By Sara Bright On 4 December 1872, the crew of a Canadian brigantine called Dei Gratia spotted a vessel drifting erratically through the Atlantic about…
By Tessa Nolan The return of Max Cady to screens has been a long time coming. When Apple TV+ premiered its ten‑episode limited series Cape…
By Alexander Stone The conventional reading of 2024’s cultural landscape – a patchwork of nostalgia, streaming expansion and feel-good diversity – misses the point entirely.…
By Sara Bright When Sister Wives premiered on TLC on 26 September 2010, its premise was straightforward: here was a polygamist family – Kody Brown,…
By Lana Sterling Prince Albert never imagined he was starting an industry. When the Illustrated London News published a drawing in 1848 of Queen Victoria,…
By Sara Bright When Olivia Attwood told the cameras she had “caught the ick” during the third series of Love Island in June 2017, she…
By Tessa Nolan The number that matters is 272.7. That is, in millions of US dollars, the worldwide box-office gross of Backrooms as of mid-June…
By Anne Fry There is a particular rhythm to how fashion democratises itself. A designer sketches an idea. A model walks a runway. A celebrity…
By Alexander Stone Something strange is happening in Britain’s relationship with body art. The nation that has embraced tattoos at extraordinary speed – from roughly…
By Tessa Nolan The question lands on every visitor’s lips as they emerge from Leicester Square station, programme leaflets fanned out in both hands: what…