Channel 4 and Lloyds Bank have revealed the five Black-owned companies which will benefit from business support and free TV advertising as part of their Black In Business initiative. In addition to receiving £100,000 worth of airtime, each of the five business owners will also have a TV advert made for them and six months […]

Channel 4.0, Channel 4’s digital-first strand for YouTube, is launching a new social branded programme Crowd Sauce: The Search for Wizdem with Warner Bros Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter. Crowd Sauce: The Search for Wizdem sees content creator Harry Pinero challenge fellow social media sensations Mariam Musa and BillyTheGoat to compete […]

British broadcaster Channel 4 has launched its first international channels after striking deals with US streaming platforms Tubi, Plex and Xumo Play. Two channels – 4 Adventure and 4 Emergency – will be available on the streaming platforms making hundreds of hours of Channel 4 content, alongside other UK programming, available for free to millions […]

Rick and Morty is making a return to E4 this October with Season 7 of the Emmy Award winning Adult Swim animated series. Karl Warner, Head of Youth and Digital at Channel 4, commented: “We can’t wait to be taken on another laugh out loud ride across the universe with Rick and Morty and the rest […]

ITN Productions has hired two new executive producers to join its production team: Emmy-nominated series producer and director Nadya Mahdi and BAFTA-nominated programme-maker Jeremy Daldry. Mahdi, a specialist in News, Current Affairs and Factual content for the last 20 years, will take on the Executive Producer role working across genres including true crime, talent-led series and topical programming. […]

Janine Thomas, has been appointed as Commissioning Editor Current Affairs for the youth strand Untold and will directly report to Louisa Compton, Head of News and Current Affairs, Specialist Factual and Sport. Now in its second series, the youth programming has proved to be remit-defining, with noisy journalism with titles such as Inside the Shein […]

Channel 4 has commissioned a new series from 14th Floor through the broadcaster’s Diverse Indie Fund. The four-part series will follow Alan Cumming as he embarks on a trip of a lifetime on board the Royal Scotsman, the iconic train that takes guests on one of the world’s greatest rail journeys. In each episode viewers will […]

OneGate Media has secured record-high sales for the crime drama Baltic Crimes. The international series has been sold across 95 countries including the US, France, UK, Japan and Spain. The series produced by Tim Gehrke with Razor Film Production and Polyphon Film, centres around investigators, Karin Lossow, a former district attorney who has returned to […]

Channel 4 has published its 2022 Annual Report which it says shows “strong and resilient results, with solid building blocks for future growth in place”. 2022 performance highlights include: All-time record £713 million (€835.2m) invested in British content Ended year with £1.14 billion revenues, topping £1 billion for second consecutive year Digital revenues increased 14 […]