The politician, who has been serving as Channel 4 diversity executive is believed to have agreed to take up the post and is currently on a leave of absence from the House of Lords, where she has sat since 2011.
Google refused to comment on or verify the move.
2016 is Channel 4’s Year of Disability, marking its commitment to increasing on and off-screen representation of disabled people across the schedule.
Almost two-thirds of all on-screen talent during the Paralympics coverage are disabled.
The channel’s runaway hit from the 2012 Paralympic Games, The Last Leg, will be placed at the heart of the coverage, and will come live from Rio every evening at 8pm.
The show will return for a fourth series in early 2017 despite being dogged by a series of unfortunate accidents befalling its celebrity contestants in the most recent series.
This three-part documentary series offers a unique insight into the intense and dangerous journeys made by migrants at the peak of the 2015 refugee crisis.
Migrants who were fleeing war, poverty or political upheaval were given camera phones to capture their journey to the relative safety of European shores.
They filmed where regular TV crews could not: on inflatable dinghies bobbing across the Mediterranean or in the backs of trucks as they were smuggled across the Sahara.
The former army officer will begin his 1700 mile journey in the north-eastern tip of Mexico, heading through eight Central American countries before reaching the Darien Gap where he hopes to pass into Colombia and South America.
The Darien Gap has long been a pull for explorers. The 10,000-square-mile expanse of wild tropical forest stretches from Panama to Colombia and is a refuge for outlaws and dangerous wildlife.
Wood has previously lived in Mexico and trained with the British Army in Belize, but the rest of the trip will see him visit new territory.
Robinson believed that one of the bloodiest conflicts in human history would slip from the public consciousness as the Battle of Blenheim and the Peninsular War had done before it.
In his new film for Discovery, The Somme: The First 24 Hours, the former Time Team presenter follows in the footsteps of five men who served in the Sheffield City Battalion, one of the First World War’s infamous Pals battalions.
The hit show was first aired in June 2013 and has just finished screening its sixth series. The reality programme sees applicants go on blind dates at Paternoster Chop House in central London and couples are then interviewed afterwards to see what they think of each other.
The surreal comic will present the one-off, hour-long show Only in Japan (w/t) which takes a closer look at the massive culture of wacky Japanese gameshows.
Japan is famed for its bizarre gameshow formats, and Fielding will be examining the strangest, weirdest and most wonderful shows he can find!
Based on a comic book and produced by Seth Rogan (Superbad) this explosive drama follows Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), a preacher who finds his body inhabited by a mysterious entity known as Genesis – the offspring of an angel and a demon.
The show lampoons the political communication and social media industry, mocking both In and Out EU-referendum campaigners, as well as the Donald Trump media team and the media team at the Kremlin.
Jack Dee and Claire Skinner (Outnumbered) form part of a stellar cast and play part of the pro-Europe ‘Unity Unit’ in Conservative HQ.
