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It's A Sin reaffirms Russell T Davies (Queer As Folk, A Very English Scandal) as the premier screenwriter of gay life in Britain.

We've mentioned Russell T Davies' new TV series It's A Sin on Channel 4, a kind-of cross between Queer As Folk and Our Friends In The North And delighted in its recreation of a scene from eighties Doctor Who for one of its characters to get cast as a bit part Channel 4 now reports[...]

Queer As Folk especially had a lead character obsessed with the show, to the extent that rattling off the actors who had played the lead became a seduction technique, including the classic refrain "Paul McGann doesn't count". Which is how, in the 80s-set drama It's A Sin due to air on Channel 4 in ten days,[...]

Brown volunteered the information that he took the time to play Civilization 6. "Dead Pixels" panel, NYCC Dead Pixels is a British comedy series originally produced by Channel 4 It features a group of friends who play an MMO together as their full-time lives outside of their normal muggle jobs They are utterly obsessive gamers and quite[...]

Channel 4 has commissioned Quentin Blake's Clown – based on the classic 1996 children's book – for December 2020 Produced by Eagle Eye Drama (the production company recently launched by the team behind global drama brand Walter Presents), the animated Christmas special is based on a popular book by one of Britain's most illustrious and well-loved authors/illustrators,[...]

Today's Popbitch mailer, focusing on TV shows that never made it to air, reminded me of the never-aired planned-for Channel 4 TV series from 2014, Geri: Life Sucks, a fourth-wall breaking real-life parody comedy drama starring Spice Girl, Geri Halliwell as a fictional version of herself, dealing with post-fame life, being a mother – and[...]

It's A Sin is Doctor Who's Russell T Davies' brand new 5-part drama for Channel 4, previously known as Boys (we thought there may have been an issue here) Taking the title from the Pet Shop Boys track from the time it is set, It's A Sin follows the story of the 1980s, the story[...]

The BBC pulled an episode of Fawlty Towers from its streaming service for “racial slurs,” but series creator John Cleese wasn't having that.

viewers will be able to enjoy the apocalyptic adventures of Joss Whedon's "Scooby Gang" for free when all seven seasons of the critically-acclaimed Buffy the Vampire Slayer make their way onto Channel 4's video-on-demand service All 4 beginning June 1 Individual episodes of the series will also be available to watch weekdays at 11 pm[...]

I've seen the first episode of Adult Material, the new drama coming to Channel 4 and All4 very soon, sytarring Hayley Squires, Alex Jarrett, Siena Kelly, Phil Daniels and Rupert Everett, but am not allowed to say anything about it But I can show the first trailer So I will Here it is Just… maybe[...]

Year Of The Rabbit was a bit of a smash hit for Channel 4 last year A comedy thriller parodying seventies cop shows, but set in Victorian London, it starred Matt Berry as the eponymous Inspector Rabbit, Freddie Fox as his posh partner Strauss and Susan Wokoma as the country's first female police officer (fopper?) Mabel[...]

Following up on Bleeding Cool's own Rich Johnston's live reporting from UK broadcaster Channel 4's 2020 programming launch event (where we learned that E4 is the new UK broadcast home for new "Arrowverse" series Batwoman), we've got word on a new reality-based, televised social experiment that's sure to grab some serious attention, social media response[...]

At the Channel 4 2020 launch this morning, in the very fashionable Wild By Tart cheek by jowl to Victoria station, we got a first clip of Boys, the new drama from Russell T Davies, set in the London gay community during the AIDS crisis in the eighties The show is still in production, but[...]

Not the case with Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, and DC's Legends of Tomorrow – all available via Comcast-owned digital channel Sky One, which means there's a blank spot in the middle of its "Crisis" broadcasts. Now thanks to Bleeding Cool's own Rich Johnston and his reporting from Channel 4's 2020 programming breakfast/event, we've learned that Batwoman[...]

Hulu has the streaming rights to the Adult Swim series here in the U.S., while Channel 4 has the rights lock in across the pond, in the U.K. So that means Netflix gets to introduce the following chunks of the world to the down side to peaceful pooping and the smooth flow of snake jazz: India,[...]

