Latest Channel 4 News – Page 280

  • Aarathi Prasad
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    C4 explores the links between race and science

    2009-10-15T08:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is to explore the relationship between science and race in a controversial season of documentaries.

  • Andrew Newman
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    Andrew Newman to leave C4 for Objective

    2009-10-14T15:15:00Z

    Channel 4 head of entertainment and comedy Andrew Newman is to move back into the indie sector after more than 10 years as a commissioner to join Objective Productions.

  • 102 Minutes that Changed America
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    C4 stands ground over ads in 9/11 doc

    2009-10-09T11:24:00Z

    Real-time 9/11 documentary 102 Minutes that Changed America proved to be Channel 4’s most divisive programme last month, with controversy raging over the level of advertising within its broadcast.

  • Derren Brown
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    Magician Brown to front ‘real-life psychics’ docs

    2009-10-08T10:21:00Z

    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.

  • How The Other Half Live
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    C4 orders second Half

    2009-10-08T09:04:00Z

    Channel 4 has ordered a second series of RDF Television’s series How The Other Half Live.

  • The Apprentice: Alan Sugar
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    C4 commissioners outline wish list for filling Big Brother gap

    2009-10-08T08:55:00Z

    Channel 4 has given the first hints of what it will be looking for in 2011 to fill about 250 hours of its primetime schedule previously occupied by Big Brother.

  • Asian tsunami
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    C4 to mark tsunami anniversary

    2009-10-02T10:21:00Z

    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.

  • News

    Wife Swap cleared over baby concerns

    2009-09-28T11:03:00Z

    Ofcom has backed the producers of Wife Swap over an episode in which a baby was shown living in a dirty flat and eating chips.

  • Jeremy Hunt
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    Hunt steps up warning over BBC Trust

    2009-09-24T16:35:00Z

    Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has given his strongest signal yet that a Conservative government would push to dismantle the BBC Trust in their first term if elected next year.

  • Andy Duncan
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    Fears mount over smaller C4

    2009-09-24T07:00:00Z

    The prospect of a downsized Channel 4 will hit new talent and regional indies the hardest, outgoing chief executive Andy Duncan has warned.

  • News

    C4 orders 'Victorian' Muslim terrorist doc

    2009-09-24T07:00:00Z

    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.

  • Andrew Newman
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    C4's Newman backs BBC comedy ambitions

    2009-09-23T13:51:00Z

    BROADCAST TV COMEDY FORUM: Channel 4 comedy head Andrew Newman has urged the BBC to ignore the “psychotic agenda” of the Daily Mail and take more risks in comedy.

  • Gideon Joseph
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    Former C4 exec joins Beckham guru's company

    2009-09-22T11:08:00Z

    The C4 executive who handled Big Brother after the Shilpa Shetty race row has joined talent management company Crystal Entertainment as a director.

  • Andy Duncan
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    Duncan: C4’s future is secured

    2009-09-18T13:41:00Z

    RTS CAMBRIDGE: Andy Duncan has defended his tenure as Channel 4 chief executive, insisting the broadcaster’s future is secure and that it is better shape than when he took over five years ago.

  • Hollyoaks
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    Matalan to fund Hollyoaks music spin-off

    2009-09-18T13:01:00Z

    Channel 4 has given the go-ahead for a 10-part cross-platform Hollyoaks music spin-off after Lime Pictures secured Matalan.co.uk as a sponsor.

  • Derren Brown
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    Derren Brown 'to influence public'

    2009-09-18T10:54:00Z

    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.

  • C4
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    Hunt: C4 may have to scale back its ambitions

    2009-09-18T00:01:00Z

    RTS CAMBRIDGE: Shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has hinted that a Tory government may not look to prop up Channel 4’s finances and that it should instead follow the BBC’s lead in scaling back its ambitions.

  • Luke Johnson
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    C4's Johnson will lead hunt for chief executive

    2009-09-18T00:01:00Z

    RTS CAMBRIDGE: Channel 4 chairman Luke Johnson has confirmed he will personally lead the search for Andy Duncan’s successor, despite the fact he too is standing down in January.

  • Ruth Pitt
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    Pitt oversees Screen England united front

    2009-09-17T08:53:00Z

    The nine regional screen agencies have joined forces as Screen England, and recruited docs veteran Ruth Pitt and former Channel 4 head of corporate relations John Newbigin to head the new operation.

  • C4
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    C4: new boss, same problems

    2009-09-17T07:00:00Z

    Channel 4 is poised to fast-track its hunt for a new chief executive to resolve the uncertainties that have dogged it for the last two years over its future funding, size and scope.