Oh Superman
Oh Superman

Oh Superman (1990)


Oh Superman

Oh Superman (1990)

Channel Channel 4
Broadcast Date 31 May 1990
Broadcast time 20:00:00
Length (minutes) 30
Black and White No
Series Opinions
Episode
Broadcast Notes

Recorded on the morning of 9 April (Baker, p. 180)

Description 'That this House notes with concern the bias of a number of television programmes, such as BBC 2's The Summer of the Bomb and Channel 4's Oh Superman, in which the playwright Harold Pinter violently attacked United States' foreign policy and the Prime Minister's support for it; further notes that research has shown certain current affairs programmes, in particular Granada Television's World in Action, to be consistently one-sided; and calls on the Government to support the principles of the amendments to the Broadcasting Bill recently debated in the Upper House which would ensure that television and radio programmes and series would present an impartial, unbiased view of political and insustrial issues, past and present.'
Language English

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Resources

Basil Chiasson, The Late Harold Pinter, London: Palgrave, 2017 (Paper-based)

Type: Academic book

External Link: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137508157

Chiasson considers the origin, composition and motivation behind the broadcast of Oh Superman. pp. 165-7.

Hansard record of Early Day Motion 1318 'Political Impartiality on Television, 20 July 1990' (URL)

Type: Public record

External Link: https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/395

Sources

William Baker's A Harold Pinter Chronology

William Baker, A Harold Pinter Chronology (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Academic book