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The New Scottish Cinema by Jonathan Murray, (I.B. Tauris, 2015), 288 pages, ISBN: 978-1845118617, (hardback), £69.00. About the reviewer: Simon Brown is Associate Professor of Film and Television at...
The project’s research has involved three elements: a 30-year history of Film4 as a feature film producer, a survey of the breadth of Channel 4’s broadcast film content (including purchased film,...
From its inception in 1982 to its demise in 1998 (with the launch of the subscription service FilmFour, now Film4 on Freeview), Film on Four was the flagship broadcast strand for new feature films...
1968 saw the release of Her Private Hell, a low budget British feature that has now been given a new lease of life on video as part of the BFI Flipside series of releases rescuing obscure movies from...
Although the idea of film funding wasn't directly discussed in the Annan Report which led to the creation of Channel 4, it was a passion of the Channel’s first Chief Executive, Jeremy Isaacs. In Europe...
To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the launch of Channel 4, in November the University of Portsmouth held a two-day conference dedicated to the output of the UK’s fourth terrestrial TV channel. Dr...
As Channel 4 draws the curtain on the eleven-year success of the Big Brother franchise, it continues to reap the rewards of being the producer of some of the most popular shows on television, including...
[caption id="attachment_324" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="David Hare in conversation. Image courtesy Museo Reina Sofia "][/caption] David Hare’s Page Eight, which premiered at the Edinburgh...
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