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Channel 4 acquires Mo Gilligan + Friends: The Black British Takeover

Channel 4 has announced the acquisition of Mo Gilligan’s live stand-up comedy showcase Mo Gilligan + Friends: The Black British Takeover. The 1 x 60’ film is co-produced by Gilligan’s own BAFTA winning company Momo G and Lucky 17, sister company to the multi award-winning management collective UTC

28 Sep 22 News Release

Channel 4 appoints Miranda Higham Director of Corporate Relations

Channel 4 today announced that it has appointed Miranda Higham as Director of Corporate Relations. In this newly created role, Miranda will be a member of the Executive Management Board and will report directly to Chief Executive Alex Mahon. Miranda will promote and protect the Channel 4 brand and

27 Sep 22 News Release

Benenden Health teams up with Channel 4 to encourage Brits to check-in on their health

Channel 4 today reveals Time For A Check-in, an exclusive creative partnership with not-for-profit Yorkshire-based healthcare provider Benenden Health and MediaCom North to encourage the nation to talk more openly about their health. Channel 4 talent including AJ Odudu, Davina McCall, Roman Kemp

26 Sep 22 News Release

Channel 4 invites the public to become policy makers for Make Me Prime Minister marketing campaign

Channel 4 has today unveiled a series of thought-provoking stunts that immerse the public in the world of policymaking to celebrate its new political reality show Make Me Prime Minister. Produced by award-winning 4creative, Channel 4’s in-house creative agency, the campaign spans digital posters

26 Sep 22 News Release

Channel 4 Gets Sex Rated

Channel 4 has commissioned Sex Rated (w/t), a new studio series hosted by Rylan, where single Brits will learn where they may be going wrong in love by asking for frank feedback from their past sexual partners. Each contributor will find out how they rate in the bedroom via the results of a no-holds

23 Sep 22 News Release

Channel 4 shortlists seven finalists for its £1 million Diversity in Advertising Award

Channel 4 today announced the short-listed finalists of its £1m Diversity in Advertising Award, which is challenging the advertising industry to tackle the ongoing lack of authentic representation and portrayal of visible and/ or non-visible disabled people in TV advertising. For the first time in

23 Sep 22 News Release

Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared press pack interview with Becky Sloan, Joe Pelling and Baker Terry

How did ‘Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared’ first come about? BS: Well it began about 12 years ago, we all met studying art at university. Baker and Joe were doing animation, and I was doing fine art. Obviously, we became best buds and then after uni we all got a studio together where we could continue to

22 Sep 22 News Release

4creative bolsters creative teams with new hires

Channel 4’s award-winning in-house creative agency 4creative has significantly expanded its ranks with two talented new duos. Dan Warner and Andy Vasey (pictured) join as a Creative Director team from AMV BBDO, and Stuart Gittings and Reuben Dangoor, formerly at BBC Creative come in as a creative

21 Sep 22 News Release

Handmade: Britain’s Best Woodworker - Meet the woodworkers

The competition to find Britain’s Best Woodworker is back, hosted by Mel Giedroyc. Meet the woodworking class of 2022.