Film On Four Seasons Essay

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Another method that is used by the channel is the various film seasons that are aired on the channel/Film4/ Film on Four. Laura Mayne and Justin Smith discuss this further in their article for the British Film Council titled Film for all Seasons (2009). The initiation of the film seasons on channel 4 began in 1982 and was titled Film on Four and became a popular feature which developed having two features/ seasons a year until 1985, where after these international films were incorporated into the seasons, giving way to air some of the co-produced European films and projects (2014). The Channel 4 press packs ‘Programme Highlights’ from 1987 state “Film on Four remains the flagship of Channel 4’s fiction output, and is now accepted internationally as a major force in British cinema, with over 25 films in production each year… …show more content…

In 1992, the largest amount of feature films, a total of 16, were shown on the channel – some of these were films which had been released at the cinema with great success. 1995 saw the most successful Film on Four premiere season since its conception, as it screened some of the most successful British films of all time such as Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) and Howards End (1992). Film on Four became an icon within broadcast television, being one of the first channels to use this initiative. By the mid 1990’s, the profile of the channel had become more prominent than ever due to the functioning of the channel, even with little existence of consistency within the channels scheduling in comparison to other channels. 1998 saw the creation of FilmFour Ltd, a quasi-independent producer and distributor – eventually ending Channel 4’s original film

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