Landmark Secures New C4 Commission

LONDON, October 20: Channel 4 has commissioned Landmark
Films to produce Strangest Hotel in Britain,
a documentary about a British training hotel for the mentally disabled.

The film, a follow up to Landmark’s Strangest Village in
Britain, will be broadcast during Channel
4’s Only Human strand later this
year. It focus on Foxes, situated on the seafront in Minehead, Somerset, which
provides a training academy for young people with special needs, providing
experience and qualifications in the hotel trade. The 13-room hotel is home to
and run by more than 50 people, all of whom suffer with mild learning disabilities.

“Landmark is the only film crew ever to be invited to
Foxes,” said Nick O’Dwyer, the MD of Landmark Films. “The hotel is unique in
what it does, and it’s thanks to the success of Strangest Village in Britain that we have been afforded the opportunity of
telling the world about the fantastic work that takes place there.”

Strangest Village in Britain achieved the highest viewing figures in Channel 4’s Only
Human strand last year, drawing an audience
of nearly 2.9 million and a 13-percent share. It looked at the North Yorkshire
village of Botton.

Strangest Hotel in Britain is due for delivery in October 2006 and is being distributed by iD
Distribution.