Channel 4 recalls What Happens in Kavos team over drunken women exploitation claims
Channel 4 has recalled a team of producers from Dragonfly productions to London following allegations printed in The Sun newspaper that they had offered a ‘special prize’ for tracking down women using the morning after pill on the holiday island.
The unseemly goings on formed part of filming for What Happens in Kavos, a three-part series looking at Brits abroad, but the revelations sparked an immediate response from station bosses, who commissioned the series, as they pulled the plug on filming and recalled the production team.
This followed an angry telephone exchange in which embarrassed Channel 4 execs ‘breathed fire’ down the line.
Simon Dickson, head of Dragonfly, said: “We have apologised to Channel 4 and halted production so we can regroup the team in London, investigate and fully understand how this happened.”
In their blurb for the three-part series Channel 4 described the show as a: “Documentary series following young Brits over a summer in Kavos, Corfu, to get a glimpse of what really happens in the hedonistic party town away from parents and surrounded by temptation.”
No decision has yet been taken on whether to air footage obtained thus far.