Latest Channel 4 News – Page 187
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NewsC4 commissioner joins London Live to push original content
London Live has appointed C4 commissioner Katie Boyd as part of a substantial original content push across factual entertainment and features.
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NewsC4 pilots Christian Jessen format
C4 is piloting a fresh Dr Christian Jessen format, pitting two overweight people against each other in a weight-loss challenge.
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NewsHunt 'devastated' by young women leaving television
Jay Hunt has made a plea for young women to persevere in the television industry, adding that she was “devastated” by the number leaving the sector.
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NewsC4 reveals new history boss
Channel 4 has appointed producer/director Rob Coldstream as its new history commissioner, following the departure of Julia Harrington last month.
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NewsGordon Ramsay quits Kitchen Nightmares
Gordon Ramsay is to hang up his apron on Optomen Television’s Kitchen Nightmares - quitting the show after 10 years.
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NewsSky, BBCW execs join Broadcast commissioning event
Key commissioners from Sky and BBC Worldwide have joined senior industry figures including Peter Fincham, Jay Hunt and Charlotte Moore speaking Broadcast’s second annual Commissioning & Funding Forum.
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NewsWoolcock defends Dogs doc
Penny Woolcock has shrugged off personal abuse and criticism over her Channel 4 illegal dog-fighting film – claiming she is “unrepentant” about tackling the subject.
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NewsC4 defends BBC Productions
BBC Productions has found an unlikely ally in Channel 4 after the corporation faced further calls to scrap its in-house programme making division.
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NewsBodyshockers gets second run
Channel 4 will revisit the debate about body modification after commissioning another series of Bodyshockers.
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NewsUtopia writer hints at third series
Utopia writer Dennis Kelly has hinted at a third run for the cult show after claiming it was “always intended” to be a returning series.
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News24 Hours in A&E moves hospital
Channel 4 has bulk ordered another 30 episodes of 24 Hours in A&E and will move the show out of King’s College Hospital and into a new emergency care unit.
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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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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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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.