From WandaVision to The Crown, how TV stole the show from cinema
As the TV Bafta nominations show, the tide has turned, and the A-listers are now making their boldest work on the small screen
Steve McQueen's Small Axe series brought a cinematic intensity to the small screen
Credit: Des Willie
When is a TV series not a TV series? When it’s an anthology of five standalone dramas from an Oscar-winning film director, which has been nominated for London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston film critics’ awards. Steve McQueen’s superb Small Axe, which told five stories about the British-West Indian experience from the 1960s to the 1980s, leads the way in this year’s television Baftas, with 15 nominations, announced yesterday, across the Television and the TV Craft awards.