Latest Channel 4 News – Page 281
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Channels agree five-year ban on revisiting Kangaroo
Project Kangaroo partners the BBC, Channel 4 and ITV have made a five-year agreement with the Competition Commission that they will not try to acquire any part of their rivals video-on-demand activities.
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C4 defends Come Dine With Me racism claims
Channel 4 has defended an episode of Come Dine With Me that attracted a “surprising” flurry of complaints over alleged racist remarks.
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C4 axes Edinburgh Soho House
Edinburgh TV Festival institution Soho House has fallen victim to the cost-cutting at Channel 4.
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T4 orders celeb eye-view doc
Channel 4 has ordered a showbiz pilot from Whizz Kid Entertainment where a pin-hole camera fixed at eye-level follows celebrities for a day to see how they really live.
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NewsC4-Five merger rejected by most Pact members
Two-thirds of indies believe RTL’s proposed merger of C4 and Five would be bad news for the industry, according to a Pact survey.
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New C4 acquisition axed
Privileged, the US teen drama acquired by Channel 4 last week, has been axed after just one season - and before it has had a chance to air in the UK.
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Spike Jonze to star in C4 comedy
Details have emerged of the cast list for Channel 4’s up-coming comedy pilot The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, which includes cult film director Spike Jonze.
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C4's Younghusband takes final BBC Knowledge job
Jan Younghusband is leaving Channel 4 after a decade to take the commissioning editor for music and events role at the BBC.
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Freeview HD plans in doubt
Free-to-air HD could become the latest victim of the crisis in TV funding as ITV and Channel 4 reconsider plans to launch HD channels on Freeview.
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Ahmed's final orders for C4
The director of The Qur’an will interview Britain’s religious leaders about contemporary issues in one of the swansong commissions of outgoing Channel 4 editor for religion Aaqil Ahmed.
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C4 buys in US teen drama Privileged for slot on E4
Channel 4 has picked up the UK premiere rights to US drama Privileged, which airs in the US on the CW network.
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BBCW/C4 joint venture would turnover £800m
BBC Worldwide and Channel 4 chiefs are now awaiting a decision from the Government as to whether they can reach a partnership deal in a joint-venture that would produce an annual turnover of £800m and a profit of £200m.
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SAS faker to head C4 First Cut doc strand
Century Films will investigate the life and death of an SAS fantasist in one of a pair of commissions for the upcoming run of Channel 4 documentary strand First Cut.
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BBC bosses reject C4's call to curb acquisitions
BBC chiefs today flatly rejected a demand from Channel 4 that the corporation should stop buying American programmes, insisting it helped to keep the costs of making British programmes down.
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C4's Sex Education Show rated and slated
Channel 4 shows The Hospital and The Sex Education Show v Pornography divided audiences last month, with viewers singling both shows out for praise and scorn.
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C4: Top 10 slated (April 09)
Top 10 programmes most criticised by people who contacted Channel 4 viewer enquiries in April 2009 (quote is an example of viewer comment).
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C4: Top 10 rated (April 09)
Top 10 programmes most appreciated by people who contacted Channel 4’s viewer enquiries in April 2009 (quote is an example of viewer comment).
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C4 hopeful of BBCW tie-up by mid-June
Channel 4 could be just weeks away from reaching a partnership deal with BBC Worldwide to plug its £150m funding gap and head off further damaging cuts to its creative output.
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C4 orders McCain-funded sports show
Channel 4 has ordered a grass roots athletics show that will be sponsored by frozen food manufacturer McCain Foods.
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BBC poaches C4's Ahmed in new Knowledge hirings
Channel 4’s Aaqil Ahmed has been poached to run the BBC’s religion and ethics department as part of the second round of Knowledge appointments – in which four of the key commissioning jobs have been handed to existing BBC staff.