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Give me a sense of the shows you've got on air at the moment. well, we just finished life & rhymes, which is our entertainment show on sky arts. we are in production on married at first sight, in production on you are what you eat, league of their own, there's something about movies — quite a lot of stuff across a lot of genres. good. and, by the way, life & rhymes — that's like a beat poetry show which you described as entertainment, which is interesting in itself, and more on that later. derek mclean is also with us as well, managing director of bandicoot tv. now, you, derek, are the com...

Moving with the times, can't limit itself to simply being two slots on saturday night in a studio, much as derek's show has completely united the nation and there's absolutely a place for that. but where factual entertainment is actually really providing a lot of entertainment for the viewer, entertainment ideas come from everywhere. and, really, where they come from is something joyful and passionate that somebody believes in and wants to perform, and that's where... you talk about it as poetry, which sounds so oxbridge. it's spoken word. it is the songs on derek's show but without music. so ...

To guess who they are." and at first, i think people really struggled to capture that, and then, eventually, they caught on. and that's where, suddenly, the change came. and so a guessing game is now part of an entertainment genre, whereas perhaps people just saw shiny—floor talent shows. and, danielle — i'm sorry to mention this in front of derek, but your series life & rhymes recently won a bafta up against the masked singer in the entertainment category. congratulations! as i mentioned earlier, that's a poetry show. it's quite bittersweet. i mean, actually, quite a lot of the poetry is ...

Programme makers? derek mclean, you run a production company, bandicoot, which is part of the argonon group. what do you make of all this, by the way, the channel 4 scenario, first of all? i think it's a really challenging one. i mean, i know alex's hands are tied, but i can't help but, from a personal level, wonder whether the government do this slightly as a punishment beating for channel 4 because they sort of ideologically don't fit with their ethos. it's something that i hope does not come to pass. i think the point that chris made and alex made, very clearly, is the uk economy benefits h...

On the screen recently — over on itv, admittedly — is the masked dancer. derek, it's kind of like a mad fever dream that keeps repeating on me, but it wasn't your idea. it's something you found in korea, is that right, and then pitched it to the uk broadcasters? tell us the story. the masked singer is a korean format, yeah. so it was a show that originated in korea around 2005... 2015, rather. was a huge success in korea — you know, a massive smash hit. the format itself has actually done an unusualjourney. we pride ourselves in the uk is being format generators and format exporters. the...