Alistair Pegg: Fact Ent

“My first two big 10pm series since I joined the channel are both exciting projects with big-name talent. One sees presenter Mark Dolan searching for extraordinary individuals like the smallest man in the world and the tallest woman in the world, in order to find out the truth behind the images of oddity. The other follows Neil Morrissey and his chef friend Richard Fox as they try to set up their own brewery. They should set a great new benchmark for the kind of tone we’re looking for in that slot.

I really need another series of 3 or 4 x 60 for 10pm for this autumn. It could be an authored journey, but I’m also interested in looking at forms we haven’t tried there for a while – perhaps a docu-soap, or even a multi-item show.

Everything we do in factual entertainment has to connect with a broad audience. It has to be wide-ranging in its appeal, but also rich in content and purpose. It has to be about something.”

Alistair Pegg: Editor, Factual Entertainment, Channel 4