Stand Up to Cancer 2014

17 September 2014

 

Get ready for TV that will help save lives.

This October, a host of stars from television, music and film will come together for Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK’s Stand Up To Cancer – a joint national fundraising campaign including a fortnight of inspirational programming and culminating on Friday 17th October in one raucous night of fundraising hosted by Davina McCall, Alan Carr and Dr Christian Jessen.

Our incredible trail launched last Friday, and has so far achieved over one million views on Youtube, as well as hitting a TV audience of over 10 million last weekend. This unmissable moment is just a taster of what’s to come, as we prepare to show cancer – it’s Payback Time.

The following gives a snapshot of some of the events taking place over the weeks to come, with more star studded news to follow.

 

STAND UP TO CANCER

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Stand Up To Cancer is a national fundraising campaign designed to accelerate cancer treatments to UK patients and save lives. It culminates in an epic live TV event hosted by Davina McCall, Alan Carr and Dr Christian Jessen. The trio will front a star studded night of television, jam packed with programming from entertainment and science to documentaries.

The first UK event in 2012 became the most successful charity fundraiser on UK commercial TV, reaching an audience of 7.8m and raising a staggering £8m - funding 12 clinical trials across the UK.

In the run up to the 17th October, Cancer Research UK are urging the public to join the frontline against cancer and get involved by donating money, fundraising, joining March On Cancer™** and showing support through social networks or snapping up some Stand Up To Cancer merchandise.  

Whizz Kid Entertainment will produce the main show for Channel 4. A huge number of supportive suppliers are also involved in producing content on the night and during the week. Full details will be released shortly but include 2LE, Open Mike, Tinderbox Films and Objective Productions.

To find out how to get involved in Stand Up To Cancer, visit standuptocancer.org.uk. You can also find us on Twitter @StandUp2C or www.facebook.com/standuptocancerUK.

Join us for a killer night of fundraising.

Executive produced by Suzi Aplin and studio directed by Richard van't Riet for Stand Up To Cancer.

Contact: CC Clark Channel 4: ccclark@channel4.co.uk 0207 396 444

 

STARS AT YOUR SERVICE

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Would you want to sing a duet with Melanie C? Have Warwick Davis do your best man’s speech? Or Marvin Humes do your household chores? Well, you might just be in luck, as this interactive series gives viewers an incredibly rare opportunity to pick from a range of celebrities and submit a task that they’d like them to do, in order to fulfil their wishes. Those with the most entertaining propositions will see their requests become reality as the Stars are put to work with funny, sublime or just plain ridiculous results and best of all - it’s to raise money for Stand Up To Cancer.

Already signed up are boyband Union J, comic Rhod Gilbert, street dance master Ashley Banjo, Formula 1 heiress Tamara Ecclestone, West End legend Michael Ball, food broadcaster and campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, comedian Al Murray, interior designer Kelly Hoppen MBE, Made in Chelsea star Jamie Laing, tenor and actor Alfie Boe, reality star Ollie Locke, singer Conor Maynard, property expert Phil Spencer, Embarrassing Bodies’ Dr Dawn Harper, stand-up comic and TV host Russell Howard, Countdown’s Rachel Riley, comedian and actor Greg Davies, TV presenter Joe Swash, Strictly Come Dancing dancer Anton Du Beke, TV presenter Rav Wilding, newsreader Jon Snow, comedian Russell Kane and Olympic swimmer Rebecca Adlington OBE, with many more star names to be announced.

Apply to get a Star to be at your service, and make an optional donation on www.channel4.com/stars. The more imaginative the idea, the better!

Produced by Remarkable Television, an Endemol company for Channel 4

Contact: Michele Marsland Endemol: Michele.Marsland@endemoluk.com 020 8222 4322

 

DEAL OR NO DEAL: SU2C SPECIAL

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In this very special celebrity episode of Deal Or No Deal, everyone’s favourite chat show host Alan Carr takes on the meanest man in telly - The Banker, to try and win as much money as possible for the Stand Up To Cancer campaign. Hosted by Noel Edmonds, we’ll see Alan if will take the walk of wealth with family and friends including Mel Sykes, Michael Underwood and his dog Bev opening the legendary 22 red boxes!

