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... was the subject of a particularly prescient piece of spam I received this morning.
We knew Channel 4 would seek to bolster its public service broadcasting credentials after the nearly six months of bad press it got after Celebrity Big Brother and its associated race row. The decision to dump CBB from C4 this year, and the open admission by Kevin Lygo that this summer's Big Brother is "down" in comparison to previous runs, however, took the assembled press corps at this morning's C4 Autumn preview by surprise.
Lygo is going to launch an impassioned defence of the channel at which he is director of TV and content at the festival this afternoon. He'll seek to ensure that people come away with a sense of what differentiates Channel 4 as a valid public service broadcaster in Britain's mature multichannel marketplace. CBB and large swathes of entertainment factual have been dumped and replaced with... oh, pardon the pun, Dumped... harder factual, harder drama and a Sorious Samura-produced Dispatches.
More on Lygo's speech later.
We knew Channel 4 would seek to bolster its public service broadcasting credentials after the nearly six months of bad press it got after Celebrity Big Brother and its associated race row. The decision to dump CBB from C4 this year, and the open admission by Kevin Lygo that this summer's Big Brother is "down" in comparison to previous runs, however, took the assembled press corps at this morning's C4 Autumn preview by surprise.
Lygo is going to launch an impassioned defence of the channel at which he is director of TV and content at the festival this afternoon. He'll seek to ensure that people come away with a sense of what differentiates Channel 4 as a valid public service broadcaster in Britain's mature multichannel marketplace. CBB and large swathes of entertainment factual have been dumped and replaced with... oh, pardon the pun, Dumped... harder factual, harder drama and a Sorious Samura-produced Dispatches.
More on Lygo's speech later.
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