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Article: Weekend: Television TV's something old, something new for '04; Graham Keal discovers they do make programmes like they used too as television gets all nostalgic.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- December 27, 2003
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Byline: Graham Keal
Casting an inquiring eye over the TV schedules in the run-up to 2004 in search of a unifying theme, the blindingly obvious one finally hit me.
Here we are looking forward to New Year, when we're supposed to anticipate the future with renewed hope, and the vast majority of programmes -be they entertainment, drama or documentary -look backwards, mostly casting a golden glow over how things used to be in implicit criticism of what we have now and will have later.
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