Will Alan have the last laugh over the famously uncharitable Banker? Tune in to what is going to be an unmissable game.

Deal or No Deal is produced by Remarkable Television, an Endemol company and executive produced by Richard Hague.

Contact: Michele Marsland Endemol: Michele.Marsland@endemoluk.com 020 8222 4322

 

SUNDAY BRUNCH: SPECIAL

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Sunday Brunch will be serving viewers a slice of adrenaline in this very special episode. Watch as host Tim Lovejoy joins hundreds of others in an epic challenge - all in aid of raising money for Stand Up To Cancer. In the London 3 Peaks™ , Tim will join the last leg of the exciting endurance event by running up and then abseiling down  one of London’s tallest buildings, 200 Aldersgate. Whilst you tuck into your toast, tune in to find out if he makes it back to the studio in one piece.

Sunday Brunch is produced by Princess Productions

Contact: CC Clark Channel 4: ccclark@channel4.co.uk 0207 396 444

 

STAND UP TO CANCER SHORTS

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Channel 4 has commissioned Maverick Television to make a series of personal and moving short films, each of which feature very different cancer stories, self-narrated by those affected and cutting to the heart of the impact cancer has on them.

Emotive and powerful, the films will be instrumental in raising awareness and re-enforcing the fact cancer is universal and indiscriminate; it can and does strike anyone, regardless of age, sex, race, status, wealth or a person's state of health. Its impact is as varied, both physically and emotionally, on not just the patient but those closest to them.

Stand Up To Cancer shorts are produced by Maverick Television

 

Contact: CC Clark Channel 4: ccclark@channel4.co.uk 0207 396 444

 

CURING CANCER

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Every two minutes someone in the UK is diagnosed with cancer. From that life-changing moment the race is on to find a successful treatment to stop the disease in its tracks. With unprecedented access to the new MacMillan Cancer Centre at University College Hospital Curing Cancer, a Cutting Edge film, follows four patients taking part in trials of some of the most advanced cancer treatments in the world. 

Dennis, Debra, Jeffery and Pete are all facing the future with trepidation, but they have all agreed to take part in ground-breaking trials aimed at improving the way cancer is diagnosed and treated. Made by BAFTA winning director, Brian Woods this film compassionately follows treatments from lab to ward and tells the story of the anxiety of diagnosis, the joy of success and the desperation of a last chance clinical trial. Philosophical about how cancer changes lives, but also fascinating in terms of what it reveals about new treatments coming through, this film is a sensitive and optimistic insight into the realities of living with cancer.

Produced & Directed by Brian Woods / True Vision for Channel 4

Contact: Sarah Sherwin: sarah@hummingbird-communications.co.uk 01442 875979

 

FEELING NUTS

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A new organisation joins the fight against cancer, as the recently created public movement Check One Two is on a mission to get everyone ‘feeling nuts’ and spread the positive message of staying ahead of testicular cancer. It’s the most common cancer in men aged 15-44 and the aim is to empower men to take charge of their health and have the confidence to speak up if they notice something irregular.

In October, to increase awareness of this life saving message, C4 will be joining the movement with a studio show from the Brooklyn Bowl at London’s 02. Jack Whitehall will be taking us through an evening of surprise pairings, some seriously awkward conversations and a host of challenges, whilst empowering the nation to start feeling nuts and begin to breakdown the taboo of testicular cancer.

The movement was established by two sets of brothers, Simon and Andrew Salter and Simon and Philip Tucker, who launched Check One Two after hearing the story of one mother’s loss of her son at the age of 19 due to embarrassment and lack of knowledge.  Their aim is to remove this awkwardness and empower men worldwide with the positive message about staying in regular check with their testicles. 

