Dorothy Byrne, the head of News and Current Affairs at Channel 4 from 2003 to 2020 says the allegations and investigation into comedian Russell Brand is “definitely the Me-Too moment for television”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 I think this is a very important investigation and I'm very pleased that both Channel 4 and
00:08 the BBC are now going to look into historical allegations that behaviour of an absolutely
00:18 unconscionable nature was tolerated. This is definitely the #MeToo moment for television,
00:29 or one of them. I know that many journalists have tried to tell this story over several years,
00:38 both newspaper journalists and I know the BBC has tried to do it, but they came across the problem
00:47 that although some women were saying that they had suffered abuse, they said that they felt
00:55 intimidated. They didn't say that they had been directly intimidated by Russell Brand,
01:02 but that they felt intimidated and they didn't want to speak. I don't know what the circumstances are
01:11 in the Russell Brand case. What I do know is that historically terrible behaviour has been tolerated
01:21 and television.