Television drama

Homage to the two drama kings who ruled British television for decades

From our UK edition

If I were to say to you that one of these books contains an entire chapter on how to get rimming on television and one is about a 90-year-old man who was married for 68 years and specialised in costume drama, you might make a guess at which is the scandalous one. And you would be utterly wrong. Between them, the two Davieses have practically stitched up the past 30 years of great scripted drama, from the happy glories of Pride and Prejudice (1995)to the devastating, gamechanging It’s a Sin (2021). Now both have memoirs out, paeans to the glorious years of British television and their not insignificant contributions to the national happiness.