Falling ratings for primetime news suggest the days when presenters were household names are drawing to a closeIt has been one of the paradoxes of the year: as TV viewers continue to hunger for updates on the pandemic – the biggest story since the seco…
BBC staffed by people ‘whose mum and dad worked there’, says Nadine Dorries
Culture secretary attacks ‘nepotism’ and ‘groupthink’ at broadcaster in interview at Tory conferenceAll the latest from the Tory conference – liveNadine Dorries has labelled the BBC an institution riven by bias and staffed by people “whose mum and dad …
Armistead Maupin and Laura Linney: how we made Tales of the City
‘I thought we were going to make history with our same sex kiss. And we did. There were protests all over America – and a bomb threat in Chattanooga’Armistead Maupin, author and executive producer of the Channel 4 seriesI wrote Tales of the City for th…
Succession returns: how did a nice lad from Oswestry make such a nasty TV show?
As the British writer’s tale of a media family’s power struggle returns to TV, we chart his path from Peep Show to global award-winning famePulsing away unobserved, inside a room near Brixton underground station, is the heart of a callous transatlantic…
Channel 4 goes off-air after outage caused by technical problem
Several TV channels including Channel 5, Film 4 and More 4, lost outputHalf a dozen TV channels including Channel 4 and Channel 5 suffered an outage during prime time on Saturday evening because of a technical problem.Channel 4 and its sister channels,…
Britain’s broadcast media is too valuable to be the toy of politicians and moguls | Will Hutton
Rupert Murdoch launches a new channel, C4 is threatened and notions of impartiality seem up for grabs. Are we seeing a challenge to the old order?Britain’s stubborn attachment to non-Tory values infuriates and worries Conservative politicians to equal …
Emma Raducanu’s US Open final to be shown free-to-air in UK on Channel 4
Deal agreed with Amazon to show final against FernandezFirst British woman in 44 years to reach grand slam singles finalBritish tennis fans will be able to watch the US Open final free of charge on Saturday, after Channel 4 struck a last-minute deal wi…
Channel 4 opens new HQ in Leeds as it fights against privatisation
Bosses hope move away from London will soften government attempts to sell off broadcasterChannel 4 will open its national headquarters in Leeds on Monday as it fights against a government threatening to sell it off to the highest bidder.About 200 of th…
Sex, Succession and sci-fi nightmares: the must-see TV of autumn 2021
More teenage hookups in Sex Education, a killer Olivia Colman and the long-awaited return of the Roy family … here is all the unmissable TV coming soonAnnie Murphy moves straight from Schitt’s Creek to another swearily titled series, this time a bold m…
New owner could cut Channel 4’s Paralympics coverage, says ex chairman
State-owned broadcaster’s plans to cement its dominance ‘won’t add up’ for ‘profit-maximising’ entity• Wider, stronger, longer: Channel 4’s coverage will break Paralympic recordChannel 4’s successful decade-long mission to make the Paralympics a fixtur…