Tag Archives: Channel 4

This Way Up, a Merman-produced comedy series written by Aisling Bea, has been commissioned for a second season by Channel 4 and Hulu.

Channel 4’s chief executive, Alex Mahon, delivered a keynote at the RTS Cambridge Convention in which she discussed the important role and relevance of the channel in the broadcasting landscape at an increasingly competitive time.

Channel 4's Alex Mahon, YouTube's Ben McOwen Wilson, Lionsgate’s Sandra Stern, all3media's Jane Turton and NBCUniversal International Studios' Jeff Wachtel are on board for the State of the TV Nation panel debate at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

The actor, writer and director talks about the genesis of the project and the difference between working in film and television.

LONDON/CANNES: The new U.S. time-travel drama Timeless has been sold by Sony Pictures Television (SPT) to the U.K.'s Channel 4, which will launch the show on E4.

LONDON: Netflix and U.K. channel E4 have picked up Crazy Face, a new comedy horror series from Misfits creator Howard Overman.

NEW YORK: Flowers, a new comedic drama starring Olivia Colman (Broadchurch, The Lobster, Peep Show) and Julian Barratt (The Mighty Boosh, Nathan Barley), will be available starting this spring on Seeso in the U.S. and on Channel 4 in the U.K.

LONDON: With its premiere on Channel 4, the German spy series Deutschland 83 has become the highest rated foreign-language drama in U.K. TV history.