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Meet the Controller: Richard Klein, BBC4

By TV Mole ⋅ September 19, 2009 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ ⋅Post a comment

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Richard Klein is Channel Controller for BBC4; he recently outlined his current channel strategy and needs (as of August 2009).

Richard's View on BBC4

• BBC4 is challenging and intellectual but with a twinkle in its eye.
• Programmes should be thought provoking – it’s a place for diversity of opinion and controversy. Polemical pieces that make us question our views.
• Seasons bring together archive and new material, but he’s not chasing schedule ‘tent poles’.
• There will be a greater emphasis on documentaries and factual.

Coming Up:

• Biopics
• Secret Life of Chaos – loves science.

Looking For:

• 20th century history that reflects where we are now – explaining the world via recent events.
• Programmes with a Georgian sense of wit.

How to pitch 

• You can email a one-liner but better to go via genre commissioners.

Source: MGEITF session 30 August 2009 (with thanks to 3witches for the notes).

Also meet:

• Julian Bellamy, Ch4
• Janice Hadlow, BBC2

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