{"id":4337,"date":"2012-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/"},"modified":"2012-11-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T00:00:00","slug":"new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/","title":{"rendered":"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">LONDON: Phil Clarke, currently the head of comedy and entertainment at Objective Productions, is joining Channel 4 as its new head of comedy. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Clarke set up the comedy department at Objective in spring 2003, after having produced the first series of <em>Peep Show<\/em> in 2002. He was an executive producer for such comedies as <em>Fresh Meat<\/em>, <em>Star Stories<\/em> and<em> Pete Versus Life.<\/em> Clarke also previously served as editor of comedy for Talkback Productions. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Jay Hunt, the chief creative officer at Channel 4, said: &quot;Phil has been behind some of the biggest comedy hits on British TV. He is brilliantly creative and will be a strong, thoughtful leader for the Channel 4 comedy team.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Clarke added: &quot;Channel 4 has an outstanding comedy heritage, so I&#8217;m honored and delighted to be joining the creative commissioning team.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">Nerys Evans, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\"><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana\">the comedy commissioning editor who is <\/span><\/span>currently acting head of the department, will be promoted to deputy head of comedy with immediate effect.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Phil Clarke, currently the head of comedy and entertainment at Objective Productions, is joining Channel 4 as its new head of comedy. Clarke set up the comedy department at Objective in spring 2003, after having produced the first series of Peep Show in 2002. He was an executive producer for such comedies as Fresh &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Head of Comedy at Channel 4<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4. LONDON, November 19: Phil Clarke, currently the head of comedy and entertainment at Objective Productions, is joining Channel 4 as its new head of comedy. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4. LONDON, November 19: Phil Clarke, currently the head of comedy and entertainment at Objective Productions, is joining Channel 4 as its new head of comedy. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-11-19T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"World Screen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/\",\"name\":\"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-11-19T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-11-19T00:00:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\"},\"description\":\"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4. LONDON, November 19: Phil Clarke, currently the head of comedy and entertainment at Objective Productions, is joining Channel 4 as its new head of comedy. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\",\"name\":\"TVEUROPE\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7\",\"name\":\"World Screen\",\"description\":\"The leading source of information for the international media business.\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4","description":"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4. LONDON, November 19: Phil Clarke, currently the head of comedy and entertainment at Objective Productions, is joining Channel 4 as its new head of comedy. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4","og_description":"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4. LONDON, November 19: Phil Clarke, currently the head of comedy and entertainment at Objective Productions, is joining Channel 4 as its new head of comedy. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski","og_url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/","og_site_name":"TVEUROPE","article_published_time":"2012-11-19T00:00:00+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/logo.jpg"}],"author":"World Screen","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"World Screen","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/","name":"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website"},"datePublished":"2012-11-19T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2012-11-19T00:00:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7"},"description":"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4. LONDON, November 19: Phil Clarke, currently the head of comedy and entertainment at Objective Productions, is joining Channel 4 as its new head of comedy. . Author - Kristin Brzoznowski","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2012\/11\/19\/new-head-of-comedy-at-channel-4\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"New Head of Comedy at Channel 4"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/","name":"TVEUROPE","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/48d5d8caeca98083bf34512b4ce8c4c7","name":"World Screen","description":"The leading source of information for the international media business.","url":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}