Why you should watch my documentary that's out this week
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What documentary is being released this week and when?
Okay, welcome back to Gary's economics. Today we have a very special episode for you guys. I am finally able to announce this week the release of my 90 minute channel for documentary. All right, so this is something which I have been working on for God, probably nearly nine months now. Enormous amount of work, a documentary I have made with Channel 4 and Mindhouse Productions. And finally, finally is coming out this week. It will be released on Channel 4 This week, the 8th of July, 9pm, Wednesday evening. There's no World Cup that day, so you've got no excuse but to watch it. Today I want to talk a little bit about what documentary is, why I made it, what it was like making the documentary, how I feel about it now, and most importantly...
how I think we can try to use this to create a moment to really push the new UK government at this really pivotal time to do something about inequality and the economy. And without further ado, I will show you now the trailer for how to get filthy rich with Gary Stevenson. My proposal is a 2% tax on wealth of above £10 million. Absolute populist claptrap. People are having to make a decision on whether they eat or whether they stay warm.
Why is it only rich people are supposed to not look out for their own interests? Is everyone else looking out for them? How to get filthy rich with Gary Stevenson on Channel 4, Wednesday at 9.
All right, that was the trailer. First things first, let's get some technical details out of the way. The show will air for the first time on Channel 4, which is one of the big UK channels, if you're out of the country. This week, Wednesday, 8th of July, 9 p.m. We're really happy with that slot because there's no World Cup that day, so it means they've really chosen basically the best possible slot for it. It's 90 minutes long. it will be available here on youtube on sunday the 12th once it's come out on the 8th of july you can also watch it online on 4od which is channel 4's online on demand player and i want to talk a little bit about it so i've got a list of questions here um i'm it's incredibly hot here in london today and i am a little bit hungover so forgive me if i'm not quite as rapid as i usually am but uh the first question is how we ended up making the documentary
so the documentary came about basically because last year people who've been watching the channel will know i had my book out obviously the trading game and um it was just massive and i had this that massive press campaign there were billboards everywhere and we were just getting messages basically every day from tv companies saying let's make a documentary let's make a documentary and um Most of the time they were kind of time wasters without any good ideas. But we reached a point where we were being chased by the BBC, ITV and Channel 4, which is the three main like free to air TV channels here in the UK. And me and Chris, who is my agent, were sort of like, well, we're never going to get a better chance than having all three of the main channels pushing for us.
So we met with somebody from all of the main channels. We thought Channel 4 were the best. They suggested a couple of production companies and they sent Louis Theroux and his business partner to come and speak to us because they run a documentary production company called Mindhouse and that was pretty crazy. We spoke about what we could do. I wanted to try and do something that would be really interesting, that would just sort of cover the state of the nation as it is right now, the state of inequality, the direction we're going in, and really hammer the question of, like, why are we not taxing them much more? And Channel 4 were super keen. Louis Theroux's company, Mindhouse, were super keen. They sent a director called Trevor Doxey, who is from Burton-on-Trent, near Stoke, down to meet me.
And he was, like, fantastic right from the beginning. Like, he really wanted to understand my work, really wanted to understand... what we were looking to do and all of my ideas on the YouTube and he's reading the book and really getting involved in it and basically I was just really excited at the prospect of like obviously we've had a lot of success on YouTube we've had a lot of success with the book it was this question of can we do something that's different that's like a bit more collaborative that the creative voice is a bit different and can we reach more people with these ideas and then can we use that
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