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Home: Interview with adviser Hassan Akkad

How did you get involved in this project? Rufus Jones got in touch three or four months before they started filming. Initially he asked me to do a bit of research for him and work with him on the scripts to check if everything that had to do with the asylum process and Sami’s process is as realistic

25 Feb 19 Interview

Home: interview with Youssef Kerkour (Sami)

Explain a little bit about your new series, Home. What I always tell people is “Just think of Paddington, but instead of a cuddly bear, it’s a big cuddly Syrian refugee.” It’s a story of a refugee who sneaks into the back of a car belonging to a lovely middle-class family on their way home from

25 Feb 19 Interview

Home: Interview with Rebekah Staton (Katy)

Explain a bit about your new series, Home. A couple drive home after a holiday in France to find a refugee in their boot. I’ve not met someone yet who after hearing that sentence isn’t intrigued to see the show. Especially when I tell them it is a comedy. And on Channel 4. You play Katy – what’s her

25 Feb 19 Interview

Home: Interview with writer Rufus Jones (Peter)

Can you explain the premise of the show? A very middle-class English, family go on holiday to France in their quite spacious Audi. They have a lovely holiday and come back, they open the boot to unpack and there’s a Syrian refugee. After the initial shock, Katy, and her son John, welcome the refugee

22 Feb 19 News Release

First look images for upcoming four-part drama Chimerica

Produced by Playground ( Wolf Hall, Howards End, Little Women), Lucy Kirkwood’s Chimerica is a powerful and timely four-part thriller about a photojournalist who tries to salvage his career when he’s accused of doctoring one of his award-winning photographs. The series is due to launch on Channel 4

20 Feb 19 News Release

Channel 4 VR commision, Grenfell: Our Home wins Limina Creative VR Award at Picturehouse Central

Grenfell: Our Home, produced by Parable Works, experienced major success with audiences at virtual reality arts festival, Limina VR Weekender at Picturehouse Central. This success highlights the artistic potential and power of documentary virtual reality. The Limina Creative VR Award is an annual

20 Feb 19 Video

Trailer for new comedy Home

Trailer for new Channel 4 comedy Home, created and written by Rufus Jones. Sami, an asylum-seeker from Syria arrives in Britain and finds himself living with a family in Dorking, Surrey. Over the next few months, while Sami waits for his application to be processed, he learns more than he expected

19 Feb 19 Interview

Sleeping with the Far Right: Interview with Alice Levine

Explain a little bit about what your new documentary is all about. In what must be the strangest school exchange ever, I went and lived for seven days with Jack Sen, who is a British Nationalist and former member of UKIP and the BNP. I lived with him and his family – his wife, his daughter and his

19 Feb 19 News Release

It's back to the 80s, and it's back to school, as E4 and All 4 UK home of The Goldbergs

Every episode of The Goldbergs will now be available to stream exclusively on All 4 while Schooled, the brand new spin off series, arrives on E4 With season 6 currently airing on E4, Channel 4 is thrilled to announce a new deal with Sony Pictures Television that not only secures future seasons of