One Day in the Life of Television

One day in the life of television is a documentary that was broadcast on ITV on 1 November 1989. Filmed by over fifty crews exactly one year earlier, it was a huge behind-the-scenes look at a wide range of activities involved in the production, reception and marketing of British television. The project was organised by the British Film Institute and produced and directed for television by Peter Kosminsky. The documentary opens with TV-am's industrial conflict, with picketers outside of the studio at Camden Lock. The documentary also looks at Breakfast time, Eastenders and Lucky ladders. Reactions to the latter's representation of a prison storyline were garnered from inmates in HMP Dartmoor. The documentary also showed the marketing of cable television, and the availability of pornography through satellite television during the early evening.