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  The Best British TV of 2018

  In 2018 British TV told stories of our nation that were ancient and unfolding, heart-warming and crushingly sad. Here the BFI curatorial team pick their favourite terrestrial TV shows of the year.

  Elinor Groom, Storm Patterson, Ros Cranston, Bryony Dixon, Simon McCallum, Robin Baker, Danny Leigh, Mark Duguid, Lisa Kerrigan
  Wednesday 12 December 2018

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  10 great tragic comedies

  Movies with a smile, and perhaps a tear… We laugh and cry our way through some of the best comedies with one foot squarely in tragedy.

  Christina Newland
  Monday 10 December 2018

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  10 great winter ghost stories

  Battle the cold and dark of winter with this list of 10 terrifying tales that are guaranteed to get the blood pumping.

  Adam Scovell
  Tuesday 4 December 2018

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  10 peerless funny women of British TV comedy

  From Kathy Burke to Victoria Wood… a selection of some of the funniest female writers and comedians to have made their mark on British television.

  Hannah Gatward
  Monday 3 December 2018

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  10 great non-nuclear family films

  The idea of the family unit has changed radically in the past 50 years. Here we celebrate the films, like Hirokazu Koreeda’s Shoplifters – out this week – that have adopted expanded families as the source of their story.

  Leigh Singer
  Thursday 29 November 2018

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  The five best Carry Ons… and the five worst

  To salute 60 years of the sauciest and silliest of all our national institutions, we offer up two handfuls of the Carry On series’ peaks and troughs.

  Neil Mitchell
  Friday 23 November 2018

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  10 great comedies set in the workplace

  Working nine to five? What a thing to make a comedy about…

  Leigh Singer
  Thursday 15 November 2018

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  Five films to watch to get ready for Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma

  Roma will be in select cinemas from 29 November and on Netflix from 14 December.

  Matthew Thrift
  Thursday 15 November 2018

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  Top up your watchlist... 19 foreign-language comedies

  Laugh your way around the world with this selection of international comedies – all available to watch with a free 14-day trial on BFI Player.

  
  Tuesday 6 November 2018

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  One great horror film per decade (1928-2018)

  The evolution of the scary movie at 10-year paces: one for every ninth year of the decade, from 1928 to 2018.

  Adam Scovell
  Wednesday 31 October 2018

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