Channel 4

This week's top TV: 26 June - 2 July

Monday: Growing Up With Cancer

BBC One, 7.30pm

The lives of three young cancer patients are explored in this documentary as part of BBC One’s Our Lives series.

Growing Up With Cancer looks at the Teenage Cancer Trust Unit Unit in Glasgow's Royal Hospital for Children where young people find a retreat at one of the most difficult times of their lives.

Miranda Hart developing entertainment show for Channel 4

The channel is remaining tight-lipped on the nature of the programme, but its Head of Entertainment, TV Events and Sport, Ed Havard, announced that he has commissioned a one-hour pilot from Hart and her production company King Bert.

Hart won a host of RTS awards for her sitcom Miranda, including the Programme Award for Comedy Performance two years in a row, in 2010 and 2011.

Havard has also announced two further commissions for entertainment shows.

Hit time travel drama Outlander heads to More4

The Emmy-nominated series sees Claire Randall (Catriona Balfe), a married WWII combat nurse, get lost in time and end up back in 1743. Immediately her life is on the line and she must fight for her very survival when she finds herself caught up in the tumultuous Jacobite risings. She is forced to marry Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan), a dashing and romantic Scottish warrior and finds herself torn between her man of the future and her man of the past.

Is Channel 4 preparing for a move out of London?

At a conference in Salford at the end of March, addressed by the then-culture secretary, Karen Bradley, the cities, nations and regions of the UK were presented with a tantalising opportunity – to bid to become the future home of a relocated Channel 4.

Two weeks later, Bradley swiftly launched a formal consultation on the issue – the week before the general election was called. Answers were requested by 5 July.

When the Conservative Party’s general election manifesto was published last month, it included a pledge to move Channel 4 out of London.

Alan Carr to host The Price is Right for Channel 4

The show is set to be packed with amazing prizes and hysterical games, providing good family entertainment.

Alan Carr said, “I'm so excited to be the new host of The Price is Right. It's proper bucket list territory for me as I loved it when I was growing up and now for me to be at the helm of such a legendary show is a dream come true. It just leaves me with one thing to say ... COME ON DOWN!”

Billie JD Porter explores the power of music for Channel 4

The Channel 4 series is created and hosted by journalist Billie JD Porter, who will profile some of the most innovative artists around at the moment.

She will also document the wider stories about the power of music to inspire and bring about change within society.

Across the series Porter meets performance artist Mykki Blanco on his US tour in the Bible belt and speaks to the marginalised black LGBTQI communities in America.

Exploring the lack of female artists in grime, Porter will also shine a light on the disappearance of community youth spaces across the UK.