Digital series will pit Manchester-based students against each other in tech challenges
Channel 4.0 ties with Currys for Campus Clash
Channel 4’s youth entertainment brand Channel 4.0 has partnered with retail giant Currys for digital series Campus Clash. Produced by Fawkes Digital, the series pits students from Manchester Metropolitan University and the University of Salford against each other as they take on unique tech challenges, such as designing billboards to pulling off a campus-wide stunt.
The teams will rely on laptops and AI tools as they lock into a battle of brains, creativity and chaos. Nella Rose presents, with content creators Billy the Goat and Manrika Khaira observing each team’s moves. Media agency Publicis Media Content led the partnership deal between C4.0 and Currys. The series is now available to watch on YouTube.
Wales Screen Summit reveals development pot and speakers
This year’s Wales Screen Summit is offering a £3,000 development grant as the prize for a format pitching competition. The competition is seeking ideas for S4C’s youth strand Hansh which showcase exceptional young people from Wales and that cut through to Gen Z viewers. The summit has also revealed the first speakers taking part in the event, with Sidemen manager and co-founder of management agency Arcade Media Jordan Schwarzenberger appearing and journalist Stefan Powell hosting the two-day conference. The Wales Screen Summit takes place at the Parkgate Hotel in Cardiff on 7 and 8 October.
BBC R&D awarded special Emmy
BBC R&D has been awarded the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of nearly 100 years of contributions to the media industry. This special Emmy celebrates the division’s impact on global media and technology, including contributing to the UK’s digital switchover programme, helping develop Freeview, Freesat, YouView and Freely, and helping set global standards for HDTV, UHDTV, and HDR technologies.
Narrative Entertainment overhauls Great channels
The Great TV channels are being revamped by owner Narrative Entertainment. The network is being relaunched with a new look and channel layout from today (4 September), with the focus of the refresh to double down on the appetites of its 3.7m regular viewers aged 55+ by offering TV and films curated around key genres and suited to their tastes. The new linear channels available free-to-air on Freeview, Sky, Virgin and digital are Great TV, Great Action, Great Mystery and Great Romance, the latter of which becomes a Christmas-focused channel around the festive season.
Melvyn Bragg to step down from In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg is to step down from presenting Radio 4 series In Our Time after 26 years. Bragg has presented over 1,000 episodes of the discussion show about history, art and culture – every episode since the series launched in 1998. In Our Time is regularly one of the BBC’s most listened to on-demand programmes globally, and is one of BBC Sounds’ most popular podcasts amongst under 35s.
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