This fast turnaround documentary replaced the scheduled edition of Tonight about Britons in Spain, Expats Under Attack, and featured a report by BBC Radio Five Live presenter Shelagh Fogarty in which she had a gun pointed at her and missiles thrown at her while filming in Liverpool.
While writing in 1992, Sander could have been forecasting the same decline that would overtake cable television in the early twenty-first century, as mass proliferation of cable spelled an end to most quality news, talk, and documentary programs, replaced by the lowest-denominator of reality shows.
"Suicide Killers" reminds us that the following things are bad: murder, revenge, fundamentalism, extremism, anti-Semitism, conditions in Gaza, despair, poverty, nihilism, chauvinism, the oppression of women and cruddy documentaries that replace analysis with a litany of bummers.
Today (Radio 4) was replaced with a documentary on the pope.
The Radio Times reported that the penultimate episode of the series, due to air on 22 March, had been replaced by a documentary about the Caribbean.
All light entertainment was whisked off the air, replaced by a documentary about Lenin, and the newscasters reportedly wore somber colors.
But at 10 p.m., MSNBC replaced live programming with documentaries and repeats in 2006.
(An accompanying video with gruesome war images has been replaced with a less graphic documentary).
"We replaced it by 'Rachel,' " a documentary made by Simone Bitton, a Moroccan-born, French-Israeli director who emigrated to Israel with her family as a child, served in the Israeli Army, became a pacifist and mostly lives in France.
He spends so much time running sideways, I replaced Titans game film with a documentary on fiddler crabs and no one noticed.
