner series starring Patrick McGoohan is still compulsive viewing despite it first airing in 1967. In this review, Steve Hart takes a look at the show that is as mind boggling today as it was almost 50 years ago. All in 12 minutes too!