Where to Watch Hot Metal

Yearning to watch "Hot Metal" on your TV or mobile device at home? Hunting down a streaming service to buy, rent, download, or binge the comedy TV series via subscription can be tricky, so we here at Moviefone want to take the pressure off.

Read on for a listing of streaming and cable services – including rental, purchase, and subscription platforms – along with the availability of "Hot Metal" on each platform. Now, before we get into all the details of how you can watch "Hot Metal" right now, here are some details about the ITV1 show.

Originally premiering February 16th, 1986, "Hot Metal" stars Robert Hardy, Geoffrey Palmer, Caroline Milmoe, Geoffrey Hutchings. The series runs 2 season(s), and has a score of 58 (out of 100) on TMDB, which assembled reviews from 6 knowledgeable people.

What, so now you want to know what the TV show is about? Here’s the plot: "Hot metal is a London Weekend Television sitcom about the British Newspaper industry broadcast between 1986 and 1988. The daily crucible, the dullest newspaper in Fleet Street, is suddenly taken over by media magnate Terence "Twiggy" Rathbone. Its editor Harry Stringer is 'promoted' to managing editor, and is replaced in his old job by Russell Spam. Spam then takes the paper shooting downmarket and turns the crucible into a sensation seeking scandal rag, very much in the style of the British tabloids of the 1980s. He is helped along by his ace gutter journalist, Greg Kettle, who intimidates his tabloid victims by claiming to be "a representative of Her Majesty's press" and produces stories such as accusing a vicar of being a werewolf. Throughout the first series, a running plot involved cub reporter Bill Tytla gradually uncovering an actual newsworthy story that went to the very heart of government. Written by David Renwick and Andrew Marshall, it is very much a continuation in style from their previous sitcom Whoops Apocalypse!. It was produced by Humphrey Barclay."

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