Getting Old Can Be a Bit of a Drama - but It's Entertaining

The Scotsman › August 02, 2004

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THE OLD. They walk among us like shambling portents of the grisly fate that awaits us all, unattractive, limping, gummy reminders that everything will end in humiliation, disappointment and decay.

Perhaps it's hardly surprising that TV executives steer clear of them. The commercial channels long ago decided that it was futile to address any of their programming at anyone over the age of 45 (or in Channel 4's case recently, anyone with a mental age of above 17).

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Getting Old Can Be a Bit of a Drama - but It's Entertaining

After all, how many Stannah stairlifts and walk-in baths can you sell a consumer with at best ten years of lucid life ahead of them? The BBC, though, occasionally remembers it has a public servi...

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