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Channel 4 to double arts spending

UK

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du 03/04/2010 00:00 au 03/08/2010 00:00
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Texte : By John PLUNKETT
The Irish Times
Ireland
March 30th, 2010
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Channel 4 is to double the amount of money it spends on arts programming to £6m a year under a new arts board chaired by its director of television and content, Kevin Lygo.

Tabitha Jackson, who edits the digital channel More4 and oversees the True Stories documentary strand, has been appointed commissioning editor, arts, succeeding Jan Younghusband, who left to join the BBC last year.

Lygo said arts programming "remain a litmus test for any free-to-air public service broadcaster".

In a thinly veiled reference to ITV's decision to axe The South Bank Show, he added: "With the last vestiges disappearing elsewhere within mainstream commercial TV we believe this is the opportune moment to demonstrate the breadth and ambition of Channel 4's ongoing commitment to the arts."(...)

The broadcaster's arts commissions for 2010 include the six-part The Genius of British Art, the four-part The Orchestra, about the Hallé Orchestra, and another four-part series, Young, Autistic and Stagestruck, about nine autistic children from across the UK who produce a musical.

More4 has announced a partnership with the Arts Council and launched a More4 Arts strand. Film4 is developing new films with prominent British artists including Jake and Dinos Chapman.

Jackson said: "Channel 4's approach to the arts has, for me, been the purest expression of the innovation, excellence, audacity and difference that has always set the channel apart."

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Date de publication : 31/03/2010


Période traitée : 2010-03-31
Mots-clés : Channel 4, Kevin Lygo, Tabitha Jackson, More4,
Inséré le : 03/04/2010 19:47