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A member of staff at British broadcaster Channel 4 has tested negative for coronavirus following fears he contracted the disease during a vacation in China last month. The employee, who has not been identified by Channel 4, was escorted from the company’s Horseferry Road headquarters in London last week by National…

Following the death of British TV presenter Caroline Flack on Saturday, ITV and Channel 4 are changing their schedules. ITV’s youth channel ITV2 pulled Love Island: Unseen Bits soon after the news of Flack’s death broke on Saturday evening local time. It was replaced by an episode of home video show You’ve Been Framed…

EXCLUSIVE: Much like the rest of the world, Rufus Jones watched on in horror as the refugee crisis gripped Europe in 2015. As people fled conflict in Syria and beyond, the Stan & Ollie actor had just fathered twins and became preoccupied with worries about the world his new-born girls were entering. Not obvious…

Channel 4’s streaming service All 4 will become the home of Seinfeld in the UK until Netflix takes the global rights to the iconic Jerry Seinfeld comedy in 2021. All 4 will drop the first three seasons of Seinfeld online on February 7 after inking a deal Sony Pictures Television. The streamer will then release one…

AMC Networks streamer Acorn TV has acquired the North American rights to Channel 4’s David Tennant drama Deadwater Fell from Endemol Shine International. Acorn will premiere the four-part drama — which is made by Tin Star producer Kudos — in April this year, general manager Matthew Graham announced at the winter…

Sandi Toksvig has stepped down as the host of Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off after three years. The presenter, who oversees the baking contest alongside comedian Noel Fielding, is quitting to spend time on other projects, including a new show on adult literacy for Channel 4, titled The Write Offs. Toksvig was…

British broadcaster Channel 4 is moving into natural history programming with an eight-part series on the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya as part of a slate of new shows for 2020. Living Wild (working title), produced by Sky-owned Blast! Films, promises to take viewers on an intimate journey into the lives of a cast of…

British broadcaster Channel 4 has acquired Batwoman and Harley Quinn from Warner Bros and Duncanville, the animation from Amy Poehler and The Simpsons veterans Mike and Julie Scully. Batwoman will broadcast on Channel 4’s youth network E4 in 2020, featuring Ruby Rose as the DC character — the first openly gay female…

Steve Coogan and Sarah Solemani are writing and co-starring in a comedy-drama about sexual politics in the wake of the #MeToo movement for Britain’s Channel 4. Produced by Coogan’s Baby Cow Productions, Chivalry stars Coogan and Solemani as filmmakers put together by a cynical studio executive to salvage a failing…

Fulwell 73, the production company co-owned by James Corden, is making a documentary for Britain’s More4 in which it will cast new light on Nazi atrocities at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Fulwell will for the first time colorize black and white footage from Auschwitz and couple it with revealing…

Oscar-winning American actor Richard Dreyfuss and Queer Eye star Tan France are among the celebrities who will put on an apron and get baking for Channel 4’s special Stand Up To Cancer episodes of The Great British Bake Off. The Great Celebrity Bake Off, produced by Love Productions, will also feature documentary…

EXCLUSIVE: If Charlie Covell decides to return to her cult drama The End Of The F***ing World, she will be pushing on an open door at Channel 4, which originally commissioned the show and co-produced it with Netflix. That’s according to Channel 4 director of programs Ian Katz, who told Deadline that Covell “can keep…