Jay Hunt at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards held at Peacock Theater on September 15, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jesse Grant/Variety via Getty Images)
Hunt also revealed when she first took the job, in 2017, she was the first employee in the U.K. on the streaming side of the company. “I started this job working entirely by myself,” she said. “I had an assistant but I didn’t have anyone working with me for a year above the Apple shop on Regent Street.”
Winkleman also asked Hunt about her stints BBC One, Channel 4 and Channel 5, where she held the top creative job at each network. In particular, the TV anchor asked whether leaving her job at BBC One for Channel 4 was a difficult decision. “Because that’s being offered an amazing job when you’re in an amazing job,” Winkleman said. “That’s like [having to choose between] Brad Pitt or George Clooney.”
Hunt acknowledged it had been a wrench to leave the BBC, which she described as “the place at which you can change the way the nation thinks about stuff” giving the example of hit drama “Luther,” with Idris Elba’s casting in 2010 being the first time a Black actor had played a lead character on BBC One.
The move to Channel 4 was made even more difficult, she revealed, because the network had lost “Big Brother” to Channel 5, which suddenly meant the commissioning team had 200 hours of broadcasting time that needed to be filled.
“But there’s something — going back to what I liked at [Channel] Five — the plucky underdog thing, that Channel Four is there to be a disruptor,” she said of the move. “And there’s something in my personality that finds that very attractive. I like the idea that we were disruptive.” Among the shows that were commissioned under Hunt’s leadership at Channel 4 were “Black Mirror,” “Derry Girls” and the controversial dating show “Naked Attraction.”
“I’m absolutely passionate about what that show did to transform what people thought about different types of bodies,” Hunt said. “But it was disruptive, it was surprising, and we had lots of programming like that, and that was a great personality fit for me.”
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