Possible Clues:

• Afternoon TV entry
• Thus a poet and artist combined to make serial for TV
• Programme like this on a spiritual leader and artist
• Serialised domestic melodrama on TV or radio
• Drama as Father Time takes American
• Afternoon TV fare
• Angry no end about a bishop joining a TV series
• 'Coronation Street' perhaps appears too ridiculous with no time
• TV serial such as Coronation Street
• Flattery works with Eastenders, say