Channel 4 has appointed Ally Castle as its new Creative Diversity and Disability Lead. In this newly created role, she will lead on and deliver the disability focused strategic plans as part of the channel’s Creative Diversity strategy. Castle will report into the Head of Creative Diversity, Babita Bahal, and will work closely with independent producers […]
All four seasons of iconic US teen drama The OC will be launching on the All 4 streaming service on January 22nd. The multiple award-winning show presents the lives of a group of friends and family whose lives have forever been changed by the arrival of an outsider to their affluent oceanside community of Newport […]
Channel 4 has unveiled its most popular shows, viral social clips and viewing trends of 2020, a year which saw growth in viewing across all key platforms, particularly amongst young viewers. In an unprecedented year of global upheaval, viewers have turned to Channel 4 in significant numbers both to its streaming service, All 4, and […]
Traditional UK broadcasting is unlikely to survive in the online world, unless broadcasting laws and regulation are overhauled and broadcasters speed up their transformation for the digital age, concludes regulator Ofcom in its Small Screen: Big Debate review of public service broadcasting (PSB). Ofcom is looking at how to strengthen and maintain PSB for the […]
Digital UK, the joint venture which leads the operations and strategy of UK DTT platform and Freeview service, has confirmed that broadcast network infrastructure and transmission services provider Arqiva will stand down as a shareholder in the Company from March 2021. The remaining shareholders – the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 – will now have […]
Alex Mahon, Chief Executive of UK PSB Channel 4, has unveiled a new five-year strategy for the business, Future4 – which will accelerate its pivot to digital and significantly increase both streaming of Channel 4 content and new revenues. Channel 4 says this will underpin the organisation’s commercial self-sufficiency and its reach – ensuring Channel […]
The final of the 11th series of The Great British Bake Off attracted a record breaking average audience of 9.2 million viewers and a 39.7 per cent share of the viewing audience from 8pm to 9.15pm on November 24th – with a 10.4 million peak (5 mins), making it the competition’s biggest ever overnight audience […]
Having faced one of their toughest years ever, a host of talent from across the arts industry is set to be celebrated next month at the South Bank Sky Arts Awards. Now in its 24th year, the annual ceremony will take place next month at the London Coliseum in a new, socially distanced format. The […]
Waddell Media, one of Ireland’s largest and most successful independent production companies, based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, has secured exclusive access to prime property specialists, UK Sotheby’s International Realty, for a fly-on-the-wall Channel 4 documentary, set to air this Christmas. One outcome of the current pandemic is the dramatic increase of high net worth UK […]
Channel 4 has added a Celebrity Watchlists page, allowing users to see famous names share their recommendations of what they’re watching on the All 4 streaming service. In a press statement, Channel 4 explained: “As these uncertain times continue, we are once again spending more time at home, and with so much viewing choice, many […]