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A new genre for television?
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The book presents the dramatised history documentaries aired by British public service broadcasters in the 2000s constitute a televisual genre in their own right, offering insights from key BBC and Channel 4 personnel.
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27 May 2025

In A New Genre for Television?, filmmaker Justin Hardy argues the dramatised history documentaries broadcast by British public service channels in the 2000s constituted a distinct television genre. Offering a vital distinction between docudramas and drama documentaries, Hardy contributes to the field of television history through exclusive interviews with key figures from BBC and Channel 4 – many of whom have never been publicly interviewed before – and envisions a future model for the portrayal of national histories on screen.
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Pages: 232
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date:
27 May 2025
ISBN: 9781526179531
Format: Hardcover
Justin Hardy is a lecturer in screenwriting at BA Media, UCL
Introduction
1 2000: Emergence of a new kind of history television for the millennium
2 2000–2002: From vignettes to fuller dramatization
3 1960s–1990s: Looking for Progenitors
4 2001–2003: Was the flowering of dramatised history documentary led by auteurs?
5 2003–2005: Working towards fuller dramatisation and a new genre?
6 2006–2008: Confirming a new genre
7 2008–2010: Decline and Fall of a Genre
Conclusion
Index