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  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Channel 4 makes loss after worst advertising fall since 2008 financial crash

    UK broadcaster is cutting jobs and investing more in digital

    Married At First Sight UK’s cast of 2023
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
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    BBC and other public UK broadcasters strike Amazon streaming service deal

    Agreement with US tech company is set to provide a boost to broadcasters’ new platform Freely

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  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Management
    ‘This is not about rooting out a few bad apples’: how bullying became a big issue in film and TV

    Scandals at broadcasters show how unacceptable behaviour can breed in pressured work environments

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  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
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    Sunak criticises Reform activist after racist outburst

    Nigel Farage ‘dismayed’ after undercover film of party campaigners

    British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak
  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    Queenie, Channel 4 — the Bridget Jones we need now

    Screen version of Candice Carty-Williams’s bestseller injects a familiar quarter-life crisis tale with wit and multicultural smarts

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  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    Alice & Jack — Andrea Riseborough and Domhnall Gleeson star in on-again off-again saga

    New romantic drama on Channel 4 spins out into a tortured affair

    A red-haired man in a white-collared shirt and black trousers stands facing a women in a silk dress. They are standing next to the landing railing of an elegant building with a large painting in the background.
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Channel 4 cuts fifth of staff and lines up London office sale

    UK broadcaster blames need for cost reductions on steep falls in traditional advertising market

    C4’s London headquarters
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    Truelove — timely Channel 4 drama puts assisted dying in the spotlight

    Lindsay Duncan and Clarke Peters star in a sensitive exploration of ethical dilemmas and personal anguish

    Two men and two women in their seventies walk across a deserted English beach
  • Tuesday, 28 November, 2023
    Media
    Channel 4 eyes accessing debt facility after worst ad decline since 2008

    Publicly owned, commercially funded broadcaster facing ‘market shock territory’, chief executive tells MPs

    Channel 4 headquarters
  • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
    Channel 4’s independent production quota to rise in TV reforms

    Move designed to maintain media plurality as broadcaster seeks to boost finances by producing its own programmes

  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    ReviewTelevision
    Partygate, Channel 4 — Covid-era docudrama pulls no punches

    Georgie Henley and Ophelia Lovibond recreate lockdown-breaking parties at No 10 Downing Street

    A group of people at a party cheersing
  • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
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    UK broadcasters develop free digital TV service to take on streaming

    Freely will be built into next-generation smart sets, in effect taking Freeview platform on to internet

    A remote control being pointed at a TV
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    ReviewTelevision
    The Price of Truth, Channel 4 — punchy portrait of Russian journalism under fire

    Documentary follows Novaya Gazeta editor Dmitry Muratov’s fight to keep publishing in the face of mounting threats

  • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
    Channel 4 boss says BBC facing a ‘very difficult situation’

    Alex Mahon confident that a conduct complaint against a presenter would be escalated to broadcaster’s top management

    Alex Mahon
  • Friday, 14 April, 2023
    ReviewTelevision
    Lyra, Channel 4 review — an elegiac reflection on journalist Lyra McKee

    Documentary about the life and death of the Northern Irish reporter feels both personal and vital

    A photo of Lyra McKee with her arms crossed in front of a colourful abstract mural
  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    UK politics
    Amazon and Google told to let UK radio stations stream on smart speakers

    Requirement part of biggest overhaul of rules for online and traditional broadcasting in 20 years

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  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    UK television production companies warn on Channel 4 reforms

    Government rejects privatisation in favour of changes to preserve broadcaster’s financial sustainability

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  • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
    ReviewTelevision
    Prince Andrew: The Musical, Channel 4 — royal narcissism makes for scandalous showtunes

    The programme has to tread a fine line when it comes to the allegations of sexual assault

    A woman sits looking horrified while a man make a curious gesture with his hand
  • Friday, 4 November, 2022
    UK politics
    Sunak expected to shelve plans to privatise Channel 4

    Privatisation expected to be among the many low-priority policies that will be scrapped by the prime minister

    Channel 4’s London headquarters
  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    ReviewTelevision
    Jimmy Carr Destroys Art, Channel 4 — grim and unedifying

    Programme in which a studio audience is asked to vote on whether to expunge ‘problematic’ artwork is woefully misguided

    A canvas suspended on a mesh screen is engulfed in flames in front of a crowd
  • Monday, 26 September, 2022
    ReviewTelevision
    Make Me Prime Minister channels The Apprentice to find the UK’s ‘alternative PM’

    Alastair Campbell and Baroness Warsi judge the ministerial potential of opinionated Britons on a new reality TV show

    A photo of Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Alastair Campbell in suits standing in front of a black door with the number 10 on it
  • Tuesday, 20 September, 2022
    UK government ‘re-examining’ Channel 4 privatisation plan

    Marked change of tone from new culture secretary will raise broadcaster’s hopes of staying in public hands

    Michelle Donelan
  • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
    Social Media
    UK’s young adults spending more time on TikTok than watching TV

    Ofcom survey points to challenges for traditional broadcasters in keeping pace with digital and streaming trends

    Women in face masks looking at their mobile phones in London
  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    ReviewTelevision
    The Undeclared War, Channel 4 — secret service thriller stars Mark Rylance and Simon Pegg

    The series created by ‘Wolf Hall’ director Peter Kosminsky roots its fiction in today’s real-world politics

  • Saturday, 18 June, 2022
    David Abraham
    Channel 4 privatisation is a solution in search of a problem

    This model has helped sustain a successful British industry, and has proved itself across four decades of film and television

    Channel 4 headquarters in Horseferry Road, London.
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