Now it’s every channel for themselves and we are spoilt for choice. BBC2, for example, has a documentary on Egon Schiele, the “agent provocateur of the modernist era ... self-obsessed, exhibitionist, unafraid to confront questions of sexuality and identity”. He died in 1918, a victim of the Spanish flu pandemic. Channel 5, too, offers historical documentaries: The Kennedys — A Fatal Attraction (8.30pm) and Mandela’s Unsung Heroes (C5, 10.30pm). The second series of Jess Brittain’s thriller Clique begins on BBC3;…

Source: The Times November 04, 2018 00:04 UTC