Is Sky and HBO’s Chernobyl the greatest TV show ever made? Well, writer Craig Mazin and director Johan Renck deliver a masterclass to teach you everything you need to know about storytelling and perspective.

Lost revolutionized TV in many ways. From the night its $14 million pilot aired 20 years ago today, a never-before-seen army of rabid, binge-watching fans sparked the first global online TV conversation. But Lost’s flashbacks also changed TV forever.

The Osage settlement town of Gray Horse, Oklahoma, struck oil in the late 1800s. Within decades, the Native American Osage Nation were the richest people on the planet. Laws meant only Osage people were entitled to the oil-rich land, but then cattle…

After a discussion amongst friends from across the pond who hadn’t seen it, I decided to revisit Mars. The BBC's Life on Mars to be exact, and if you want to learn how to write and direct TV, so should you!

The Leftovers isn’t a TV show; it’s a mystical experience… and I’m not just talking about the overtly religious storyline, nor that season three was resurrected on Easter Sunday. My hero, Damon Lindelof's show is my Manna from heaven, and here's why

I'm sorry; I hate to do this to you, but I'm about to destroy your childhood because many of your favorite films are plagiarized. Yes, folks, from your beloved sci-fi space operas to action thrillers and Disney cartoons, your most beloved storylines…

Zombies have plagued folklore for thousands of years, lurching through our nightmares, feasting on our brains and our fears. From Ancient Sumerian mythology through African and Haitian voodoo to binge-worthy shows, the undead have evolved from…

Join us as we discover the best end of the world and post-apocalyptic TV shows and movies. Some you'll know like Terminator and 28 Years Later, but some you might not, like Monsters, The Rain, and Blood Drive.

Tony Tost's Damnation shows exactly how to build and populate your TV universe.

When Counterpart launched its first episode on Starz two full months before we’d get to see the second, it seemed a fresh and original concept. A gripping idea of an alternate universe accessible only from a subterranean door under a gray,…

The History Channel's excellent docu-drama series Barbarians Rising tells the tales of Rome’s most feared foes. Hannibal, Spartacus, Viriathus, Arminius, Fritigern, Geiseric, Attila the Hun, and Iceni Queen Boudica, who brought Rome to its knees

In 1973, anthropologist Santiago Genovés and his ten unwitting test subjects drifted across the Atlantic for three months on a raft. Little did they know Genovés was a madman, hell-bent on bringing them to their base instincts to fight and fuck...

Today, we’re looking at how to create and write antagonists by comparing and contrasting the villains of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead’s excellent third season with its terrible fourth. New cast members, a new sprawling location, and fresh names in the…

Today, we’re gonna learn how to make your B-Stories reflect your A-Stories