Channel 4 – Page 53
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NewsC4 awards Dispatches contracts
Channel 4 has awarded Blakeway Productions, October Films, Nine Lives Media and ITN Productions contracts to make programmes for the Dispatches strand in 2012.
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NewsC4 lines-up two Alternative Christmas Messages
Channel 4 is to broadcast two alternatives to the Queen’s Christmas Day speech for the first time.
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NewsC4 reveals digital demographic groups
The Channel 4 online department has identified eight “personas” for the broadcasters digital audience that suppliers should keep in mind when pitching ideas.
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NewsC4 poaches Impossible's Gardiner for drama
Impossible Pictures’ Sophie Gardiner has joined Channel 4 as a drama commissioning editor.
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NewsHunt: C4 restructure will boost creativity
Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt has revealed the thinking behind her commissioning restructure and explained the spate of recent departures from the broadcaster.
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NewsBlack Mirror "pig sex" sparks 332 complaints
The first episode of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror attracted more than 300 complaints to Ofcom and Channel 4.
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NewsC4's Kevin Sutcliffe poised to exit
Channel 4 deputy head of news and current affairs Kevin Sutcliffe is expected to leave the channel, Broadcast understands.
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NewsGok Wan heads to China for C4
Gok Wan will visit China in a one-off looking at the scale and background of Chinese manufacturing for Channel 4.
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NewsC4 to pilot comic trio’s Bad Sugar
Sharon Horgan, Julia Davis and Olivia Colman have created a Channel 4 comedy pilot with the writers of Fresh Meat and Peep Show.
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NewsShine TV hires C4 commissioner
Shine Group has made another high-profile appointment, poaching a Channel 4 commissioner to head a new division at Shine TV.
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NewsC4 appoints Jay Hunt strategy advisor
Channel 4 has appointed former Question Time editor Edward Havard to the newly created role of channel executive, to support chief creative officer Jay Hunt.
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NewsTop Boy to return for second series
Top Boy, Channel 4’s urban drama based on a Hackney estate, has been recommissioned for a second four-part series.
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NewsC4 head of daytime quits
Channel 4 head of daytime Helen Warner is leaving the broadcaster to concentrate on her writing career.
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NewsHamish Mykura to leave C4
Channel 4 has confirmed that Hamish Mykura, head of documentaries, is to leave the broadcaster after 10 years.
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NewsPioneer wins 2011 review docs for C4
Pioneer Productions is making two docs for Channel 4 that look back on 2011, one of which focuses on natural disasters and another on the spate of animal attacks on holiday-makers.
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NewsC4 to live stream hippo being eaten
Channel 4 is to reveal the food chain in action by live broadcasting the consumption of a dead hippo in the wild over five days.
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NewsC4 calls time on Comedy Labs
Channel 4 is replacing its long-running Comedy Labs initiative with an E4 comedy pilot scheme as it attempts to clarify the objectives of its talent ladder schemes.
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NewsInquest into the death of C4’s Mulvey to restart
The inquest into the death of former Channel 4 commissioner Sarah Mulvey has been scheduled to take place on 6 December at St Pancras Coroner’s Court.
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NewsDerren Brown to train celebrity assassin for C4
Derren Brown is to attempt to hypnotise a member of the public into ‘killing’ a celebrity in his new series.
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NewsCrackit takes structured reality to C4
Channel 4 has ordered a series based around London fitness chain Gymbox - marking the first time the terrestrial channel has entered the world of structured reality.