Black on Black (TV series)
Black on Black was a British television programme on Channel 4 between 1982 and 1985.[1] Black on Black, aimed at British African-Caribbean people, was a magazine programme that aired every other week.[2]
History[]
Black on Black, commissioned and aired on Channel 4, was produced by London Weekend Television.[3] It was directed by . The programme had the first team of black television journalists in Britain, including , Simi Bedford, Kim Gordon, Elaine Smith and Victor Romero Evans. The programme's producer, Trevor Phillips, articulated what he saw as the programme's contribution in 1982:
British audiences are used to seeing blacks as rebels, criminals or victims. We make a positive impact as statesmen, writers, artists, musicians, and just real people.[1]
Black on Black was presented by Beverly Anderson and (for the 1985 season) Pauline Black.[1] In 1984, Darcus Howe did an unsuccessful screen test to be a presenter.[4] Special feature programmes included "Ethiopia Special" (1983), on the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, and "After the Invasion" (1983), on the aftermath of the US invasion of Grenada.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d Scafe, Suzanne (2002). "Black on Black". In Alison Donnell (ed.). Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture. Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-134-70025-7.
- ^ Malik, Sarita, Representing black Britain: black images on British television from 1936 to the present day. PhD thesis, The Open University, 1998, pp. 131–2.
- ^ Neverson, Yvonne, Minority Television, Marxism Today, Vol. 44 (April 1985), pp. 44–46.
- ^ Bunce, Robin, and Paul Field, Darcus Howe: a Political Biography, Bloomsbury Academic, 2014, p. 226.
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