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EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has back-tracked on its decision to commission a second season of Victorian-era comedy crime caper Year Of The Rabbit after the coronavirus pandemic forced the British broadcaster into £150M ($205M) of content cuts. Channel 4 renewed Matt Berry’s Year Of The Rabbit in February last year, funding…

Kelly Webb-Lamb, Channel 4’s deputy director of programs and head of popular factual, is leaving the British broadcaster after five years. A senior figure in the UK industry, Webb-Lamb said it was time for “new adventures” after working hand-in-glove with Channel 4’s content chief Ian Katz for the past three years of…

Russell T Davies, the creator of Channel 4 and HBO Max’s upcoming AIDS crisis series It's A Sin, has spoken out about the importance of casting gay actors as gay characters. Starring Years & Years frontman Olly Alexander, the series is already winning rave reviews and, during a publicity blitz ahead of its January 22…

Disney+ is continuing its push into internationally-produced originals by hiring Channel 4 commissioner Sean Doyle to be its point-person for unscripted producers in Europe and Africa. Doyle, the deputy head of features and formats at Britain’s Channel 4, will become Disney’s director of original production for…

UK media regulator Ofcom has warned that the British government urgently needs to overhaul broadcasting laws if public service broadcasters, the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and Channel 5, are to survive in the age of streaming. Ofcom published early findings from its landmark review of public service broadcasting today…

British broadcaster Channel 4 has unveiled plans to launch a £30M ($40M) Global Format Fund to secure a bigger cut of international content sales as it bids to generate 40% of its revenue from non-TV advertising sources. The Format Fund, detailed today as part of Channel 4’s so-called Future4 strategy, will involve…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one: Killing Eve star Jodie Comer and The Irishman actor Stephen Graham are on the brink of signing up for a Channel 4 drama that will be set in a UK care home during the coronavirus crisis, Deadline can reveal. The four-part series is housed at All3Media International-backed production outfit T…

EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has taken Avalon memory challenge format Can I Improve My Memory? to series and replaced presenter Michael Buerk with former The Great British Bake Off host Sandi Toksvig. The show premiered as a 60-minute special in March 2019, with Buerk challenging celebrities Gok Wan, Joey Essex, and Valerie…

Channel 4, the British broadcaster behind global hits including The End Of The F***ing World, has said that it will end 2020 on a sure financial footing after it was ravaged by a 50% drop in advertising revenue at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The Great British Bake Off network provided an update on its 2020…

The Crown star Helena Bonham Carter is to narrate an animated Channel 4 adaptation of Clown, a kids story written and illustrated by Sir Quentin Blake. Channel 4 has commissioned Eagle Eye Drama, the production company recently launched by the team behind global drama streamer Walter Presents, to make the 30-minute…

UK media minister John Whittingdale has revealed that the government is again giving thought to selling off The Great British Bake Off broadcaster Channel 4. In unprompted comments at a virtual Conservative Party Conference event on Tuesday, Whittingdale revealed that ministers are reviewing Channel 4’s future as it…

Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon has said that the British broadcaster’s content spend will “go up massively” next year to help it compete with U.S. streamers, but she stopped short of committing to restore all of the £150M ($193M) taken out of the budget. In a Royal Television Society Digital Convention 2020 interview, the…