Latest Channel 4 News – Page 180
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NewsC4 orders Posh Pawn daytime spin-off
Channel 4 has ordered a daytime spin-off of Boomerang’s Posh Pawn.
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NewsC4 creates deputy head of docs role
24 Hours In Police Custody commissioner Amy Flanagan has been promoted to deputy head of documentaries by Channel 4.
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NewsLightbox to lift lid on US campaign trail
Channel 4-backed indie Lightbox has picked up a commission from US cable broadcaster Esquire Network to follow an American political campaign.
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NewsC4 preps Special Edition property doc
Channel 4 is to follow a landlord’s attempts to only rent properties to attractive singletons in a Cutting Edge documentary from Special Edition Films.
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NewsC4 hails Growth Fund as evidence of risk-taking
Channel 4 has hailed its Growth Fund as an example of creative risk-taking and revealed that it plans to relinquish its production sector investments after five years.
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NewsC4 to tackle society and politics through arts
Channel 4 wants to use its arts output to open up social and political issues in the UK, according to commissioning editor John Hay.
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NewsC4 sports commissioner to step down
Channel 4 is on the hunt for a sport commissioner after Jamie Aitchison decided to leave the broadcaster after three years.
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NewsC4 racks up record eight Grierson gongs
Channel 4’s much-garlanded Educating Yorkshire has added two more awards to its tally at this year’s Grierson Awards.
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NewsC4 plans live theatre broadcast on election night
Channel 4 has commissioned Twofour to produce a live broadcast of a play set in a polling station as part of its election night coverage.
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NewsArthur Williams explores remote locations with Blast!
Arthur Williams is to explore remote regions which can only be accessed by the air in a Blast! Films documentary for Channel 4.
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NewsC4 signs formats commissioner from Pulse
Channel 4 has bolstered its formats commissioning team with the hire of former Pulse Films and ITV Studios exec Danny Carvalho.
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NewsBBC rejects Green Party demands
The BBC has claimed that the Green Party lacks sufficient punch at the ballot box and in opinion polls to be included in next year’s televised leaders’ debates.
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NewsChannel 4 puts Ukip in power
Channel 4 is to imagine what the country would look like if Ukip was in power in a docu-drama produced by Raw TV.
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NewsTwofour's Educating... to return for fourth outing
Channel 4 has ordered a fourth series of Twofour’s fixed-rig classroom format Educating…
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NewsTom McDonald defends BBC conservation strategy
BBC science commissioning chief Tom McDonald has defended the broadcaster’s decision not to feature explicit conservation messages in its natural history programming.
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NewsC4 signs up Little Dot to create pilots for Shorts
All3Media digital company Little Dot Studios is to create a pilot a month for Channel 4’s online short-form video platform Shorts.
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NewsIndies win major drama deals
Drama producers Rainmark Films and Archery Pictures have secured separate deals to produce series for ITV and Channel 4
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NewsNewsrooms reveal gender split
The UK’s major broadcasters have revealed the number of women they employ in their newsrooms – with the data showing that Channel 4 and Sky News are lagging behind their rivals.
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NewsChannel 4 develops Isis drama
Channel 4 is developing a drama exploring the reasons some British-born Muslims are joining the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (Isis) with Liza Marshall’s fledgling indie Archery Pictures.
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NewsYalli wins C4 gameshow pilot
Yalli Productions is to pilot a gameshow format for Channel 4 in which contestants must agree how to divide up a prize pot into unequal amounts.