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We're the Superhumans is a television advert which was produced by Channel 4 to promote its broadcast of the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.. Serving as a follow-up to Meet the Superhumans (which was used to promote the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London), the advert featured people of various backgrounds and disabilities (including several British Paralympic athletes) performing ...
Veteran TV pundit, the late Clive James said: "Taken as a whole, the Channel 4 coverage of the Paralympics was very good, but almost the best part of it was The Last Leg, the discussion show at the end of each day". [27] The programme provoked a discussion in the media about whether disability and comedy could work together on TV. [28]
In the United Kingdom, Channel 4 broadcast the Games as its second Summer Paralympics, promising 500 hours of coverage. [76] [77] As a follow-up to its "Meet the Superhumans" trailer for the 2012 Paralympics, Channel 4 produced a trailer entitled "We're the Superhumans", [78] which would win a Cannes Lions Grand Prix for film. [79]
The following is a list of episodes for the British political satire and talk show The Last Leg which began airing on 30 August 2012 on Channel 4, originally as part of the channel's London 2012 Paralympic Games coverage and later spun off as its own show after the games finished.
Morgan had a small role as a presenter for Channel 4's sports coverage of the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, [36] and co-hosted, with JJ Chalmers, the channel's coverage of the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro [13] [37] [38] [39] Morgan has also co-hosted Channel 4's paralympic magazine show, The Superhuman Show, with Alex Brooker ...
The music video was directed by David C. Snyder, and was uploaded unofficially onto YouTube on August 3 2007.. Following the use of "Harder Than You Think" to soundtrack the UK's Channel 4 coverage of the Summer 2012 Paralympics, a music video including clips from the Channel 4 trailer for the Summer 2012 Paralympics was produced by HWIC Filmworks (founded by John Delserone and David C. Snyder ...
But Channel 4 is a commercially funded public service broadcaster and advertising allows us to invest in original programming and events such as the Paralympics." [10] Channel 4 also came under criticism for airing, on its show The Last Leg With Adam Hills, a tweet that asked whether it is acceptable to hit disabled people. [13]
[4] Arlen, at the age of eleven, [5] developed two rare conditions known as transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. This was an extremely rare scenario, and Victoria quickly lost the ability to speak, eat, walk, and move. She slipped into a vegetative state from which recovery was thought unlikely.