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TV Hell

1992 · 1 season

A wry, clip-based wallow in gloriously awful television, inviting smug laughter at the medium's most misguided moments.

Starring
Danny Baker
Overview
TV Hell was a BBC2 theme night broadcast on 31 August 1992, showing a whole evening of archive television clips widely regarded by critics and the public alike as among the worst ever produced in Britain. It followed an unrelated series of archive theme nights called "TV Heaven", shown on Channel 4 earlier in 1992. TV Hell was defined as programmes and broadcasts where the conception of the production was misguided, even though it made use of established television cast and crew. Many of the resulting catastrophes caused promising careers to be curtailed, or in some cases led to a review of the commissioning process. The term "TV Hell" has since been adopted in media culture to describe television programmes which are not very good.
How it feels
Satirical, cynical, absurd and light. Brisk and easy to follow.
About
Media, art, class, identity
Content
Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note
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Danny Baker
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How it feels

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown
Tone
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Places
None
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror0
Humour7
Realism8
Romance0
Tension1
Darkness2
Complexity2
Emotional weight1

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Details

Starring
Danny Baker
Length
1 seasons, 15 episodes
Country
United Kingdom

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