Channel 4 has released six new comedy shorts, 'Blaps' just in time for Christmas, the largest amount ever released in one go Available for free on All 4 and on YouTube, feature up and coming talents Sam Campbell, Fran Bushe, Tash Marshall and Jonny Pelham alongside Marek Larwood (Sorry I've Got No Head, Fast and[...]

It is either the best media buying strategy ever – or the worst. In recent days, there has been significant publicity for Channel 4's documentary series Dispatches, which aired tonight, criticising Amazon for the way their treat staff, with undercover filming highlight incidents that contradict Amazon's expressed working practices, such as toilet breaks and sickness leave[...]

That puts it at less than two weeks after the series' US return, and well ahead of the previously-announced Channel 4 debut in January 2020. https://youtu.be/_BCQtmEVYJYVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Rick and Morty Season 4 Opening Sequence | adult swim (https://youtu.be/_BCQtmEVYJY) https://youtu.be/mk5nU_KNIoEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Jessica's Necklace | Rick and[...]

We've just had the premiere of the first two episodes here on the big screen, they have aired in the UK on Channel 4 by now and the full second series can be streamed in the UK of the All4 app right now So apparently I can talk about it No big spoilers though, it[...]

Tonight, Channel 4 are launching the second series and/or season of The End Of The F***ing World, their TV show based on the comic book by Charles Forsman that was also a global hit for Netflix Premiering on Channel 4 and All4 at 10pm, about two hours after it does here, it will so stream[...]

Next week sees the release of the much-anticipated second season of The End Of The F***ing World from Channel 4, based on the comic book by Charles Forsman Available on Channel 4 in the UK on the 4th of November and internationally on Netflix on the 5th of November. The soundtrack to the first season of the show[...]

Next week sees the release of the much-anticipated second season of The End Of The F***ing World from Channel 4, based on the comic book by Charles Forsman And they are all over MCM London Comic Con this weekend But ahead of the second season, available on Channel 4 in the UK on the 4th[...]

Olly Alexander leads the cast of Russell T Davies' five-part 1980s-set drama for Channel 4, which also includes Keeley Hawes, Stephen Fry, Neil Patrick Harris, Tracy Ann Oberman, Shaun Dooley, Omari Douglas, Callum Scott Howells, Nathaniel Curtis and Lydia West, charting the joy and heartbreak of four friends during a decade in which everything changed. It's[...]

Naked Attraction is a British television dating game show, broadcast at night on Channel 4, in which a clothed person selects one other contestant to date from six naked people, whose bodies and then faces are revealed through successive rounds, from the bottom half up Broadcast late night, nothing is blurred or blanked, everything hangs[...]

His latest film, an adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier's gothic romance Rebecca, starring Lily James and Armie Hammer, is to be released on Netflix in 2020. And now he is coming to Channel 4, with a new zombie series, Generation Z, with six hour-long episodes. First they ate your dreams of a brighter future, now they want to[...]

Maisel) join the series when it returns this Sunday, August 11 – and we got a new trailer for the final season episodes. Bailey Gavulic as Annie – Fear the Walking Dead _ Season 5, Episode 8 – Photo Credit: Van Redin/AMC So with the series set to make its midseason return "Channel 4" – a unique,[...]

Colby Minifie (Jessica Jones), Peter Jacobson (The Americans), and newcomer Colby Hollman are set to join the series when it returns August 11 – and we even got a a new trailer for the final season episodes, too (see below)! Since the midseason break is only three weeks, that means we're also getting a preview of[...]

With comedies from Channel 4 like Catastrophe and The Year of The Rabbit elbowing their way in – and to that number we now have to add Gameface, the first episode of which airs tonight on channel 4. British comedy-drama Gameface has had a long and tortured journey Written by and starring Roisin Conaty, it had[...]

Channel 4 has added Keeley Hawes, Sally Phillips, and Jill Halfpenny to the cast of its upcoming comedy, Year of the Rabbit Set in Victorian London, which is also where Bleeding Cool's own Rich Johnston lives, Year of the Rabbit stars Matt Berry as "hardened booze-hound cop," the titular Detective Inspector Rabbit "He's aided and abetted[...]

Rick And Morty, the highly acclaimed and popular sci-fi comedy animation created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block Adult Swim, will see its much anticipated fourth series air on Channel 4 as a UK exclusive premiere later this year Previously Rick And Morty aired in the UK on Netflix but that was removed last year Before that,[...]