Alf Lawrie
Alf Lawrie is currently Head of Factual Entertainment at Channel 4. He is responsible for British Tribe Next Door, the "60 days" format, The School that tried to end Racism and the 2020 deepfake Alternative Christmas Message.
Personal life
Lawrie was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex on 16 September 1974.[citation needed] He is the son of Charles Lawrie, a poet, the grandson of golf architect Charles Dundas Lawrie, and the great grandson of Alfred Ainslie Lawrie. His mother is Ann Lawrie, a teacher and nurse.[1] Lawrie studied Politics Philosophy and Economics at Christ Church, Oxford.[2] He has two daughters and lives with his long-term partner Rosie Sarrington, a lawyer.[3]
Career
Lawrie undertook various television projects as both a director and producer including the poignant documentary series for the BBC "Wonderland- I had the X Factor 25 years ago".[4] He was producer for Talkback Productions on the first Ali G show broadcast in 2000,[5] and was series producer on the very first series of The Apprentice. Before joining Channel 4, he worked as an executive producer at Shine TV.[6]
Lawrie took on the role of Head of Factual Entertainment at Channel 4 in March 2018[7] after having joined the broadcaster in April 2017 as Specialist Factual Commissioning Editor.[8]
He has developed some of the channel's formats and programmes including:
- The controversial British Tribe Next Door which won a Royal Society Television Award in 2020[9][10]
- The groundbreaking social experiment "60 days" format with Ed Stafford[11]
- The School that tried to end Racism which won a Grierson award in 2021.[12]
He is responsible for some of the channel's more witty and edgy content, such as the 2020 deepfake Alternative Christmas Message,[13] which left Channel 4 boss, Ian Katz, joking that either he or Alf would end up in the Tower![14] Multiple news agencies shone a light on the wide-ranging responses to Smuggled; a show which drew a tweeted response from a Home Office[15] perhaps not delighted at weaknesses in border controls being brought to the attention of the public.
Filmography
| Date | Program and details |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Stockpile - Documentary, associate producer[16] |
| 2003 | Da Ali G Show - TV Series, associate producer |
| 2003–2004 | QI - TV Panel Show, associate producer[17] |
| 2005 | The Apprentice - TV Series, director[18] |
| 2011 | Wonderland - Documentary, producer/director[19] |
| 2012 | The Town That Never Retired - TV Documentaries, series director[20] |
| 2013 | Nursing The Nation - TV Series, series producer[21] |
| 2013 | The Face - TV Series, executive producer[22] |
| 2015 | All Change At Longleat - TV Documentaries, executive producer[23] |
| 2021 | The Money Maker - TV Series, commissioner[24] |
References
- ↑ "Cymric Scriptures".
- ↑ https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/
- ↑ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/rosie-sarrington-614065221 [self-published source]
- ↑ "BBC Two - Wonderland, Series 4, I Had the X Factor... 25 Years Ago: A Wonderland Special".
- ↑ "Da Ali G Show - C4 Sketch Show".
- ↑ https://www.shine.tv/
- ↑ "C4 elevates Alf Lawrie to head of factual entertainment". Real Screen.
- ↑ "Factual Entertainment | Channel 4".
- ↑ "Opinion: If you think the British Tribe Next Door is racist, you need to face your own prejudices". Independent.co.uk. 30 October 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-10-31. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "The British Tribe Next Door production company - who commissioned the Channel 4 show?". 23 October 2019.
- ↑ "60 Days on the Streets review – truly revelatory TV that damns us all". TheGuardian.com. 14 March 2019.
- ↑ "Archived Copy". Archived from the original on 11 November 2022. Retrieved 20 June 2022.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Deepfake queen to deliver Channel 4 Christmas message". BBC News. 23 December 2020.
- ↑ Armstrong, Stephen (23 February 2021). "It's Channel 4's job to cheer people up". The Telegraph.
- ↑ Home Office [@ukhomeoffice] (4 November 2019). "Hundreds of thousands of people enter the UK each week..." (Tweet). Retrieved 29 May 2022 – via Twitter.
- ↑ "Alf Lawrie". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- ↑ Perry, Chris (2016). The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013. Lulu.com. p. 457. ISBN 9781900203609. Search this book on
- ↑ "Directors UK". directors.uk.com. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- ↑ Hardy, Alex. "Last Night's TV: Wonderland: I Had the X Factor... 25 Years Ago". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- ↑ "Channel 4 adds factual commissioners". C21media. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- ↑ "Alf Lawrie". BFI. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- ↑ "Alf Lawrie". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- ↑ "BBC One - All Change at Longleat, Episode 3". BBC. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
- ↑ 2021-05-03T07:33:00+01:00. "Finding our Money Maker in a pandemic". Broadcast. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
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