TV series

Inside Story

1986 · 1 season

A dry, talky newsroom drama that trades glamour for the grubby mechanics of press power and compromise.

Overview: A six-part story of the staff and the owner, an unscrupulous media magnate, of Sunday Register, a fictional newspaper company located on London's Fleet Street where most British national newspaper companies were located until the 1980s.
How it feels: Cynical, satirical, tense and melancholic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Power, media, corruption, ambition
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
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Tone: cynicalstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: power
media
corruption
ambition
class
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild