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TV dramas produced in the 1990s – which have often been unfavourably compared with those from the so-called ‘Golden Age’ due to their supposedly audience-pleasing and derivative focus on ratings after 1980s deregulation – still have an important part to play in studies of social class in UK TV drama. While more traditional themes of social class in programming, such as working-class perspectives and social-realist approaches, waned in the 1990s, the fact that commissioning became increasingly audience-led at this time allows an insight into some of the prevailing goals, aspirations and self-image of class-society in the post-Thatcher era.
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Dalby, J. (2017). Social Class and Television Audiences in the 1990s. In: Forrest, D., Johnson, B. (eds) Social Class and Television Drama in Contemporary Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55506-9_8
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