The Story of ITV: The People’s Channel
Sunday, June 26, 2005 by David Sheldrick · Comments Off
The first part of The Story of ITV: The People’s Channel left me with an aggravating nostalgic glow severely tempered by a kind of emptiness at what the programme missed out or glossed over. Read more
People Like Us
Sunday, May 20, 2001 by David Sheldrick · Comments Off
How many new ways are there to satirise the suppressed longings and ritualised comforts of suburban or provincial lives? It’s a perennially popular target of television comedy but the profile of a vicar which opened John Morton’s People Like Us gained ample fresh mileage from well trodden territory. Read more
Arena: Wisconsin Death Trip
Sunday, July 2, 2000 by David Sheldrick · Comments Off
Drug addiction, sexual dysfunction, spiraling violence, the corruption of childhood innocence , suicide, adultery… the very stuff of Millennial angst and the staple diet of sensationalist tabloids, but are these phenomena unique to our own times? This was one of the questions which anyone viewing James Marsh’s extraordinary film for Arena must have asked themselves. Read more
