On 5 June, Channel 4’s Chairman, Charles Gurassa, announced that Alex Mahon, best known for her business deals alongside Elisabeth Murdoch at Shine, was to be the broadcaster’s seventh chief executive. When she arrives in the autumn, she will have to take a number of critical decisions that will require every bit of her famously big brain.
The highly anticipated four-part drama explores one of the most important issues of our time: the so-called Islamic State and the British men and women who leave their lives behind to join their ranks.
The true crime documentary explores the curious murder case of Adrian Greenwood, an antiquarian book dealer who was stabbed to death on the doorstep of his Oxford home in April 2016.
Brown started her career working in radio, choosing a university with a strong student radio community to pursue her passion.
She worked at multiple radio stations after she graduated before taking a different direction in her career when she auditioned for a continuity announcer position at the BBC where she worked, before settling at Channel 4 in 2001.
Brown's friendly and recognisable voice has been broadcast to Channel 4 viewers for the last 16 years, making her a familiar personality on the channel.
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.
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.
Matthew Macfadyen returns for the final series of period drama Ripper Street.
Following the shocking murder of Inspector Bennet Drake, outlaws Edmund Reid, Homer Jackson and Long Susan join forces to avenge the death of their old friend - despite being hunted by the police themselves.
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.
Head of Specialist Factual, John Hay said, “[Channel 4 is] naturally focused on what’s happening now and what’s happening next. I’m excited by ideas that start by asking ‘What’s going on in the world?’”
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.
