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Nick Lee promoted to Head of Series Acquisitions

Channel 4’s Director of Commercial Affairs, Martin Baker, today announced the promotion of Nick Lee to Head of Series Acquisitions. Reporting into the Director of Commercial Affairs, this newly created role will be responsible for the creation and roll out, deal terms and delivery of the strategy

27 Nov 18 News Release

Factual & Drama Christmas Highlights 2018

World’s Most Extraordinary Christmas Dinners For some people, Christmas dinner is more than just a meal. This brand new programme looks at some of the lengths people go to make their Christmas days special, from the astronaut who’ll be in space on the big day to feeding a submarine crew under the

23 Nov 18 News Release

Celebs Go Dating Season 6 singletons revealed

E4’s Celebrity Dating Agency is back as seven celebrities get ready to put their hearts on the line for love… It’s time to meet E4’s seven unlucky-in-love Celebrity singletons as Celebs Go Dating Season 6 returns to your screens next year. On the journey to find ‘the one’ are popstar and Jungle

23 Nov 18 News Release

Hollyoaks announces radicalisation storyline

Channel 4 Soap Hollyoaks is to explore the issue of radicalisation into far right extremism to raise awareness of a growing concern in parts of Britain. As the Home Office increases funding into initiatives in major cities to counter anti-immigrant and anti-Islamic sentiments Hollyoaks will examine

23 Nov 18 News Release

Celebs Go Dating confirm new dating agent

Broadcast Journalist, TV Presenter and Life Coach Anna Williamson joins dating expert Paul Carrick Brunson at the Celebrity Dating Agency Celebs Go Dating returns to E4 next year for its sixth series with a brand new dating expert. Television presenter and best-selling author Anna Williamson will

22 Nov 18 News Release

Channel 4 announces line up of new arts programmes

Channel 4 bolsters its arts slate by announcing a range of new programmes tackling contemporary issues with the question of identity as a central theme. For Grayson Perry being an outsider is at the heart of Culture Wars (w/t), which sees the acclaimed artist and broadcaster travel across the US

22 Nov 18 News Release

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