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Breaking Bad actor RJ Mitte, who played Walter White’s disabled son Walt Jr, will join Channel 4’s hosting team for the Paralympics in Rio as part of the channel’s 2016 programme lineup.
Mitte, who has cerebral palsy, will be leading reports and features on the Paralympics, as well as taking part in the channel’s The Last Leg comedy programme.
He said: “I’m so excited and honoured to be working with Channel 4 for the upcoming 2016 Paralympic Games. Sports connects us through the art of competition and I look forward to meeting all the athletes and learning about how they achieved their goals of pursuing their passion on such an elite level.”
Channel 4’s head of TV events and sport Ed Havard says: “RJ is a huge star worldwide after being part of the one of the biggest TV shows of all time and we are delighted that he will be such a huge part of our Rio coverage.
Channel 4’s head of TV events and sport Ed Havard says: “RJ is a huge star worldwide after being part of the one of the biggest TV shows of all time and we are delighted that he will be such a huge part of our Rio coverage.
“His passion for sport and his groundbreaking role in transforming attitudes to disability make him the perfect addition to C4’s own world-class team of talent being led by Clare Balding.”
Channel 4’s coverage of the 2012 Paralympics in London beat the BBC’s Olympics coverage to a Bafta award for best TV sport coverage of a live event. The same production company behind the channel’s coverage of the London Games, Sunset+Vine, will work on next year’s games.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
