Why British television is in love with its past

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In this exclusive extract from his new book The Age of Static, Phil Harrison follows the path from Downton Abbey to the country’s Covid-19 response to find how TV explains modern Britain

What happens when television plucks up the courage to enter the void at the heart of this maniacal, khaki-clad boosterism? The two decades since the turn of the century have produced few more prescient dramas than Channel 4’s 2013. Its creator, Tony Grisoni had previously adapted the first part of David Peace’s Red Riding trilogy – a narrative of closed loops, exploring isolation and the dysfunction that can result.The series began with a spree shooting in the fictional town of the title.

 

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They have to rehash old stuff because new ideas are thin on the ground

Maybe its because some people have historical amnesia about how bad some things really were!

Because today sucks.

BREXIT, they are praying for a time that no longer exists

History is a good thing to learn... When you learn history well,you avoid making the mistake in which the others did in the past..Also,there are millions of Britons who usually watch the films based on the history and the truth instead of the flavorless soap operas or love films.

Important issue that needs to be addressed. What this is Russia that has this technology? What is to stop them ‘dropping down from space in 0.78 seconds’ and delivering a nuclear bomb?

UK is in love with its past. There. Fixed.

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