Channel 4

At this year’s RTS North West awards we’re proud that Channel 4 shows and talent have received 14 nominations. Congratulations! 🎉   ⭐ Best Drama – The Gathering ⭐ Best Daytime Programme – Four in a Bed series 16 ⭐ Best Entertainment Programme – Naked Attraction ⭐ Best Factual Entertainment Programme – GOATED and Four in a Bed ⭐ Best Continuing Drama Storyline - Leela and Joel’s Baby Loss (Hollyoaks) and Sibling Sexual Abuse (Hollyoaks) ⭐ Best Digital Creativity – Death of an Influencer (Hollyoaks) and 'What’s Your Normal?' (Hollyoaks) ⭐ Best Inclusive Practice: For Programmes with Deaf, Disabled And/Or Neurodivergent (DDN) Contribution – New Model Agency ⭐ Best Script Writer – Helen Walsh for The Gathering ⭐ The Caroline Aherne Award for Best Breakthrough Talent – Isabelle Smith (Hollyoaks) ⭐ Best Performance in Drama – Eva Morgan (The Gathering) ⭐ Best Performance in a Continuing Drama – Kirsty-Leigh Porter (Hollyoaks)   For the full list of nominees click here: https://lnkd.in/gnRn46et

We're thrilled that, across 2024, Channel 4’s streaming audience is growing ahead of the market. As our very own John Cox, Streaming and Social Sales Leader at Channel 4, explains here: "We’re equally proud that, as a public service broadcaster, we are focused on serving up truth and bring trusted." Click here to find out more about what was discussed on the panel: https://lnkd.in/eU9PF8W5

Channel 4 has today published its Annual Report 2023 – and provided an update on its strong performance in 2024. Today’s results show how Channel 4 navigated through a challenging 2023 with resilience, laying the foundations for its Fast Forward strategy and the success it is seeing in 2024. 👉 Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eri3pFQd

Channel 4 is going bigger and better than ever before for our coverage of the 2024 US presidential election, with our first overnight coverage in 32 years. Hosted by Emily Maitlis, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Jeremy Vine and Matt Frei, the overnight programme will feature a range of guests including Boris Johnson, Brian Cox and Stormy Daniels. We’ve partnered with CNN for the first time to enable the sharing of guests, reporters, graphics and data across the night, and tap into expert analysis from American household names including John King. America Decides: US Election Results will be available to watch on November 5 from 10:15pm. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eMyQizes

We’re thrilled to share the news that we’ve appointed Rak Patel as our Chief Commercial Officer. Rak will head up the Channel 4 Sales team, accelerating the commercial elements of our Fast Forward Strategy. Rak joins us in January 2025. Hear more from him below: https://lnkd.in/e6rQ5TRx

Joining our team this week, please join us in welcoming Dr Parves Khan, Kim Lee, Alison Gibson & Rachel Jelenge 🎉

Precisely a month ago, in the heart of the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games, Channel 4 partnered with the British Embassy Paris to host a very special reception celebrating the efforts of everyone involved in the Paralympic movement - from the sporting bodies and their athletes, to the production partners, industry bodies, disability advocates and Paralympic organisers who make the games possible. 📽️ Here’s the first of two brief films shot in the gardens of the UK Ambassador, Menna Rawlings, which asked our guests about their experience of the Paris games… #Paralympics #Paris2024 Thanks to our contributors; Alex Mahon, Channel 4 Menna Rawlings, British Embassy Paris Nick Webborn CBE DL, ParalympicsGB, Andrew Parsons, International Paralympic Committee Adam Hills, Last Leg Presenter (Open Mike Productions Ltd) Frankie Allen & Josh O'Brien, Paralympic Rowers Amy Truesdale, Taekwondo Paralympian Sebastien Bechara, Wheelchair Rugby JJ Chalmers, Presenter And thanks to our guests, including; David Clarke OBE, PLY, Craig Spence, Barry Lloyd, Claire Enders CBE, Martin Baker, Kate Clayton, Sunil Patel, Whisper , UK Sport, Alona De Havilland, Shaw Trust

Today, Channel 4's TV guides will have a rhythmic twist, With rhyming descriptions you won't want to miss. 6am 'til midnight, across Channel 4, Film4, E4 and More4, From Narrow Escapes to Taskmaster, it’s poetry galore. Even Countdown has joined in with the poetic fun on air, As Susie Dent pens today’s description with wit and flair. So tune in today, and let rhymes lead the way, As #NationalPoetryDay takes over Channel 4’s display!

Will these smokers or vapers experiences and opinions change when asked the same questions on Day 0 and Day 60 of the experiment? Channel 4 announces its first social branded entertainment series with NICORETTE®. Now live, Future Me is a new four-part digital series that follows lifelong smokers, parents, couples, and vapers on their quitting journeys. Watch here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gADquvEG

We’re thrilled to announce that applications for Black in Business 2024/2025 are now open! Teaming up for a second time, Channel 4 and Lloyds are offering four successful Black owned-businesses £150,000 of TV advertising plus Lloyds expertise and business advice. “We are excited to connect four Black-owned businesses to the transformative power of TV advertising, and, in doing so to help support their growth journeys. Across the two years of this initiative, more than £1 million of Channel 4 TV advertising will have been made available to Black-owned businesses. Black in Business is the latest example of how we aim to support positive change in our industry, and we cannot wait to work with the next cohort of businesses.” - Ewan Douglas, Head of Sales Nations & Regions & Business Development, at Channel 4 Sales This announcement builds on last year’s initiative where the TV adverts of the five beneficiaries of Black in Business were seen by 21.5 million people. For more information on the initiative and how to apply please click here: https://lnkd.in/e-4Gmq7Y.