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Channel 4 has announced It Gets Worse, a brand new comedy series written, created, and starring comedian, writer, and actor Leo Reich and produced by A24 It Gets Worse follows Ethan, Abi, and Sam – best friends from uni, soulmates for life, and dysfunctional roommates It's been a year since they finally managed to move[...]

David Mitchell and Robert Webb are bringing their sketch comedy show back to television, this time on Channel 4, with a brand-new series with a host of exciting and innovative future stars in a merging of comedy minds across generations. Mitchell & Webb will be supported by an ensemble cast of next-generation writers/performers: Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Lara Ricote, Stevie Martin,[...]

Channel 4 has commissioned Tip Toe, a new original drama from the multi-award-winning Russell T Davies (It's A Sin, Queer as Folk, Doctor Who), produced by Quay Street Productions (part of ITV Studios) and executive produced by Nicola Shindler (Queer as Folk, It's A Sin, Fool Me Once) The series will be directed by Peter[...]

Channel 4 has given the green light to Season 2 of Big Mood, starring Bridgerton's Nicola Coughlan The first series was Channel 4 streaming's highest new comedy launch since Derry Girls, which also starred Coughlan. Big Mood follows Maggie, played by Coughlan, a 30-year-old writer with bipolar disorder, and her co-dependent relationship with her best friend Eddie, played by It's a[...]

A new zombie TV drama from comedy writer, Doctor Who director and filmmaker Ben Wheatley for Channel 4 that's currently available to premium Channel 4+ subscribers but will go all-access in the UK on Channel 4 and the 4 app on Sunday Very much an ensemble show, including the point of view of the zombies[...]

It's like waiting for the 24 bus in London – think you missed one, another two come along. Produced by The Forge (Help, National Treasure, Kiri) and created by Ben Wheatley, the six-part series is a high-octane and darkly comic series that is coming to Channel 4 on Sunday, 27th October. Hey, Anita Dobson is in it, not playing[...]

We Are Lady Parts, the hit British sitcom about a Muslim Feminist punk rock band, is finally returning on May 30th to Peacock and Channel 4 in the UK. Season 2 sees the band return with a renewed artistic mission after the high of their first UK tour, only to find a rival band threatens their[...]

Here's a Q&A from the Big Mood event with Channel 4 last week with Camilla Whitehill and Nicola Coughlan Big Mood is an upcoming six-part comedy series for Channel 4 written and created by Camilla Whitehill, directed by Rebecca Asher, and starring Nicola Coughlan as Maggie and Lydia West as Eddie[...]

I realised when watching the first season of Big Boys, the university-set coming-of-age sitcom from Channel 4 in 2022, how special from a moment in its second episode When one of the two main leads, Danny, talks about Anne Frank having to stay in the attic until she got adopted When challenged over this by[...]

Less than a week after a joint investigative report from The Sunday Times of London and Channel 4 – as well as the Channel 4 "Dispatches" doc Russell Brand: In Plain Sight – accused the actor/comedian of "rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse," Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) has taken to[...]

On Monday, we learned that Channel 4 was beginning an internal investigation, that U.K book giant Pan Macmillan's imprint Bluebird has paused his publishing deal, and that there were reportedly serious warning signs in play in 2018 when he was a judge on Comedy Central's "Roast Battle." Earlier today, the fallout from a joint investigative report[...]

As the fallout continues from a joint investigative report from The Sunday Times of London and Channel 4 – as well as the Channel 4 "Dispatches" doc Russell Brand: In Plain Sight – accusing actor/comedian Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) of "rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse," there are a number[...]

The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4's Dispatches have run a series of pieces making serious allegations of sexual assault and grooming by a number of women towards the entertainer, comedian, actor and vlogger Russell Brand, as part of a four-year investigation Russell Brand has denied these claims, stating that any actions were consensual. Christian[...]

Earlier today, The Sunday Times of London & Channel 4 went live with a joint investigative report accusing actor/comedian Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) of "rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse." Later in the evening in the U.K., Channel 4 aired a special called Russell Brand: In Plain Sight, a[...]

