All Channel 4 articles – Page 222
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NewsC4 orders celebrity lookalike comedy
Channel 4 is to transform its online non-scripted comedy Lookalikes into a 30-minute special for linear television.
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NewsSheffield Doc/Fest 2015 line-up revealed
BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore, BBC2 boss Kim Shillinglaw and Channel 4 deputy chief creative officer Ralph Lee are among the executives signed up to talk at this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest.
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NewsC4 and Love back on Benefits
Channel 4 and Love Productions have hit back at claims that the second series of Benefits Street is being made for “entertainment” and that parts of the show are “contrived”.
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VideoVIDEO: Benefits Street Series 2, C4
Watch the trailer for the second run of Love Production’s controversial documentary series
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RatingsNo Offence locks up 2.5m
TUESDAY: C4 cop drama No Offence got off to a strong start with an audience of 2.5m, as BBC4’s slow TV canal trip performed well.
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VideoVIDEO: Danny Dyer takes on C4's Two Players
Ever wondered what would happen if Danny Dyer and Tara Palmer-Tomkinson teamed up to play video games? Well wonder no more.
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Behind The ScenesNo Offence, Channel 4
Paul Abbott’s new Channel 4 series is a comedy/police procedural with three female leads. Benji Wilson visits the set, while the writer explains how it draws on his previous work
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Behind The ScenesBallot Monkeys, C4
C4’s Ballot Monkeys had to be filmed close to the wire to keep it topical. The solution? An unusual OB with four crews crammed into four coaches, writes Jimmy Mulville
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NewsTV’s election plans analysed
Broadcasters line up giant touch screens, fixed-rig cameras and a former director general
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NewsJamie Oliver serves up healthy-eating docs for C4
Jamie Oliver is back on the campaign trail with two Channel 4 healthy-eating documentary projects.
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NewsDragonfly installs fixed-rig in children's hospital
One Born Every Minute indie Dragonfly is returning to the wards with a fixed-rig series set in a children’s hospital for Channel 4.
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Ratings24 Hours in the Past transports 3.8m
TUESDAY: BBC1’s latest reality documentary format 24 Hours In The Past failed to uncover more than 4m viewers as Channel 4’s political comedy Ballot Monkeys climbed higher.
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NewsC4 prepares party-planner pilot
Remarkable Television will follow one of Manchester’s foremost party planners in a TX pilot for Channel 4.
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NewsC4 hires viewer relationship chief
Channel 4 has promoted Charlie Palmer to head of viewer relationship management following the departure of Steve Forde last month.
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NewsGeorge Entwistle to exec C4 election coverage
Former BBC director general George Entwistle has been drafted in to exec produce Channel 4’s election night coverage.
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NewsFormer C4 boss argues for licence fee rise
Former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson has called for the licence fee to be increased and warned against the potential “dismemberment” of the BBC.
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RatingsDispatches scores two-year high with Sports Direct doc
MONDAY: Dispatches hit a two-year high with its investigation of Sports Direct, narrowly losing out to a Panorama election special.
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NewsC4 News creates GIF wall
Channel 4 has launched a news site that features short stories supported by shareable animated GIFs.
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NewsE4 shuts down for general election
Channel 4 will shut down its youth-skewing digital channel E4 on the day of the general election to encourage young people to go out and vote.
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NewsC4 sets out model to grow games business
Channel 4’s freshly launched games publishing arm is to take around a 15% share of revenue from developers’ apps to engineer a “win-win” situation in which it drives more traffic to its own titles.