BBC Four commissions Kill Your TV

Vic Reeves is to explore the history of video art in an hour-long show for BBC Four.

The BBC has commissioned the comedian, under his real name Jim Moir, to front the documentary as part of a slate of programmes about the visual arts to run across the Corporation.

In Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World Of Video Art, he will explore how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art – especially now we experience so much of the world through screens.

‘When artists get hold of cameras, things get interesting,’ he said.

The programme will feature contributions from leading British artists such as Isaac Julien and Rachel Maclean, and will discuss how the technology led to a creative explosion, from works of cosmic abstraction to Dadaist pranks, and how the latest developments, such as artificial intelligence may be used.

No broadcast date for the show, directed and produced by well-established art documentary-maker Sebastian Barfield, has yet been announced.

Other programmes in the BBC’s newly-announced visual arts slate will be fronted by Simon Shama, Mary Beard and Samira Ahmed.

Published: 14 Oct 2019