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Channel 4 acquires full ownership of The Box Plus Network

Channel 4 today announced that it has acquired full ownership of The Box Plus Network, buying the remaining 50% stake in the network that it did not previously own from Bauer Media Group. Since 2007, Channel 4 has owned a 50% stake in The Box Plus Network, which produces and broadcasts seven UK

2 Jan 19 News Release

Golden Globe® and Emmy® award-winning 30 Rock comes to All 4

Channel 4 today announces that NBC’s beloved smash comedy 30 Rock is coming to the streaming service All 4. The first two seasons are available today, with the rest arriving at a later date. Written by and starring Tina Fey ( Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Mean Girls), 30 Rock follows Liz Lemon (Fey)

21 Dec 18 News Release

C4 releases a bundle of Blaps this Christmas

This Christmas Channel 4 is unwrapping a bundle of Blaps for your viewing pleasure. Three new breakthrough comedians Tez Ilyas, Edinburgh-award winning Rose Matafeo and Nida Manzoor have unleashed their Blaps on All4. See for yourself: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/comedy-blaps https://www

21 Dec 18 News Release

Toyota, The&Partnership extend relationship with C4 as AYGO sponsors E4's Shipwrecked

AYGO by Toyota will be the official sponsors of the pioneering paradise island reality show, Shipwrecked, when it returns to E4 in early 2019. The six figure deal announced today by Channel 4’s sales house, 4Sales, will run for the duration of the new 15-part prime time series on E4 and will see

21 Dec 18 News Release

Danny Dyer to deliver Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message

TX: 25th December at 3.50pm on Channel 4 Actor and broadcaster Danny Dyer, the unofficial man of the people, is to deliver this year’s Channel 4 Alternative Christmas Message. Picture the scene, the post-Christmas Day kitchen carnage, rubbish everywhere, everyone fighting to be heard and nowhere to

20 Dec 18 News Release

Channel 4 to establish new CMO and MD N&R roles and new centralised communications and planning department led by Chief of Staff Lynette Huntley

Channel 4 CEO, Alex Mahon today announced two new leadership roles for the organisation – a Chief Marketing Officer and a Managing Director, Nations & Regions – and the establishment of a new centralised department bringing together planning and communications. The new role of Chief Marketing

20 Dec 18 News Release

Channel 4 Announces Winners of 2018 Playwrights’ Scheme

Channel 4 has today announced the six winners of the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme, which supports emerging writers. The initiative awards bursaries annually to new theatre writers and has been supported by Channel 4 since 2013. The recipients of the Channel 4 Playwrights’ Scheme bursaries, formerly

20 Dec 18 News Release

First look: Catch 22

Catch-22 from Paramount Television, Anonymous Content, George Clooney & Grant Heslov Coming to Channel 4 in 2019 Based on Joseph Heller’s seminal novel of the same name, Catch-22 is the story of the incomparable, artful dodger, Yossarian (Christopher Abbott), a US Air Force bombardier in World War

17 Dec 18 News Release

Tori Parry joins Film4 as Head of Physical Production

Film4 has appointed experienced line producer Tori Parry as their permanent Head of Physical Production. Parry has been in the role since June on an interim basis, and succeeds Tracey Josephs who left the organisation to join The Ink Factory. Parry has 20 years’ experience as a freelance co-producer