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17 Sep 24 News Release

Success of Merseyside Detectives propels Channel 4 to strongest streaming growth

Channel 4’s streaming growth continues to outpace the biggest streaming services*, with minutes viewed up 25% (to 42 billion) between January and August. In August alone, total viewer minutes grew 11% year on year (to 4.4 billion viewer minutes) driven by documentary Merseyside Detectives: The

12 Sep 24 News Release

MAFS UK renews vows with companion podcast and unveils new celeb host Chloe Burrows

The new series of Married at First Sight UK is just around the corner and E4 can reveal the return of its accompanying podcast - Married at First Sight UK: It’s Official! with Chloe Burrows. Produced by CPL Productions and Colour It In Studios, this weekly update is an ultimate one-stop destination

11 Sep 24 News Release
Paris 2024 Paralympics - Presenters

Twenty million watch Channel 4 Paralympics TV coverage, as channel secures biggest audience share in 12 years

Coverage reaches 20 million on linear and streaming – one third of the TV population – and delivers Channel 4’s biggest weekly share of TV audience since London 2012 Paralympic Games Digital platforms rack up 41 million views - with 4.5 million via Channel 4 Sport’s YouTube channel and 30 million on

10 Sep 24 News Release
Emma and Matt Willis holding smartphones

Channel 4 orders two-part special, Swiped: The School that Banned Smartphones, from BOLDPRINT Studios with Matt and Emma Willis

Channel 4 has commissioned Swiped: The School that Banned Smartphones, a landmark two-part documentary series, produced by BOLDPRINT Studios, which will tackle the timely issue of the impact of smartphones on children’s behaviour with a pioneering social experiment. The urgency of this issue cannot

9 Sep 24 News Release
The full cast of Series 6 of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. From left to right: Bianca Gascoigne, Chris Robshaw, Pete Wicks, Ovie Soko, Georgia Harrison, Bobby Norris, Anthony Ogogo, Shazia Mirza, Tez Illyas, Cherry Healey, Rachel Johnson, Marnie Simpson, Ellie Downie, John Barrowman and Lani Daniels

Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins challenges fifteen celebrities to survive extreme winter warfare

Fifteen celebrities from the world of entertainment, sport and journalism have signed up to take part in this year’s unique version of Special Forces selection, in the LONGEST ever series of Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins. This course, run by the four intimidating ex-Special Forces soldiers - Chief

6 Sep 24 News Release

Channel 4 to air Trump v Harris – the US Presidential Debate

Live on Channel 4 from 1:30 – 4am on Wednesday 11th September Channel 4 is to air live coverage of the first US Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, in partnership with ABC and produced by ITN Productions. Trump and Harris go head-to-head for the first time as the battle to

6 Sep 24 News Release
It shows an animated Noel Fielding as an butterfly with love hearts in his eyes and then Alison Hammond as an animated Queen Bee

Enjoy some ‘Sweet Relief’ with The Great British Bake Off’s first-ever animated trail

Channel 4 is launching a campaign to celebrate the hotly anticipated new series of The Great British Bake Off which is set to return later this year. Developed by Channel 4’s in-house award-winning creative agency 4creative along with Nexus Studios, the campaign centres around an animated world

5 Sep 24 News Release
Paris 2024 Paralympics - Presenters

Channel 4 Paralympics coverage reaches 17 million in first week as youth viewing hits new high

Record numbers at half-way point of Paris 2024 Paralympic Games Coverage reaches more than 17 million people across linear and streaming - a quarter of TV population Biggest ever share of 16–34-year-olds for a Paralympics - topping London 2012 Paralympic Games Channel 4’s support for ParalympicsGB’s

5 Sep 24 News Release
The Channel 4 logo is on the left hand side and then in the middle section on a yellow background it says 'South Asian Film Season and East and South East Asian Heritage Month is streaming on Channel 4 throughout September.' Then on the right hand side are three images. The top shows a young woman from House Named Shahana, the key art from The Farewell which shows a family sitting on a sofa with five people standing behind & then a Japanese man looking out the window for Japan's Tsunami: Caught on Camera

What to watch this September? Channel 4 has two curated seasons full of International stories to explore

SOUTH ASIAN FILM SEASON AND EAST AND SOUTH EAST ASIAN HERITAGE MONTH ON CHANNEL 4 This September Channel 4 streaming has two brilliantly curated seasons to enjoy: SOUTH ASIAN FILM SEASON From Sunday 8th September eight films that represent a cross-section of the best contemporary examples of South