Omnibus

Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor (1975), a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte (1979), a graduate film by David Wheatley, “Madonna: Behind the American dream” (1990), a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott (1992). For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. In 2001, the BBC announced...