The Year of the Sex Olympics

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About the film

The Year of the Sex Olympics

Release Date: July 29, 1968

Year	:	1968
Slogan	:	«»
Genres	:	Drama, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Production Companies	:	BBC
Director	:	Michael Elliott
Producers	:	Ronald Travers
Writers	:	Nigel Kneale
RunTime	:	105 mins.

Influenced by concerns about overpopulation, the counterculture of the 1960s and the societal effects of television, the play depicts a world of the future where a small elite control the media, keeping the lower classes docile by serving them an endless diet of lowest common denominator programmes and pornography. The play concentrates on an idea the programme controllers have for a new programme which will follow the trials and tribulations of a group of people left to fend for themselves on a remote island. In this respect, the play is often cited as having anticipated the craze for reality television.