Remember the Halifax one quite well. The song 'I Only Want To Be With You' has been in an advert before for a brand of drink in the late 1980s with the original artist Dusty Springfield in the ad.
The Gimme Shelter season of course also included 'Come On Down and Out' - this was supposedly a game show in which three real homeless people competed for a house, but revealed as a vicious parody, with the alleged homeless in fact being played by actors, shortly before it went out after the usual suspects launched a campaign against it. Still *exactly* the sort of thing Channel 4 should still be doing, though.
Ahh...those halcyon days when Channel 4's remit was to provide a cultural/current affairs alternative to BBC 2...
Stereolabdream 1 year ago
Remember the Halifax one quite well. The song 'I Only Want To Be With You' has been in an advert before for a brand of drink in the late 1980s with the original artist Dusty Springfield in the ad.
uhegbu 1 year ago
The Gimme Shelter season of course also included 'Come On Down and Out' - this was supposedly a game show in which three real homeless people competed for a house, but revealed as a vicious parody, with the alleged homeless in fact being played by actors, shortly before it went out after the usual suspects launched a campaign against it. Still *exactly* the sort of thing Channel 4 should still be doing, though.
RobinCarmody 3 years ago