Summary
TELEVISION wasn't necessarily better 15 years ago, but it was different. Friday night viewing was soap opera-free, Coronation Street excepted. Soaps now dominate the early evening schedule, with Emmerdale, EastEnders and River City following Family Affairs on Channel Five.
In 1990, The Beechgrove Garden aired on BBC1 at 9.30pm. It was followed by current affairs show Left, Right and Centre, which saw then Scottish secretary Malcolm Rifkind locked in a verbal tussle with Ravenscraig convener Tommy Brennan on the decision to close the Lanarkshire steel plant.See the full content of this document
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On the Tv: More Media has Meant Worse
But there was no current affairs debate at that time last week. Instead we had The Karen Dunbar Show. On ITV at 9pm was a show which perhaps epitomises the coarsening of British television: Celebrity Love Island.
Recent years have seen a burgeoning...See the full content of this document
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