Latest Channel 4 News – Page 216
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NewsAnnie Mac and Grandmaster Flash to do C4 all nighter
Annie Mac and Grandmaster Flash have been lined up to play during a six-hour all nighter on Channel 4 from 12am to 6am on 24 August.
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NewsShane Allen leads race to become BBC’s new comedy boss
Channel 4 head of comedy Shane Allen has emerged as the leading candidate to become the new BBC comedy controller.
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NewsC4 Education targets teens with growing games portfolio
Channel 4 Education has ordered three free mobile phone games to address teen issues including happiness, bullying and sleep patterns.
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NewsCharity criticises C4's Beauty and the Beast
A facial disfigurement charity has called on Channel 4 to stop ordering programmes with ‘sensational titles which justify their existence by pretending to explore a social theme’, following the second series of Beauty and the Beast.
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NewsC4's Underwood to step into Whitehead's shoes
Channel 4 director of audience technologies and insight Gill Whitehead will have her maternity leave covered by director of strategy Keith Underwood.
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NewsBetty teams up with C4 for more compulsive viewing
Betty will lift the lid on life as an obsessive compulsive cleaner for Channel 4.
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NewsEthics panel forces C4 to record drugs trial
Channel 4’s ambition to have people take ecstasy live on air as part of a scientific study failed to meet the approval of an ethics committee and the Home Office.
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NewsBBC1 and ITV1 close in on drama adaptations
BBC1 and ITV1 are lining up adaptations of Daphne du Maurier classic Jamaica Inn and Dorothy Koomson’s Ice Cream Girls respectively.
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NewsUnreported World appoints editor to replace Waldrum
Channel 4 international current affairs strand Unreported World has appointed Monica Garnsey as series editor as it moves into its 24th series.
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NewsC4 creative diversity enlists 48 partners
Channel 4’s creative diversity department commissioned 48 new and emerging companies in the first quarter of 2012, and is preparing to launch a short-form strand for new directors.
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News24 Hours In A&E producer offers apprenticeships
The producer of 24 Hours In A&E is offering six editors the opportunity to learn their craft on the flagship Channel 4 series.
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NewsMade in Chelsea gets double order
Made in Chelsea, the hit E4 constructed reality series has been recommissioned for a further two series after its highest ever rating run.
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NewsC4 commits to tackling mental health stigma
Channel 4 has become the first broadcaster in England to commit to tackling mental health discrimination by signing a pledge initiated by campaign, Time to Change.
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NewsPaddy McGuinness to front C4 pilot
Take Me Out host Paddy McGuinness is fronting a Channel 4 pilot which will see him taking a nostalgic look at TV.
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NewsKeith Allen expected to feature in Drugs Live
Keith Allen is being lined up to take MDMA on Channel 4 for controversial programme Drugs Live.
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NewsIan Brady films pulled after hearing delayed
Films about Moors murderer Ian Brady have been pulled from Channel 4 and Channel 5’s schedules due to the delay of a tribunal assessing his mental health.
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NewsFirst Cut moved to More4
The last run of 30-minute First Cut films are being bumped over to More 4 and pushed back to a 10pm slot.
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NewsObjective tests reactions of BBC1 gameshow rejected by C4
A gameshow rejected by Channel 4 is being piloted for BBC1, with Jake Humphrey as the host.
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NewsDispatches seeks digital partner to help engage audiences
Channel 4 current affairs strand Dispatches has issued a tender for a digital company to work alongside the strand’s production companies and help engage new audiences.
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NewsC4 develops Million Pound gesture app
Channel 4’s The Million Pound Drop is in line to become the first gameshow to pilot the ability to play along via a gesture-based connected-TV app.