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      Woman who accused Russell Brand hits out at Channel 4 ‘whitewash’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 16:02


    Woman says she feels badly let down by broadcaster, which admitted it had failed to properly investigate 2009 claim against actor

    A woman who made allegations about Russell Brand to Channel 4 in 2009 has accused the broadcaster of a “whitewash” that had left her “disempowered and unsupported”.

    The broadcaster said last week it had failed to properly investigate a serious allegation made against the actor and comedian 15 years ago.

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      Battle over Polish TV station just the start in Tusk’s bid to remake Poland

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 12:19

    Public broadcaster TVP is first major battlefield in new government’s attempt to create a more tolerant country after eight years’ rule by PiS

    On his first day as the new head of TVP, the sprawling Polish public television broadcaster, Tomasz Sygut spent four hours locked in his office while a crowd outside banged on the door trying to gain access. Eventually, said Sygut, he had to call the police to help him escape.

    The same day, two of the main TVP channels were abruptly taken off the air by the new managers, the feed replaced with holding music and the TVP logo. “The priority was to turn off the factory of hate,” Sygut said in an interview in his 10th-floor office atop TVP headquarters, with a panoramic view over Warsaw.

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      Channel 4 boss apologises over failure in investigation of Russell Brand claim

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 21 March - 20:08


    Alex Mahon says former staff member made ‘serious’ allegation in 2009 that was not ‘investigated as it should have been’

    The head of Channel 4 has apologised to a former staff member for not properly investigating a “serious” allegation made against Russell Brand in 2009.

    However, the broadcaster found “no evidence” that staff at Channel 4 knew about the accusations made by four women in a Dispatches documentary before it was aired in September.

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      Channel 4 to oust top commissioner in Leeds and run role from London

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 21 March - 17:27

    Head of drama’s exit will leave broadcaster with no senior decision makers living in city of ‘national HQ’

    The most senior commissioner in Channel 4’s Leeds office is to lose her job, the Guardian can reveal, leaving the broadcaster with no top decision makers living in the city of its “national headquarters”.

    Caroline Hollick’s role as head of drama will be made redundant and brought under the remit of Ollie Madden, the director of Film4, as part of cost-cutting measures and will be run from Channel 4’s London office.

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      Holly Willoughby to make Netflix show in first major move since This Morning

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Thursday, 14 March - 18:00

    Jungle-based competition in which celebrities try to evade Bear Grylls part of a wide-ranging new Netflix slate

    Holly Willoughby has made her first major move since leaving This Morning, signing up to host a new Netflix show, Bear Hunt with Bear Grylls.

    In October she announced she was quitting the ITV show after 14 years “for me and my family” after it emerged she was the target of an alleged kidnap and murder plot.

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      Ofcom’s approach to GB News will dilute trust in media – just when we need it most | Stewart Purvis and Chris Banatvala

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 13 March - 13:52

    The law hasn’t changed. Yet the regulator is allowing these channels to transmit partisan political content

    • Stewart Purvis is a former Ofcom content partner and Chris Banatvala was Ofcom’s founding director of standards

    Ofcom has signalled the start of the 2024 election season by issuing its advice to broadcasters on coverage of the local elections in May. It does this before every election to help its licensees maintain their legal obligation of impartiality. But in our editorial and regulatory experience, stretching back 40 years, there has never been so much cause for confusion and concern about what lies ahead in broadcast coverage of both local and general election campaigns.

    Is Ofcom going to allow senior party officials to present election programmes as long as they are not actual candidates? Could a channel host party loyalists from only one side, delivering nightly unchallenged polemics on each day’s campaign news? Will channels with poor compliance records and fewer viewers than the public service broadcasters be given greater flexibility in achieving “due impartiality” on the basis of what Ofcom calls “ audience expectations ”?

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      Up documentary series voted most influential UK TV show of last 50 years

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Tuesday, 12 March - 16:00

    Programme that follows the lives of 14 children at seven-year intervals tops Broadcasting Press Guild’s 50th anniversary chart

    The groundbreaking Up documentary series has been voted the programme that changed television the most over the past 50 years in a poll of the country’s leading TV writers.

    The series, which follows a group of children from different social backgrounds and documents their progress every seven years, topped a list of the the most influential shows from the last five decades compiled by the Broadcasting Press Guild (BPG).

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      Top stars must help protect cast and crew from bad behaviour, says Denise Gough

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Monday, 11 March - 00:01

    Gough, who is resuming her Olivier award-winning role in People, Places and Things, calls on those in positions of power to become allies for colleagues

    The stage and screen star Denise Gough has called upon prominent actors to be vigilant for fellow cast and crew members in an industry where misconduct remains rife.

    Gough is set to reprise her role as an actor who has a breakdown in the play People, Places and Things which won her an Olivier award in 2016 . It transferred from the National Theatre to the West End and New York, was one of the last decade’s most acclaimed stage performances and led to Gough’s high-profile roles on television. As a leading actor, the Irish star said she has a particular duty to look out for her colleagues.

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      Jon Snow: ‘When I was growing up I wanted to be a Tory MP’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 9 March - 09:30

    The broadcaster on being arrogant, a dangerous encounter with Idi Amin, and getting arrested in a Swiss hotel at dead of night

    Born in Sussex, Snow, 76, began his career at LBC. In 1976, he joined ITN, where he became Washington correspondent and diplomatic editor. From 1989 to 2021, he was the main presenter of Channel 4 News. In 2005, he won the Richard Dimbleby Bafta award for best factual presenter, and he has many Royal Television Society awards. In 2015, he received a Bafta fellowship, and in 2017 he gave the MacTaggart lecture at the Edinburgh international television festival. Snowcast is his weekly podcast, and his new book is The State of Us . He is married, has three children, and lives in London.

    What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
    Self-centredness.

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