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One Day in the Life of Television Genre Documentary Production Executive producer(s) Grant McKee Producer(s) Peter Kosminsky Editor(s) Terry Warwick Running time 180 mins[1] Production company(s) Yorkshire Television Broadcast Original channel ITV Picture format 4:3 Original airing 1 November 1989 One Day in the Life of Television is a documentary that was broadcast on ITV on 1 November 1989. Filmed by over fifty crews exactly one year earlier, it was a huge behind-the-scenes look at a wide range of activities involved in the production, reception and marketing of British television.[2] The project was organised by the British Film Institute and produced and directed for television by Peter Kosminsky.
The documentary opens with TV-am's industrial conflict, with picketers outside of the studio at Camden Lock. The documentary also looks at Breakfast Time, Lucky Ladders and EastEnders. Reactions to the latter's representation of a prison storyline were garnered from inmates in HMP Dartmoor.[2]
The documentary also showed the marketing of cable television, and the availability of pornography through satellite television during the early evening.
A book by Sean Day-Lewis was published to accompany the documentary. It contained the thoughts of people throughout Britain, including industry professionals, who recorded their feelings and experiences of television viewing on 1 November 1988, the day that the documentary was filmed.[3][4]
References
- ^ "One Day in the Life of Television". BFI Film & TV Database. http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/433030?view=transmission. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ^ a b Jane Harbor & Jeff Wright (1992). 40 Years of British Television. London: Boxtree. p. 111. ISBN 1852834099.
- ^ Sean Day-Lewis (1989). One Day in the Life of Television. London: Grafton. ISBN 0246134976. (Paperback)
- ^ Sean Day-Lewis (1989). One Day in the Life of Television. London: Grafton. ISBN 0246134240. (Hardcover)
External links
- One Day in the Life of Television at the Internet Movie Database
- One Day in the Life of Television at BFI Film & TV Database
Categories:- 1988 in British television
- 1989 in British television
- ITV television programmes
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