Renegade is a reasonable production company – almost on a par with Thames in the 1980s but with a bit more of a 1990s reality TV feel. I don’t think this producer is setting out to do a hatchet job, but TBH its not dissimilar to other similar shows made by the BBC and other broadcasters 10 or more years ago, which did many of the same things and the “debate” only entrenched views if anything.
Daniel to be fair has good intentions – but there are still risks. As others mentioned, Firstly the Ofcom rules still discourage showing drugs in a positive light to shows popular with young people – and they are unclear if this relates to both pre and post watershed productions. C4 has a well known reputation as a “yoof” channel. A more modern development is the proliferation of DVRs and youtube. OK Renegade can keep the youtube stuff down by flagging it as copyright, but once the footage has hit the torrents it can be going as far as Kuala Lumpur within minutes.
This means footage of your idealistic young raver could be being shown to potential employers when he is my age, whereas to do this with the 90s rave shows would mean unearthing a VHS cassette and going to all the trouble to capture it. Even if you use voice distorters, mosaic faces etc unless someone is going to wear a unique set of clothes merely for the telly its easy to ID them, they may also have a unique gait/pose or other characteristics that can ID them (this is even how your pet cat or dog notices your approach).
This company also made a number of Poilce reality series for Sky, so at least some of their staff won’t want to lose existing goodwill with the Police, especially as scanners no longer work 😉
I’m sure Daniel will find some kids off some shitty London estate who want their 15 minutes of fame and its way better than rioting and lighting perfectly decent pie and mash shops on fire, but in todays climate I really wouldn’t suggest anyone with any future/prospects taking part unless they are willling to cope with being mocked for it when they are 40 :laugh_at: Some girl on another forum appeared on a perfecly harmless C4 schools TV show and got mocked for it, started out as a young girl with hopes and ambitions and ended up as a single mother from what i remember…
This is no personal criticism on Daniel, just pointing out the facts as a lot has changed in 10-20 years..
