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Channel 4’s £1m Diversity in Advertising Award-winner EA SPORTS launches new FIFA 21 TV campaign

The campaign highlights the lack of British Asian representation in professional football and celebrates the grassroots football team: the Midnight Ramadan League The TV ad, created in partnership with adam&eveDDB, features Premier League star and newly signed EA SPORTS FIFA Ambassador, Hamza

23 Apr 21 News Release

Entertainment, Factual Entertainment, Features and Daytime Spring Highlights

There's lots to look forward to in the coming weeks on Channel 4 from Entertainment, Factual Entertainment, Daytime and Features.

22 Apr 21 News Release

Deepfake Greta Thunberg to become Channel 4 TikTok star for Earth Day

‘Man Like Greta’ is the new TikTok dance you need To mark Earth Day on Thursday 22nd April, Channel 4 will be releasing a unique TikTok parody, which appears to star Swedish environmental activist, Greta Thunberg. LINK to TikTok Link to Tutorial In this comedic deepfake, performed by impressionist

21 Apr 21 News Release

Welsh indies continue to deliver for Channel 4

Channel 4 has announced two new series commissions and a series recommission from Welsh indies. Sarah Beeny’s New Life in the Country from Outline Productions Wales was Channel 4’s best performing new 8pm programme brand of 2020 and has been recommissioned for a second peak-time series and Christmas special. Avanti’s The Perfect Pitch has been greenlit for a series of twenty 30-minute episodes in daytime following a successful pilot co-funded by Creative Wales and Cardiff Productions Remarkable Rivers has secured a four-part peak time series for More 4.

21 Apr 21 News Release

Channel 4 in 3-way commission from Arrow Pictures with a unique look at the impact of 9/11

Channel 4 is part of a 3-way commission from Arrow Pictures that also includes PBS and ARTE France to make Generation 9/11, a feature-length documentary which takes a unique look at the impact of the 9/11 tragedy on its 20th anniversary.

20 Apr 21 Video

Ackley Bridge Series 4, weeknights at 6pm on Channel 4: Episode 2

Ackley Bridge airs nightly from Monday 19th April, 6pm, Channel 4, with all episodes available on All 4.

20 Apr 21 Video

First Look Clip - We Are Lady Parts

The first-look clip released for Nida Manzoor’s anarchic, joyful and irreverent music comedy We Are Lady Parts

14 Apr 21 News Release

Channel 4 commissions Secret Spenders from South Shore

The 4x30 series will be presented by Anita Rani. It will surprise families across the UK who are secretly spending too much money and, whilst they’re away from home, will send in a team of experts to transform their finances.

13 Apr 21 News Release

Unconscious Bias Is Examined Though The Lens Of Race And Gender In New #DontFilterFeelings Podcast – Ahead Of Special Hollyoaks Episode

In the latest Don’t Filter Feelings Podcast episode, Hollyoaks cast members Richard Blackwood, Andrea Ali and writer Karla Marie Sweet talk openly with broadcaster and host Yinka Bokini about the effect unconscious racial bias has had on their lives.