All Channel 4 articles – Page 332

  • The Promise
    News

    Twitter Tracker draws visitors to The Promise

    2011-03-25T12:19:00Z

    Channel 4’s four-part drama about life in Israel, The Promise, attracted 500,000 visitors to a dedicated site boosted by a Twitter Tracker and live webchats with the director.

  • Father Jack Me
    News

    C4 launches Father Ted app

    2011-03-25T12:18:00Z

    Channel 4 is launching a Father Ted iPhone app that will allow users to upload an image of themselves and morph it to look like Father Jack.

  • Celebrity Five Go To
    News

    C4 orders more Celebrity Five

    2011-03-25T11:32:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered two new series’ of daytime reality show Celebrity Five Go To, including Apprentice star Stuart ‘the brand’ Baggs.

  • Street Dance Championships
    News

    C4 looks to Fresh One for a different take on dance

    2011-03-24T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 plans to bring a different approach to dance competitions on TV with a three-part Fresh One documentary about the Street Dance XXL UK Championships.

  • Doctor Who
    News

    BBC and C4 back opt-out system for rights holders

    2011-03-24T08:30:00Z

    The BBC and Channel 4 have recommended introducing a new rights management model that has been rejected by ITV and Sky, as part of an independent review into the current IP framework.

  • E.ON future home
    News

    C4 teams up with E.ON for series on future homes

    2011-03-24T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered its first specialist factual show to be co-funded by a brand, with a programme that will showcase the next generation of household appliances and gadgets.

  • Dolphin Boy
    News

    C4 nets Dolphin Boy doc

    2011-03-24T08:30:00Z

    Channel 4 has netted a new documentary about a traumatised young man who was brought back from the brink by working with dolphins.

  • Big Fat Gypsy Weddings
    News

    Gypsy Weddings ties knot with book/DVD publishers

    2011-03-23T16:22:00Z

    Channel 4 smash hit Big Fat Gypsy Weddings is to be released on DVD on the day of the royal wedding and has also secured a major publishing deal.

  • Dispatches: Train Journeys Hell
    Ratings

    Dispatches rail investigation draws 1.6m

    2011-03-22T11:33:00Z

    MONDAY: Richard Wilson’s investigation into commuter chaos helped Channel 4’s Dispatches to its biggest audience in more than a year.

  • Matt Locke
    News

    C4's Matt Locke confirms departure

    2011-03-21T12:48:00Z

    Matt Locke, Channel 4’s acting head of cross-platform, has revealed he has left the broadcaster - via Twitter.

  • Japan’s Tsunami: How it Happened
    News

    C4 orders Japan quake docs

    2011-03-18T12:11:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered a number of “quick turnaround” programmes following the devastation that hit Japan last week.

  • Crufts
    News

    Crufts coverage questioned again

    2011-03-18T11:22:00Z

    TV’s coverage of Crufts has come under scrutiny again after the RSPCA wrote a critical letter to the Kennel Club that is also understood to have been sent to Channel 4.

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    News

    Ofcom to review TV ad deals

    2011-03-17T15:17:00Z

    Ofcom is to launch review of how TV advertising deals are agreed – a move that could change the way the UK’s commercial broadcasters make money.

  • Ten O’Clock Live
    News

    C4 leaps to defence of Ten O’Clock Live as ratings plummet

    2011-03-17T07:02:00Z

    Ten O’Clock Live commissioner Darren Smith has defended the Channel 4 show’s live ratings and hailed its young-skewing audience.

  • Red Riding
    News

    Revolution develops Peace’s GB84 for C4

    2011-03-17T07:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is planning to follow its adaptation of David Peace’s Red Riding with a new series based on GB84, the novelist’s fictional take on the miners’ strike of the 1980s.

  • Holiday Hijack
    News

    Betty to hijack holiday makers for Channel 4

    2011-03-17T07:00:00Z

    Betty is to send groups of people who are expecting a free luxury holiday on an authentic working experience instead, in a series for Channel 4.

  • Unreported World
    News

    C4 names first show to go global on 4oD

    2011-03-16T11:48:00Z

    Channel 4 series Unreported World will become the first programme to be made available to audiences outside the UK through the broadcaster’s online catch-up service, 4 on Demand (4oD).

  • Lily Allen
    Ratings

    Lily Allen doc debuts with 1.3m

    2011-03-16T11:05:00Z

    TUESDAY: Channel 4’s documentary trailing Lily Allen’s bid to break into retail fashion delivered an audience of more than 1.3m - as Caroline Quentin: A Passage through India continued to struggle on ITV1.

  • Brian Cox
    News

    Cox the star of RTS awards

    2011-03-16T08:41:00Z

    Science presenter Professor Brian Cox was the star himself after becoming a double winner at the Royal Television Society Awards.

  • Channel 4
    News

    C4 lines-up transgender films

    2011-03-15T12:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is to broadcast a week of short films focussed on transgender issues as part of a drive to improve their portrayal in the media.