About Channel X

Alan Marke Profile  |  Jim Reid Profile

Channel X is one of the UK’s leading comedy and entertainment specialists with a 20 year history of producing cutting edge award winning programmes for all the major UK broadcasters.

The company specialises in scripted broken and narrative comedy, comedy-entertainment formats and gameshows and has worked with all the leading comedy talent in the UK for the last two decades.

This year the company has produced scripted comedy shows for the BBC, C4, E4 and UKTV Gold in the UK, as well as selling programmes in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Germany and France.

The company is currently in development with projects for all major UK broadcasters and leading cab/sat station’s and has started the world wide roll out of its quiz show format, Reversal of Fortune.

Channel X’s Manchester based subsidiary, Channel K, has also won its first commissions this year netting deals at the BBC and C4.

Alan Marke,

Managing Director

While working together on Channel 4’s Soul Train Alan and Jonathan Ross formed Channel X as the company to produce The Last Resort.

Since setting up the company with Ross, Alan went on to become the executive producer for most of Jonathan’s shows including The Incredibly Strange Film Show, Tonight Witth Jonathan Ross and Americana. He also established himself as an outstanding comedy producer with Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Unpleasant World of Penn and Teller and the award winning The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer.

As a BAFTA winning producer for Shooting Stars, Alan Marke has gone on to make shows for all the major broadcasters and digital stations; being equally at home with mainstream and alternative projects.

Jim Reid,

Director of Programmes

Jim Reid is Channel X’s Director of Programmes. After an extensive career in journalism as the editor of a music magazine, features editor of a left wing tabloid and a contributor to the Sunday Times, Guardian and Observer Jim started his TV career working on Channel X’s The Last Resort.

As a producer and devisor of entertainment formats and scripted comedy Jim has worked with most of the leading names in British television making shows as diverse as Eurotrash, Paul Zenon’s Magic Specials, Stupid Punts, Vic Reeves Examines, Modern Toss and Blunder.

Jim is overseeing Channel X’s push into the format markets of Europe, Asia and the US.