Bushell On The Box - Season 2, Episode 4

Why are telly execs so obsessed with dreary reality TV and soaps rather than making great dramas like they used to? asks critic Garry Bushell. In the latest episode of Bushell On The Box he takes aim at bosses behind the mad decision to chase a young, uninterested audience - as he takes a nostalgic look at some classic dramas from the 70s, 80s and 90s. He imagines how awful remakes of Sharpe and Soldier Soldier would be these days with “woke” scriptwriting, reveals one of his favourite lookalikes and shares another corker of a comment by a TV presenter.