Channel 4 – Page 154
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NewsC4 to air British basketball
Channel 4 has picked up the rights to broadcast highlights from British basketball championship Standard Life Game on 2010 Eurobasket.
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NewsBeeny returns to C4 with ambitious new project
Sarah Beeny is to take on one of her riskiest projects when she stops dishing out property advice and returns to her developing roots in a Channel 4 series from Renegade Pictures.
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NewsC4 orders ad-funded sports shows from Boomerang Plus
Boomerang Plus has won a raft of orders of C4 extreme sports AFP shows supported by brands including Sony Ericsson, Red Bull, Quiksilver and PlayStation.
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Pulse produces Oasis shorts
Pulse, the indie behind Blur movie No Distance Left to Run, has made a series of online short films about fans of the band Oasis.
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NewsC4 to subtitle all programming output from 2011
Channel 4 aims to offer subtitles on all programmes and fi lms across TV and online by next January as part of a package of measures to improve its access services.
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NewsC4 tackles attitudes to beauty in life-swap series from Betty
Society’s attitudes towards beauty are to be tested in Channel 4’s latest life-swap format.
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NewsConcorde doc takes off
The crash that ended supersonic air travel is to be explored in a 90-minute documentary charting the history of Concorde.
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NewsC4 presenter fronts web beauty series
Supersize vs Superskinny presenter Anna Richardson is to front a branded web series funded by the Channel 4 show’s sponsor.
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NewsSinnerton swaps Quicksilver for C4 current affairs
Quicksilver Media producer Siobhan Sinnerton has joined Channel 4 as news and current affairs commissioning editor - as predecessor Ed Braman returns to the Unreported World indie.
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NewsBBC criticised for buying US horror drama
The BBC should not have bid for US horror drama Harper’s Island, the Culture, Media and Sport select committee has claimed.
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NewsBetty secures C4 order for glitzy wedding show
Country House Rescue indie Betty has won an order for a Channel 4 format that will bring Las Vegas-style weddings to the UK.
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NewsEyeworks UK to film charity event for T4
Channel 4 youth strand T4 is to screen highlights of a major music and fashion event in an advertiser-funded deal with GlaxoSmithKline.
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NewsCosgrove rebuts TV 'failure' claims
Claims that Channel 4 “failed to deliver” for the TV industry in Scotland have been rebutted by the channel’s head of nations and regions Stuart Cosgrove.
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NewsC4 gives all-female sketch show a slot in comedy season
Channel 4 has extended its forthcoming pilots season Comedy Showcase to seven episodes after greenlighting an all-female sketch show from Objective Productions.
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NewsMagician Brown to front ‘real-life psychics’ docs
Derren Brown is changing tack with his next series for Channel 4, fronting three ob docs in which he will meet people who claim to have psychic abilities.
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NewsC4 to mark tsunami anniversary
Channel 4 is to mark the fifth anniversary of the 2004 Asian tsunami with a feature-length documentary that edits amateur footage of the disaster.
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NewsDerren Brown 'to influence public'
A programme to be aired tonight on Channel 4 will see illusionist Derren Brown transform himself into a beggar and see if he can dictate how much the public donates.
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NewsC4 trials Frankie Boyle pilot from RDF Scotland
RDF Scotland has won a raft of new commissions, including a 30-minute Channel 4 pilot fronted by Mock The Week comedian Frankie Boyle.
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NewsiPlayer doubles its reach
BBC iPlayer has more than doubled its reach in the past year and is five times more popular than ITV’s catch-up service, Ofcom’s annual communications market report has revealed.
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NewsC4 opens up web archive
Channel 4 is to make 4,000 hours of shows from its 27-year archive available for free online.