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The former Head of English Drama at the BBC becomes Commissioning Editor for Fiction for Channel 4
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The channel's first night saw controversial movie broadcast, directed by Stephen Frears and from the novel by David Cook, with Ian McKellen in the title role.
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The tax on box office sales that was designed to support the industry was withdrawn, as the government considered it being misallocated.
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The movie, starring a young Daniel Day Lewis, enjoyed surprise success as a result of the festival release. It went on to be shown in commerical cinemas, rather than immediately to TV as it had been intended.
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Receiving the Services to Cinema award at the film festival.
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After a turbulent few years, including David Rose's departure, the channel returned on Sunday nights.
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Danny Boyle's first commercially successful movie is released
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Danny Boyle directs controversial movie about a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh.
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Mark Herman's black comedy about a Yorkshire Colliery Band, in the midst of Thatcher's Britain.
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David Evans' romantic comedy, from Nick Hornby's novel of the same name. The movie was produced the year England got through to the Euro '96 semi-finals, and Baddiel and Skinner released 'Three Lions' in support of the team.
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And launches it's own paid-for subscription TV Channel
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Damien O'Donnell's groundbreaking multicultural movie is a UK success.
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The channel has gained 250,000 subscribers in it's first year.
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The channel's losses are reported as 5.4m
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Outdoor, 2000-capacity cinema festival is launched at Somerset House in London, with guest presenters and a variety of films both old and new.
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On Freeview TV
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Gritty drama about life in Thatcher's Britain, by Shane Meadows.
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Danny Boyle's big-budget adaptation of Vikas Swarup's novel is a success, receiving a total 8 Academy Awards.
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The movie was written by Chris Morris, made by long-time Sheffield-based collaborator, Warp Films, and was produced by Film4. As with many of Film4's previous releases, the movie was a satirical look at life in Britain for working class people.
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The On Demand service is launched. Films are available on the same day as their DVD release, and the service is based on a rental subscription.
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Film 4.0, the low budget experimental division of Film 4 launched a competition in which up and coming filmmakers could win a 5,000 development fund and mentoring on a short film from Film 4.0.
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The service was withdrawn, citing allocation of resources - one may speculate that the availability of streaming and the popularity of Netflix may have played a part.
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According to Film4's bloggers. The greatest number of nominations to date.
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"Film4 funding has increased to a record £25m in 2016, with major new deals announced with Fox Searchlight and FP Films. Film4 will be backing new work from Lenny Abrahamson, Yorgos Lanthimos, Andrew Haigh, Steve McQueen, Clio Barnard, Bart Layton, Mike Leigh and Chris Morris" - See more at: http://blog.film4.com/page/7/#sthash.BCmbKVgE.dpuf
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Room's lead won Best Actress, Amy was given Best Documentary Feature and Ex Machina received Best Visual Effects.
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The new director is coming to the UK from New York, and has an intimidating CV, including MD of UK distribution for Buena Vista International, President at NatGeo and President of Filmed Entertainment at Miramax.
