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Channel 4’s award-winning strand, On The Edge returns for a fourth series supporting new film-making talent

On The Edge, Channel 4’s BAFTA award-winning series of short films is returning for its fourth year. Produced by BlackLight Television, a Banijay UK company, the anthology of films will once again champion first-class emerging UK talent. This year’s dramas, Wet Look, Letting Go and The Final

13 Dec 22 News Release

Channel 4 commissions Around the World in Eighty Weighs

Mothership Productions have been commissioned to make a 6x60 format exploring the global obesity crisis. This warm – but shocking - series will involve Brits who want to lose weight travelling the world to better understand the relationship between food, culture and body size, and in the process see

7 Dec 22 News Release

SAS: WHO DARES WINS TAKES ON VIETNAMESE JUNGLE IN TOUGHEST SERIES YET

SAS: Who Dares Wins returns to Channel 4 in January with the most savage selection course yet, taking a new group of recruits into the deepest, darkest, most unforgiving jungle in the world, in Thung Ui, North Vietnam. Leading the Directing Staff (DS) this series, will be Billy (Mark Billingham)

6 Dec 22 News Release

THE SNOWMAN™ MELTS HEARTS ONCE MORE IN NEW CHANNEL 4 CHRISTMAS IDENT

Animated ident celebrates the 40th anniversary of the much-loved animation’s debut on Channel 4 Channel 4 has commissioned award-winning production company Lupus Films ( The Tiger Who Came to Tea, We’re Going on a Bear Hunt) to produce a snowy seasonal ident featuring the beloved characters from The

6 Dec 22 News Release

Channel 4 takes to the skies to launch Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama

Channel 4 has today revealed its marketing campaign for the much anticipated #WagathaChristie inspired TV drama, Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama. Produced by Channel 4’s multi-award winning in-house creative agency 4creative and planned by OMD UK, the campaign throws back to the iconic moment

2 Dec 22 News Release

This Christmas Channel 4 airs ‘THE SNOWMAN™: The Film That Changed Christmas’

2022 marks Channel 4’s 40th Birthday. It also marks 40 years since Channel 4 first broadcast the film adaptation of the late Raymond Briggs’ timeless picture book - The Snowman™. In a huge celebration of this iconic animation this 1x60 documentary explores how this little twenty-six-minute film has become so embedded in the nation’s heart at Christmas.

30 Nov 22 News Release

Keynote speech for Channel 4 2022 Inclusion Festival Krishnan Guru Murthy, main Anchor, Channel 4 News

Hello. I’m Krishnan Guru-Murthy and how good it is to be included in an inclusion festival? Not a conference or a debate – but a festival. A thing of celebration. A thing of joy. For that, surely should be our natural reaction to the idea, the goal of a society and industry in which everyone is

30 Nov 22 News Release

A picture of Alex Mahon next to a quote from her speech at The Inclusion Festival. The quote reads: would say it's arguably more important because it's what changes our industry over time. It's what changes how people make decisions on-set, it changes the creative, it changes the tenure of the editorial conversation.

Speech by Alex Mahon, Channel 4 Chief Executive, Inclusion Festival 30/11/2022

Transcript : Channel 4 Inclusion Festival, 30 November 2022 Sophie Morgan, Broadcaster and Disability Advocate speaks with Channel 4’s Chief Executive, Alex Mahon. Sophie: I'm Sophie Morgan, I'm a blonde, white 36-year-old woman. I'm wearing a pink dress with black, flowery detail, and I'm using a

30 Nov 22 News Release

Diverse senior decision makers are key to an inclusive broadcast industry

UK PSB leaders Alex Mahon, Carolyn McCall, Maria Kyriacou & Tim Davie speak at Channel 4’s Inclusion Festival Festival focuses on a range of diverse issues including disability and media portrayal of Muslims and Trans community Broadcast industry calls for more diverse leadership to create a more