The Arts Show - Season 2
1 - How Sick Is Your Art?
Air Date: November 14, 2003
Jake Chapman, one of the leading artists of his generation, questions the artistic value of contemporary Young British Art.
2 - I Am, Unfortunately, Randy Newman
Air Date: November 21, 2003
Singer-songwriter Randy Newman takes journalist and lifetime fan Jon Ronson to his Bel Air home, plays some original songs, and muses on his inexplicable lack of popularity.
3 - 48 People Who Should Be Dead In Hollywood
Air Date: November 28, 2003
A fictionalized conversation between writer, Jacques Peretti and Vincent Gallo - actor, film director and former model, courier, breakdancer, motorcycle champion and sex hustler - who is one of the most feared and misunderstood cult figures in Hollywood today.
4 - David Peace - Hunter Joker Ripper Writer
Air Date: December 12, 2003
A look at the life and work of one of Britain's most successful young authors: David Peace. His first three novels (Red Riding 1974, 1977 and 1980) loosely fictionalise the extraordinarily heightened sense of fear surrounding the Yorkshire Ripper case, while the fourth (Red Riding 1983) deals with the Miners' Strike.
5 - How to Watch Television
Air Date: December 19, 2003
Charlie Brooker's enjoyable and informative attempt to explain how to watch TV offers a variety of informed information about what a television is, what's on it and how to view it.
6 - Four Posh Dinners And A Curry
Air Date: January 8, 2004
Is food the new sex? Or is it the new porn? We are witnessing an unprecedented bombardment of seductive food imagery in the media, but is it a sign that British cuisine is finally getting better? Or are we just ogling Nigella and Jamie as a piece of ultimately unfulfilling titillation?
7 - Err...Shrigley
Air Date: January 18, 2004
David Shrigley doesn't like TV and he doesn't want to be a celebrity either. Nonetheless he is one of the biggest names in British contemporary art with a growing and equally obsessive fan base.
8 - Extreme Puppets
Air Date: January 30, 2004
A collaboration between writer Jacques Peretti and the Little Angel Theatre, Britain's foremost marionette company, these five short scenes involve ordinary people interacting with wooden mannequins in everyday situations that illustrate a particular hell of modern life.