Thursday, July 28, 2016

Olympians

As Channel 4 circles the new DCMS team to avoid sell-off and Birmingham, what part will willies play in its public service future ? There are at least two more episodes of nude dating show, Naked Attraction, to go; the papers are beginning to build up a head of steam, and complaints are stacking up at Ofcom.

Jay Hunt is Chief Creative Officer of broadcasting's "creative greenhouse". Mother of two from Clapham, she'd very much like to be C4's next Chief Executive. It is said that current CEO David Abraham is blind to some of her foibles.

Maybe simple nudity is not enough these days to invoke the wrath of our cultural guardians. Various sexual acts, on screen but undercover, have becoming something of a norm in Big Brother and Love Island, and may seep into Celebrity Big Brother. The plotlines of Nigel Kneale's 1968 play The Year Of The Sex Olympics seem less fanciful 48 years on...

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