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Channel 4 Factual commissions Training Teachers to Kill

Channel 4 Factual has commissioned from Sundog Pictures (1x60 mins) Training Teachers to Kill. This timely and shocking documentary will witness the heated debate playing out in real time where school boards in America are seriously considering arming their teachers for the first time in order to

22 Nov 18 News Release

"The Arrival of Universal Credit" (w/t)

Channel 4 Documentaries has commissioned Blast! Films to make a four-part series exploring the impact of the new Universal Credit benefits system on one of the first 'guinea-pig' towns to experience life under the government's flagship new social welfare policy. Universal Credit is arguably the most

22 Nov 18 News Release

Filmmaker Rungano Nyoni awarded the sixth Wellcome Screenwriting Fellowship in partnership with BFI and Film4

Fellowship worth £30,000 lets screenwriters explore intersection between science and health Inspires narratives about the human condtion Current fellow Michaela Coel uses her award to explore states of consciousness Wellcome, London, 21 November 2018: Tonight at the annual celebration for the

21 Nov 18 News Release

Vince Russell appointed as Channel 4 Finance Director

Channel 4 today announced the appointment of Vince Russell as Finance Director, reporting to Chief Operating Officer, Keith Underwood. Vince was most recently Director of Converged Products at Sky where he led Sky’s entry into the UK mobile market, creating and implementing a successful launch

20 Nov 18 News Release

Channel 4 reconnects with a Celebrity Call Centre Christmas Special

The Celebrity Call Centre is re-opening its ‘phone lines for the festive season, in partnership with Age UK, with eight new stars tackling dilemmas large and small, from Christmas quandaries to troublesome affairs of the heart. Taking calls from the great British public this time round will be

20 Nov 18 News Release

Channel 4 commissions brand new daytime format, Beat the Chef (w/t)

Twofour and Motion Content Group have secured a 20 x 30’ series with Channel 4 for brand new daytime format, Beat the Chef (w/t). The cookery gameshow will be presented by Andi Oliver. Beat the Chef (w/t) sees amateur cooks go head to head against a professional chef in fast-paced cook offs to win a

19 Nov 18 News Release

Rose Glass' Saint Maud starring Morfydd Clark & Jennifer Ehle starts shooting

Principal photography has begun on Saint Maud, a psychological horror film that marks the feature debut of rising star writer/director Rose Glass. Morfydd Clark ( The Personal History of David Copperfield, L ove & Friendship) plays Maud, a young religious private carer who becomes dangerously

16 Nov 18 News Release

Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast is back and jam-packed with celebrity guests

BFFs Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty return to Channel 4 with a brand new series of Friday Night Feast to help motivate the nation to cook up a storm every weekend this winter. Over twelve weeks, and housed in their pop-up caff at the end of Southend Pier, the boys will be joined in the kitchen by a

14 Nov 18 News Release

Factual entertainment Christmas 2018 highlights

The Inbetweeners 10th Birthday Party (w/t) 1x120’ Fudge Park and Monkey Kingdom co-production for Channel 4 The ultimate celebration of everyone’s favourite hapless sixth-formers, as Channel 4 marks a decade since The Inbetweeners hit our screens. The original gang of four – Simon Bird (Will), James