In an “increasingly timid broadcasting environment,” Channel 4 content boss Ian Katz has said the network is going where rivals are refusing to go.

Speaking at last night’s annual dinner at the Edinburgh TV Festival, Katz flagged recent documentaries Gaza: Doctors Under Attack and 1000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story as proof that Channel 4 is taking risks while others “reach for international formats and reboots.”

“Where others bottle it, we broadcast it,” said Katz, flagging the Gaza: Doctors Under Attack saga as an exemplar.

Produced by ex-Channel 4 News boss Ben de Pear, Gaza: Doctors Under Attack was initially forged for the BBC but was dropped by the corporation over the risk of “creating a perception of partiality” after its director criticized Israel on the

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