Latest Channel 4 News – Page 235
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News10 O'Clock Live to return with shorter format
Channel 4 has ordered a second series of current affairs show 10 O’Clock Live - but cut the format by 15 minutes.
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NewsTeen Vampires land on C4
US teenagers that adopt the lifestyle of vampires and drink blood are to be the subject of a new Channel 4 documentary.
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NewsC4 orders 8 Out of 10 Cats Christmas special
Channel 4 has ordered an hour-long Christmas special of panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats.
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NewsComedy boosts 4oD growth
Channel 4 saw 4oD views increase by 300,000 on its website in September with comedy being the most popular genre.
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NewsSeeSaw closes as funding fails
Streaming TV service SeeSaw has been shut down after its backers failed to make the required investments to keep the video-on-demand site live.
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NewsC4’s Allan re-jigs sales team
Channel 4’s new sales director Jonathan Allan has restructured his team to create six new teams scrapping the previous structure.
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NewsLeopard lines up Matthew Bourne and da Vinci specials
Leopard Films is producing a Channel 4 doc about choreographer / director Matthew Bourne and has been drafted in to co-produce a Sky Arts live special on artist Leonardo da Vinci.
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NewsC4 orders Steve Jobs doc
Channel 4 has commissioned a fast-turnaround film on the life of Steve Jobs, the co-founder of technology company Apple.
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NewsCoach Trip gears up for Christmas special
12 Yard Productions is to produce a special Christmas series of Channel 4’s Coach Trip and has hired a new boss for its Scottish division.
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NewsC4 to air penultimate Fresh Meat online first
Channel 4 is to debut the penultimate episode of Fresh Meat online after pushing it back a week to accommodate stripped drama Top Boy.
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NewsC4 orders more Fresh Meat; Beaver Falls
Channel 4 has commissioned a second series of student comedy drama Fresh Meat midway through its first run.
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NewsOfcom clears Sri Lanka's Killing Fields doc
C4 head of news and current affairs Dorothy Byrne has hailed ITN Production’s journalism and the broadcaster’s “meticulous legal and compliance scrutiny” after Ofcom rejected almost 120 complaints about Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields.
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NewsBBC receives 42 kids Bafta nods
The BBC has scored 42 nominations for this year’s Bafta Children’s Awards - but faces stiff competition from multichannel and other terrestrials.
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NewsC4 opens online swap shop
Channel 4 Education is launching a fashion community website and mobile application aimed at encouraging sustainable and ethical fashion.
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NewsLinehan turns off The IT Crowd
Channel 4 sitcom The IT Crowd will not be returning for a fifth series but will wrap up with an extended special, creator Graham Linehan has confirmed.
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NewsC4 serves up live daytime cookery show
Channel 4 is lining up its first live daytime cookery show since Mel and Sue’s Light Lunch in 1997.
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NewsC4 to live stream hippo being eaten
Channel 4 is to reveal the food chain in action by live broadcasting the consumption of a dead hippo in the wild over five days.
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NewsC4 drops Vacation, Vacation, Vacation
Kirsty Allsopp and Phil Spencer’s holiday show Vacation, Vacation, Vacation, will not be returning to Channel 4 for another series.
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NewsBSkyB and BBC clash on fees
Gloves come off as ITV, C4 and C5 wade in and report claims retransmission fees will soar.
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NewsC4 calls time on Comedy Labs
Channel 4 is replacing its long-running Comedy Labs initiative with an E4 comedy pilot scheme as it attempts to clarify the objectives of its talent ladder schemes.