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Channel 4's Head of News and Current Affairs Dorothy Byrne is only the sixth women to give the well-respected MacTaggart lecture, the keynote address at the Edinburgh International TV Festival. Previous speakers include Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner and Norman Lear. Byrne addressed a range of issues during her speech…

British broadcaster Channel 4has unveiled its latest programming slate including a Muslim punk comedy, a three-part doc series about Russian President Vladimir Putin and a reality series set within a Namibian tribe. The shows were announced by Channel 4 at the start of the Edinburgh International Television…

Kill List director Ben Wheatley has created a Brexit zombie drama for UK's Channel 4 – his first television project since directing episodes of Doctor Who. The broadcaster has commissioned six-part series Generation Z. It will feature "rapacious" baby boomers and "disaffected" teenagers at each other's…

Benedict Cumberbatch, Tamsin Greig, David Oyelowo, David Walliams and Paul Whitehouse have been set as voice cast for Channel 4's animated Christmas special, The Tiger Who Came To Tea. Lupus Films is producing after striking a deal last year with HarperCollins Children’s Books to adapt the classic story by the late…

Channel 4 has said that will be a "continual investor" in British content in light of competition from the likes of Netflix and Amazon and has defended airing risky formats that highlight public service issues. Chief executive Alex Mahon, speaking in front of a Department of Digital Culture, Media and Sport committee…

Kristin Scott Thomas-fronted documentary My Grandparents' War is set to travel the world after distributor DRG took the rights to the C4 series. The four-part series, produced by British indie Wild Pictures, sees Hollywood stars including The English Patient star Scott Thomas and Bridge of Spies star Mark Rylance…

Westworld and Borgen star Sidse Babett Knudsen has joined Channel 4 and Hulu drama The Light (w/t). Babett Knudsen, who plays Theresa Cullen in the HBO sci-fi thriller, is joining Happy Valley star Sarah Lancashire in the four-part series, which is the follow-up to National Treasure and Kiri. The cast also includes…

British broadcaster Channel 4 is looking to double down on drama series that are "too hot to handle" after warning that it is being priced out of top tier drama productions. Ian Katz, director of programmes at C4, said that it wants to commission more series like The Virtues, the Stephen Graham-fronted child abuse…

The life and career of British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver is to be explored in a new documentary for UK’s Channel 4. The British broadcaster has ordered hour-long doc 20 Years of The Naked Chef: Jamie Bares All, which will look at how things have changed for the chef since his rise. This comes weeks after it was…

Sharon Horgan is facing a "Catastrophe-shaped hole" as she says an "emotional" goodbye to the Channel 4 and Amazon comedy. Horgan, speaking to Deadline from the Hollywood Hills, is doing the rounds to mark the end of the series that she created and co-starred with Rob Delaney as she prepares a slew of new projects to…

Hulu has boarded Aisling Bea comedy This Way Up as The Daily Show's Aasif Mandvi, The Crown's Tobias Menzies and Game of Thrones' Indira Varma join the Sharon Horgan-exec produced series. The U.S. digital service has partnered with Channel 4, which ordered the series, previously known as Happy AF, last year. The…

The Good Fight's Cush Jumbo and Good Omens' David Tennant are to star in Channel 4 crime drama Deadwater Fell (w/t). The pair are leading the cast of the Kudos-produced four-part series alongside Patrick Melrose and The Crown star Anna Madeley and The Terror's Matthew McNulty. The series is as much of an exploration…