Wednesday, 9 May 2018
1000 This Week
First viewed : Uncertain
I'm sure I must have seen some of this series before 3 October 1991 but that's the first episode, about the plague of joyriding or "twocing" , that I'm definite about watching. This Week was Thames TV's long-running alternative to Granada's World in Action, a half hour documentary about current affairs. However the two programmes were usually both networked, World in Action on a Monday and This Week on a Thursday.
By far and away, This Week's most infamous episode, for which they were given an hour, was Death on the Rock, an investigation into the shooting of three IRA terrorists in Gibraltat by the SAS which dared to question the official government version. Thatcher was apoplectic about it and the 1990 Broadcasting Act's abolition of the IBA, which sanctioned the programme, was thought to be an act of revenge. The Act also introduced the controversial franchise arrangements in which Thames lost out to Carlton. That's also been put down to Death on the Rock although the linkage is less obvious. This Week ceased when Carlton took over.
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