Club X was a short-lived 1989 Channel 4 arts and music magazine programme that is often cited as an example of TV Hell. The production and presentation team was largely taken from the earlier Channel 4 success Network 7 and had the same editor Charlie Parsons. At the time Club X was commissioned Channel 4?s new Chief Executive Michael Grade was attempting to make the channel?s cultural programming more accessible ? a process regarded by some as dumbing down. The Club X format was intended to blend items on relatively high-brow arts with the kind of quirky stories and items that had been features of Network 7, such as feminist pornography. Club X was broadcast live over 23 weeks during Summer 1989 in a Wednesday night 90-minute slot scheduled directly against BBC2?s new arts magazine The Late Show, another production by Network 7 graduates. There was an edited repeat the following Sunday. Unfortunately the show's presenters led

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