Distributor DRG has entered into a content partnership agreement with Outline Productions, the UK indie that’s producing the UK remake of Norwegian format Born On. DRG will help Outline expand its business and growth by contributing to a development fund designed to aid the creation of formats for the local and… Read more.
LONDON: DRG has entered into a content partnership with Outline Productions following the recent announcement that Outline was commissioned to produce a U.K. version of the DRG format Born On. Under the agreement, DRG will help Outline to expand its business and contribute to a development fund to invest in new,… Read more.
Belper horticulturalist Kathy Fairweather made her television debut on popular Sky TV show Show Me Your Garden last week. Kathy, of Windmill Rise, appeared on the programme on Friday, January 23, after being approached due to her open garden success. Kathy has opened her garden to the public as part… Read more.
The neighbours have been admiring it for years. And now the whole country will get a chance to marvel at Graham and Jenny Cousins’ glorious garden. The beautiful one-and-a-quarter acre plot in the village of Walton, north-east of Lutterworth, is due to feature on TV later this month. It will… Read more.
TOM KERRIDGE’S BEST EVER DISHES New series *** Tuesday 9pm, Lifestyle Food I’d never heard of Tom Kerridge until his Christmas special appeared on this channel last December, but he’s an easy guy to love, especially in this context. There’s something wonderfully Dickensian about him: his round, jolly face; his… Read more.
Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes LifeStyle Food, 9pm Maybe it’s Tom Kerridge, maybe it’s his producers. But somebody’s certainly intent on giving Jamie Oliver a run for his money in terms of annoying laddish chatter. Every dish Kerridge serves up is ‘‘cheeky’’, ‘‘posh’’, ‘‘hardcore’’, ‘‘right classy’’ and/or ‘‘proper lush’’. Every… Read more.
Trevor Phillips’ film on racism may be among the most important documentaries of the decade Things We Won’t Say about Race That Are True Channel 4 ***** The Truth About Sugar BBC One *** As anyone who heard him on Today the other morning will know, Trevor Phillips can be a windbag.… Read more.
How dare our Prime Minister slander the abstemious Irish, a sober, temperate and respectable people healthy of mind, body and soul! Surely we are beyond the days when it was OK to cast aspersions on the tight-fisted Scots, the leek-munching Welsh or the sheep-doting Kiwis. That, at least, is the… Read more.
SIR – Ratna Lachman’s reaction to the programme “Things we won’t say about race” was depressingly familiar (T&A, March 19). She asserts that ethnic minorities suffer discrimination as regards finding employment, complains of high levels of stop and search which they are subjected to and their underrepresentation in public life.… Read more.
Offence – the right to give it and how to take it – has been the hot topic of 2015. Trevor Phillips’ C4 documentary ‘Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True’ entered that debate with a well-intentioned forcefulness, laying the charge that our reluctance to talk about race… Read more.
Twelve years ago, London’s secondary schools were undeniably failing and, in an era when politicians had money to spend, the answer was political intervention – in the form of the London Challenge. When it was officially launched at the Globe theatre in 2003 by then prime minister Tony Blair, the… Read more.
I’m a big fan of people who “say the unsayable”. Not in a Katie Hopkins way, where everything is contrived and designed to shock. But those who speak out against what is considered to be received opinion. I do it myself sometimes because I don’t like toeing the line, or… Read more.
By Trevor Phillips I’ve been a journalist for more than three decades, so I’m not often taken by surprise by other scribblers. But, during the flurry of media interest in our film Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True, a pugnacious radio interviewer bowled me a bouncer. If… Read more.
Les Ferdinand, the director of football for Queens Park Rangers, appeared on “Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True,” a Channel 4 documentary exploring modern race relations in Britain. He addressed a range of topics, including the racism case brought against John Terry after an on-field confrontation with… Read more.
Former England striker Les Ferdinand has said he believes that many people in the English game still have discriminatory attitudes toward coaches of black and ethnic minority (BME) backgrounds. Ferdinand, the Queens Park Rangers director of football, suggested during an interview for the Channel 4 documentary Things We Won’t Say… Read more.
