The Fight for Saturday Night


The Fight for Saturday Night is a British television documentary that aired on BBC Four in December 2014, presented by former BBC One controller Michael Grade.

Shows featured edit

Reviews edit

Will Dean in The Independent headlined his review "Top marks for Michael Grade's illuminating look at television's golden age" and praised the show for not trying to frame the subject in terms of any social change that was happening at the time, praising the format of Grade simply talking to people involved in the shows covered, calling it "...simple, effective programme-making"[1]

References edit

  1. ^ "The Fight for Saturday Night, TV review: Top marks for Michael Grade's". The Independent. 18 December 2014. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022.

External links edit

The Fight for Saturday Night at BBC Online