Latest Channel 4 News – Page 207
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NewsC4's Anne Bulford to join the BBC
Incoming BBC director general Lord Hall has poached Channel 4’s chief operating officer Anne Bulford to take on a wide-ranging commercial role.
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NewsGermany's RTL orders The Audience from ITVS
The Audience is to remade in Germany after ITV Studios struck a format deal with RTL.
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NewsThe Brits sees 9% of viewers flock to Twitter
The Brit Awards was by far the most tweeted about TV event of the past week, generating 1.4m updates during the 135 minute event.
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NewsITV Jimmy Savile doc scoops two RTS gongs
ITV’s Jimmy Savile expose scooped two gongs at the RTS Television Journalism Awards - as Channel 4 News picked up a record six prizes.
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NewsC4 reworks producer handbook
Channel 4 has launched a reworked producer handbook that is designed to be more accessible and offer improved news guidance following a number of TV industry scandals.
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NewsEndemol snaps up Common Denominator rights
Endemol has acquired the international format rights to gameshow The Common Denominator ahead of its UK launch on Channel 4.
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NewsSuperscrimpers handed fourth run
Channel 4 money saving tips series SuperScrimpers is returning for a fourth series.
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NewsE4 reopens My Mad Fat Diary for second series
E4 teen comedy drama My Mad Fat Diary, based on the real-life diaries of Rae Earl, is returning for a second six-part run.
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NewsFunny Fortnight pilot set to secure C4 series
Objective Productions’ sitcom Toast of London, first piloted as part of Channel 4’s Funny Fortnight season, is on the brink of being commissioned.
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NewsDamian Kavanagh named BBC daytime controller
Damian Kavanagh is to become the BBC’s new daytime controller - after just six months as head of features and factual formats at Channel 4.
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NewsC4 orders Richard III follow-up
A follow-up film looking at how leading archaeologists from the University of Leicester uncovered Richard III’s body has been ordered for More4.
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NewsMorgana heads to BBC3 with sitcom pilot
Channel 4 talent Morgana Robinson is piloting her first project for the BBC - a celebrity culture sitcom in which the comedian plays multiple characters.
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NewsC4 orders London Irish sitcom
A group of Northern Irish ex-pats, living, working and drinking in London will be the basis of a C4 sitcom.
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NewsC4 wins battle for Paralympics rights
Channel 4 has beaten the BBC to retain rights to the Paralympic games in a historic double award of the event’s TV rights.
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NewsC4 offers brands targeted spots on 4oD
Channel 4 advertisers will be able to demographically target online audiences via on-demand service 4oD for the first time, as the broadcaster starts to make use of the audience data it has collected.
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NewsC4's Amaratunga exits to Dazed & Confused
Channel 4 Random Acts editor and creative diversity project manager Ravi Amaratunga is leaving the broadcaster to join youth culture magazine, Dazed and Confused.
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NewsOfcom rejects Big Fat Quiz of the Year complaints
Ofcom has thrown out 180 complaints made about Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz of the Year at the end of last year.
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NewsC4 to trace history of De Havilland Comet
The creation and demise of the world’s first passenger jet airliner will be explored in a one-off Channel 4 documentary.
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NewsSainsbury's backs C4 lunchtime show
Celebrity Masterchef winner Lisa Faulkner and presenter Ben Shephard will front a Channel 4 lunchtime cookery programme that is being brought to air through an extensive advertiser-funding and product placement deal with Sainsbury’s.
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NewsTessa Ross to be honoured at Baftas
Channel 4’s film and drama controller Tessa Ross will receive the Bafta award for Outstanding British Contribution to cinema.