“Things We Won’t Say about Race That Are True may be among the most important documentaries of the decade. It is a pity the programme has generated headlines mostly for what Nigel Farage told Phillips. It is not hard to get Farage to say things even he probably does not… Read more.
Trevor Phillips, the former chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, prominent Blairite supporter and a man referred to so often as an astute self-publicist I’m beginning to wonder if it’s an official job title, has had an epiphany. He thinks that preventing people from expressing prejudiced ideas might… Read more.
Trevor Phillips appeared on This Morning to promote his new Channel 4 documentary, and said he isn’t worried about courting controversy. Trevor told hosts Amanda Holden and Philip Schofield that there needs to be less outrage when discussing race. He added that the reaction to Benedict Cumberbatch’s recent gaffe, when he referred… Read more.
He reminds us he was formerly head of the Commission for Racial Equality, back in the days of New Labour. Modernisation and multi-culturalism was the aim, and Phillips was at the forefront of Blair’s project to wipe down dusty old Britain. The philosophy he and his colleagues followed was that… Read more.
It’s one of the most provocative discussions you’ll hear this week – in a documentary tonight the man who was once in charge of promoting racial equality in Britain tells us ten Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True. That man is Trevor Phillips, and today he explained… Read more.
Once, as head of the Commission for Racial Equality, Trevor Phillips was derided as a poster boy for political correctness. These days, he seems to revel in controversy. With the glee of a schoolboy who has just mastered a new swear word, Phillips teased the audience of Things We Won’t… Read more.
Trevor Phillips has been accused of holding “misguided and dangerous” views about race after suggesting that multiculturalism in the UK has become a “racket” which discourages proper integration. In a newspaper article, the former head of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) said politicians and the media had become “terrified”… Read more.
Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True, Channel 4, 9pm There’s nothing like an authored documentary to really get a debate started, so it’s to be hoped that this opinionated and hard-hitting programme will prompt some answers to the questions it poses. The “author” in question is broadcaster,… Read more.
Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True 9pm, Channel 4 That the channel behind Immigration Street would schedule such catnip for Not-Racist-But-ers isn’t a surprise. Having it fronted by Trevor Phillips, former Equality and Human Rights Commission chair, might be. Phillips examines our reluctance to discuss race, positing… Read more.
Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True – C4, 9pm IF Nigel Farage was a bridge builder, it’d be a brave person who drove over it. His skills in this field, as revealed in this documentary, are singularly lacking. Ahead of broadcast, the UKIP leader sparked a furore… Read more.
This business of race never seems to go away. Just when it looks like we’ve got it covered, out comes another initiative, another documentary. This week in the US, Starbucks is encouraging its baristas to kickstart a conversation about race at 12,000 locations, by scratching “Race Together” on the cups… Read more.
If you want to understand the full loopiness and intellectual dishonesty of multiculturalism, just talk to my friend Adam, who lectures in African history. “At least that’s progress,” I said to Adam about one notably dysfunctional African country. “Getting more girls into school is progress, isn’t it?” “I’m not allowed… Read more.
Trevor Phillips, a prominent Labour supporter and former head of the Commission for Racial Equality, is currently reaping the whirlwind of Left-wing reaction. On Thursday night, he is presenting a Channel 4 documentary called Things We Won’t Say About Race That Are True, which rips apart the shibboleths of the… Read more.
That astute self-publicist, Trevor Phillips, has been at it again, getting a second bite of the media cherry for his Channel 4 programme on race on Thursday night. He has just toured the studios and – by way of illustrating his thesis – provocatively asked if the dramatically improving story… Read more.
Politicians are too scared of talking openly about race issues and multiculturalism has become a “racket”, a former equalities chief has said. Trevor Phillips, the former chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, said too many people were afraid of speaking their minds in fear of being branded a… Read more.