It becomes a trickier one to negotiate, of course, when your brief is to mark the 50th anniversary of the introduction into national life of girls, as it was for Channel 4’s accurately titled documentary Page Three: The Naked Truth. How well, you must ask yourself, has this thing succeeded in not simply filling the screen with breasts? From there you can move on to more rarefied considerations such as the acting, the script, the direction. Let’s fill the whole screen with tits.” One of the most fundamental measures of the quality of a film or television programme is how far it manages to move from this elemental truth of entertainment. A s Clark Gable once said when a scene wasn’t working: “I’ve got an idea.
