Productions
DISPATCHES: SELLING OFF BRITAIN
Krishnan Guru-Murthy presents a live Dispatches special on what Britain owes. We ask: should we sell off the family silver to pay off our national debt? Using a mix of VTs, live studio debate and audience interaction in the studio and at home, we reveal the true state of Britain’s assets and ask the public to vote on what they think we should flog off to pay off our debt.
1 x 48 minutes for Channel 4
Presenter: Krishnan Guru-Murthy
Producer: Krisztina Katona
Executive Producers: Elizabeth Clough & Geoff Atkinson
DISPATCHES: CASHING IN ON DEGREES
Against the background of the recent hike in tuition fees, Dispatches investigates the people who are making a fortune out of British universities and asks if a degree still offers value for money.
1 x 48 minutes for Channel 4
Reporter: Laurie Penny
Producer/Director: Lesley Gardiner
Executive Producer: Geoff Atkinson
DISPATCHES: POLITICIANS FOR HIRE
In the aftermath of the expenses scandal, Dispatches examines the parachute payments, pensions and potential earnings of MPs once they step off one gravy train and onto a hopefully bigger one. Are these further examples that call MPs behaviour to account?
1 x 48 minutes for Channel 4
Reporter: Antony Barnett
Producer/Director: Pip Clothier
Executive Producer: Geoff Atkinson
DISPATCHES: ELECTION UNCOVERED
In this Dispatches, journalist Ben Laurance follows the General Election campaign, questioning how democratic the process is and trying to get beneath the stage-managed veneer.
1 x 48 minutes for Channel 4
Reporter: Ben Laurance
Producer/Director: Louise Turner
Executive Producer: Geoff Atkinson
GETTING ON: SERIES 2
Getting On returns for 6 half hour episodes that glimpse inside a world a million miles away from traditional hospital dramas. This is the dull, dreary, dog end of the health service with paperwork to fill, bottoms to wipe, and the drama played out in a thousand tiny acts of revenge and kindness. Getting On shines a light on the way workplace relationships play out and maps out the life of a hospital through six shifts (five day and one night) on B4 ward.
6 x 30 minutes for BBC4
Written by and Starring Jo Brand, Vicki Pepperdine, Joanna Scanlan
Director: Peter Capaldi
Producer: Geoff Atkinson
BREMNER, BIRD & FORTUNE: THE DAILY WIND-UP
With voter frenzy at fever pitch, and the electorate orgasmic and slavering at the prospect of finally being allowed to play their part in the closest and longest and dirtiest election for years, Rory returns to the screens for a timely and much needed take on the whole affair. Recorded as live, nightly, the shows feature Rory, the two Johns, Chris Addison, Sarah Brown and Samantha Cameron (open casting call gone out), and the very best of the guests from Rory’s pre-election roadshow.
3 x 46 minutes for Channel 4
Directors: Chris Fox & Sean Hardie
Producer: Geoff Atkinson