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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

18 Dec 18 Interview

Interview with Simon Bird for The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited

It’s ten years since The Inbetweeners first appeared on TV. How has it changed your life? In lots of ways. I always wanted to perform comedy and be an actor. Before The Inbetweeners I assumed that was a pipe dream. As we were making The Inbetweeners I thought it was a pipe dream as well to be honest

18 Dec 18 Interview

Interview with James Buckley for The Inbetweeners: Fwends Reunited

It’s ten years since The Inbetweeners first appeared on TV. How did it change your life? I don’t know really. I got paid, and I was in this successful show, but I’m not really sure how much it’s changed my life other than that. I feel like I’m the same person. It was good fun doing it! What had you

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

17 Dec 18 Interview

Ashley Banjo Interview for Flirty Dancing

What is Flirty Dancing about? It's like a blind date, but rather than meet up with somebody and then do something more conventional like go to a bar or to a restaurant, you don't speak to this person. You don't know who they are. You don't even quite know where you'll meet them, but you'll bump into

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