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Meet the UK Factual Commissioners: Hamish Mykura, Head of Documentaries, Channel 4

By TV Mole ⋅ April 3, 2010 ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ ⋅Post a comment

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Hamish Mykura, Head of Documentaries, Channel 4 recently outlined his commissioning needs to attendees of the Broadcast Factual Forum (March 2010).

Hamish's overview of documentaries on Channel 4:

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• He is keen on advertiser funded programmes (AFP) such as Crufts, which is sponsored by DFS – and is looking to get more ad-funding attached to existing programmes (although advertisers are generally poor at coming up with good TV programmes themeselves).
• More 4 – is moving back into more original commissions, such as Bettany Hughes’ Ancient World, a 7×60′ mix of new and reversioned programmes.
• True Stories - an international doc strand on More 4 has enjoyed excellent ratings. His ambition is to show the world’s best documentaries in this slot, but they often put in £40K or less to the production budget, or jus acquire finished films rather than fully funding the docs.

Programmes that work on Channel 4: 

• The Force
• Inside Nature’s Giants
• The TV Book Club (on More 4 – ad-funded by Specsavers)
• When Boris Met Dave
• The Family (sponsored by Volkswagen)
• Cutting Edge: My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding
  

Looking For:

• Factual entertainment programmes to fill the big entertainment gap left by the cancellation of Big Brother – they have slots to fill and money to spend on new programming.

Source: Broadcast Factual Forum 10th March, 2010

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