Illuminations Television is celebrated for an extensive range of entertaining and analytical programmes about film, television, computers and digital culture. Moreover, the company is helping to invent a new media form - 'inhabited television'.

Looking to the media past, Illuminations' work in the libraries of the broadcasters in the early 1990s demonstrated the extent of hidden riches and established new standards for the use of archive material. Looking to the media future, Illuminations Television has made numerous programmes about the digital world, many of which have also made imaginative use of the Internet to extend the possibilities of broadcasting.

John Wyver, writer and producer with the independent production company Illuminations, is Chairman of the company, which he co-founded in 1983. He has a strong interest in the creative possibilities of new technologies, and in addition to his television work, he has initiated development projects with interactive multimedia applications. He has written and lectured extensively about television and new media technologies, and is the author of The Moving Image: An International History of Film, Television and Video (Blackwell/BFI Publishing, 1990). His writings have been published in the Guardian and the Independent, Sight and Sound, The Listener, Art Monthly and Screen.