This special issue of the Journal of British Cinema and Television, edited by John Hill and Julian Petley, takes a detailed and critical look at crucial developments in its field in the first decade of the new millennium. Contributors include Sarah Street, Duncan Petrie, Claire Monk, John Hill, Jonathan Powell and James Chapman. There is a particular focus on how media policy developed during this period, and other topics include post-millennial horror, high-end television drama, low-budget production, media education and training, and the work of directors such as Pawel Pawlikowski, Penny Woolcock and Gideon Koppel.