· Kneale later admitted that it was the right decision. Instead, Michael Bakewell, the producer of BBC2's Theatre , commissioned Kneale for a play under the title of The Year of the Sex Olympics. Kneale saw it as a statement on the then trend of 'free love' and 'dropping out' and how it could be stopped from undermining society in the future. When it was first broadcast in ,THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS was just regarded as another of accomplished TV playwright Nigel Kneale's imaginative sci-fi dramas,this time about television itself.'It couldn't possibly happen' was perhaps the main reaction at the time,but Kneale's somewhat grim prediction for the future direction of the medium (headed by the opening subtitle "Sooner Than You . · The Year of the Sex Olympics () Director: Michael Elliott Cast: Tony Vogel, Leonard Rossiter, Brian Cox Run Time: mins DVD release: 20 April Jamie Havlin examines a s BBC 2 play written by Nigel Kneale that predicted the phenomenon of Reality www.doorway.ru: Jamie Havlin.
Celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, Nigel Kneale's play The Year of the Sex Olympics is a Huxley-esque piece of speculative fiction. The play is set in a world in which 'sex is to watch, not to do', and aspirational and attractive 'hi drive' people are televised competing in 'sportsex' and 'artsex' to keep. The Year Of The Sex Olympics is undoubtedly one of the most prescient dramas of the midth century. Compared to much of Kneale's other work, though, it takes some time to become involved in the plight of any the characters and its reputation in all likelihood is largely down to the fact that it prophesised at least one aspect of the 21st. The Year Of The Sex Olympics () was shown on BBC2 and remains a incredibly challenging and frightening piece of television, even more so now that it could be argued that some of its prophetic.
The Year of the Sex Olympics () Director: Michael Elliott Cast: Tony Vogel, Leonard Rossiter, Brian Cox Run Time: mins DVD release: 20 April Jamie Havlin examines a s BBC 2 play written by Nigel Kneale that predicted the phenomenon of Reality TV. 29 July () The Year of the Sex Olympics is a television play made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 as part of Theatre It stars Leonard Rossiter, Tony Vogel, Suzanne Neve and Brian Cox, and was directed by Michael Elliott. The writer was Nigel Kneale, best known as the creator of Quatermass. Not a pitch to ITVB e, but the plot of a television play that could be considered one of the most clairvoyant programmes of all time. Nigel Kneale’s The Year of the Sex Olympics was commissioned at the behest of the director general of the BBC. It imagined an overcrowded future – one whose skyrocketing population forces the British government to drug the water supply with a fertility chemical.
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