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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

30 Jan 19 News Release

Channel 4 commissions factual entertainment series, The Surjury

Channel 4 has commissioned a striking new factual entertainment series from Gobstopper Television in Manchester, where a 12-strong jury of the public must decide if people get the cosmetic surgery they’ve always dreamed of. From bum-lifts to nose jobs, sculpted abs to breast enlargements, The

30 Jan 19 News Release

Critically acclaimed series Prison set to return to Channel 4

Paddy Wivell’s critically acclaimed series Prison has been recommissioned from Spring Films for Channel 4 by Commissioning Editor Rita Daniels. Prison offers unprecedented access to life behind bars with a rare access to a Woman's prison, the series produced and directed by Paddy Wivell tells the

30 Jan 19 News Release

Keeley Hawes, Sally Phillips, Jill Halfpenny join Year of the Rabbit

Channel 4’s up-coming comedy, Year of the Rabbit, has gone in to production with an outstanding guest cast. The new 6x30 comedy, which is produced by Objective Fiction out of OMG Scotland with international partners IFC and all3media international, sees BAFTA-winning actor Matt Berry play Detective

28 Jan 19 News Release

Shipwrecked - Series Overview

On two remote islands, two rival tribes, the Tigers and the Sharks, battle against each other in the ultimate popularity contest in paradise. In each episode new arrivals land ashore where they’ll spend a day and night with each tribe. Both the Tigers and Sharks will do whatever it takes to win the