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British television producer and documentary maker From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles St John Wallace Furneaux[1] (born 1957) is a British television producer and documentary maker. He began his career as an assistant producer with the BBC, becoming a commissioning editor at Channel 4 in 1994. Furneaux then went to Talkback Thames in 2003 as Head of Specialist Factual and Documentaries resigning in 2007 to manage his own production company, Kaboom Film & TV.[2]
Award-winning productions of Furneaux include The Natural History of the Chicken, which won an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Science and Nature Programming-Long Form in 2002.[3] Touching the Void won BAFTA's 2004 Alexander Korda award for the outstanding British film of the year.[4][5] The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall, in 2009, won two BAFTA Awards and one Monte Carlo Golden Nymph Award, and the documentary Treblinka: Inside Hitler's Secret Death Camp won a Cine Golden Eagle Award in the History category of the Televised Documentary & Performance Division in 2014.[6][7] Furneaux also produced Diana: In Her Own Words, which broadcast on 6 August 2017 and became Channel 4's "most-watched documentary since 2014", peaking with 4.1 million viewers.[8][third-party source needed]
Furneaux read modern history at Durham University (University College), graduating with a 2:1 degree in 1978.[1]
Furneaux is a former participant in the Up series, an ongoing documentary series which follows the lives of fourteen British citizens in seven-year intervals, beginning when they were seven years old in 1964. Furneaux declined to participate in the series after the 21 Up episode, broadcast in 1977.[9][10] After Charles declined to appear in 28 Up, during a subsequent phone conversation, director Michael Apted, by his own admission, "went berserk", which destroyed the relationship to the degree that Charles has refused to participate in all subsequent films.[11] Allison Pearson, writing for The Telegraph, reports that Apted alleged Furneaux had filed a lawsuit aimed at "remov[ing] Charles' likeness from the archive sequences in 49 Up".[10]
Furneaux has also participated in one of the original television series in which a viewer was encouraged to voice their opinions regarding current television programmes, Right to Reply, in 1998.[12]
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