Martin Durkin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martin Durkin
Occupation	Television Producer
Date Of Birth	Jan 23, 1962(1962-01-23)
Age	62
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Capricorn

Martin Durkin Biography

Martin Durkin is one of the most popular and richest Television Producer who was born on January 23, 1962 in United Kingdom. Martin Richard Durkin (born 23 January 1962 in South Shields)) is a English director and producer of television specifically on the UK’s Channel 4. Durkin is the managing director for Wag TV, a television production company.

The documentary, which advocates against genetic modification, was aired in the UK on Channel 4 on 20 March 2000. It also received complaints. Environmentalist activists organized an action to defame the film. A letter jointly with a variety experts from Third World was issued in opposition to Durkin’s assertions in the documentary. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, one of the scientist who was featured in the program she later stated about her participation in the show: “I feel completely betrayed and misled. They did not tell me it was going to be an attack on my position.” But, despite the fact that the broadcasting regulation Ofcom was able to receive 17 complaint regarding the show, none were upheld; Ofcom concluded that ‘although the program was intended to be a critique of the evidence against GM but it also provided an the opportunity to a variety of opponents of GM to present their opinions in a clear and fair manner.’ Ofcom reviews of the complaints about Martin Durkin, ofcom.org.uk; 20 December 2015.

The Great Global Warming Swindle was a 2007 documentary film that premiered on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2007 and was subsequently criticised by the British media regulator Ofcom. The film features scientists and others who are sceptical that global warming is caused by human activity. The second part of the programme examines the conditions under which one of the current theories was developed. It focuses on political pressures on those who speak out against the supposed anthropogenic causes of global warming, some of the reasons for the wide adoption of this view and the factors leading to its original development. The film also interviews sceptics who are critical of environmental policies they view as holding back developing nations from industrialising. The film has drawn widespread complaints from some in the scientific community, citing numerous errors and misleading claims.

The film was awarded the Best Documentary trophy at the Io Isabella film festival and was shortlisted for the Best Documentary prize in the British television industry’s 2008 Broadcast Awards. An official judgement issued on 21 July 2008 by the British media regulator Ofcom found that the programme “did not fulfill obligations to be impartial and to reflect a range of views on controversial issues”. It upheld complaints by Sir David King that his views had been misrepresented, and Carl Wunsch, on the points that he had been misled as to its intent, and that the impression had been given that he agreed with the programme’s position on climate change. However, the regulator said that because “the link between human activity and global warming… became settled before March 2007” the audience was not “materially misled so as to cause harm or offence”. Ofcom declined to rule on the accuracy of the programme, saying: “It is not within Ofcom’s remit or ability in this case as the regulator of the ‘communications industry’ to establish or seek to adjudicate on ‘facts’ such as whether global warming is a man-made phenomenon”.

Durkin created two documentaries in Channel 4’s science segment Equinox. In 1998, he created “Storm in a D-Cup” in which argued that the dangers to health implanted with silicone were overstated for political reasons, while highlighting evidence that suggests that implants could even have medical benefits In 2000, he made The Rise and Fall of GM.

Martin Durkin Net Worth

Martin Durkin is one of the richest Television Producer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Martin Durkin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

It was 1997 when Channel 4 broadcast Durkin’s documentary series Against Nature, which criticized the environmental movement as an affront to freedom of choice and for hindering economic development.

The 1998 documentary about breast implants was created by the BBC but was later produced by Channel 4 after the BBC did not want to commission it. the BBC’s in-house scientist found that Durkin was ignoring evidence to support his assertions in the program. The programme was criticized by environmentalist and journalist George Monbiot wrote “Neither Martin Durkin nor, extraordinarily, Charles Furneaux, the commissioning editor of the science series Equinox, has a science background. They don’t need one, for science on Channel 4 has been reduced to a crude manifesto for corporate libertarianism.”

Martin Durkin has executive produced a wide range of programmes. Productions include: The Naked Pilgrim, an architectural travelogue that followed art critic Brian Sewell’s pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela; produced for UK’s Channel Five it won the Sandford St. Martin Trust award for best programme in 2004; Face of Britain for Channel 4, a 3 part series presented by Neil Oliver, which looked at the Wellcome Trust’s DNA project profiling the ancestry of various British communities; How Do They Do It?, an engineering series for Discovery Channel; Secret Intersex, a 2-part series about intersexuality for Channel 4, which was short listed for Best Science Programme in the 2004 Royal Television Society awards.

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Martin Ranked on the list of most popular Television Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Martin Durkin celebrates birthday on January 23 of every year.