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Channel 4 confirms full line up for SAS: Who Dares Wins - SU2C Celebrity Special

This year SAS: Who Dares Wins has partnered with Stand Up To Cancer for its very first celebrity special. The team of ex-Special Forces operators, led by Chief Instructor Ant Middleton have put 12 brave celebrities, both male and female, through an intensive seven-day course to see if they’ve got

19 Mar 19 News Release

Channel 4 announces composition of new National HQ and Creative Hubs

Creative and digital departments at heart of new bases in Leeds, Glasgow and Bristol Channel 4’s Chief Executive, Alex Mahon today updated staff and partners in the industry on Channel 4’s plans for its new National HQ in Leeds and its Creative Hubs in Bristol and Glasgow – setting out the creative

19 Mar 19 News Release

Channel 4 to mark anniversary of Amritsar massacre with Sathnam Sanghera film

Channel 4 has commissioned a new documentary to examine one of the darkest days in British and Indian history. In The Massacre that Shook the Empire (w/t) writer and journalist Sathnam Sanghera will explore what happened on 13th April 1919 when a British General ordered troops to gun down a crowd of

19 Mar 19 News Release

Channel 4 sends wayward teens to prison in Banged Up (w/t)

With Britain’s prison population the largest in Europe and with youth knife crime up 64% in the past five years [1], Channel 4 today announces they are sending eight British teen tearaways, some of whom are in trouble with the law, to one of the toughest jails in America in a bid to divert them from

18 Mar 19 News Release

Channel 4 Dispatches asks if the £40billion infant formula industry is putting profit before babies?

THE GREAT FORMULA MILK SCANDAL: CHANNEL 4 DISPATCHES Monday 18th March, Channel 4, 8pm Channel 4 Dispatches asks if the £40billion infant formula industry is putting profit before babies? Key lines: Dispatches can reveal that - as of Monday 18th March - the British Medical Journal will no longer

18 Mar 19 News Release

Extreme Chocolate Makers coming soon to Channel 4

Today Boomerang announces a brand new 10-part series Extreme Chocolate Makers coming to Channel 4 this spring. This series unveils the work of an elite group of chocolatiers, who go all out to produce the world’s most breath-taking chocolate creations. The talented chocolate makers that feature in

15 Mar 19 News Release

C4 lights a spark for emerging comedy talent with new brief for social media

Sparks will champion bold, experimental short-form ideas and provide a platform for exciting and distinctive voices to shine through Up to 4 creative partners from across the UK to deliver 30 pieces of content for Channel 4’s social channels Annual budget for scripted comedy Blaps doubled

15 Mar 19 News Release

Former Ferrari boss joins C4 F1 team for Australian Formula 1 GP

Former Ferrari Team Principal Stefano Domenicali will join Channel 4 for its coverage of the opening Formula 1® Grand Prix of the 2019 season from Melbourne. Stefano will be providing his expert insight alongside former F1 drivers David Coulthard and Mark Webber for Channel 4’s opening Formula 1

15 Mar 19 News Release

C4 and Love Productions sign new Bake Off Deal; Junior Bake Off commissioned

Channel 4 and Love Productions have today confirmed a new two series agreement for The Great British Bake Off – extending the successful creative partnership until 2021. The tenth series of Bake Off will be broadcast on Channel 4 later this year, with a further two series now confirmed to follow. It