Latest Channel 4 News – Page 268
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NewsC4 tie-up with Five back on agenda
Gerhard Zeiler, chief executive of Five-owner RTL Group, has met with incoming Channel 4 chief executive David Abraham fuelling renewed speculation of a tie-up.
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NewsC4 launches web hub for Chancellor debate
Channel 4 News is rolling out a major online hub in support of next week’s Ask The Chancellors TV debate that will integrate blogs, Facebook and Twitter with live video-streaming for the first time.
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NewsC4 to merge fact ent and features
Channel 4 is folding its factual entertainment commissioning team into features, and will hand head of features Sue Murphy control of the newly created super-division.
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NewsC4 bolsters Embarrassing brand with spin-off
Channel 4 has extended what has become one of its key brands by ordering an Embarrassing Bodies spin-off series and another 18 episodes of the main show.
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NewsSinnerton swaps Quicksilver for C4 current affairs
Quicksilver Media producer Siobhan Sinnerton has joined Channel 4 as news and current affairs commissioning editor - as predecessor Ed Braman returns to the Unreported World indie.
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NewsProspective Chancellors to debate on C4
The three men vying to be the next Chancellor of the Exchequer are to take part in a live televised election debate on Channel 4.
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NewsCity slickers compete for rural retreat in C4 series
City dwellers are to be offered the chance to win a home in the country in the latest life-swap format from Stephen Lambert.
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NewsGordon Ramsay to track down UK’s best eaterie
Channel 4 is to turn The F Word’s search for Britain’s best local restaurant into a standalone Gordon Ramsay series.
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NewsBBC criticised for buying US horror drama
The BBC should not have bid for US horror drama Harper’s Island, the Culture, Media and Sport select committee has claimed.
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NewsPublish full accounts, select committee tells C4
Channel 4’s refusal to publish its digital channels’ accounts and its conflicting messages over its plans for older children are at odds with its ambitions to become a public service network, a cross-party parliamentary committee has claimed.
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NewsSkins lines up third-generation cast
E4 has recommissioned Skins for a further two series – and is again auditioning for an entirely new cast.
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NewsC4’s canine coverage called into question
A fresh row is brewing over TV’s coverage of the Kennel Club after a dog welfare campaigner and the director of Pedigree Dogs Exposed accused Channel 4 of compromising its editorial integrity.
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NewsC4 invites pitches to produce horse racing coverage
Channel 4 is putting more than 400 hours of horse-racing output up for grabs for the first time in more than 25 years.
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NewsC4 to step up search for new doc faces
Channel 4 head of programmes Julian Bellamy has pledged to make a “nursery slope” for new factual presenters a key priority in his creative renewal of the channel.
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NewsHeston to work culinary magic on NHS for C4
Heston Blumenthal will attempt to raise the standards of hospital food as part of a Channel 4 series that builds on his earlier transformation of Little Chef.
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NewsC4 orders autism musical series
Autistic children will attempt to produce their own musical for the London stage in a forthcoming Channel 4 series.
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NewsReport: twice as many men on TV as women
Men appear almost twice as much as women on TV, with factual programming and news the worst offenders, according to research ordered by Channel 4.A pilot study, published to mark International Women’s Day (8 March) and undertaken as part of C4’s leadership of the Cultural Diversity Network, also revealed that ...
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NewsGalloway attacks "dirty" Dispatches doc
MP George Galloway has attacked a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation into his relationship with the Islamic Forum of Europe , branding it a “dirty little programme”.
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NewsBafta redrafts nominations after C4 oversight
Channel 4 entertainment shows including Derren Brown’s The Events were accidentally left off the Bafta nominations longlist, it has emerged.
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NewsC4 viewers heap praise on Mowlam biopic
Ratings-busting drama Mo was the most praised show on Channel 4 last month – but viewers complained in droves about a technical hitch that saw The Godfather Part II transmitted in the wrong order.Scroll down for full list of “rated and slated”A total of 60 people contacted C4 to praise ...