Channel 4 – Page 299
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NewsE4 triumphs at Digital Awards with four gongs
E4 was crowned Digital Channel of the Year at this year’s Broadcast Digital Awards – one of four prizes for the Channel 4 youth station.
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NewsC4 inks BT content deal for 4oD
Channel 4 has signed its first commercial partnership deal for 4oD, with BT sponsoring a raft of bespoke content including the premiere of season four of The IT Crowd.
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NewsPeter Andre to host C4 chat show
Channel 4’s new programme The 5 O’Clock show will be fronted by singer Peter Andre, the pop singer has confirmed.
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NewsJamie Oliver goes Dutch
MIPTV: FremantleMedia Enterprises has secured a three-year deal for Jamie Oliver’s shows to air in the Netherlands and has also reintroduced the chef to South American TV for the first time in almost a decade.
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NewsCoach Trip booked for two more journeys
Channel 4 daytime show Coach Trip will stay on air into next year after the broadcaster commissioned two further series.
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NewsC4 to step up search for new doc faces
Channel 4 head of programmes Julian Bellamy has pledged to make a “nursery slope” for new factual presenters a key priority in his creative renewal of the channel.
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NewsC4 asks: are you smarter than an 11-year-old?
Channel 4 plans to test the nation’s mathematics skills with a web game tied into a forthcoming edition of Dispatches.
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NewsC4 extends Britdoc agreement
Channel 4 has extended its commitment to the Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation for a further two years.
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NewsShameless run extended
Shameless will be extended from 16 episodes to 22 when it returns for an eighth series in 2011.
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NewsOff the Fence picks up diamond doc
Off the Fence has picked up the distribution rights to Blink Productions’ forthcoming documentary about the world’s most famous jewel.
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NewsC4 orders Tintin doc
Dom Joly will explore Tintin, the character created by Belgian cartoonist Hergé, for a Channel 4 documentary.
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NewsC4 examines foreigners' role in UK history
Channel 4 has commissioned three indies to produce a 4 x 60-minute series of drama documentaries looking at the role that foreigners have played in key moments in British history.
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NewsIndia season tops C4 doc slate
An India season, life on the maternity ward, teen BNP members and Amy Winehouse’s dad are among the highlights of C4’s documentary slate over the coming months.
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NewsMPs criticise More4 over Crufts
A cross-party group of MPs has criticised More4 for picking up next year’s Crufts in a report prompted by BBC1 documentary Pedigree Dogs Exposed.
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NewsLord Burns set to be named C4 chair
Ofcom is poised to make economist Lord Terry Burns Channel 4’s new chairman in a surprise appointment.
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NewsLocation presenter to front DIY Christmas series
Location, Location, Location presenter Kirstie Allsopp will reveal how to have a DIY Christmas in a 3 x 60-minute series for Channel 4.
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NewsC4 reveals second Family
Channel 4 has unveiled the second family that will go under the microscope in its Bafta-nominated documentary format The Family.
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NewsC4 orders second Half
Channel 4 has ordered a second series of RDF Television’s series How The Other Half Live.
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C4 orders 'Victorian' Muslim terrorist doc
Channel 4 is to draw parallels between British Muslim terrorists and Victorian anarchists in an “unsettling” 60-minute doc from the maker of The Seven Sins Of England.