Channel 4 – Page 113
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NewsC4 to turn up heat on climate change debate
Channel 4 is to dedicate an evening to the climate change debate including a film about how the green movement has failed.
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NewsC4 unveils interactive marketing push
Channel 4 is to give viewers the chance to assemble on-air messages featuring clips from its biggest stars in its latest marketing campaign.
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NewsMillion Pound Drop to source players online
Channel 4 is building on the success of interactive game show The Million Pound Drop by casting viewers who play along online as TV contestants.
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NewsC4 buys Spike Jonze AIDS doc
MIPCOM: Channel 4 has acquired a Spike Jonze-produced documentary about the life-restoring effects of antiretroviral drugs used on people in Africa.
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NewsThree in a Bed rolls over to new series
Channel 4 has commissioned a second run of B&B series Three in a Bed and topped up the order with a stripped daytime version.
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NewsOfcom names new C4 Board members
The managing director of Waitrose and a former Unilever exec are among four new non-executive directors appointed to the Channel 4 Board by Ofcom.
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NewsC4 extends Million Pound Drop
Channel 4 game show The Million Pound Drop – Live will be extended into a weekly series after a second run of stripped episdes.
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NewsChannel 4 unveils Britdoc initiatives
Channel 4 has stepped up its commitment to documentaries after injecting £50,000 into its Britdoc Foundation and partnering with sportswear brand Puma for a range of grants and awards.
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NewsC4 to air Trinny and Susannah comedy
A spoof reality show starring stylists Trinny and Susannah has become the first scripted web show to transfer to a UK terrestrial broadcaster.
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NewsGrade: What is C4 for?
EDINBURGH: Michael Grade has accused Channel 4 of losing its sense of purpose through over-reliance on Big Brother.
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NewsC4 hands ‘female Kenny Everett’ peaktime series
Channel 4 has given a primetime slot to an unknown comedienne described as “Kenny Everett without the beard”.
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NewsC4 orders £1m of Scottish commissions
Channel 4 is to turn the spotlight on Scotland’s burgeoning computer games industry in a three-part series that it has greenlit as part of £1m of cross-platform commissions from the nation.
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NewsC4 picks up NBC’s 24-style conspiracy thriller
Channel 4 has picked up the UK rights to The Event, a conspiracy thriller with echoes of 24 and Lost that has been touted as one of the biggest US dramas of the year.
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NewsC4 names new head of online
Channel 4 has promoted head of online products Richard Davidson-Houston to a new role that will encompass all web activity including commissioning.
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NewsLakes chef presents first AFP show in C4 3pm slot
Chef Peter Sidwell is to cook his way around the Lake District in Channel 4’s first advertiser-funded show to air in the pre-Countdown slot.
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NewsBBC and C4 challenged over doc-buying policies
The BBC and Channel 4 are “short-changing” viewers by not airing enough acquired documentaries, according to newly formed pressure group the Documentary Distributors’ Association.
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NewsMonterosa beefs up with C4 hire
Social TV provider Monterosa, which worked on interactive gameshow Million Pound Drop, has appointed Channel 4’s Helen Otter as project manager and producer.
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NewsTrio win double orders in latest run of C4’s First Cut
Century Films, Minnow Films and Lambent Productions have each won two commissions for Channel 4’s emerging-directors’ docs strand First Cut.
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NewsC4 libel action to be heard without jury
The Court of Appeal has upheld a decision over action against Channel 4 by a former bodyguard to Michael Jackson that could jeopardise the future of trial by jury in defamation cases.
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NewsShine hires Discovery exec to lead business development unit
Elisabeth Murdoch’s Shine Group has hired Discovery’s Alden Mitchell and Channel 4’s Lucinda Hicks to help form a group-wide global business development unit.