Alf Lawrie

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Alf, Christmas 2013

Alf Lawrie is currently Head of Factual Entertainment at Channel 4. This is a role he took on in March 2018[1] after having joined the broadcaster in April 2017 as Specialist Factual Commissioning Editor.[2]

Alf has developed some of the channel's formats and programmes including:

  • The controversial British Tribe Next Door which won a Royal Society Television Award in 2020[3][4]
  • The groundbreaking social experiment "60 days" format with Ed Stafford[5]
  • The School that tried to end Racism which won a Grierson award in 2021.[6]

He is responsible for some of the channel's more witty and edgy content, such as the 2020 deepfake Alternative Christmas Message,[7] which left Channel 4 boss, Ian Katz, joking that either he or Alf would end up in the Tower![8] Multiple news agencies shone a light on the wide-ranging responses to Smuggled; a show which drew a tweeted response from a Home Office[9] perhaps not delighted at weaknesses in border controls being brought to the attention of the public.

Before working at channel 4 Alf worked as an executive producer at Shine TV.[10] Before working at Shine, Alf undertook various television projects as both a director and producer including the poignant documentary series for the BBC "Wonderland- I had the X Factor 25 years ago".[11]

Alf was series producer on the very first series of The Apprentice.

He was producer for Talkback Productions on the first Ali G show broadcast in 2000.[12]

Early life[]

Alf was born in Cuckfield West Sussex on 16 September 1974. Alf is the son of Charles Lawrie (a poet), the grandson of golf architect Charles Dundas Lawrie, and the great grandson of Alfred Ainslie Lawrie. Alf's mother is Ann Lawrie, a teacher and nurse.[13]

Education[]

Alf studied Politics Philosophy and Economics at Christ Church, Oxford.[14]

Filmography[]

Date Program and details
2001 Stockpile - Documentary, associate producer[15]
2003 Da Ali G Show - TV Series, associate producer
2003-2004 QI - TV Panel Show, associate producer[16]
2005 The Apprentice - TV Series, director[17]
2011 Wonderland - Documentary, producer/director[18]
2012 The Town That Never Retired - TV Documentaries, series director[19]
2013 Nursing The Nation - TV Series, series producer[20]
2013 The Face - TV Series, executive producer[21]
2015 All Change At Longleat - TV Documentaries, executive producer[22]
2021 The Money Maker - TV Series, commissioner[23]

Personal life[]

Alf has two daughters Tabitha (2015) and Iris (2017) and lives with his long-term partner Rosie Sarrington (a lawyer).[24]

References[]

  1. ^ "C4 elevates Alf Lawrie to head of factual entertainment". Real Screen.
  2. ^ https://www.channel4.com/commissioning/4producers/factual-entertainment
  3. ^ https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/british-tribe-next-door-channel-4-racist-biases-a9177416.html
  4. ^ https://www.realitytitbit.com/channel-4/the-british-tribe-next-door-production-company-who-commissioned-the-channel-4-show
  5. ^ https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/14/60-days-on-the-streets-review-truly-revelatory-tv-that-damns-us-all
  6. ^ https://griersontrust.org/grierson-awards/the-grierson-awards/winners/#awards12
  7. ^ "Deepfake queen to deliver Channel 4 Christmas message". BBC News.
  8. ^ "It's Channel 4's job to cheer people up". The Telegraph.
  9. ^ "https://twitter.com/ukhomeoffice/status/1191463193966764036". Twitter. Retrieved 2022-02-27. {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help)
  10. ^ https://www.shine.tv/
  11. ^ https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018jmb6
  12. ^ https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/da_ali_g_show/
  13. ^ https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Cymric-Scriptures-by-Charles-Lawrie/9780946206445
  14. ^ https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/
  15. ^ "Alf Lawrie". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  16. ^ Perry, Chris (2016). The Kaleidoscope British Christmas Television Guide 1937-2013. Lulu.com. p. 457. ISBN 9781900203609.
  17. ^ "Directors UK". directors.uk.com. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  18. ^ Hardy, Alex. "Last Night's TV: Wonderland: I Had the X Factor... 25 Years Ago". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  19. ^ "Channel 4 adds factual commissioners". C21media. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  20. ^ "Alf Lawrie". BFI. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  21. ^ "Alf Lawrie". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  22. ^ "BBC One - All Change at Longleat, Episode 3". BBC. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  23. ^ 2021-05-03T07:33:00+01:00. "Finding our Money Maker in a pandemic". Broadcast. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
  24. ^ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/rosie-sarrington-614065221
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