Movies on TV (Look Here)

Movies on TV (Look Here) (Look Here)

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.

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TV on TV

How does television see itself? Get inside the box with this selection of insider accounts of a rapidly changing medium.

By the 1970s, TV in Britain was not just a booming cultural industry but the nation's dominant medium for entertainment and news. This collection shows how television looked at itself, whether questioning, critical or just self-congratulatory. The programmes highlight a period of extraordinary change, with technology and industry evolving rapidly, and the multi-channel era we know now just beginning to emerge.

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Curtains for the Single Play?

  • 1980
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Look Here [04/01/81]

  • 1981
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The Question of Violence on Television

  • 1978
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Movies on TV (Look Here)

  • 1981
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Look Here [02/11/80]

  • 1980
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Look Here [08/03/81]

  • 1981
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Look Here [05/04/81]

  • 1981
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Look Here [07/06/81]

  • 1981
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Behind the Screens

  • 1977
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Look Here [03/05/81]

  • 1981
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Look Here [09/06/79]

  • 1979
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Edinburgh TV Festival

  • 1978
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30 Years of UTV

  • Belfast
  • 1989
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