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The ‘anti-Line of Duty’, Blue Lights is a gritty cop drama set in Belfast, but with plenty more to it than initially meets the eye, writes Adrian Pennington.

As unlikely as it may seem, the noose is tightening around Chinese-owned social media phenomenon TikTok. Were it to be banned outright, what impact would this have on the short form video creator community? Adrian Pennington investigates…

Immersive experience venues are changing the face of live events and the Madison Square Garden Sphere aims to top the lot by creating a new entertainment medium, writes Adrian Pennington

2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the first significant public demonstration of 8K television when NHK and the BBC co-operated to present the London Olympic Games on 15-meter-wide screens in London, Glasgow, and Bradford, writes John Maxwell Hobbs.

Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ has recently built out a range of new studio facilities. John Maxwell Hobbs gets the grand tour, and investigates some of the thinking driving visual studio design.

Guillermo del Toro and the film’s heads of department discuss crafting the stop-motion version of the classic fable.

Back in 2019, Netflix released data claiming that 45 million accounts – nearly a third of its total subscribers – had streamed the Sandra Bullock thriller Bird Box in its first week on the platform, a record for a Netflix film.

AI is seeing rapid adoption in broadcast environments, as it offers substantial cost and efficiency benefits, while the barriers to entry are dropping fast... You’ve undoubtedly heard of AI (artificial intelligence) before, whether in a purely science fiction context, or a broadcast industry one. As a result of this wide recognition, the technology as a whole has been through an extended and enhanced hype cycle in the recent past.

Hollyoaks with an art school twist: DOP Diana Olifirova explains how Netflix teen drama Heartstopper wears its heart on its sleeve.

Stephen Graham is a chef with a simmering temper in a feature length one-take kitchen drama filmed at a real-life restaurant. Director Philip Barantini and cinematographer Matthew Lewis explain how it was done.