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Stephen Arnell

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  • TV and Movie Consultant, Culture/Media Commentator & Writer/Producer, Freelance
United Kingdom
As seen in: The Guardian, The Independent (UK), Digital Spy, The New Statesman, The Spectator, The Stage, The Morning Star, The New World, Broadcast Magazine, The Spectator (World) and
Covers:  Arts/Culture (including film/tv/literature/music), History, Politics & Lifestyle
Doesn't Cover: Sport - unless culture related

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Stephen Arnell’s Biography

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Producer/writer/consultant with over 30 years experience in broadcasting, with senior roles including Channel Director (ITV3/ITV4), Head of Strategy (ITV Digital Channels) and most recently Broadcast Consultant for various broadcasters (covering UK, EMEA and R.O.W.) including strategic/scheduling analysis, channel budgets, acquisitions - film, series and factual, strategic/scheduling analysis, commissioning advice and channel launches (UK , Europe and Middle East).

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Articles

The Mysterious Ash Tree – Beware or Befriend?

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By Stephen Arnell Verified
| Paranormal Daily News Verified
​In my front garden stands a typically fast-growing Ash tree, one whose roots are perilously close to destroying the garage. Which got me thinking about the Ash tree in folklore and in the paranormal world; my cultural touchstone being M.R. James’ disturbing tale The Ash Tree (1904); links to two BBC2 versions are linked below. The Ash (or Fraxinus) is generally regarded as a positive member of a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, or Oleaceae.
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200 Years Before Christianity: Rome’s Persecution of the Cult of Bacchus

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By Stephen Arnell Verified
| Paranormal Daily News Verified
​2,211 years ago. Rome, 186 BC. 7,000 men and women of all classes (including slaves) faced the death penalty for their participation in the secret nocturnal cult festival known as the Bacchanalia, where drunken orgies, sexual perversions, poisoning, forgery, human sacrifice and political conspiracies were all alleged to take place.
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Halloween’s 1992 GHOSTWATCH – When BBC Triggered a National Supernatural Meltdown

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By Stephen Arnell Verified
| Paranormal Daily News Verified
Halloween 1992: BBC1 scares the living crap out of those viewers who fail to understand that the PTSD-inducing Screen One billed drama presentation GHOSTWATCH was not an actual investigation of paranormal activity. It was cleverly staged entertainment, despite some pretty obvious acting by a cast of real-life presenters (including talk show legend Michael Parkinson) and jobbing thespians.
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