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So I cannot get this soundbites out of my head. It's said by a girl with a very posh British voice and it goes "I have _never _ watched Blue Peter, I am not allowed"

It's driving me insane, please help!

As I remember this was a short miniseries of dramas set in the near future. It was released in the 90s or possible early 2000s.

Two episodes I remember.

The first was about the death of a computer coding genius who created a programming language (possibly called Gambit) that enabled all electronic devices to seamlessly communicate with each other. The episode was a fictionalised drama/news report about his death under suspicious circumstances.

The second and as I remember final episode was about the world experiencing massive internet malfunctions. This was presented as a show being (live) broadcast on the internet in the style of a news entertainment show called "Wired tonight". Snippets I remember were the presenter (an actor I cannot name unfortunately) holding three fingers up for the of the show like a W and an Islamic state gov spokesperson saying they were receiving "inappropriate material" which flash cut to blurry porn. The presenter observes an apparent recurring theme in the malfunctions of human faces and was incredibly excited by this rather than the outright alarm conveyed by the authorities. The episode culminates in the internet apparently becoming self aware and it builds a face for itself from the myriad online but at the moment the process is completed the internet is shut down by whatever power could do this and the screen cuts to black as if this just happened to the broadcast.

These shows have lived rent free in my head for years and I remember them being quite prophetic in the ideas they explored.

Any help with finding these shows or the series would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Loved that programme and loved Davina ever since - proper 90s girl! Trying to find videos of it.

One of the lesser known game shows from the 90s (if you can even call it a game show to be honest!), and it's lesser known for a reason. Only 6 episodes aired before ITV pulled the plug on it. I can see what they were going for, but it's just far too boring. Do you remember this one?