The Returned

Question 1

How Does Channel 4 have a unique business model

Answer 1

self sufficient business that reinvests all it’s profit back into Its programming at zero costs to the taxpayer

Question 2

What is Robin Hood Funding

Answer 2

programmes that make money pay for those that are loss making but adhere to our remit- news and current affairs

Question 3

when was chanel 4 created

Answer 3

1984

Question 4

what happened in 1993

Answer 4

Channel 4 became the thrid largest broadcaster in Britain- average audience share of 11% and became the largest investor in the British Film Industry as co producers of films of four series

Question 5

What’s channel 4’s remit

Answer 5

to deliver high quality, innovative content that challenges the status quo

Question 6

what are channel 4 a major investor in

Answer 6

British Screen Finance Ltd- new british films

Question 7

what was the charity called that funded the returned

Answer 7

Rhone Alpes Regional Fund and Central National de cinematographie

Question 8

who is the main distributor

Answer 8

Zodiac rights- making it available in over 70 countries

Question 9

who made the soundtrack

Answer 9

mogwai

Question 10

what did it win

Answer 10

Peabody award- sophisication and culture

Question 11

when was returned first shown in france

Answer 11

26th October- Canal+ subsidiary of vivendi

Question 13

discuss the french poetic realism style

Answer 13

popular in the 1930s- visual style is minimalist but lyrically constructed- the tone echos a sense of doom and the characters are living on the edge of society. within an isolated setting living with their greif