Less than a day after actor/comedian Russell Brand (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek) posted a video on YouTube where he "absolutely refutes" what he referred to as a "litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks," The Sunday Times of London & Channel 4 went live with a joint investigative report accusing Brand of "rape, sexual[...]

I was always transparent about that then — almost too transparent — and I'm being transparent about it now as well." Earlier today, The Sunday Times of London & Channel 4 documentary team "Dispatches" revealed what those allegations were, going live with a joint investigation report accusing Brand of "rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse"[...]

Lisa McGee, the creator of triple-BAFTA-winner Derry Girls, has set her next project for Channel 4 and Hat Trick Productions McGee has returned from her break after the ending of Derry Girls and is writing a new comedy-thriller called How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, which follows three old friends from the Northern Irish capital – Saoirse,[...]

A horror novelist character created for the stage by Holness and Richard Ayoade, he got his own TV series, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, on Channel 4, purporting to be a TV series from the eighties written, directed by, and starring Garth Marenghi which had never been broadcast except for in South America and was now being shown[...]

Channel 4's Don't Hug Me I'm Scared is a series that perfectly responds to the absurd and nonsensical horrors of the modern world Originating from the series of videos that began on YouTube over 11 years ago, the story would go on to have six episodes on the channel A good recommendation would be to go[...]

Derry Girls, the hit Channel 4 sitcom about the antics of a gang of high school girls – and their one hapless English boy cousin forced to go to school with them – in 1990s Northern Ireland during the final years of the Troubles, ran its final season in the UK on Channel 4 back[...]

But instead of discussing his upcoming plans, Davies was taking advantage of some award-acceptance speech time to make a strong statement against the British government and its Channel 4 plans, referring to members of the Conservative party as "murderers, bastards, abusers and liars." Image: Screencap Accepting his award for It's A Sin at the South Bank Sky[...]

Derry Girls, a series based in Northern Ireland in the 1990s, became a fan favorite and ultimately struck a chord with our hearts as well.

In the pre-show room in the Charlotte Hotel, before the press screening of the new Channel 4 drama The Undeclared War, I found myself talking to Bristol East MP Kerry McCarthy. And the subject of the future of Channel 4 came up Recently, Conservative Government Culture Secretary, Nadine Dorries MP announced a new government policy to privatise Channel[...]

The Undeclared War, the new cyberwarfare thriller TV series for Channel 4, invited Bleeding Cool to join a question and answer session after a screening of the first episode You can read a review of that right here We got to hear what everyone thought about the upcoming privatisation of Channel 4 Five years in[...]

Five years in the making, The Undeclared War is a new Channel 4 drama airing on Thursday 30th June at 9pm, and will be available on All 4, as well as being on Peacock in the US next month Starring Hannah Khalique-Brown, Adrian Lester, Alex Jennings, Maisie Richardson-Sellers, Kerry Godliman and Simon Pegg, The Undeclared[...]

The iconic and slightly terrifying YouTube channel, Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, has had plenty of rumors circulating about potential returns, but a recent teaser solidifies some hopes from fans and viewers of Channel 4. Screenshot of "Fly" video from YouTube channel. The video, which premiered on the official YouTube channel on June 19th, includes a short blurb[...]

HBO and Channel 4 co-production of the six-episode drama limited series, Get Millie Black, has cast Tamara Lawrance to star in the title role, with Tanya Hamilton to direct Joe Dempsie, Gershwyn Eustache Jnr, and Chyna McQueen also star in Get Millie Black.  Production begins May 2nd in Jamaica, with additional shooting in London to[...]

The Channel 4 sitcom is one of the most original TV shows of last year, following the exploits of a female Muslim punk rock band as they try to get gigs and recognition in a world that dismisses them at best and subjects them to racist stereotypes at worst The show goes a long way[...]

Last night I went to my first Channel 4 Press Event since Adult Material two years ago That show was postponed because it suddenly had to compete with the Ten O'Clock News and, back then, no one was watching anything else at that time But this was for Curse, a new comedy thriller series set[...]

How strong will their friendship remain when they find themselves transformed overnight from nobody's to somebody's- and how much of themselves are they willing to give up for all of the money in the world? Following up on the release of a teaser trailer last week, channel 4 has released an overview of all six[...]