All Channel 4 articles – Page 325
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NewsAbraham targets maintaining C4 audience share
David Abraham has rallied Channel 4 commissioners, telling them the broadcaster is aiming to maintain its 7% audience share for 2011 even without Big Brother.
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NewsAllsopp to take on craft fair pros in series for C4
Channel 4 has ordered a Kirstie Allsopp-fronted series in which the presenter is pitted against country fair craft experts.
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NewsC4 orders three more runs of Million Pound Drop
Channel 4 is to air 29 further episodes of The Million Pound Drop Live this year after awarding producer Remarkable Pictures a three-series deal.
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NewsInside Nature’s Giants wins longer run on C4
Channel 4 animal autopsy show Inside Nature’s Giants is to return for a 10-part run, its longest to date, with the experts taking part in more adventure-style settings.
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NewsChatty Man top for Twitter interaction
The fifth series of British comedy chat show Alan Carr: Chatty Man attracted between 500 and 700 tweets per episode addressed directly to the @chattyman account, and marked an uplift in use of the #chattyman hashtag.
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NewsFarmer Doherty in tie-up with Jamie’s Fresh One
Jimmy Doherty, the TV farmer poached by Channel 4 from the BBC, is setting up rights-based company Guppy Productions in association with Jamie Oliver’s Fresh One.
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CommentNothing Fawlty with viewers
Like it or not, gypsies and Essex girls are what audiences want to see
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NewsBroadcasters and indies rally against relaxing IP laws
The UK’s biggest commercial broadcasters and Pact have argued that relaxing intellectual property (IP) laws could “seriously undermine” investment in content.
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NewsC4 invites viewers to video-call The Clinic
Channel 4 has ordered a live TV spin-off to health series Embarrassing Bodies that will feature viewers video-calling the show to share their medical problems.
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NewsC4 orders longest ever Drop
Channel 4 gameshow The Million Pound Drop Live is to return for its longest ever run.
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NewsC4 orders Mumsnet show
Studio Lambert has been given the greenlight to create a programme inspired by online forum Mumsnet for Channel 4.
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RatingsJamie’s Dream School ends with 1.2m
WEDNESDAY: Jamie Oliver’s classroom of high profile teachers failed to hold viewers’ attention as Dream School bowed out with its second lowest audience of the series.
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NewsC4 to court more controversy
David Abraham has tasked Jay Hunt with increasing the volume of controversial output on Channel 4, the chief creative officer revealed at her first out-of-London indie meeting.
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NewsWindfall recreates Dam Busters mission for C4
Channel 4 has recreated the WWII mission to destroy two German dams that was immortalised in classic film The Dam Busters.
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NewsSky plans bid to poach Glee
Channel 4 faces a battle to retain the rights to Glee as Sky prepares to offer what could be a knockout bid for the hit US show.
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CommentC4 reveals appetite for risk
Abraham’s recent moves signal a return to the broadcaster’s roots.
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NewsC4 proposes Royal gypsy wedding special
Channel 4 has ordered an hour long one-off of Big Fat Gypsy Weddings that will broadcast the day before the Royal Wedding.
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NewsClaudia Winkleman to host C4 chat show
Channel 4 has confirmed that Claudia Winkleman will be the host of a new comedy chat show due to start next month.
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NewsKatie Price rejects C4's Tramadol defence
Katie Price has said the boss of Channel 4 showed “a lack of judgment that cannot be acceptable” after he defended the organisation over jokes made by comedian Frankie Boyle regarding her disabled son Harvey.
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NewsC4's Facejacker to return
Facejacker will return to Channel 4 for a second series with comedian Kayvan Novak donning the prosthetics once again.