Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon has said that the allegations against Russell Brand show that “terrible” treatment of women was tolerated in the British television industry.
In her first comments about the scandal on a public platform, Mahon said there would be no empty words or gestures in getting to the bottom of the accusations of sexual assault against Brand.
Opening the RTS Cambridge Convention, she said the allegations — broadcast on her own network via Channel 4’s Dispatches current affairs brand — were “disgusting and saddening.” Brand strenuously denies criminal wrongdoing.
Mahon said the evidence uncovered by Dispatches, alongside The Times and Sunday Times newspapers, revealed that “terrible behavior towards women was historically tolerated in our industry.” She said conditions had improved, but it is “still a problem.” Channel 4 has launched an investigation into Brand.
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