Hot Metal (Scripted, English)
Genres: Comedy
Status: Ended
Premiered: 1986-02-16
Ended: 1988-04-17
Network: ITV1
Country: GB
Airs on: Sunday
Air time: 22:00
Runtime: 30 minutes
The Daily Crucible is facing its final edition; its straight-forward, totally-honest approach to reporting the news has won it much attention, but made it deadly dull and with ever-diminishing sales figures.Enter Twiggy Rathbone, tycoon owner of Rathouse International who's ready to turn the high-brow paper into a popular, sleazy, high-selling tabloid. He installs editor Russell Spam to do his bidding and 'promotes' the incumbent, Harry Stringer, to the role of 'managing editor' - a largely vanity role but holding what will become an increasingly difficult public face of respectability...