Roger is passionate about movies and TV shows, as well as the drive-in theater. Aside from hosting and producing three podcasts and a monthly live show, he also collects comic books, records, VHS ...
With the centenary of his birth, screenwriter Nigel Kneale is being celebrated for his varied work – including his landmark 1950s dramas about an alien-infested UK, writes Adam Scovell. Today marks ...
At the risk of offending a lot of geeks, British sci-fi TV is a pretty easy thing to be an expert in. If you’re in your 30s or 40s, your parents probably remember when the subgenre started existing.
These TV series of the good professor’s battles with aliens opened with a plummy warning to ‘those of a nervous disposition’ – there was no softening to make it safe for kids An eccentric genius ...
In the mid-20th century, the BBC aired a programme that blended science fiction and horror and changed the course of British broadcasting. Jeremy Dyson claimed that with it, its writer “invented ...
For many, the name “Quatermass” evokes powerful thoughts and images. Tales of scientific derring-do and monstrous discovery; of infected astronauts, epic excavations and stone circles. It delves deep ...
Pioneering screenwriter Nigel Kneale, best known for the Quatermass TV serials and films that began in the 1950s, has died at the age of 84. He died in a London hospital after a period of ill health, ...
BBC viewers are currently getting (re)-acquainted with Professor Bernard Quatermass, one of the great figures of British science fiction, known for his mesmerising battles with alien and ancient ...