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- Ken Key on Recording ‘Public Eye’ (ABC) on location in Birmingham (1966)
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- Costume and space: Inspector Morse in his pyjamas
- Landscape in the Studio: Play for Today: Desert of Lies (BBC, 13/3/84)
- The Stripped-Down Studio Space: Play for Today: Psy-Warriors (BBC, 12/5/81) & Centre Play: The Saliva Milkshake (BBC, 6/1/75)
- Mixing Genres in the Studio: Playhouse: The Journal of Bridget Hitler (BBC2, 6/2/81)
- Studio trickery: Censored Scenes From King Kong (BBC, 1973) & Play For Today: The After Dinner Joke (BBC, 14/02/78)
Tag Archives: Granada
Excited about apathy: Red Letter Day (Granada, 1976)
(Review of Red Letter Day: The Complete Series, originally published on Tachyon TV, 2011) Thanks to the canonical status of the BBC’s Wednesday Play and Play for Today, people have a selective memory when it comes to the single play. … Continue reading
Posted in Series, Single Plays
Tagged C.P. Taylor, Donald Churchill, Granada, Howard Schuman, Jack Rosenthal, Joe Melia, Neville Smith, Red Letter Day
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Plot inflation in Greater Weatherfield: Coronation Street in the 1990s
Snooping on Don Brennan from the Back Garden: Watching Coronation Street in the 1990s. For much of my twenties in the 1990s and early 2000s, before my eventual career as a Television Studies academic, I worked as a library assistant. … Continue reading