Alex Mahon, boss of U.K. public service broadcaster Channel 4, has called the allegations against comedian Russell Brand “horrendous.”
“The clips we’ve seen provide a rather shocking jolt,” she also said of the many videos that have emerged of Brand’s behavior and comments on TV that have emerged in the aftermath of the allegations.
Brand has been accused of sexual assault and rape by four women. The allegations were made public last weekend in a joint investigation by The Times of London, The Sunday Times and Channel 4 documentary team “Dispatches.”
Brand was for many years a familiar face on Channel 4, presenting “Big Brother” spin-off “Big Brother’s Big Mouth.”
Mahon also addressed the plethora of content available to viewers, saying that PSBs are sitting on a “generational timebomb.”
“We must urgently recognise that those of us who are U.K. PSBs are sitting on a generational timebomb,” Mahon told the Royal Television Society conference in Cambridge on Wednesday.
Speaking about the changing ways in which viewers consume content, Mahon spoke of the importance of PSBs, saying they play “to that sense of connection to people’s own local, regional or national concerns.”
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