Programme looking at issues around television, with items on the buying of films for TV, Third World representation on TV, and rock music on TV.

This edition of LWT's monthly programme exploring issues in the world of television includes an item on the history of feature films on TV. Contributors - including then ITV film buyer Leslie Halliwell - note how films are ratings winners for the two channels, but that the 'gentlemanly' agreement that had long held between the BBC and ITV to share equally the range of films available had recently been tested, with each trying to outbid the other for key titles such as Gone with the Wind.

In an alternately serious and comic item presented by Jonathan Dimbleby and Alexei Sayle, the programme also takes a critical look at the arguably over-simplistic depiction of Third World countries on British television. Elsewhere, Annie Nightingale, Tony Wilson and Janet Street Porter consider rock music on television, arguing that it is better to make such programmes for a specific audience than to attempt to please everyone.

The final item, which makes space for a viewer to argue their case, looks at the arguably insensitive decision by ITV to run adverts during a broadcast of the Holocaust film Playing for Time, starring Vanessa Redgrave.

Programme looking at issues in television, with items on the history of the politics behind buying films for TV, and showing them, Third World representation on TV, and on the difficulties of getting a spot for rock music on TV.