The creator of Grange Hill, Hollyoaks and Brookside tells Sky News why he believes a merger with the BBC would help Channel 4 return to its roots.
One of Britain's most legendary TV dramatists, Sir Phil Redmond, is no stranger to tackling difficult issues on screen. Courting controversy famously with his hard-hitting storylines on his children's show Grange Hill for the BBC in 1978, before he switched over to Channel 4 to give it its two most prominent soaps, Brookside and later Hollyoaks . He's been a pivotal figure at Channel 4 from its inception, widely considered to be a father to the channel.
'There are 25 million licences and roughly 90 million mobile phones. If you put a small levy on each mobile phone, you could reduce the actual cost of the licence fee right down, and then it could just be tagged on to VAT. 'Those parts are just moving the tax system around a bit. you wouldn't have to worry about all the criminality and single mothers being thrown in jail, all this kind of nonsense.
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