 A particular critical success was The Year of the Sex Olympics , broadcast as part of BBC2 's Theatre 625 series in July 1968 . Kneale 's first television work to be made in colour — although only a black @-@ and @-@ white copy now survives — the story was based in a future where the majority of the population are kept in a docile state by constant broadcasts of pornography and other low @-@ brow reality television programming . The Live Life Show , in which a family are watched twenty @-@ four hours a day as they struggle to live on an isolated rural island , becomes a massive success , especially when a murderer is introduced into the set @-@ up . 
