Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
Hall's Pictorial Weekly for transmission in the following May and June. Effectively the show was axed, although no clear statement about the programme's demise was made by the broadcaster. In 2004, a DVD featuring highlights from the series was released under the title, "The Very Best of Hall's Pictorial Weekly (Vol 1)". A second volume "The Very Best of Hall's Pictorial Weekly (Vol 2)" was released a few years later. Hall's Pictorial Weekly Hall's Pictorial Weekly, Incorporating the Provincial Vindicator was an Irish satirical television series which was broadcast on Radio Telefís Éireann from 1971 to 1980. Regarded as RTÉ's flagship comedy show,