Headed by British film director Steve McQueen (12 Years A Slave, Widows), this November, the BBC is releasing a brand new miniseries of five films centering on London’s West Indian community between the late 1960s to the mid-1980s, and characters showcasing immense force of will to make it on their own despite the rampant racism and discrimination faced. Among these films, mainstream audiences are most … Continue reading Television Time: ‘Small Axe’ star John Boyega discusses black representation on film and television

It’s hard to believe that Bake Off judge Paul Hollywood has visited places as far flung as Iceland and gone on cross-content trips across America, but has never before stepped foot in Asia. At least, until he became the host and star of BBC Lifestyle’s latest series Paul Hollywood Eats Japan, where the television personality gets up close and personal with the land of the rising … Continue reading Television Time: An Interview with Paul Hollywood on visiting Japan for the first time

A screenwriter by profession, it makes sense that author David Nicholls would be the one to adapt his own novel for the screen, something he’d previously done with the film One Day in 2011. Now, he’s back again with an adaptation of his Man Booker longlisted novel Us as a television miniseries for the BBC. But where One Day was about the beginning ‘will they, won’t they’ of a budding … Continue reading Television Time: An Interview with Tom Hollander, star of David Nicholls’ ‘Us’ on BBC