Channel 4 Boss Alex Mahon Says ‘Allegations Made Against Russell Brand Are Horrendous’
variety.comK.J. Yossman Alex Mahon, boss of U.K. public service broadcaster Channel 4, has called the allegations against comedian Russell Brand “horrendous.” “The clips we’ve seen provide a rather shocking jolt,” she also said of the many videos that have emerged of Brand’s behavior and comments on TV.
She also said PSBs are sitting on a “generational timebomb.” “We must urgently recognise that those of us who are U.K. PSBs are sitting on a generational timebomb,” Mahon told the Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge on Wednesday.
Speaking about the changing ways in which viewers consume content, Mahon spoke of the importance of PSBs, saying they play “to that sense of connection to people’s own local, regional or national concerns.” But young people are More to come….
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