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Previously announced new commissions for 2019

Drama BAFTA-winning ‘This Is England’ filmmaker Shane Meadows returns to Channel 4 with The Virtues, starring BAFTA-winner Stephen Graham as a man confronted with the long-buried truth about his own childhood. Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner George Clooney stars and directs this a six-part

30 Jan 19 News Release

Channel 4 to explore the UK’s homelessness epidemic with ex-soldier Ed Stafford

Channel 4 today announces they are spending 60 Days on the Streets with ex-soldier and adventurer Ed Stafford. The 3 x 60’ series, a Boundless and Motion Content Group production, will see self-shooting ex-soldier Ed Stafford spend 60 winter days and nights on the streets with no money, no food and

30 Jan 19 News Release

The Tiger Who Came to Tea at Channel 4

Channel 4 to air a special animated adaptation of the much loved classic children’s book The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr from the makers of We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and The Snowman and The Snowdog for Christmas 2019 Once there was a little girl called Sophie, and she was having tea with

30 Jan 19 News Release

Channel 4 announces Specialist Factual commission, Ghost (w/t)

Channel 4 has commissioned Naked TV to produce Ghost, a profoundly moving, revelatory and ultimately uplifting television first. Ghost is a 3 x 60 minute series that captures the journey of six terminally ill people who create incredible experiences to comfort the loved ones they are leaving behind

30 Jan 19 News Release

Channel 4 commissions drama of Stafford Hospital scandal

Channel 4 has commissioned a factual drama telling the story of the UK’s worst hospital care scandal of recent times, told through the eyes of the woman who blew the whistle on it. The Cure (w/t) charts the scandal at Stafford Hospital which came to national attention in 2008. Conditions of

30 Jan 19 News Release

Channel 4 goes undercover in Secret Teacher (w/t)

It is no secret that many of Britain’s greatest entrepreneurs struggled at school - labelled as failures by the educational system, their enormous potential was outshone by those achieving more academically. Now, in a new four-part Channel 4 series, a cast of four of the UK’s most successful

30 Jan 19 News Release

Harry Hill to host new show on Channel 4

Comedian extraordinaire Harry Hill is to join Channel 4 for a new 11pm series that promises a combination of controlled chaos and his favourite funny people on the planet. The as-yet-unnamed show will see Harry acting as both host and curator of his very own authored late night comedy show

30 Jan 19 News Release

Sarah Lancashire leads the cast in Jack Thorne’s The Light (w/t)

BAFTA and RTS Award-winner Sarah Lancashire ( Kiri, Happy Valley) reunites with Jack Thorne in his brand new 4-part series The Light (w/t). In a community that has been left behind, a large construction project offers hope for a better future; regeneration, and much needed employment. But an

30 Jan 19 News Release

Channel 4 commissions Lodgers and Old Codgers w/t from RDF

The chances of a 25 to 35-year-old owning a home have halved in the last 20 years – and 3.5 million pensioners live alone. A new series from RDF for Channel 4, will explore what happens when the two generations literally move in together. Lodgers and Old Codgers will create the first ever flatmate