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VEE-TV Series 5 - Channel 4
VEE-TV, the innovative magazine series for young deaf people, 18-30, returned to Channel 4 for its 5th series on Sundays from March 20th, 2005 transmitting just before T4.
Each week VEE-TV travels the UK to report from festivals and live events. The programmes mix entertainment, celebrity interviews, documentary features, arts and lifestyle. In the VEE-Talent strand, we give aspiring deaf film-makers, artists, actors, dancers and comedians a chance to showcase their work to a wider audience.
This series launches a number of half hour VEE-TV Specials beginning with a young deaf actress’s journey to discover her roots in India, a report from the biggest gathering of young deaf people in the world in New York State, and a programme dedicated to the Make Poverty History campaign with reports from Tanzania.
VEE-TV is made for and by young deaf people and the production team brings deaf and hearing people together in close collaboration. For many of the new and returning deaf members of the team, VEE-TV has been their first job in television and C4 has backed an imaginative training programme which helps members of the team secure further opportunities on mainstream C4 programmes ranging from Hell’s Kitchen to T4.
Big Umbrella’s Creative Director, Martin Head, was the original Series Editor of the programme and now continues to Executive Produce the series with Hilary Durman of Resource Base.
VEE-TV is a co-production between two award-winning independent production companies – Southampton-based Resource Base and Birmingham-based Maverick Television
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