Author: |Posted: 11:08 am on 24/02/09
Category: Blog
As regular visitors to The TV Show website may have noticed, Aaqil Ahmed’s blog post, Christianity: A History, has generated an unprecedented level of feedback in recent weeks. As the series has progressed, so has the online debate, with over 200 comments now published. read more
Author: |Posted: 4:58 pm on 09/01/09
Category: Blog
Christianity: A History is the biggest project I have commissioned during my time at Channel 4. It’s almost unheard of for a mainstream broadcaster to dedicate eight hours of prime time television to Christianity in this way. I think it’s fair to say that it’s a big risk, but a risk I really wanted to take. read more
Author: |Posted: 1:02 pm on 09/01/09
Category: Blog
As viewers’ editor at Channel 4, it is part of my job to ensure that, when a programme we broadcast attracts a response from viewers, the appropriate people at the channel get to hear that feedback and, where appropriate, respond to it. Perhaps not surprisingly, our Alternative Christmas Message for 2008 – delivered by the President of Iran – was one such programme, generating a huge reaction from the public. read more
Author: |Posted: 5:45 pm on 01/09/08
Category: Blog
Eighteen months after the film Undercover Mosque was first screened, Dispatches goes undercover again with Undercover Mosque: The Return to find out whether extremist beliefs continue to be promoted in certain key British Muslim institutions. read more
Author: |Posted: 9:47 am on 16/07/08
Category: Blog
There have been lots of programmes about Muslims in the past few years – some have been positive but many have not. Post 9/11 and then 7/7 it was inevitable that film makers, writers and journalists would want to cover issues around Islam, terrorism, suicide bombing and the spreading of hate. read more
Author: |Posted: 10:04 am on 09/07/08
Category: Blog
This week saw the broadcast of the latest Dispatches documentary, It Shouldn’t Happen to a Muslim – a programme which investigated whether the 7/7 London Bombings and a fear of terrorism has fuelled the rise of violence, intolerance and hatred against British Muslims. read more
Author: |Posted: 2:28 pm on 28/05/08
Category: Blog
Earlier this month, Channel 4 broadcast Reverend Death, a powerful documentary from filmmaker Jon Ronson that details the work of George Exoo, a Unitarian minister who helps non-terminally ill people commit suicide. read more
Author: |Posted: 10:05 am on 23/05/08
Category: Blog
Dispatches: In God’s Name provoked quite a reaction from Channel 4 viewers this week, with 100 people contacting viewer enquiries to pass on their opinion and several lively debates across the C4 forums and beyond. read more
