Blood ties

Nick Bidwell , Tim Vickery , Mark Gleeson , John Duerden and James Nalton earmark 50 young talents who are set to make their mark in 2025

Aghast, dismayed and utterly crestfallen, his face wearing a look of all-consuming shock, the young lad simply refuses to believe what the television reporter in Liverpool city centre has just told hi

FOR ALMOST 30 YEARS, IT’S BEEN THE ACTION FRANCHISE TO END ALL ACTION FRANCHISES. AS TOM CRUISE AND THE TEAM OUTDO THEMSELVES ONCE MORE, IS MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE —THE F INAL R ECKONING THE END OF ETHAN HUNT?

To celebrate our 30th anniversary we asked some of the biggest names in sci-fi and fantasy (including writers, directors and producers of your favourite series): what TV show stood out for you in the last three decades? Some of the results may shock you! But they’re all subjective and definitely alphabetical…

When we started playing Wingpsan, there became a whole subsect of our already niche hobby that were suddenly able to identify a few more birds than we could before. I don’t know about you, but I later

For SMALL FACES , 1968 was a year of extremes, from hit singles and a career-defining album to a final, onstage bust-up. But while the bonds between them were strained by internal tensions and external dramas, the music they made in their last months together pointed tantalisingly in bold new directions. As an expanded version of their posthumous The Autumn Stone set reveals fresh treasures, Rob Hughes discovers what really transpired during the band’s final, tumultuous 12 months. “We were splitting up,” says Kenney Jones. “But we sounded so great.”