{"id":30039,"date":"2023-02-14T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1785113"},"modified":"2023-02-14T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:01:47","slug":"this-weeks-radio-times-is-a-bafta-film-awards-special","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/this-weeks-radio-times-is-a-bafta-film-awards-special\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s Radio Times is a BAFTA Film Awards special"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this issue, hear from the ceremony\u2019s co-hosts Richard E Grant and Alison Hammond, as well as the nominees, and discover where you can watch the nominated films. <\/p>

By Laura Rutkowski\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Tuesday, 14 February 2023 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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Lockdown changed so much about our everyday lives, from the way we worked, to how we relaxed, to the television we watched. But few areas of life changed more dramatically during the great confinements of 2020 and 2021 than the world of cinema.<\/p>\n

Cinema used to refer to a place as much as a medium. But nowadays it\u2019s increasingly used to mean a film watched mostly on screens a great deal smaller than those found at your local multiplex, whether on your phone, your tablet, your laptop or your flatscreen TV.<\/p>\n

This trend predates the pandemic, but as the film critic James King tells us in the new issue of Radio Times magazine<\/strong>, COVID lockdowns mean that global box office takings for 2022 remain 35 per cent short of pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n

At the same time, television\u2019s great streaming revolution has gathered pace and one of the benefits the rise of the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Disney Plus has given us, is the option of watching new films often within weeks and sometimes even days of them being released.<\/p>

That\u2019s certainly true of many of the films in the running for a BAFTA, in a ceremony that will be broadcast live on Sunday. Gone are the days when you\u2019d watch and wonder if the movies in the running were any good. Instead, with the right streaming subscriptions, you can watch many of them at home long before a celebrity opens an envelope to say: \u201cAnd the winner is\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

For those who can afford it, this is a huge benefit of subscribing to a streaming service, and in this week\u2019s Radio Times<\/strong>, you will find our guide to where to watch many of this year\u2019s BAFTA nominees<\/a>. For the gloomy cinephile it might feel like the beginning of the end. But as King reminds us, the film industry successfully adapted to the advent of TV and the birth of video. No doubt in time we will discover how streaming movies straight into viewers\u2019 homes came to be seen as cinema\u2019s great opportunity, not a threat.<\/p>\n

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Also in this week\u2019s Radio Times:<\/strong><\/h2>\n