- Title: Deadline - Series 1
- Date: 24th April 1995
- Summary: EMPLOYMENT SECRETARY MICHAEL PORTILLO GETS A VERBAL KICKING FROM A JOBLESS WOMAN IN PONTEFRACT IN THIS LATEST EPISODE CHARTING LIFE BEHIND-THE-SCENES AT YTV'S CALENDAR NEWSROOM. DEADLINE'S CAMERAS WATCH PORTILLO'S MEDIA MACHINE IN ACTION WITH FASCINATING RESULTS. MEANWHILE, NEWSCASTER GAYNOR BARNES IS SHOWING THE ROPES TO TWO YOUNG TRAINEES WHO SOON REALISE THAT THERE'S MORE TO READING THE NEWS THAN CHOOSING THE RIGHT FUSCHIA PINK JACKET. COUNTDOWN PRESENTER RICHARD WHITELEY MAKES ANOTHER AMUSING APPEARANCE IN HIS 'OTHER' JOB AS CALENDAR ANCHORMAN, AND SUMS UP THE WHOLE SERIES AS HE SURVEYS THE NEWSROOM. "YOU SEE ALL HUMAN LIFE STANDING HERE" DEADLINE IS THE RESULT OF THREE MONTHS CONSTANT FILMING IN THE CALENDAR NEWSROOM.
- Description:RESEARCH FOR DOCUMENTARY SOAP ON DAILY STRIFE IN THE NEWSROOM OF YORKSHIRE TELEVISION'S EVENING NEWS PROGRAMME.
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:REAL LIFE PRODUCTIONS LIMITED
- Programme Episode:Episode 5
- Transmission Date:24/04/1995
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 1990s