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"Channel 4 has had a mixed bag of a year, with Jay Hunt&amp;#039;s arrival as controller in 2011 coinciding with the departure of its biggest entertainment brand Big Brother. Hunt has scored big hits with risky commissions like The Undateables, Educating Essex and Mummifying Alan, but the channel still hasn&amp;#039;t found a flagship replacement for Big Brother.   Meanwhile, E4 and More4 face more and more competition and the digital channels have yet to find a comedy hit to match the phenomenon that was The Inbetweeners. Digital Spy will be Live Blogging Jay&amp;#039;s presentation on the channel&amp;#039;s future from 4.30pm.  17:26And that&amp;#039;s all folks! That&amp;#039;s the end of the session. We&amp;#039;ll be live blogging lots more tomorrow, including an exciting Sherlock session, so make sure you don&amp;#039;t miss that. All the best news and gossip from the day will be coming up shortly on the site as well. So stay tuned. 17:24Jay says that stripped drama such as Top Boy helps make a &amp;quot;sense of event&amp;quot; and claims the audience growth across the week justified that decision. But she argues that wouldn&amp;#039;t be right for all shows. 17:23Q&amp;amp;A time. Jay is asked if the channel still provokes real authority or if it just pushes levels of taste. She insists that the channel isn&amp;#039;t the &amp;quot;kid at the back of the bus&amp;quot;. She lists the channel&amp;#039;s Sri Lanka shows, the Unreported World series and the ticket tout docs as evidence. She has a bit of a head-to-head with the questioner. &amp;quot;I was underwhelmed by the answer,&amp;quot; says the audience member, &amp;quot;I was underwhelmed by the question,&amp;quot; she says dryly. 17:19Clips of Jewish Mum of the Year, Heston Feeds The 5,000, new Fresh Meat, Friday Night Dinner, Derek and even the briefest teaser of Drugs Live. 17:17Ooh, exciting. A second showreel. 17:17Kirsty doesn&amp;#039;t let Jay off the hook though, pointing out that she&amp;#039;s just lost her head of comedy Shane Allen to the BBC. Jay insists that she doesn&amp;#039;t hold a grudge and claims that she&amp;#039;s excited about the channel&amp;#039;s current comedy slate with Friday Night Dinner, Peep Show and Fresh Meat. She also claims that the channel should always be about &amp;quot;new faces&amp;quot;. 17:15Jay switches the subject to the &amp;quot;compelling&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;innovating&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;overwhelming success&amp;quot; of Million Pound Drop. 17:14Ooh, more bad shows. The Mad Bad Ad Show. Jay claims that it wasn&amp;#039;t axed, but moved in the schedule. &amp;quot;We didn&amp;#039;t do a very good job with it,&amp;quot; says Jay. The understatement of the festival. 17:13Kirsty asks Jay about &amp;quot;as festive as Psycho&amp;quot; Home for the Holidays. The Vernon Kay-hosted disaster. Jay admits that it won&amp;#039;t come back and that they got it wrong. Very wrong. 17:11Jay Hunt says that the Carr scandal was a test for Channel 4 and describes his first 8 Out of 10 Cats show post-tax incident as &amp;quot;incredible&amp;quot;. She says that they moved on from the incident after that show and argues that was the right way to deal with it. 17:09Talking of troublesome stars. Here&amp;#039;s a clip of Jimmy Carr. 17:09Jay Hunt says a Channel 4 star should have &amp;quot;attitude&amp;quot; and not be afraid to &amp;quot;cause trouble&amp;quot;. 17:09Hunt claims that Channel 4 is still a breeding ground for talent. But admits that they will look for and take stars from other channels who are looking for more creative freedom. She only wants to sign talent from elsewhere if they can showcase the talent in a different light and do new things with them. 17:06Jay Hunt claims that Channel 4&amp;#039;s Phone Sex Secrets was one of the best documentaries of the year and she insists that Channel 4 will continue with sex programming. Bring back Eurotrash Jay! 17:05Jay Hunt insists that EB Live is ground breaking and she believes it&amp;#039;s an &amp;quot;important franchise&amp;quot; for the channel. She also sings the praises of the show&amp;#039;s online benefits and describes it as &amp;quot;classic public service&amp;quot;. 17:02Oh my gidddy aunt. They&amp;#039;ve just shown a clip of Embarrassing Bodies. A man with a &amp;quot;gaping hole&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;spread cheeks&amp;quot;. Oof. The clip has even managed to silence Jay Hunt. Briefly. 17:02She insists that the show wasn&amp;#039;t poking fun at the gypsy community. She does accept that some pockets of the community were not happy with that. 16:59Jay Hunt claims that there will be no more Big Fat Gypsy Weddings series. Only specials next. Sorry gypsy fans. 16:59We&amp;#039;re now shown a clip of cock-fighting from C4 show Gypsy Blood. We were supposed to be watching Big Fat Gypsy Weddings. Someone messed up the tapes. 