Channel 4’s iconic first soap Brookside is set to return to screens – as part of a crossover with current soap Hollyoaks. Hollyoaks celebrates its 30th anniversary in October and will mark the milestone with a special episode that also honours its predecessor Brookside and their creator Sir Phil Redmond. Hollyoaks took over as Channel […]

Louise Donald has been confirmed as the new Commissioning Executive for Channel 4 Drama, Hollyoaks, Donald is an experienced script and story editor with over fifteen years of script development experience in the UK drama industry. She started her career in Independent Drama Commissioning at the BBC working her way up from Team Assistant to […]

Channel 4 reports that is has trebled its YouTube full episode UK views in 2024 – driven by the likes of Untold, Hollyoaks, Murder Case: The Digital Detectives and Football Cops – leading the way in reaching digital natives on new platforms while building on its status as the fastest-growing streamer this year. Its social output […]

Channel 4 reports that its social audience is going from strength-to-strength in 2024, passing 1.6 billion UK views, powered by a trebling (+331 per cent) in UK views of full episodes on YouTube. Across the year so far shows including First Dates, Gogglebox, Hollyoaks and 60 Days on the Estates have driven 65 million UK […]

Hollyoaks, Channel 4’s flagship soap, is keeping viewers gripped and coming back for more, as it enjoyed strong viewing for the start of July with figures up +21 per cent YOY alongside a growth in 16-34 viewing of +8 per cent YoY. These figures contain Channel 4 viewing in the previous 12 months, reflecting that […]

Barb data shows Channel 4’s streaming audience in June is up 30 per cent on the same month last year. Meanwhile, the channel continues to grow its overall audience, attracting new digital natives while migrating existing viewers to digital platforms, with 3 per cent year on year growth in viewing across streaming and linear combined […]

Hollyoaks has become the first UK soap to be available in YouTube territories worldwide. The move allows fans around the globe to follow the drama by streaming full sequential episodes for free. It follows the launch of full episodes on YouTube in the UK last year, as part of Channel 4’s move to a stream-first […]

Channel 4 reported it has delivered a three-fold year-on-year increase in UK viewing of full episodes of TV shows on YouTube in Q1, and its made-for-social network Channel 4.0. The first of a new quarterly update on Channel 4 social performance, based on UK views in 2024, highlights progress made against its Fast Forward strategy […]

Channel4.com is now bringing an ‘app-like’ Channel 4 streaming experience to mobiles, tablets, laptops and other connected devices. Channel 4 says the upgrades reflect Gen Z’s growing desire to watch its content on multiple screens, and advances its role in serving young audiences. In 2023, nearly one million 13-24’s streamed Channel 4 via a PC […]

Mixing a highly personal and revealing documentary with scripted comedy moments, Channel 4 has commissioned a new genre-busting programme with Joe Tracini about living with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) Ten years ago, Tracini, former Hollyoaks actor turned viral sensation, was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, a condition that around 2 per cent of the country […]