Latest Channel 4 News – Page 217
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NewsC4 orders more of ‘pioneering’ Brooker’s Mirror
Channel 4 has compared Charlie Brooker to Dennis Potter and Chris Morris and recommissioned Black Mirror for a second three-part run.
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C4 and PBS offer portal to WWII with October doc
More than 100,000 hours of secret recordings of German prisoners of war from World War II will be the basis of a one-off special for Channel4 and PBS Channel 13 in the US.
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NewsRomany teenager lashes out at Thelma's Gypsy Girls
A Romany traveller who claimed Big Fat Gypsy Weddings was ruining his life has questioned the intentions behind spin-off show, Thelma’s Gypsy Girls.
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NewsC4 News appoints Ben de Pear as editor
Ben de Pear has been appointed as editor of Channel 4 News with immediate effect.
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NewsC5's John Hay moves to C4
Channel 5 factual commissioner John Hay is joining Channel 4 to cover Julia Harrington’s maternity leave.
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NewsBereaved families attack C4 doc Lifers
Channel 4 documentary Lifers has received complaints from two bereaved families who were not notified that the convicted murderers of their relatives would appear in the film.
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NewsC4 working on 20 entertainment ideas in genre overhaul
Channel 4 is developing around 20 entertainment projects after receiving 250 pitches on the back of its wide-ranging brief to overhaul the genre earlier this year.
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NewsKeo orders widen talent pool
Keo Films has secured a raft of commissions for the BBC and Channel 4, and recruited Twenty Twenty’s head of factual and entertainment as head of development.
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NewsNorth One lines up gadget man Fry for C4 tech series
The Gadget Show producer North One is to extend its expertise in the genre for a new Channel 4 series that will be fronted by technophile Stephen Fry.
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NewsHollyoaks teams with Company magazine
Lime Pictures has partnered with Company magazine to develop a storyline to highlight opportunities in the media and fashion.
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NewsAbraham and Jackson to debate C4 at Edinburgh
David Abraham and Michael Jackson will debate whether Channel 4 can still be a rebellious broadcaster after 30 years at the Edinburgh International TV Festival.
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NewsC4 lines up magic and dating
Channel 4 has lined up two new entertainment programmes that includes a new show from a “world leading illusionist” and an adaptation of a US dating series.
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NewsC4 launches first ever graduate scheme
Channel 4 is launching its first ever graduate scheme that will result in three individuals being placed in the marketing and communications or audience technology and insight teams.
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NewsJamie Oliver secures PP deals
Jamie Oliver’s forthcoming daytime series for Channel 4, in which the celebrity chef cooks meals in 15 minutes, has secured a brace of product placement deals.
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NewsC4 and C5 in talks with YouTube over new deals
Channel 4 and Channel 5 have kicked off renegotiations over their distribution deals with YouTube ahead of the expiry of their existing three-year deals.
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NewsMPs react to C4's undertaker doc
Labour MPs have tabled an early day motion following True North’s Dispatches: Undercover Undertaker on Co-operative Funeralcare that aired earlier this week on Channel 4.
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NewsPSB programme spend falls to 13-year low
BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5’s total spend on content in 2011 contracted at its fastest rate and to its lowest point in 13 years, according to Ofcom figures.
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News4Seven builds schedule around 9pm and 11pm
The new 4Seven channel will build its schedule around its 9pm and 11pm slots as it prepares to start broadcasting 20 hours a day.
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NewsClarke thinks small spaces for Plum C4 lifestyle series
Architect George Clarke will explore the inventive uses people make of small spaces in a Plum Pictures series for Channel 4.
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NewsC4 hands Waddell another year of 4thought.tv
Northern Irish indie Waddell Media has won a recommission of daily religion and ethics strand 4thought.tv, and a commission to follow Countdown host Nick Hewer as he drives 4,000 miles across Sierra Leone for Channel 4.