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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

17 Dec 18 News Release

Broadcasters publish joint guidance note on Ofcom out-of-London definitions

The UK’s PSBs (BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5) have today (Friday 14th December) published a joint guidance note on the application of Ofcom’s out of London (OOL) definitions in order to give greater clarity to the independent production sector. Together the PSB’s invest hundreds of millions of

17 Dec 18 News Release

First look pictures for 'Traitors'

Traitors (previously known as Jerusalem) will air on Channel 4 and globally on Netflix outside of the U.K. and Ireland (and China where Netflix is not available) in early 2019. First look images for Traitors are released today. Created by multiple award-winning playwright and screenwriter Bash Doran

16 Dec 18 News Release

Kate Thomas joins Channel 4 Daytime commissioning team

Head of Daytime, David Sayer, has appointed Kate Thomas to the role of Commissioning Editor, Daytime. Kate joins in February. Previously Creative Director at Welsh indie Boom, Kate looked after winning new network commissions across multiple genres, including factual for ITV and the BBC, kids for

14 Dec 18 News Release

New Pictures Released for Pure

A refreshingly honest, funny C4 drama about getting to know your mind and your mates, set for early 2019 Twenty-four year old Marnie (newcomer Charly Clive) has ‘bad’ thoughts all the time and she can’t tell anyone. Her mind is XXX-rated and intrusive thoughts are piling up inside her head. It turns