![]() The three main men – Dyson was chiefly a writer – played all genders and races in a way that would be problematic now, but the series was remarkable for its deeply layered references to British film and TV such as Nigel Kneale’s serial about an experimental scientist beginning with The Quatermass Experiment, and sinister catchphrases (“A local shop for local people”). Talent-scouted on the Edinburgh fringe, Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith, Steve Pemberton and Jeremy Dyson’s comedy-horror set in the xenophobic, psychopathic northern village of Royston Vasey had a Radio 4 run before a rapid transfer to BBC Two, then run by Jane Root, the corporation’s first woman channel controller in TV, after a 69-year wait. Scenes of characters enjoying drugs, sex and money modernised a BBC Two most associated with gardening and snooker. Experienced producer Tony Garnett found star talent from a new generation in Andrew Lincoln, Daniela Nardini and Cyril Nri. If Flannery focused on old Labour, the impending New Labour was previewed in Amy Jenkins’s This Life, about young professionals house-sharing in south London. The show created four new screen stars – Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKee, Daniel Craig – and, as they had to age three decades, it was Christmas for the wig industry. Jackson boldly green-lit a nine-part series following a group of Newcastle mates between 19 against a background of events public (council corruption, feminism, the Falklands) and private (infidelity, bankruptcy). Peter Flannery had been trying for more than a decade to turn his 1982 play into a TV series, but had been rebuffed. As controller of BBC Two, Macclesfield-born, Notting Hill-resident Michael Jackson balanced his budget between ambitious dramas for both. Photograph: BBC PhotolibraryĪ complaint familiar to prime ministers – favouring the south of England over the north – is also often aimed at BBC executives. ![]() But her glamorous candour won her a lucrative divorce from Prince Charles and freed her to date others, including Dodi Fayed, with whom she was fatally injured in a Paris tunnel in 1997.Ĭhristmas for the wig industry! … Christopher Eccleston, Gina McKee, Mark Strong and Daniel Craig in Our Friends in the North. Diana’s nods as questions began suggested that she knew what was coming, and her replies often felt headline-ready (“There were three of us in that marriage so it was a bit crowded”). 1995 – Panorama: An Interview with HRH the Princess of WalesĪfter the then heir to the throne’s estranged wife gave her Kensington Palace staff the day off, a BBC crew and interviewer Martin Bashir were smuggled in to record a programme that changed the history of two institutions. In his BBC career, Coogan didn’t so much bite the hand that was feeding him as devour it up to the shoulder. Subverting chatshows in Knowing Me, Knowing You, Coogan/Partridge would later mock local radio in I’m Alan Partridge and eviscerate The One Show in This Time With Alan Partridge. Continuing two BBC traditions, Knowing Me, Knowing You had been workshopped in radio (Partridge was the sportscaster on Chris Morris’s On the Hour) and sent up BBC television. ![]() Photograph: BBCīBC Two popularised two names with huge careers ahead of them: Steve Coogan and Alan Partridge, with his running commentary on the vanities, inanities and career crashes of presenters. A-ha! … Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge in Knowing Me, Knowing You.
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