In another sign of shifting forces in the social media universe, the U.K.’s national public service broadcaster, the BBC, is dipping a toe into the fediverse by setting up its own Mastodon instance.

A television drama about a fictional nuclear attack on the city of Sheffield had a profound effect on many who watched it in the 1980s. Now it has aired once again, we spoke to some first and ...

If Mick Jackson’s Threads, the 1984 BBC nuclear war drama, was an augur of a world on the brink, then Bob Mielke’s Threads, a book-length essay on the titular film, is an augur of DieDieBooks’ ...

The BBC is trying out a Mastodon server for six months. The BBC is trying out a Mastodon server for six months. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and ...

Warp Films, the production company behind Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne's crime drama Adolescence, is rebooting the "devastating" and "unflinchingly honest" 1980s BBC drama Threads. First released on ...