Often, when television programmes become films, it's cause for worry.
The Wales head coach is normally sure-footed with the media, and while he was trying to support his player, who wanted the apology he received from Marler at half-time at Twickenham to mark the end of the affair, he harked back to a time when television programmes like Love Thy Neighbour passed for humour.
When television news programmes showed the video clips, the public was predictably outraged.In this section Lee Kuan Yew: an apology Rock the Taj Clean up Small beginnings Rising surplus, rising wrath Power play ReprintsIn the last months of his inquiry, Mr Wood confronted allegations of a police cover-up of child sex abuse.
The series was made in the pre-video and pre-DVD age, at a time when most television programmes were oddly ephemeral, shown once or twice but then gone for ever.
When a television programme revealed Mr López's continuing ties to the police earlier this month, the interior minister, Wilfredo Pedraza, resigned and seven senior policemen were sacked.In this section Mano dura wins the day Swallowed pride Taking off at last Partners in crime Lawless rivers and forests ReprintsThe scandal has lapped uncomfortably close to Mr Humala, a former army officer.
She said: 'Have you seen that marvellous new show with Cilla Black?' When nervous television programme makers pitched ideas at him, Dyke would ask: 'But what would it mean for my mother?' Now he asks what his children would think of it.
That is why most VCRs today are used to play rented films and not, as originally expected, to watch television programmes when it suits you.
It was a view echoed by Bola Agbaje, an award-winning British-Nigerian playwright who has written screenplays for film and television, who said the UK was still decades behind the US when it came to developing television programmes that featured black characters in leading, interesting roles.
When films, books, plays and television programmes don't come close to portraying your community or including characters that resemble you, even remotely, in terms of class, economic position, race and outlook, the message is that your stories and, in turn, your lives don't matter.
When it comes to making television programmes, British broadcasters have a huge potential global audience.
We begin with an obituary of child star Lallie Paluza, then straight away we're whisked back to her heyday in the summer of 1975, when her zany television programme has a devoted following of young girls.
