Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR
Spring & Summer highlights 2004
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR teams up
with Tate Britain for a summer in the Sixties
This summer Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR mounts its biggest and most ambitious
season to date as the channel takes a mind-expanding trip around the
culture Β– and counterculture Β– of the 1960s.
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR Controller Roly Keating says:"Summer
in the Sixties is all about looking at where we are today through
the prism of that most creative, turbulent and influential of decades.
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"At its centre is a ground-breaking collaboration
with Tate Britain: Art and the 60s is a new TV series and exhibition
about the people who were outraging conventional taste 20 years before
the BritArt generation.
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"It's not just about the big names like David Hockney
and Bridget Riley. We'll be unearthing forgotten figures and stories
and showing how today's cutting-edge art is directly descended from
that revolutionary era.
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"In true Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR style the Summer in the Sixties
season will mix documentary, music, cinema, archive and discussion to
both celebrate the era and debunk some of its cherished myths.
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"In Round the Horne... Revisited one of
the great Sixties comedy series comes to TV for the first time in our
exclusive version of the hit stage show.
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"The Truth About Sixties TV will directly
challenge the notion of the 1960s as the golden age of television.
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"And in I Hate the Sixties we'll be giving
free rein to those who sincerely believe the Sixties are the root of
most of today's social problems.
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"Elsewhere this summer Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR will premiere another
raft of exceptional documentaries, from a very personal and moving examination
of the search for a cure for malaria in Malaria Mission, to the
rise and fall of John DeLorean and his 'wonder cars', to the
most exclusive access ever to the secretive world of the Saudi Arabian
royal family in The House of Saud.
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"Musically this summer is our strongest ever, kicking
off with a true landmark event: The Blues, an extraordinary new
documentary series including films by Martin Scorsese, Mike Figgis and
Clint Eastwood.
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"And Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR will partner Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TWO in presenting
a celebration of opera, which includes new productions including the
world premiere of AlbΓ©nizΒ’s lost opera, Merlin, and
a remarkable documentary, I Want to be Pavarotti, about a singing
teacher who spots potential just by hearing children shout across the
playground."
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Other season highlights
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Ιω Painting Flowers. Gardening stalwart Monty
Don introduces and narrates this revelatory study of the history, significance
and sheer beauty of the flower in art.
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Following the success of Painting the Weather, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR
has again teamed up with the National Gallery and public galleries across
the UK to create a unique online art exhibition to accompany the television
series.
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Ιω Selling Greece. As Athens gears up for
the Olympic Games this summer, Storyville investigates just how Athenians
really feel about hosting the greatest show on Earth.
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This fascinating documentary goes behind the scenes,
revealing Athenians battling with organisational shortcomings and inbuilt
prejudices to achieve the unachievable.
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Ιω Holidays In The Danger Zone: America Was Here.
Intrepid presenter Ben Anderson returns for a fourth series of Holidays
In..., this time visiting countries such as Vietnam and Panama that
have experienced American intervention.
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Ιω Shadowing the Third Man. This Arena special
revisits the original locations and talks to cast and crew from Carol
Reed's compelling masterpiece, The Third Man (screenplay by Graham Greene
and with Orson Welles as the mysterious Harry Lime).
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Ιω Saturday Cinema Β– Discoveries. In
a unique collaboration between Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR, Optimum Releasing and the Edinburgh
International Film Festival, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR will showcase six films from around
the world to introduce new film-making and acting talent to UK audiences.
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Shown in the Saturday Cinema slot on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR to coincide
with the cinematic release of Discoveries 04, the films are Angela
(Italy), Blind Shaft (China), Broken Wings (Israel), Dragonflies
(Norway), Historias Minimas (Argentina) and The Man Of The
Year (Brazil).
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Notes to Editors
Art and the 60s: This Was Tomorrow
Tate Britain, 30 June to 26 September 2004.
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Public information number: 020 7887 8008.
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Many icons of 1960s art will feature in a major exhibition
at Tate Britain opening on 30 June 2004.
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Art and the 60s explores new departures in art in Britain
in the seminal years following 1956, a period of seismic change in British
culture.
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The exhibition will include some of the best-known artists
of the last 50 years, among them David Hockney and Richard Hamilton,
Peter Blake and Bridget Riley, as well as influential but less widely
celebrated figures of the period such as John Latham, Liliane Lijn and
Gustav Metzger.
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR Viewing Figures
Ιω Average weekly reach for 2004 to date (weeks 1-11) is 8.5% or
2.5 million people. This is an increase of 55% compared with same time
period in 2003.
Ιω Share for weeks 1-11 2004 is 0.44%, an increase of 69% on the
same period last year.
Ιω Between November and February, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR reached more than one
in five digital viewers each month Β– more than six million people.
Ιω Since Autumn 2003, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ FOUR has been out-performing all comparable
specialist multichannels in terms of weekly reach and is on a par with
Discovery in the lead in terms of share [comparator channels being Discovery,
UK History, UK Horizons, History Channel, UK Drama, National Geographic,
Discovery/Science, Discovery/Civilisations, Performance, Classic FM
TV and Film Four].
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Notes to Picture Editors
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Pictures are available on the .
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