The surprising crisis in British television

英国电视业的惊人危机

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2025-04-07

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  • This is The Guardian.

  • Today, the crisis in the UK TV industry.

  • So if you imagine me, I'm kind of 21 at the time,

  • I'm in Newquay and I'm wading into the sea and I'm trying to wave down surfers and ask them,

  • have you ever had chlamydia?

  • Will you come and talk to us about it?

  • Steph Loughry is a TV producer who's worked on some of the UK's biggest programs.

  • It all started with embarrassing bodies.

  • I keep my sock on when I shower and then change it without looking.

  • The hit show where people too shy to go to the doctors would instead bear all for a diagnosis on Channel 4.

  • I went in as a runner for two weeks' work experience.

  • It blew my mind, sort of, wide open as to, wow, this is what a job can be.

  • And I came away from that and was like, oh, no, this is what I want to do when I graduate.

  • Steph made her way in the industry, casting children for the classroom of the secret lives of four-year-olds.

  • Do you want to come to my party?

  • A sweet home will be there, pizza, pizza will be there.

  • And the first season of Gogglebox.

  • On Monday night, Channel 4 uncovered the secret lives of our pet dogs.

  • Do you know when you go out and you leave me indoors?

  • Yeah.