It took crotchety British director Ridley Scott to create the serene but chilling atmosphere that propelled Alien's slasher-in-space into an enduring franchise. Here are some of the other Brits in space you can't hear screaming.
London TV starts this week with the revelation that the new series from Mark Gatiss, Bookish, about a bookseller who solves murders by reading, will air on PBS in the U.S.
The latest episode of our Classics Revisited series looks back at the 1987 film Withnail and I, a black comedy starring Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann that's become something of a cult classic in the years since its release.
