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''Screen Two'' was a
British television
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anthology
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drama series, produced by the
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and transmitted on
BBC2
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream an ...
from 1985 to 1998 (not to be confused with a run of films shown on BBC2 under the billing ''Screen 2'' between April 1977 and March 1978).
Following the demise of the BBC's ''
Play for Today
''Play for Today'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage ...
'', which ran from 1970 to 1984, producer
Kenith Trodd
Kenith Trodd (born 1936, in Southampton) is a British television producer best known for his professional association with television playwright Dennis Potter.
Early life
The son of a crane driver, Trodd was raised in the Christian fundamentalist ...
was asked to formulate a new series of one-off television dramas. However, while ''Play for Today''s style had been a largely studio-based form of theatre on television, the new series was shot entirely on film. This was an attempt by the BBC to repeat the success of
Channel 4
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's television films, many of which had been released in cinemas.
From 1989 to 1998, a companion series, ''
Screen One
''Screen One'' is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and distributed by BBC Worldwide, that was transmitted on BBC One from 1989 to 1998. A total of six series were broadcast, incorporating sixty individual fil ...
'', was broadcast on the more mainstream BBC1. After appearing more sporadically in the mid-1990s, ''Screen Two'' came to an end as the BBC moved its attentions away from single dramas and concentrated production on
series
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Arts, entertainment, and media
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and
serials instead. The last programme shown under the ''Screen Two'' name was
Stephen Poliakoff
Stephen Poliakoff (born 1 December 1952) is a British playwright, director and screenwriter. In 2006 Gerard Gilbert of ''The Independent'' described him as the UK's "pre-eminent TV dramatist" who had "inherited Dennis Potter's crown".
Early ...
's ''
The Tribe'' in June 1998.
Plays
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1985 British television series debuts
1998 British television series endings
1980s British drama television series
1990s British drama television series
1980s British anthology television series
1990s British anthology television series
British drama television series
BBC television dramas
English-language television shows