Taking a cue from young Tom, I should probably mention what the hell I'm on about when I drop hints about a new job; I've accepted a job at Channel 4 as Commissioning Editor for Education, focusing on 14-19 year olds.
Channel 4's Education dept has absolutely the right idea: audiences first. You can see the Education department's mission here: it's geniunely interesting reading. Not what you might expect in conjunction with the word "education". And that's where I get excited: Channel 4 has a public service remit, but its motto is Do It First, Make Trouble, Inspire Change. Now that's the sort of thing that gets me out of bed in the morning, I tell you what.
You'll have an idea already of the sort of things that are going to be catching my eye: interesting uses of game technology, social networks and emerging tech usage, machinima, ARGing, interactive narrative, training, 3D spaces. You name it.
Bloody hell I'm looking forward to it. I have a few more weeks left of my notice period, then it's an extended, wiggly route home from LA to London (we're going west via Asia, our stuff goes east via Greenland), and I start in mid-September.
Ta-da! Right, enough about me, back to listening to Hollywood & Games.
Congratulations! That sounds terrific!
Posted by: Brinstar | June 27, 2007 at 20:06
Hurrah! That sounds like a fantastic job - congratulations!
Posted by: neil h. | June 27, 2007 at 21:54
Thanks guys :) I'm looking forward to it..
Posted by: Alice | June 27, 2007 at 23:24
Congratulations!
"Make Trouble". Now that's a darn good mission.
Good luck. I'll be interested to see what you come up with.
Posted by: Hugh "Nomad" Hancock | June 28, 2007 at 00:20
Congratulations!
That sounds like terrific news! Best of luck on the new horizon...
Posted by: wazoo | June 28, 2007 at 04:33
That's awesome news, Alice. Good luck! I'm going to be doing something very similar very soon. :)
Posted by: Trevor May | June 28, 2007 at 10:53
Damnit, you get all the best gigs. Best of luck. ;)
Posted by: Fraser | June 28, 2007 at 11:35
\o/
(Stay in touch, F. )
Posted by: Alice | June 28, 2007 at 14:58
Hi Alice, i think you've got one of the most fantastic job i've ever heard of (that kind of jobs fairly exists in mexico.. if any)
So Congratulations Alice, i think you got the job because you really love what you do, and i can see that every time i read your blog ñ_ñ.
Well, that's it!, if you ever want to visit Mexico, i'll be glad to tell you about the best places to visit beside Cancún or Acapulco beaches, OK? ;) , there's my e-mail
So take care girl, and sorry for the mistakes... jaja
See ya!!!
-Rogelio Ariza
Posted by: Roger | June 28, 2007 at 18:05
W00 and indeed 00t. Marvellous, marvellous news - about time C4 starting making the same kind of trouble in the online space that it's been doing in its publicity and programming. There's some fun ahead, I'll be bound...
Posted by: Andy | June 30, 2007 at 19:25
Congratulations! You might be a bit thrown by Horseferry Road though, a bit smaller than than TV centre, and only about twelve people in there at any one time...
Posted by: blue cat | July 01, 2007 at 07:22
Congrats, so glad to hear the news, and that you're off to really stir up a storm in C4, after doing a good job of it at the beeb.
Hope it all goes well
Andy Wilson
Posted by: Andy Wilson | July 01, 2007 at 20:18
Welcome to the gang...
Posted by: eyedropper | July 03, 2007 at 10:35
Just found your little blog>> you seem to have gone a long way with your moderate quake skills :)
Posted by: dc_dd | July 05, 2007 at 03:20
Hahah dd! How the hell are YOU!
Posted by: Alice | July 05, 2007 at 04:54
Very well thanks tips:) nice yo see you are doing well.
Posted by: dc_dd | July 06, 2007 at 00:11