Auteur TV: Sex, Dr Who and management consultants

By Ruth Ritchie
Updated August 30 2014 - 12:09am, first published August 29 2014 - 11:45pm
Bedroom blues:  Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan in <i>Masters of Sex</i>.
Bedroom blues: Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan in <i>Masters of Sex</i>.

Sex Box is a real TV show that aired recently on SBS2. Couples have sex in a box and then people discuss it. This show is not so revolutionary. There's a rich tradition of WYSIWYG television that falls outside traditional genres. James at 15 was a show about a boy called James, who was 15. Eight Is Enough was a show about a family of eight vile perfect middle class American children. Nobody had to watch it to know that eight was more than enough. (Gilligan's Island was misleading in that Gilligan would have had trouble claiming ownership of the island if Mr Howell's legal team ever got involved, but that's not important right now.)

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