Tag: Channel 4

LONDON: Channel 4 today has taken a minority stake in the British VR business Parable, which also counts as launch investors Stephen Lambert and The Economist.

LONDON: Channel 4 has named Jack Bayles, who recently co-produced all three seasons of the network's hit show Catastrophe, as commissioning editor for comedy.

CANNES: Sky has added a range of shows from Channel 4’s digital hub All 4 to its on-demand service, now available on Sky Go and Sky Q mobile apps.

LONDON: Channel 4 has commissioned a second season of the daytime reality-quiz hybrid The Question Jury from Monkey.

LONDON: Channel 4 has acquired the U.K. broadcast rights for ABC Studios’ hit comedy black-ish, which is slated to premiere on E4 this month.

LONDON: Sky and Channel 4's Indie Growth Fund have invested in Dial Square 86's latest financing round, supporting the online TV-rights tool TRX.

LONDON: Channel 4 has appointed Joshua Buckingham, Pegah Farahmand and Thom Gulseven as commissioning editors for the free on-demand service All 4, effective this summer.

LONDON: Channel 4 has picked up a minority stake in Barcroft Holdings, which includes such business lines as content creation and digital distribution.

LONDON: Channel 4 has promoted Sarah Lazenby to the post of commissioning editor for entertainment.

LONDON: A new report has concluded that the impact of privatizing Channel 4 would be “overwhelmingly negative for the overall economy, the broadcasting ecology and creative industries, technology adoption and commercial innovation, C4’s consumer surplus and advertiser surplus, and wider society.”