Sex'n'Death

TV Movie, 75 min, Great Britain 1999
Saturday, June 3th, 23:00 hrs, 

Director/Script: Guy Jenkin
Photography: Tim Palmer
Editor: Nick McPhee
Music: Matthew Scott
Casting: Andy Pryor
Production Design: Jeff Tessler
Principal Cast: Martin Clunes, Caroline Goodall, Martin Jarvis

Producer: Jane Featherstone
Executive Producers: Jimmy Mulville, David Thompson (BBC)
Production: HAT TRICK for BBC Television

Distribution: BBC Worldwide

Selected Filmography Guy Jenkin: The Sleeping Dictionary, 2001; Mr. White goes to Westminster, 1997; Lord of Misrule, 1996; Crossing the Floor, 1996; Rebecca's Daughter, 1992.

The entertainment show "Sex’n‘ Death" is low-life TV’s finest hour. Host Ben Black makes good on all the cliches. No taboo is left unturned and only ratings count. He torments them all: the viewers, the team and the producer who, spicily enough, is his ex-wife. His only problems are insomnia, the tabloid stories being spread around by his ex-lover and the ratings wars being plotted against him by his competitors. Witty-wicked British humor ending in a cataclysmic showdown, as always walking the fine line to tastelessness. In contrast to this, "Big Brother" is just babysitting.