Dominic Mitchell’s superb In The Flesh ran on BBC Three for two short series.
Here’s why it deserves to be revived…
In December 2014, BBC Three announced a plan to leave behind genre labels when it moves online.
In The Fleshs coup was a switch of perspective.
It showed alienation leading to radicalisation (what more apt theme for this century?
), and gave us characters choosing hope over grief and love over dogma.
It was a rallying cry for outsiders and above all, a call for empathy.
Bigots called Kieren a Rotter, but he was officially encouraged to call himself a PDS Sufferer.
(Where else is UKIPs shameless fear-mongering being laid bare for 16-24 year olds?
OnSun, Sex and Suspicious Parents?)
The new episodes didnt lack for ideas, quite the opposite in fact.
It teemed with new characters and content.
And neither is its legacy.
Its their, and our, loss.
