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Channel 4 to show highlights of 2019 Cricket World Cup

Channel 4 will show highlights of the 2019 Cricket World Cup which opens when England take on South Africa on 30 May. Ten countries compete in the World Cup with all teams playing each other in a full round robin with the top four teams progressing to the semi-finals to decide who will play in the

16 May 19 News Release

Richard Davidson-Houston to leave Channel 4

Channel 4’s Head of All 4, Richard Davidson-Houston has decided to step down from his role after 12 years at the broadcaster and will leave Channel 4 in the summer. As Head of All 4, Richard launched the leading video-on-demand service in 2015 and has led All 4 through a period of record growth in

14 May 19 News Release

Channel 4 Indie Growth Fund invests in Five Mile Films

Channel 4’s Indie Growth Fund today announced it has taken a minority stake in Five Mile Films, a Bristol-based, factual indie led by Nick Mirsky.  Five Mile Films is the first Channel 4 Indie Growth Fund investment in Bristol since the broadcaster announced it would be locating a new Creative Hub

13 May 19 News Release

The Hunt for Jihadi John: Interview with the producer Richard Kerbaj

You’ve made a film about the terrorist known as Jihadi John [real name Mohammed Emwazi]. Explain a bit about the programme. The wider picture is that this is about the formation and collapse of Isis, and the impact that the Isis ideology had on the recruitment of young men and women who left heir

13 May 19 News Release

Channel 4 serves up sixth series of Friday Night Dinner

Channel 4 has commissioned Big Talk Productions and Popper Pictures to produce a sixth series of the critically-acclaimed and multi-award winning comedy, Friday Night Dinner with Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal returning as the Goodman Family, with Mark Heap as Jim. Friday

10 May 19 News Release

Channel 4 announces second Jason Fox commission with Return to Afghanistan with Jason Fox (w/t)

Hot off the heels of last year’s nail biting series, Meet the Drug Lords: Inside the Real Narcos, former elite Special Forces soldier, Jason Fox will go back to Afghanistan nearly a decade after he last set foot in the country. Produced by Plum Pictures, Return To Afghanistan With Jason Fox (W/T)

3 May 19 News Release

Channel 4 commissions The Hunt for Jihadi John

Channel 4, in conjunction with HBO, have co-commissioned a feature documentary about the controversial extremist Jihadi John. Nutopia, in association with Livedrop Media, have been commissioned by Channel 4 Current Affairs Commissioner Siobhan Sinnerton to produce The Hunt for Jihadi John. The film

2 May 19 News Release

Oscar powerhouses Hopkins and Colman command adaptation of Florian Zeller’s stage hit The Father

Academy Award winning duo, Anthony Hopkins (Westworld, The Pope, The Silence of the Lambs) and 2019 Winner, Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Night Manager, The Crown, Murder on the Orient Express) will star in Florian Zeller’s movie adaptation of his worldwide stage play hit The Father. Principal

2 May 19 News Release

C4 to air live coverage of Six Nations Rugby Champions Wales against England and Ireland

The three nations will face off in Cardiff in August