Stuart Millard
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When Discussion Shows Went Spooky
🕑 Added 2024-10-14 17:53:08 +0000 UTC
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George White
Have you read last month's Fortean Times? Jenny Randles' column is about working on that ep of Central Weekend. At the exact same time, she was consultant on a UFO storyline in the dying days of Crossroads (again at Central).
Stuart Millard
Yeah, they are lacking that kind of 'engagement/enragement fuel' of similar modern shows, who clearly send the researchers out for the most divisive opinions. From the plea for callers at the end of the episode, they seem like the equivalent of open-line call-in radio shows: if you get through, you'll do!
John Churchman-Conway
What struck me then (and the effect is even more dismaying now) is how flat and beige these shows were. Dull presenters, dim studio audiences, no one with anything of interest to say. Even the paranormal got sucked into this bottomless pit of mediocrity
