C4 Creates New Entertainment Team

Channel 4’s controller of arts and entertainment Stuart Cosgrove has increased his team of commissioning editors to create a new Entertainment Group, with Graham K Smith joining C4 as a commissioning editor for the new set-up.

Smith has previously worked as a producer for both C4 and BBC2 and has been a director of production company TV21 since 1991. He will play an important role in the new entertainment-led initiative which will comprise four other commissioning editors, each with their own discrete budgets and each reporting to Stuart Cosgrove.

The formation of The Entertainment Group completes a full-scale restructuring of Arts and Entertainment at C4. Seamus Cassidy, senior commissioning editor of Comedy and Entertainment has specific responsibility for narrative comedy including sitcoms and comedy drama; David Stevenson’s Youth Department has been renamed Entertainment and Youth Programmes, placing a greater emphasis on successful studio formats, like Eurotrash; Lucinda Whitely’s Children’s Department will also increase its commitment to entertainment-based programming and Mike Miller will retain his brief as commissioning editor of Sport but he too will contribute to the Entertainment Group, overseeing C4’s expansion in new-media entertainment through the Internet, and overseeing the relaunch of the Big Breakfast.

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