All Channel 4 articles – Page 237
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NewsC4 dog fighting doc draws 2,200 complaints
Penny Woolcock’s Channel 4 documentary about illegal dog fighting has generated more than 2,000 complaints.
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NewsC4 takes aim at US gun culture
The lives of children who are caught up in America’s gun culture are to be explored in a Minnow Films doc for Channel 4.
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NewsLouise Brown heads NFTS new media course
Channel 4’s former multiplatform boss Louise Brown is to head up an NFTS course which will give graduates skills to help build audiences and drive engagement around online video.
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NewsBroadcast unveils top execs for commissioning forum
Channel 4 chief creative officer Jay Hunt, ITV director of television Peter Fincham BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore are among the industry figures speaking at Broadcast’s second annual Commissioning & Funding Forum.
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RatingsMary’s Silver Service suffers
WEDNESDAY: Mary Portas’ new format continued to struggle for Channel 4, as the BBC kicked off its World Cup coverage with more than 2m viewers.
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NewsFormats are back in fashion
Commissioners and producers at Sheffield DocFest 2014 suggested that the ob-doc renaissance is here to stay, but there was also a sense that more factual formats are on the cards.
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NewsC4 orders real-time voting show
Channel 4 is planning to steal a march on ITV by launching an interactive singing contest that hands viewers real-time voting power.
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Behind The ScenesAll Creatures Great and Stuffed, C4
Alongside the bizarre footage of flying cats, sharks and ostriches, it was important that we didn’t lose sight of the human story
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NewsLove heads to Leicester for Make Bradford British follow-up
DOCFEST: Love Productions is to follow Channel 4’s controversial 2012 documentary series Make Bradford British with a focus on “multicultural” Leicester.
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NewsBragg: ITV and C4 must up their game on religion
Television is failing to cover religious issues because commercial broadcasters are leaving it to the BBC to carry the bulk of coverage, according to Melvyn Bragg.
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NewsC4 hunts specialist factual formats
DOCFEST: Channel 4 commissioner David Glover has claimed that the broadcaster was not “running up the white flag” in its hunt for specialist factual formats to follow Inside Nature’s Giants.
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PodcastTalking TV: Media Summit & Andrew Davies
A special edition of the Talking TV podcast brings you the key action from the Media Summit and includes an interview with drama writer Andrew Davies.
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NewsOlly Lambert prepares latest Dispatches
Bafta-award winning director Olly Lambert is preparing to embark on his latest Dispatches project for Channel 4.
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NewsC4 boost to fledgling indies
Channel 4 is stepping up its support for grass-roots production companies by linking up with MeWe360 to offer business advice, training and funding opportunities.
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NewsFreeview and Digital UK to launch IPTV service
Freeview and Digital UK have confirmed that they are developing an internet connected TV service that will rival YouView.
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NewsDavid Abraham lifts lid on Core4 panel
Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham has lifted the lid on the broadcaster’s 10,000-strong online panel being used to test programme ideas and titles.
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Behind The ScenesThe Island With Bear Grylls, C4
As C4’s survivalist adventure draws to a close, two of the castaway crew talk about life in front of the camera
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NewsOfcom reveals board additions
Former C4 non-executive director Stephen Hill has been confirmed as one of three new appointments to Ofcom’s board.
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NewsC4 gets graphic with animal mating doc
Channel 4 and US network PBS are to study animal reproduction in graphic detail in a four-part series produced by Windfall Films.
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RatingsDerek second series stutters
The second series of Channel 4’s Derek bowed out with a series average 300,000 viewers below its debut run on a slow night for the terrestrial channels on Wednesday.