Charles Furneaux (TV producer)
Charles St John Wallace Furneaux (born 1957) is a British television producer and documentary maker. He began his career as an Assistant Producer with the BBC, becoming a Commissioning Editor at Channel 4 in 1994. Furneaux then went to Talkback Thames in 2003 as Head of Specialist Factual and Documentaries resigning in 2007 to manage his own production company, Kaboom Film & TV. Career. Award-winning productions of Furneaux include "The Natural History of the Chicken", which won an Emmy Award in the category of 'Outstanding Science and Nature Programming- Long Form' in 2002. "Touching the Void  won BAFTA's 2004 Alexander Korda award for the outstanding British film of the year. The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall", in 2009, won two BAFTA Awards and one Monte Carlo Golden Nymph Award, and the documentary "" won a Cine Golden Eagle Award in the History category of the Televised Documentary & Performance Division in 2014. Furneaux also produced "", which broadcast on 6 August 2017 and became Channel 4's "most-watched documentary since 2014", peaking with 4.1 million viewers. Personal life. Furneaux read Modern History at Durham University (), finishing with a 2:1 degree in 1978. Furneaux is a former participant in  the "Up" series, an ongoing documentary series that follows the lives of fourteen British citizens in seven-year intervals, beginning when they were seven years old in 1964. Furneaux, one of the fourteen, declined to participate in the series after the "21 Up" episode, broadcast in 1977. After Charles declined to appear in "28 Up", during a subsequent phone conversation, director Michael Apted, by his own admission, "went berserk", which destroyed the relationship to the degree that Charles has refused to participate in all subsequent films. Allison Pearson, writing for "The Telegraph", reports that Apted alleged Furneaux had filed a  lawsuit aimed at "remov[ing] Charles’s likeness from the archive sequences in 49 Up". Furneaux has also participated in one of the original television series in which a viewer was encouraged to voice their opinions regarding current television programmes, "Right to Reply", in 1998.