When last interviewed Jay Hunt, Channel 4's Chief Creative Officer, the context was crisis. She recalls the week, in July 2013, when Channel 5's ratings beat Channel 4's. It was a crisis only in the eye of certain beholders; it could be seen as a piece of statistical legerdemain from her old employers at 5. At the time, if she was worried, the only hint was that she spoke at about a zillion words a minute. There were undoubtedly problems: topically, her summer crop of new shows had failed (including The Intern and Bedtime Live); structurally, her ageing daytime schedule was being crushed by BBC One, freed from the burden of children's programming.
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