ISBN:
9781845110512
,
184511051X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxi, 234 p)
,
ill
,
22 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2006 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Angry Buzz : This Week and Current Affairs Television
DDC:
302.2345
Keywords:
This week (Television program)
;
Television broadcasting of news
Abstract:
Current affairs television in the UK, in more than half a century of programmes, has set out to tell us something we didn't know, treating its audience as citizens with the right to demand that 'something must be done'. Over their 36 year history, the current affairs series "This Week" and its replacement "TVEye", helped to mark out that democratic project. This is the story of "This Week", one of the few giants of the genre, set within the wider pattern of 'the angry buzz' of inquiry and dissent that is current affairs television. This is a particularly timely ta
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Author's Note; Introduction: Democracy and Public Service Television; 1. More Fun than Panorama: Current Affairs in a Frivolous Medium; 2. The Pilkingtons Take Over; 3. Into the 'Golden Age'?; 4. Moments of Excess; 5. This Week and Northern Ireland, Part 1: Five Long Years; 6. This Week and Northern Ireland, Part 2: More Than We Wanted to Know; 7. Passion or Sensation: Tveye; 8. More Drums: Death and the Rock; Postscript: Next Week: Citizens Still?; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-226) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