The Check One Two campaign has already reached over 10 million people since its inception earlier in the year. To find out more about Check One Two, visit http://www.checkonetwo.co.uk/

Produced & Directed by Fulwell 73 and Attention Seekers for Channel 4

Contact: Steve Rosier, srosier@channel4.co.uk 0207 396 4444

…..Ends….

**March on Cancer™ is an uprising against cancer. On 11th October, thousands of people will gather in city centres across the UK to Stand Up To Cancer as one united force in 15 simultaneous events. An empowered collective, Marchers will galvanise communities in the fight against cancer and be fundraising advocates for Stand Up To Cancer in the build up to the live show.

Notes to editors

About Stand Up To Cancer (UK)

• Stand Up To Cancer is a joint national fundraising event from Channel 4 and Cancer Research UK
  • Final 2012 total raised was £8,011,722.62
  • In 2012, the live fundraising event was hosted by Davina McCall, Alan Carr and Dr Christian Jessen and featured celebrity interviews and moving real life stories
  • Stars such as Gwyneth Paltrow , Samuel L Jackson, Bradley Cooper, Leona Lewis, Cheryl Cole, Keith Lemon, Heidi Klum, Jeremy Piven, Heston Blumenthal, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, Alesha Dixon, Ashley Walters, Russell Tovey, Bear Grylls, Jack Whitehall, Tom Felton, Warwick Davis, Jimmy Carr, Derren Brown, Martin Freeman, Dawn Porter, Micky Flanagan, Stephen Graham, Max Beesley and Jonathan Ross are just some of the talent who supported Stand Up To Cancer
  • Visit Standuptocancer.org.uk or channel4.co.uk/SU2C for further information

 

About Cancer Research UK

• Cancer Research UK is the world’s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research.
• Cancer Research UK’s pioneering work into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer has helped save millions of lives.
• Cancer Research UK receives no government funding for its life-saving research. Every step it makes towards beating cancer relies on every pound donated.
• Cancer Research UK has been at the heart of the progress that has already seen survival rates in the UK double in the last forty years.
• Today, 2 in 4 people survive cancer. Cancer Research UK’s ambition is to accelerate progress so that 3 in 4 people will survive cancer within the next 20 years.
• Cancer Research UK supports research into all aspects of cancer through the work of over 4,000 scientists, doctors and nurses.
• Together with its partners and supporters, Cancer Research UK's vision is to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured.

For further information about Cancer Research UK's work or to find out how to support the charity, please call 0300 123 1022 or visit www.cancerresearchuk.org. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

 

About Stand Up To Cancer (U.S. programme and show)

Stand Up To Cancer is a charitable programme co-founded in the USA by film and media leaders and the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization . EIF has since harnessed the powerful voice of the entertainment industry to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to support a new, collaborative model of cancer research, focused on getting new therapies to patients faster. Stand Up To Cancer and the Stand Up To Cancer Brand Marks are registered trademarks of EIF.

• SU2C is a programme of the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF), a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, and utilises the assets of this industry to engage the public in unique ways
• In 2008, SU2C launched its first national fundraising telecast in the USA on 3 major networks & was the first ever non-emergency fundraising event to be simultaneously broadcast across several major networks
• To date, over $260m has been pledged to SU2C to fund collaborative cancer research
• The American show is a 60-minute fundraising special bringing together music, movies, TV, live music performances, comedy and live science

Stars such as Adam Sandler, Seth Rogen, George Clooney, Leona Lewis, Julia Roberts,, Will Smith, Beyoncé, Jennifer Aniston, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta Jones, Rob Lowe, Scarlett Johansson, Kelly Osbourne, Sharon Osbourne, Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry, Denzel Washington, Neil Diamond, Delta Goodrem, Kris Kristofferson, Dave Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Robert Pattinson, Renée Zellweger, Vanessa Hudgens and Kareem Abdul Jabbar are just some of the talent who supported Stand Up To Cancer