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[...] television continued to be roughly what it had been before - i. e. , a curate's cornucopia'. The same phrase wouldn't be out of place today, when even the most raddled nostalgia-addict would be hard-pressed to deny the claims for TV greatness of such 21st-century series as, among others, Iran and the West, QI, Early Doors, Life on Mars, Planet Earth, Bleak House, The Office, Shameless, The Thick of It, The Power of Nightmares and Cranford.
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A Curate's Cornucopia
Was television in Seventies Britain that good? Is today's better?
James Walton investigatesOn the weekend of 2-3 December 1978, two ambitious drama projects began on television. One was the BBC Shakespeare - which seven years later had finally carried out its promise to make TV versions of the entire canon. The other took rather less ...See the full content of this document
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