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…

Former Big Brother host Emma Willis is to host the second season of Channel 4's reality series The Circle. She is to replace Alice Levine and Maya Jama for the second run of the format, which is being remade by Netflix in the U.S. and in a number of other territories. The social media based-show will also move from…

Hayley Squires, who starred in Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake and Netflix/BBC co-pro Collateral, is to star in Channel 4 porn drama Adult Material. Rupert Everett of My Best Friend's Wedding and The Happy Prince also stars. Squires is to play Jolene Dollar, a mum of three and one of the top porn performers in the UK, in…

British broadcasters BBC and Channel 4 have revealed that the rise of SVOD services including Netflix and Amazon has lead to rising production and talent costs in the UK television sector. The rising cost of drama production has been laid out by both broadcasters in their submission to the House of Lords…

AMC and Channel 4 sci-fi drama Humans is coming to an end. The Gemma Chan-fronted series has been cancelled after its third season. The news came via a blog posted to social media by creators and writers Jonathan Brackley and Sam Vincent. The pair wrote, "Sadly, there won't be a fourth season of Humans. In this age of…

Canadian drama Mary Kills People is heading to the UK after British broadcaster Channel 4 acquired the thriller from eOne. The deal is a life of series agreement for the show, which originally launched on Global in Canada in 2017. The show, which has been sold to more than 110 territories around the world, follows…

British broadcaster Channel 4 is to launch AwesomenessTV's supernatural thriller Light As a Feather on its digital service. The network will launch the ten-part series, which was originally available via Hulu, on All4 on April 1. This comes days after Viacom closed a deal to sell a raft of Awesomeness content globally…