Controversy

More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film

Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush.

Death of a President seems certain to cause a furore on the other side of the Atlantic when it is premiered at the Toronto film festival next month.

In the UK the 90-minute film will be broadcast first on Channel 4's digital service in October.

The drama takes the form of a fictional documentary looking back at the assassination of Mr Bush in October 2007, after he has delivered a speech to business leaders in Chicago.

If Channel 4 is not careful they might end up on America's most wanted list, they'll end up having their phones tapped and possibly hauled off to Guantánamo Bay!

You can be sure that the wingnuts will go nuts at this and start frothing at the mouth and falling overthemseleves to denounce it and claim the programme is being funded by al-Qaeda.