All Channel 4 articles – Page 266
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NewsChannel 4 to return to Utopia
Channel 4 drama Utopia has shrugged off below-average ratings to win a recommission - but is also being investigated by Ofcom over the treatment of its child actors.
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NewsC4's George Dixon moves to RTÉ One
George Dixon, Channel 4 scheduling boss and chief creative officer Jay Hunt’s right hand man, is moving to Ireland to head up RTÉ One.
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RatingsCrufts is top dog for C4
My childhood companion was a dog called Dougal. On long postschool walks, one of us would always walk through the muddy puddle, and sometimes it was him. We Brits love our dogs, as More 4 finds out with each passing year.
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NewsC4 tests more daytime formats
Channel 4 is continuing to trial new daytime ideas with a pilot from Wild Rover and a Superscrimpers spin-off series from Remarkable Television.
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NewsC4 to tell Stephen Hawking's life story
The first TV autobiography of Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most famous scientists, is set to be broadcast on Channel 4.
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NewsC4 News gives birth to data baby
Channel 4 News has launched an experimental online identity designed to explore how businesses exploit consumer data.
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NewsHearing reignites BBC and Sky fees debate
A select committee hearing has reignited the debate over Sky retransmission fees, with BBC strategy director John Tate claiming it is “insulting” to compare content with a commodity.
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NewsC4 plans report on concerns
Indie advocate Stuart Cosgrove fleshes out proposal to engage with production community
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CommentC4: trust your producers and we’ll make great TV
Unless indies are left to innovate, its audience will end up migrating
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NewsC4 strengthens cross-genre disability commitment
Channel 4 has strengthened its commitment to changing the portrayal of disability on TV through a raft of programming.
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NewsChannel 4 to hatch live Easter programming
Channel 4 is marking Easter with a natural history event that will see a variety of eggs hatch live on air.
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NewsIndies reveal practical problems with C4 shows
Disgruntled producers have outlined a raft of production problems that they say are at the heart of the current debate about Channel 4.
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NewsC4 looks to fine-tune Dispatches output deals
Channel 4 has begun negotiations with key Dispatches suppliers, with a view to evolving the multiple film output deal structure introduced last year.
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NewsC4 hands Cosgrove indie role
Channel 4 stalwart Stuart Cosgrove has been installed in the new role of indie advocate as part of a raft of measures designed to improve the broadcaster’s relations with the production community.
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CommentJay Hunt: Great TV is a common goal
Last week, Charlie Parsons threw a metaphorical brick through the window at Horseferry Road
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NewsThe great Channel 4 debate
Charlie Parsons’ C4 broadside has split the indie community right down the middle
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NewsC4 set to dish out £10m to charities
Channel 4 is gearing up to hand out £10m to charities, in its biggest ever give away, which will see the Secret Millionaire format evolving to tackle pressing social concerns selected by the public.
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NewsFox renews The Following and The Mindy Project
US broadcast network Fox has renewed a raft of freshman series including The Following and The Mindy Project.
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NewsBig Fish Fight hooks 20,000 tweets
Hugh’s Big Fish Fight saw a massive surge in Twitter activity - to over 2,200 messages per minute - after presenter Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall urged viewers to message the UK’s biggest supermarkets.
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NewsDerek gets second series
Ricky Gervais’ comedy Derek has been recommissioned for a second series by Channel 4 as the first run comes to an end this week.