Hot Metal (1986)
- Genre
- sitcom
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 2 seasons, 13 episodes
- Rating
- 5.4 of 10 from 8 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
This British sitcom is about the newspaper industry. It follows the antics of people working at a tabloid newspaper.
satiricalfast-pacedwittytongue-in-cheeksharpenergeticfarce
What happens
Hot Metal is a British sitcom produced by London Weekend Television about the newspaper industry, that aired for two series on the ITV network in 1986 and 1988, along with a special episode for Comic Relief in 1989, that was broadcast on BBC One. Written by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall, it is very much a continuation in style from their previous sitcom Whoops Apocalypse!. It was produced by Humphrey Barclay Productions for LWT. After its original transmission, the series was repeated in 1988 on Channel 4 and in 2022 on Forces TV. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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