All Channel 4 articles – Page 351

  • The Operation: Surgery Live
    News

    C4 hails Twitter experiment success

    2009-06-01T10:50:00Z

    Channel 4 and Windfall Films are celebrating after interactive show The Operation: Surgery Live became the most popular topic on Twitter during its final episode.

  • Heston's Victorian Feast
    News

    Blumenthal serves up another Feast

    2009-05-28T15:00:00Z

    Michelin-starred chef Heston Blumenthal is set to serve up another Feast as his experimental cookery show has been given a second series on Channel 4.

  • News

    Cherie Blair takes to the streets for Dispatches doc

    2009-05-28T08:48:00Z

    Cherie Blair will join police patrols on some of Britain’s toughest estates in a follow-up to last year’s Channel 4 series, The Truth About Street Weapons.

  • Celebrity Big Brother cleared by Ofcom over Coolio complaints
    News

    Celeb Big Brother cleared over Coolio complaints

    2009-05-26T11:13:00Z

    Ofcom has rejected 527 complaints about both the behaviour and depiction of rapper Coolio in this year’s Celebrity Big Brother.

  • News

    Channels agree five-year ban on revisiting Kangaroo

    2009-05-26T10:29:00Z

    Project Kangaroo partners the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV have made a five-year agreement with the Competition Commission that they will not try to acquire any part of their rivals video-on-demand activities.

  • News

    C4 defends Come Dine With Me racism claims

    2009-05-22T12:03:00Z

    Channel 4 has defended an episode of Come Dine With Me that attracted a “surprising” flurry of complaints over alleged racist remarks.

  • News

    C4 axes Edinburgh Soho House

    2009-05-22T07:42:00Z

    Edinburgh TV Festival institution Soho House has fallen victim to the cost-cutting at Channel 4.

  • News

    T4 orders celeb eye-view doc

    2009-05-22T07:40:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered a showbiz pilot from Whizz Kid Entertainment where a pin-hole camera fixed at eye-level follows celebrities for a day to see how they really live.

  • the unloved
    News

    C4-Five merger rejected by most Pact members

    2009-05-21T19:00:00Z

    Two-thirds of indies believe RTL’s proposed merger of C4 and Five would be bad news for the industry, according to a Pact survey.

  • Skins
    Features

    Getting under the skin of HD strategy

    2009-05-21T17:42:00Z

    Channel 4 and ITV’s road maps to high-definition Freeview look to have gone off course. Is it just a bump in the road or will their plans crash and burn?

  • Dispatches: Orphans of the Storm
    Behind The Scenes

    Dispatches: Orphans of the Storm

    2009-05-21T17:22:00Z

    Evan Williams’ Dispatches doc traces orphans left behind under the country’s harsh regime.

  • News

    New C4 acquisition axed

    2009-05-20T07:26:00Z

    Privileged, the US teen drama acquired by Channel 4 last week, has been axed after just one season - and before it has had a chance to air in the UK.

  • News

    Spike Jonze to star in C4 comedy

    2009-05-15T23:39:00Z

    Details have emerged of the cast list for Channel 4’s up-coming comedy pilot The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, which includes cult film director Spike Jonze.

  • News

    C4's Younghusband takes final BBC Knowledge job

    2009-05-14T23:26:00Z

    Jan Younghusband is leaving Channel 4 after a decade to take the commissioning editor for music and events role at the BBC.

  • News

    Freeview HD plans in doubt

    2009-05-14T21:49:00Z

    Free-to-air HD could become the latest victim of the crisis in TV funding as ITV and Channel 4 reconsider plans to launch HD channels on Freeview.

  • News

    Ahmed's final orders for C4

    2009-05-14T21:37:00Z

    The director of The Qur’an will interview Britain’s religious leaders about contemporary issues in one of the swansong commissions of outgoing Channel 4 editor for religion Aaqil Ahmed.

  • News

    C4 buys in US teen drama Privileged for slot on E4

    2009-05-14T21:36:00Z

    Channel 4 has picked up the UK premiere rights to US drama Privileged, which airs in the US on the CW network.

  • News

    BBCW/C4 joint venture would turnover £800m

    2009-05-14T21:20:00Z

    BBC Worldwide and Channel 4 chiefs are now awaiting a decision from the Government as to whether they can reach a partnership deal in a joint-venture that would produce an annual turnover of £800m and a profit of £200m.

  • News

    SAS faker to head C4 First Cut doc strand

    2009-05-14T21:18:00Z

    Century Films will investigate the life and death of an SAS fantasist in one of a pair of commissions for the upcoming run of Channel 4 documentary strand First Cut.

  • Ratings

    Maddie doc draws ratings

    2009-05-14T01:00:00Z

    Madeleine McCann disappeared two years ago, and viewers are still interested in her story – witness the fact that Channel 4’s doc Madeleine was Here was the most-watched Cutting Edge programme so far this year.