Latest Channel 4 News – Page 176
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NewsAmazon nabs US Catastrophe rights
Amazon Prime Instant Video has secured the exclusive US rights to Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe.
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NewsC4 backs disabled trainees with £500,000 pot
Channel 4 will plough £500,000 into training schemes to ensure that people with disabilities make up at least 10% of its 2016 Paralympics production team.
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NewsMore Catastrophe planned for C4
Channel 4 has moved quickly to recommission Catastrophe after just two episodes of Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s sitcom have aired.
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NewsC4 hires Shorts commissioner
Channel 4 has strengthened its Shorts commissioning team with the addition of Little Dot Studios’ content exec Isaac Densu.
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NewsCTO Burrows to exit Channel 4
Channel 4 broadcast and distribution chief technology officer Kevin Burrows is to leave the broadcaster.
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NewsC4 loads up The Jump game
Channel 4 will offer fans of The Jump the chance to get involved in the action via a mobile game.
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NewsTV debates: broadcasters threaten to ‘empty chair’ leaders
The UK’s major broadcasters have threatened to ‘empty chair’ any party leader that decides not to participate in its latest proposals for the election debate.
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NewsBroadcasters table fresh leader debate proposals
The Green Party, the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru are to be invited to take part in the general election leader debates, according to reports.
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NewsC4 assembles All 4 team
Channel 4 has restructured its digital team ahead of the launch of its multiplatform hub All 4.
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NewsDiversity: indies speak out
Indie bosses have voiced concerns about meeting the “challenging but necessary” industry diversity targets – but are upbeat that they will be supported in their efforts by broadcasters.
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NewsE4 slopes off with The Jump companion
E4 will take to the slopes with a companion series for Channel 4 celebrity winter sports format The Jump.
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NewsC4 to pilot King Bert porn comedy
Miranda Hart and David Walliam’s fledgling indie King Bert Productions is to pilot a sitcom set in a porn shop for Channel 4.
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NewsC4 to arm indies with diversity databases
Channel 4 is to compile databases of diverse actors, crews, writers and directors to help indies meet the ambitious targets it has set.
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NewsLords: level of women in news 'simply not good enough'
The number of women in news and current affairs broadcasting is “simply not good enough” and “urgent” improvements in monitoring are needed to address the gender gap, according to an influential committee of peers.
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NewsRussell T Davies prepares 1980s AIDS drama for C4
Russell T Davies is developing a drama about British gay men facing the impact of AIDS in the 1980s as the follow-up to his forthcoming Channel 4 series Cucumber.
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NewsChannel 4 ‘raises the diversity bar’
Lenny Henry has praised Channel 4’s diversity plan as an “extraordinary step forward”, but still believes that ring-fenced funds for BAME projects is the best solution as the industry bids to better reflect UK society.
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NewsDiversity: TV united and divided
Channel 4 unveiled a comprehensive vision to tackle diversity this week, highlighting the challenge facing an industry united in its goals but divided on its solutions.
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NewsVice producer to head up Random Acts
Channel 4 has hired a Vice Media senior creative producer as editor of Random Acts to supercharge the arts strand.
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NewsBroadcasters urged to 'press ahead' with leader debates
David Cameron is facing mounting pressure to take part in the televised election debates after rival party leaders urged broadcasters to “press ahead” with or without the prime minister.
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NewsAlan Titchmarsh makes C4 debut
Alan Titchmarsh has signed up to present his first programme for Channel 4, a three-part series about Britain’s master gardener of the 1700s.