Carlton Wins Contract For 30 Hours Of Nineties Nostalgia Programming

Remember the Nineties? One would hope so, unless your Millennium celebrations really were exceptional. However, ITV2 is either convinced that amnesia is on the increase or that 11 months is long enough to develop a healthy nostalgia, and has commissioned Carlton Productions to produce 30 hours of programming recalling those dim and (ahem) distant days.

Scheduled to go out for three hours at a time from 8pm on Saturday nights, starting 4 November, programming will include an A-Z guide of each year featured, including news, pop videos, programme clips and interviews. There will also be repeats of comedy, drama and soaps from the year in question. One hour of each evening will be taken up with a popular drama of the day.

Brian Barwick, ITV2’s director of programmes has promised that the theme nights will make for “riveting Saturday night viewing.” Meanwhile Mark Wells, Carlton’s controller of entertainment, said “We’re thrilled to be producing this landmark series. The Nineties was a time of big stories and big stars, and we’ll be capturing all the energy and emotion of the decade that everyone remembers.”

Just in case you’d managed to forget, expect keywords to be: boybands, Blairism, girl power, super waifs, docusoap, mobile phone, Princess Diana, body piercing, BSE, road protesters, internet, GM foods, Bill and Monica, Posh and Becks, Liam and Noel…

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