Channel 4 named Channel of the Year

2 February 2017

Last night, Channel 4 won Channel of the Year at the Broadcast awards, making it a trio of universally popular and totally-not-controversial voting results after Brexit and Donald Trump last year. Woo hoo. It’s the second-year-running that Channel 4 has taken home the award, with Broadcast commenting: “Retaining this award is rare, but Channel 4’s success should come as no surprise – it is based on the most comprehensive, creative and successful slate of returning brands in the business.”

Judges also praised Channel 4’s “high-quality, thought-provoking entertainment.” The broadcaster won Best Drama Series for Warp’s This Is England ’90, Best Single Drama for Touchpaper Television’s Ellen and Best Entertainment Programme for Open Mike’s The Last Leg.

It also landed Best Daytime Programme for Monkey Kingdom’s The Question Jury, Best Documentary Programme for ITN Productions’ Interview With A Murderer and Best Sports Programme for its coverage of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games.

C4 received praise across its output and its Paralympics coverage was highlighted as the most ambitious live broadcast in the channel’s history. The judges described it as “sporting and production excellence in tandem – bold, relevant and inspirational”.

Any word-for-word similarity between large swathes of this release and the information put out by Broadcast is purely coincidental, and in no way indicative of the fact that we’re all mainlining champagne and smoking Cuban cigars at 10:25am.

ENDS

Further Information:

About Broadcast: Broadcast is an excellent publication, with utterly impeccable taste.

About Channel 4: Channel 4 is the best. It’s so, so good. You’re not gonna believe how good it is. It’s also got massive hands. Yeah.