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Election Coverage Tonight

Channel 4's obviously not voting Green. They were advertising their alternative election special this evening with a helicopter dangling...

Posted by Adam Bowie on May 6, 2010 2:40 PM

Election Coverage Tonight

Channel 4's obviously not voting Green. They were advertising their alternative election special this evening with a helicopter dangling...

Posted by Adam Bowie on May 6, 2010 2:40 PM

The Force

There's a lot of rubbish on televison. Most of it in fact. But once in a while there's something good....

Posted by Adam Bowie on October 14, 2009 10:30 PM

Smart Scheduling Decisions

Or perhaps they're not so smart. This week, Channel 4 starts showing a couple of hot(tish) new(ish) shows from HBO....

Posted by Adam Bowie on October 4, 2009 9:13 PM

All The Broadcast News That's Fit To (Re)Print

As the Edinburgh Television Festival approaches, and Autumn line-ups begin are announced and begin, this week's Broadcast magazine is chock...

Posted by Adam Bowie on August 27, 2009 11:40 AM

Comic Relief - The Other Channels

This Friday is Comic Relief night, and I shan't go on my usual rant about all the plugs that amount...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 9, 2009 2:04 PM

More Digital Britain Leaks

If you want to know what's going on with the Digital Britain report, forthcoming from Lord Carter as metioned yesterday,...

Posted by Adam Bowie on January 16, 2009 1:27 PM

Too Demanding For Watch

There's a wonderful story in this week's Broadcast magazine. In a piece that explains how UKTV chanel "Watch" is having...

Posted by Adam Bowie on January 15, 2009 9:56 PM

Surviving Gaza

Wow. Channel 4 has an interesting and incredibly timely programme on next Monday. I assume it'll detail how to survive...

Posted by Adam Bowie on December 30, 2008 7:52 PM

Irony Layered on Irony

There's a new series of The IT Crowd starting this week on Channel 4. Hurrah! In the last series, one...

Posted by Adam Bowie on November 18, 2008 1:11 PM

Peter Kay's X-Factor Pastiche

[I must admit that this is a revised version of some comments I already posted on a Guardian blog] Peter...

Posted by Adam Bowie on October 13, 2008 1:29 PM

Fine TV

Isn't TV great at the moment? We're nearly into summer, and Euro 2008 will overtake BBC1 and ITV1, but the...

Posted by Adam Bowie on May 20, 2008 6:48 PM

Heston Blumenthal

Channel 4 outbid the BBC for Heston Blumenthal. He's said to have been offered £1m - twice what he's been...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 26, 2008 4:36 PM

TV News Technology

Today's Broadcast reveals that Channel 4's News At Noon now has a new on-screen touch set that allows the presenter...

Posted by Adam Bowie on January 10, 2008 2:56 PM

+1

It's all about the plus ones it seems just now. Channel 4 is terribly excited about it's newly launched +1...

Posted by Adam Bowie on September 26, 2007 8:07 PM

Last Night's TV

Mediaguardian asks whether we watched Dumped or Hell's Kitchen (now with Marco Pierre White). Obviously, I watched neither. I can...

Posted by Adam Bowie on September 4, 2007 11:44 AM

Is Channel 4 Being Held to Account?

You really do need to listen to this week's episode of MediaGuardian's Media Talk podcast. Presenter Matt Wells interviews C4...

Posted by Adam Bowie on May 27, 2007 10:57 AM

Meeja News

All culled from Broadcast: - Kudos is developing a new BBC series called Outcasts, an SF series about "social misfits...

Posted by Adam Bowie on May 24, 2007 10:18 AM

D2 Bids Are In

Bids went in yesterday for the second national commercial multiplex. There are two bidders - Channel 4 and National Grid...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 29, 2007 5:43 PM

Born Survivor

So I'm sitting here watching Born Survivor: Bear Grylls. "Bear" (is that really his name?) is some kind of born...

Posted by Adam Bowie on March 3, 2007 7:22 PM