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Archive for the ‘Interviews’ Category

Jeremy Isaacs

FACE TO FACE: Justin Smith talks to Jeremy Isaacs

November 30th, 2010
JS:  Aside from your established track record in television, you’d done a stint as Head of the BFI Production Board in the late 1970s.  Was film always a personal passion?  What were your reasons for making it a part of your declared manifesto for the new fourth channel? JI: Well, there was an argument going [...]
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David Rose at home

Rose in the Pink

November 9th, 2010
Producer David Rose, Channel 4’s first Commissioning Editor for Fiction, was honoured at a ceremony on 20th April 2010 for his career contribution to British television drama and film.  The BFI Fellowship, the Institute’s most prestigious award, was presented by the current Controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4, Tessa Ross, before an audience [...]
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The University of Portsmouth's Channel 4 project is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and run in partnership with the British Universities Film and Video Council.
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Film on Four is only the latest version of this muddled British compromise [between imitating American commercialism and producing small-scale European movies for the home market and foreign art-houses]: too expensive to dare being experimental and too cheap to be convincingly commercial. — Richard Maltby, “British Film’s Fuzzy Images”, Televisual, August 1985, p. 36.