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Channel 4 announces new documentary Football’s Coming Out

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The digital documentary will explore why there are still barriers for top footballers being openly LGBTQ+, with many Premier League football players often experiencing numerous challenges if they come out publicly.

Produced by Bullion Productions, the documentary will show the pressure players face if they decide to come out and the reaction that invokes from other players, fans, press, social media and financial donors. 

Archive footage will be used to show what previously happened in historical case studies and how that has changed over time. 

Full boxset of The O.C. heads to All 4

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The award-winning series follows a group of friends and family whose comfortable lives are upended when an outsider arrives at their wealthy oceanside community of Newport Beach in Orange County.

Ryan Atwood (Ben McKenzie) is taken in from the streets of Chino by Sandy Cohen (Peter Gallagher), a public defender, and his wife Kirsten (Kelly Rowan). The Cohen’s lives are transformed by Ryan’s arrival and integration into their family.

Full box sets of The West Wing and One Tree Hill head to All 4

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The West Wing

Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) first became a household name through his fast-talking White House drama The West Wing, written with John Wells and Thomas Schlamme.

The series follows the lives of political movers and shakers in Washington D.C. Martin Sheen leads the cast as President Josiah Bartlet, with Rob Lowe (Parks and Recreation) starring as his Head of Communications Sam Seaborn.

New Jürgen Klopp documentary for Channel 4 and All 4

Jürgen Klopp: Germany’s Greatest Export, made in partnership with ERDINGER Weissbräu brewery, follows Klopp’s journey from a self-proclaimed average player to world-beating manager, via Frankfurt, Mainz and Dortmund to Liverpool FC.

The documentary also recounts Liverpool’s arduous history since 1990, up until the club and Klopp eventually crossed paths to put an end to the club’s 30-year wait for a Premier League title.

The film visits fellow Liverpool legends such as John Barnes, Steven Gerrard, and Sir Kenny Dalglish for commentary on Klopp’s style and success.

Inglorious Basterds star Til Schweiger fronts new Walter Presents series

Starring German megastar and Hollywood actor Til Schweiger (Inglorious Basterds, This Means War), Nick’s Law follows lone wolf detective Nick Tschiller as he takes on the Astan clan, the gang at the heart of Hamburg’s criminal empire.

After moving his family to Hamburg for a fresh start, it doesn’t take long before Tschiller’s (Schweiger) all-guns-blazing approach lands him in hot water with the District Attorney.

Channel 4 unveils new look All 4 and new commissions

Mitchell & Webb head Back to 4

At the broadcaster’s Upfront 2017 event, they announced a brand new comedy series from Peep Show writer Simon Blackwell, to star David Mitchell and Robert Webb; named the first celebrities to take part in this year’s The Jump; and promised a massive content investment increase for 2017 on All 4

The stars of Peep Show Mitchell and Webb are returning to Channel 4 in Back.

Sequel to Deutschland83 will run on All 4

Titled Deutschland86, the second series picks up the story of Communist agent Martin Rauch who we last saw in East Germany, caught up in a betrayal plot amongst his superior officers.

Three years later, in 1986, Martin emerges as an exile in East Africa and is once again enlisted by his Aunt Lenora to fight in the Global Cold War. Set amongst true stories of terrorism in 1980s Western Europe, Deutschland86 journeys through events in Paris, Johannesburg, and Tripoli before returning to a divided Berlin where nationwide anxieties are coming to a head.

Your must-watch catch up TV

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Grace and Frankie

 

The slick, silver-haired comedy from Friends creator Martha Kauffman is back for a second season.

Straight-laced Grace and free spirit Frankie are both happily married women when their husbands, Robert and Sol, announce that they are leaving them – for each other.

Catch up TV picks

1. Kabul Kitchen 

 

Based on true story of Marc Victor, a Radio France Internationale journalist, who ran a restaurant in Kabul for French expatriates until 2008, Kabul Kitchen is a hilarious French-language comedy taking a sideways look at life in the Afghan city.

Jacky runs the popular restaurant, Kabul Kitchen, and all appears to be going well… until his daughter arrived to do some humanitarian work.