All Channel 4 articles – Page 352

  • News

    BBC bosses reject C4's call to curb acquisitions

    2009-05-13T00:53:00Z

    BBC chiefs today flatly rejected a demand from Channel 4 that the corporation should stop buying American programmes, insisting it helped to keep the costs of making British programmes down.

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    C4's Sex Education Show rated and slated

    2009-05-13T00:48:00Z

    Channel 4 shows The Hospital and The Sex Education Show v Pornography divided audiences last month, with viewers singling both shows out for praise and scorn.

  • News

    C4: Top 10 slated (April 09)

    2009-05-13T00:20:00Z

    Top 10 programmes most criticised by people who contacted Channel 4 viewer enquiries in April 2009 (quote is an example of viewer comment).

  • News

    C4: Top 10 rated (April 09)

    2009-05-13T00:19:00Z

    Top 10 programmes most appreciated by people who contacted Channel 4’s viewer enquiries in April 2009 (quote is an example of viewer comment).

  • News

    C4 hopeful of BBCW tie-up by mid-June

    2009-05-12T23:56:00Z

    Channel 4 could be just weeks away from reaching a partnership deal with BBC Worldwide to plug its £150m funding gap and head off further damaging cuts to its creative output.

  • News

    C4 orders McCain-funded sports show

    2009-05-12T23:02:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered a grass roots athletics show that will be sponsored by frozen food manufacturer McCain Foods.

  • News

    BBC poaches C4's Ahmed in new Knowledge hirings

    2009-05-11T23:06:00Z

    Channel 4’s Aaqil Ahmed has been poached to run the BBC’s religion and ethics department as part of the second round of Knowledge appointments – in which four of the key commissioning jobs have been handed to existing BBC staff.

  • News

    C4 rapped over Ramsay; pre-watershed sex cleared

    2009-05-11T22:46:00Z

    Ofcom has rapped Channel 4 over Gordon Ramsay’s swearing immediately after the watershed – but has cleared pre-watershed sex that was “at the edge of acceptability”.

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    The Broadcast Interview

    Andy Duncan, Channel 4

    2009-03-11T14:44:00Z

    Channel 4’s boss tells Robin Parker that the BBC must give commercial PSBs a break if a “mixed ecology” is to continue funding creative programming.

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    Features

    The Devil's Whore

    2008-11-05T14:46:00Z

    TX: Forget bonnets and ballrooms, Peter Flannery’s Civil War drama is a highly political piece about a turning point in British history.

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    The Broadcast Interview

    Barry Cox, Channel 4

    2003-02-25T10:44:00Z

    Channel 4 deputy chairman Barry Cox made waves when he called for the licence fee to be scrapped and Sky to be broken up. Here he outlines his vision for the future and tells us why he objects to being known as ‘the government’s digital tsar’.