Why I Made A TV Show To Make Viewers Remember Missing Refugee Children

TV show The Tunnelhas never shied away from the socio-political state of Europe so almost two years ago, when I took over as showrunner for series three, I knew it would be impossible to ignore Europe’s biggest issue: the refugee crisis.Following the devastating images of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian boy found drowned on a Turkish Beach trying to flee Syria, the media upped their reporting of the crisis. We were bombarded by images of the Calais camps, riddled with disease an