16:55Jay is defending the controversy surrounding The Undateables and the underwhelming Hoarder Next Door. She has now increased her speaking to 1,000-words-a-minute. She&amp;#039;s getting feisty and battling any criticism of her channel. 16:51Hunt says that the hundreds of thousands of people taking ecstasy around the UK makes it a subject that requires a sensible debate. It&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;sensible debate&amp;quot; that will involve Keith Allen taking drugs. 16:50Jay is asked about the much-hyped Drugs Live. She claims that it&amp;#039;s been difficult to get to air, but is satisfied that they&amp;#039;ve got a great final show. They will have a female vicar on MDMA on the show, reveals Hunt. Blimey. 16:48Jay says that Channel 4 is about &amp;quot;irreverence&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;punching people on the nose&amp;quot;. 16:48Jay Hunt claims that she would love to nick Celebrity Juice from ITV2. She says that there is nothing on Channel 5 she wants. Or on Sky. Poor Channel 5. Poor Sky. 16:47Jay doesn&amp;#039;t appear to have many answers to Kirsty&amp;#039;s probing questions about replacing Big Brother. Whatever happened to Famous and Fearless, that&amp;#039;s what I want to know. 16:46Jay Hunt claims that C4&amp;#039;s lack of ratings and audience share and the key youth demographic is down in part to losing Big Brother. She compares it to ITV losing Corrie. However, she maintains that she wouldn&amp;#039;t have come to C4 if it still had Big Brother. She says shows such as Black Mirror couldn&amp;#039;t have happened if they were still spending cash on Big Brother. 16:44Jay Hunt admits that the &amp;quot;worst kept secret&amp;quot; about Channel 4 making a &amp;quot;plucky&amp;quot; bid for F1 last year was true. She claims that she is very interested in getting sporting events, such as horse racing and taking them over. 16:42Kirsty Young asks about the upcoming Paralympics. Hunt is promising hours of coverage and &amp;quot;more importantly&amp;quot; launching the careers of eight new disabled TV presenters. She wants a lasting impact of changing the country&amp;#039;s perception of disability. She wants C4 to continue &amp;quot;an amazing summer of sport&amp;quot; for the whole of the UK to get behind. 16:39Hunt claims that no other channel would have shown prank show I&amp;#039;m Spazticus in the run up the Olympics. Hmm. 16:38Hunt describes C4&amp;#039;s lack of a primetime soap as a &amp;quot;creative opportunity&amp;quot; and claims that it means there are no scheduling problems. Bad news for Brookside fans. 16:38Jay Hunt is throwing out the buzz words and phrases. &amp;quot;Innovation&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;creative renewal&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;the process has started, but it isn&amp;#039;t finished&amp;quot;. 16:37Showreel time! Black Mirror, Homeland, Make Bradford British and The Undateables among the highlights. 16:35Jay Hunt describes C4 as &amp;quot;liberating&amp;quot; and claims that she has &amp;quot;no plans&amp;quot; to go back to the BBC. Kirsty Young claims that she gave a &amp;quot;politicians answer&amp;quot;. 16:34Kirsty Young is introducing Jay Hunt as the &amp;quot;second most powerful commissioner&amp;quot; in television. The lovely tones of Young make us feel like we&amp;#039;re listening to Desert Island Discs rather than being in a crowded, sweaty conference room. 16:33We&amp;#039;re still very sad that BBC Three aren&amp;#039;t going to be bringing back Top of the Pops. We hadn&amp;#039;t thought about it before, but it sounds like a great idea. Shame, they are not interested. Let&amp;#039;s hope Channel 4 and Jay Hunt can cheer us up. 16:27We&amp;#039;ll be getting all the news up from Zai Bennet&amp;#039;s BBC Three talk shortly on DS. The big TV news was that there&amp;#039;s no chance of a reprise for The Fades, despite its BAFTA win, Zai doesn&amp;#039;t want Top of the Pops or a similar-style show and he also defended the axing of Doctor Who Confidential. &amp;quot;It was a show about a show. There wasn&amp;#039;t much more to say about how they make Doctor Who,&amp;quot; he claimed. 16:23Hello and welcome to the latest live blog from this year&amp;#039;s Edinburgh TV Festival! The latest channel controller to get a grilling is Channel 4&amp;#039;s Jay Hunt. She tends to speak at 500 words a minute, so do excuse us if we pass out half way through this session. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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