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.
[2] The project was funded by the Markle Foundation and organised by Richard Paterson and Janet Willis at 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.
Reactions to the latter's representation of a prison storyline were garnered from inmates in HMP Dartmoor.
It contained the thoughts selected from more than 20,000 participants throughout Britain, including more than 3000 industry professionals, who recorded their feelings and experiences of television viewing on 1 November 1988, the day that the documentary was filmed.