Author: |Posted: 6:48 pm on 15/06/09
Category: Blog
Twitter has been in the media a lot in recent months. Surgery Live was the second of three experiments to come out of Channel 4’s cross-platform department using this increasingly popular ‘microblogging’ service in connection with television programmes. The experiment reflects the increasingly common habit of ‘Twittering’ whilst watching TV, plugging in to that behaviour in the context of a bold, educative factual television series - importantly a live one. read more
Author: |Posted: 12:16 pm on 14/04/09
Category: Blog
In The Hospital, a year in the making, we set out to explore what lay behind the headlines declaring today’s teenagers a ‘public health time-bomb’. We asked doctors to talk honestly about patients who should be young, fit and healthy, but are in hospital because of alcohol related problems, obesity or unplanned teenage pregnancies. read more
Author: |Posted: 10:00 pm on 05/01/09
Category: Blog
Tonight, viewers were offered an insight into the troubled life of football legend Paul Gascoigne and his family with the broadcast of David Clews’ moving documentary Surviving Gazza. read more
Author: |Posted: 11:33 am on 17/12/08
Category: Blog
As the dust settles in the wake of Embarrassing Teenage Bodies and we start cranking up for the next series of Embarrassing Bodies in March 2009, it’s been a good time to take stock and assess what kind of impact both the programme and the website had, this time with teens in particular. read more
Author: |Posted: 11:49 am on 30/09/08
Category: Blog
Today sees the launch of Jamie Oliver’s latest healthy eating campaign. Supported by a four-part TV documentary series and website, Jamie’s Ministry of Food is designed to get people cooking and help them live a healthier life. read more
Author: |Posted: 2:53 pm on 18/11/07
Category: Blog
The recent anorexia storyline in our teenage weekday drama 