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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,[...]

Channel 4 and Netflix's The End of the F***king World creator Jonathan Entwistle is taking on another  Charles Forsman microcomic series in I Am Not Okay With This. Co-created by series director Entwistle and series writer Christy Hall, the streaming service's eight-episode coming-of-age TV series is produced by Stranger Things director-executive producer Shawn Levy via 21 Laps. I Am[...]

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver and friend Jimmy Doherty are bringing Jamie & Jimmy's Friday Night Feast back to Channel 4 for a sixth season…with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Danny DeVito, Jessica Chastain (It: Chapter 2), and Doctor Who's Jodie Whittaker leading the season's line-up of celebrity chefs. In addition to DeVito, Chastain, and Whittaker, guests[...]

Channel 4 has just announced (at a swanky party at Shoreditch House which I totally got invited to) two new comedies and the return of an old favourite. YEAR OF THE RABBIT A new 6 X 30' comedy starring BAFTA Award-winning actor Matt Berry (Toast of London, House Of Fools, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace, Snuff Box, The IT Crowd) which is irreverently and profanely[...]

Gareth Edwards's directorial debut will be sliming and crawling its way to our screens, as UK broadcaster Channel 4 is set to adapt the Rogue One helmer's Monsters as a television series. Ronan Bennett (Top Boy) is expected to serve as series showrunner, with newcomers Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith writing Edwards is expected to have some[...]

Show creator Graham Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books) has confirmed that The Peacock Network is developing a remake of the Channel 4 comedy and that he will be writing and executive producing the project. Credit: Channel 4 Patrick Daly (producer, August: Osage County) and Jon Rolph, who runs original series producer FremantleMedia UK's Retort, will also serve as[...]

on Channel 4 and are currently available globally on the streaming service Now, the new 10-part season picks up immediately after the Season 2 finale and features Ashley Walters (Dushane) and Kane Robinson (Sully) reprising their roles. Here's a brief overview of the initial two four-episode seasons of Top Boy: Series One: The series follows the plight[...]

to the U.K., Channel 4 will be remaking Showtime's Emmy-nominated series Web Therapy into the upcoming dark comedy Hang Ups The six-episode series stars Stephen Mangan (Episodes) as Richard Pitt, a therapist at a personal and professional crossroads who begins treating patients via webcam. David Tennant (Broadchurch, Doctor Who), Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) and Jessica Hynes[...]

As well as exploring Mars; I am thrilled to be accommodated by the brilliant planet Hulu and my favorite homegrown one of Channel 4." Scheduled to begin production later this year, The First is being executive produced by Willimon and his producing partner Jordan Tappisis The series is owned and produced by Westward Productions and co-financed[...]

Hulu isn't wasting any time capitalizing off of the Emmy success of their series adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale, with the streaming service announcing that two-time Oscar winner Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, The Game) has been tapped to lead their science fiction-drama series The First. Beau Willimon's (House of Cards) straight-to-series drama marks Penn's first major regular[...]

Last night I watched the latest episode of the grim'n'gritty'n'funny cop drama No Offence on Channel 4, towards the end of its second series/season/ It's always been a female-focused cop show, with a detective inspector and her two juniors leading the show But it was only thinking over last night's episode that I saw how far[...]

We've seen the Preacher trailer. But with one line, "Jaysus, what kind of Preacher are you?", Joe Gilgun looks like he may be about to steal the show as

If you want to remain virgin pure before watching Black Mirror White Christmas on Channel 4 next week, then stop now But I think you're probably being a bit silly. Yesterday I attending a press screening fresh from the edit suite (to the extent that the very final scene still needed a little FX[...]

I just attended the press screening for Black Mirror: "White Christmas". This time I made it through with my own black mirror intact, and am on the 170

The deal with Kudos and Channel 4 is for an eight-episode series based on a Swedish series called Real Humans Channel 4 had a deal with XES back in April but then it was announced that XES was being shut down. Humans is set in a world where the "Next Big Thing" is a Synth –[...]

Edward Snowden addressed the British public earlier today on Channel 4 as part of their Alternative Christmas Message, and recorded in Russia earlier in the year It's the first time he's spoken on television since the balloon went up. Addressing the camera, with a tinny microphone voice, backed by blue curtains, he said; Hi and Merry Christmas,[...]

The Queen's Speech on Christmas Day is a long standing British tradition, in which the reigning monarch addresses their subjects, first by radio and now by television as well. Not quite as long standing, but still pretty traditional now is the Alternative Christmas Message on Channel 4, scheduled against the Queen for the last twenty years[...]

Of late, American TV has found much inspiration in the British TV market. Not so much for shows that succeed like The Office, or fail like Skins,

So Channel 4 just got our attention. @bleedingcool Any #single comic fans out there? New C4 series #FirstDates wants to hear from you – twitter.com/FirstDates_Tea… RT? — First Dates Casting(@FirstDates_Team) June 11, 2013 The new show is part of Channel 4's "Mating Season" This kind of thing does make me a little dubious[...]

Okay, okay, it's the fine actor Adeel Akhtar, who is playing Wilson Wilson in Utopia, the pharma-politico-conspiracy thriller set around a MacGuffin of a graphic novel, premiering tonight on Channel 4 You can see what I thought here. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQSX0OH73fQ[/youtube] Understood, Wilson Wilson, I'll keep my eye out. Hmm, looks like he's been sending warnings to lots of people[...]

Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot appeared on Britain's Channel 4 News tonight to talk about their Costa Award-winning graphic novel Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes, being the daughter of a writer and also defending the very medium itself… The summary on Channel 4's website? Written by Hayley Campbell, daughter of Eddie… Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot[...]

From his early games journalism to his TV Go Home parody, he has poured his bile on the populace, not so much with a bucket but with a sick-sewage sprinkler system set to max. And whether on his series of Wipe programmes, Newswipe, Screenwipe, Gameswipe, or from his hate filled rants on 10 O'Clock Live, as[...]

To feature the return of classic characters.

Jamie Wotton writes for Bleeding Cool. Channel 4 have ordered a couple new dramas, one from Skins creator Bryan Elsley and another from The Hour writer Abi Morgan. Borrowing a stylistic approach from his other long-running show, Elsley's drama Dates will focus each episode on a different character (or date, if you will), and between them cover[...]

And it's having its network premiere on Channel 4 in the UK right now. Which is why the interactive motion comic Brandon Generator, created by Tommy Lee Edwards, Edgar Wright and Julian Barratt to advertise Internet Explorer 9 has completely taken over the ad breaks during the film They're highlighting the interactive elements of the motion[...]

Very Important People is a relatively new Channel 4 impressions sketch show from Morgana Robinson and Terry Mynott targeting modern day celebrity And in tonight's episode, as well as a rather entertaining Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell sideswipe, they also went for Jonathan Ross and his Superfriends, Russell Brand and David Walliams, depicting them as comic book[...]

Bleeding Cool pointed out the new iOS free App for Leah Moore, John Reppion, Windflower Studios and Emma Vieceli's The Thrill Electric digital comic. Not everyone has an iPad or iPhone or course, and the comic is still available as a webcomic. But if you ever needed a reason to buy such a device… well, take a[...]

  It was one of the most significant digital comic books last year. Finding a way to blend both comics and animation without losing the strengths of both.