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===TV presenter=== Allen presented the TV show ''Whatever You Want'' in 1982, during the early days of [[Channel Four]] and has presented television documentaries for [[Victor Lewis-Smith]]'s [[Associated-Rediffusion]] Television Productions: ''[[Lauren Harries|Little Lady Fauntleroy]]'' (2004), which saw Allen interview [[Lauren Harries]] and her family,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/movie-guide/b-gof0my/little-lady-fauntleroy/|title=Little Lady Fauntleroy|website=Radio Times|access-date=15 March 2023}}</ref> ''You're Fayed'' (2005) and on ''[[Michael Carroll (lottery winner)|Michael Carroll β King of Chavs]]'' (2006). In 2007 his documentary ''Tourette De France'' appeared on [[Channel 4]], in which he travelled with a group of Scottish people with [[Tourette syndrome]], including [[John Davidson (Tourette syndrome campaigner)|John Davidson]], on an [[AEC Routemaster]] bus from London to the Parisian hospital where this condition was described by [[Georges Gilles de la Tourette]] in 1884.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tourette de France |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0954980/ |website=IMDb}}</ref> He also presented the British erotic direct-to-video series ''Red Tape''. ''Keith Allen Will Burn in Hell'' appeared on Channel 4 in June 2007, and showed Allen profiling the controversial [[Westboro Baptist Church]], led by [[Fred Phelps]], and speaking to members of the church and Phelps's family. <ref>{{cite web |title=Keith Allen Will Burn in Hell |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1056472/ |website=IMDb |access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref> Allen presented the ''[[Manchester Passion]]'', a contemporary retelling of the last few hours in the life of Jesus on [[Good Friday]], 14 April 2006. <ref>{{cite web |title=Manchester Passion |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795422 |website=IMBd |access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref> ''Keith Meets Keith'', screened on 14 September 2009 on Channel 4, in which Allen tracked down TV chef [[Keith Floyd]]. The show contained what turned out to be Floyd's final interview for television, as he died of a heart attack on the evening the documentary was screened.<ref>{{cite web |title=Keith Meets Keith |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1510272/ |website=IMDb |access-date=3 January 2025}}</ref> Allen's documentary film about the [[death of Diana, Princess of Wales]], ''[[Unlawful Killing (film)|Unlawful Killing]]'' was intended for release in 2011. [[Mohamed Al-Fayed]], the film's only financial backer, contributed the film's Β£2.5 million budget.<ref name="Higgins">{{cite news|last=Higgins|first=Charlotte|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/may/13/keith-allen-diana-film-cannes?INTCMP=SRCH|title=Not for British eyes: Keith Allen's Diana film seeks headlines in Cannes|author-link=Charlotte Higgins|date=14 May 2011|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=14 May 2011|location=London}}</ref><ref name="Singh">{{cite news|last1=Singh|first1=Anita|last2=Rayner|first2=Gordon|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/cannes-film-festival/8513112/Unlawful-Killing-film-about-the-death-of-Diana-likens-Prince-Philip-to-Fred-West.html|title=Unlawful Killing: film about the death of Diana likens Prince Philip to Fred West|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=13 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121229100438/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/cannes-film-festival/8513112/Unlawful-Killing-film-about-the-death-of-Diana-likens-Prince-Philip-to-Fred-West.html|archive-date=29 December 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Allen argued in ''The Guardian'' that it detailed a "provable conspiracy after the crash".<ref>{{cite news|last=Allen|first=Keith|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/may/07/unlawful-killing-film-you-wont-see|title=Unlawful Killing β the film the British won't get to see|work=The Guardian|date=7 May 2011|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref> It accuses [[Elizabeth II|Queen Elizabeth]] and [[Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon|Princess Margaret]] of being "gangsters in tiaras" and [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Philip]] of being a "psychopath".<ref name="Higgins" /><ref name="Singh" /> Allen said he refused to make 87 cuts asked for by lawyers to enable the film to be shown in Britain.<ref name="Higgins" /> His film was permanently shelved in 2012 after it became known it could not be screened in the United States as it was impossible to insure it against potential litigation.<ref>{{cite news|last=Child|first=Ben|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jul/05/princess-diana-documentary-unlawful-killing|title=Princess Diana documentary Unlawful Killing is shelved|work=The Guardian|date=5 July 2012|access-date=4 May 2019}}</ref>
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