Royal Television

The Royal Television Society (RTS) is the top organization in the UK for television and media discussions. Anyone interested in these fields can become a member. In 1966, the RTS received its Royal designation, and in 1997, HRH The Prince of Wales took on the role of Patron for the Society. The RTS serves as a platform for individuals to share ideas, discuss important topics, and delve into significant issues. The RTS Awards are well-known around the world as a symbol of excellence and creativity.

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OG Housewives and Bake-Off stars: Meet the Real Housewives of London

1 day ago | rts.org.uk | Ella Christian-Sims

The Real Housewives of London cast (Credit: NBC Universal/ Hayu) London is no stranger to reality TV, being home to hits like Made in Chelsea, Buying London, and The Apprentice… but in 2025, the capital is set to welcome one of the world’s most iconic reality franchises. Since its first series back in 2006, Real Housewives has taken cities all over the world by storm.
What’s on TV this week: 23rd June - 29th June

4 days ago | rts.org.uk | Ella Christian-Sims

Julian Fellowes’ American answer to Downton Abbey returns for a third series, fittingly with a cast of all-American legends. Among the star-studded ensemble is Sex and the City’s Cynthia Nixon, Big Bang Theory’s Christine Baranski and American Horror Story’s Taissa Farmiga. In series three, Farmiga’s character, Gladys Russell, finally breaks free from her mother’s (Carrie Coon, The Leftovers) control after two seasons of being dominated by her.
Bill Nighy and Helena Bonham Carter to star as married couple in new BBC drama

1 week ago | rts.org.uk | Ella Christian-Sims

Despite the title, California Avenue takes place deep in the ‘70s English countryside, at a caravan park beside a canal. The peace is somewhat shattered by the arrival of Lela (Erin Doherty, Adolescence) who is on the run with her 11-year-old child in tow. Here, she meets showman outcast Cooper (Tom Burke, Strike) and begins to reconnect with her parents Jerry and Eddie (Nighy and Bonham Carter) as the family reunites in a story full of compassion and humour.
Ruth Jones and Richard E. Grant sign onto The Other Bennet Sister

1 week ago | rts.org.uk | Ella Christian-Sims

Elizabeth is the witty one, Jane is the pretty one, Lydia is the problem child, Kitty is hanging onto the latter’s coattails, and Mary is… somewhere in the background. Well, that’s what Austen’s 1813 novel would have you believe, but Janice Hadlow’s 2020 spin-off novel shows a different side to Mary Bennet. With Mary now acting as the protagonist, her world is explored separately from all the Mr Darcy and Bingley drama, and out of the shadow of her socialite sisters, Elizabeth and Jane.
BBC to serve a summer of sapphic love with I Kissed a Girl series two

2 weeks ago | rts.org.uk | Ella Christian-Sims

BBC Three alternates between I Kissed a Boy and I Kissed a Girl yearly, with the series holding the title of being the first queer dating show in the UK. With the reunion for I Kissed a Boy series two airing this week, the girls are set for 2026. The premise is simple: 10 contestants enter the Masseria (Italian for farmhouse) and lock lips before even saying hello. Luckily for them, they have been match-made by host of the show and ally-icon, Dannii Minogue.
Alice Oseman confirms the Heartstopper film production is underway

2 weeks ago | rts.org.uk | Ella Christian-Sims

Heartstopper fans have followed Nick (Connor) and Charlie (Locke) as they’ve grown from two fifteen-year-olds with high-school crushes into a couple navigating real-world challenges. In series three, their relationship grew and changed as Charlie came to terms with the reality of his mental health struggles and began treatment. This has come quite a way from their shy ‘hi’s’ in the school corridors, but can their high-school romance survive the leap into adulthood?
What’s on TV this week: 9th June - 15th June

2 weeks ago | rts.org.uk | Ella Christian-Sims |Arnold Schwarzenegger

BethNicholas Pinnock (This Town) and Abbey Lee (Mad Max: Fury Road) star as Joe and Molly, a couple who, after years of infertility struggles and a gruelling IVF journey, are finally expecting a child. What feels like a dream quickly turns into a nightmare – the baby is born bearing no resemblance to her Black father. Beth is the first of Channel 4’s dramas produced for YouTube.
James Graham on Sherwood, Brexit, Rupert Murdoch and playing devil’s advocate against yourself

3 weeks ago | rts.org.uk | Steve Clarke |Helen Lewis

Interviewed for the inaugural Fleet Street Quarter’s Festival of Words, the mild-mannered writer spoke engagingly of why he was drawn to write about such drivers of populism as media mogul Rupert Murdoch and Boris Johnson’s enigmatic advisor Dominic Cummings. Graham’s 2017 stage play Ink presented a broadly sympathetic portrait of Murdoch, far from the gutter press Dirty Digger Private Eye satirical characterisation. In 1969, when Ink is set, Murdoch was unknown to most of Britain.
Lockerbie to Mr Bates: The rise of the Great British docudrama

3 weeks ago | rts.org.uk | Mark Lawson

In the late 1980s, World in Action, Granada’s flagship current affairs show, faced a problem. Producer Ian McBride and investigative journalist Chris Mullin had made several documentaries suggesting a miscarriage of justice in the case of six Northern Irish men jailed in 1975 after being convicted for IRA-claimed bombings of two Birmingham pubs the previous year. But, despite compelling evidence, the press and public were not responding enough to trouble the justice system.
Bullion for you: Hugh Bonneville and Neil Forsyth on The Gold series two

3 weeks ago | rts.org.uk | Caroline Frost |Tom Cullen

There is an oft-quoted assertion about the gold from the Brink’s-Mat robbery of 1983, in which six men in a van set out to steal £1m in cash from a Heathrow warehouse and instead made off with bullion worth £26m: if you have bought gold jewellery in Britain since 1984, it is likely to contain traces of the Brink’s-Mat haul. In other words, there was a lot of it.