What are your commissioning priorities?

News and Current Affairs ideas which set the agenda, which investigate and analyse subjects others would not touch, which travel to faraway lands others can't get into, which overturn assumptions, which touch people's lives. We are actively seeking ways of breaking away from the familiar form in which current affairs is served up to viewers across all channels. We want to reflect the dramatic upheavals happening across Britain caused by the current economic problems.

We want ideas for loud high-rating and provocative one-off programmes for 9pm. We have forty Dispatches a year. This is the home of in-depth investigation of major subjects national and international, regularly undercover.

We are always in the market for live events like Ask The Chancellors or How To Cut One Hundred Billion Pounds.

We love programmes which cross over into other genres like FOOD - What's In Your Basket.

We are looking for at least two campaigning seasons for 2011.

We need high ambition agenda-setting one-offs.

We are seeking popular current affairs/consumer affairs series and strands.

We are always on the look-out for major investigations for Channel Four News.

What are you not interested in?

Comfy thinking

What are the tariff prices for programmes you currently commission?

£120,000K - £180,000K

What is the biggest creative challenge your team or genre faces?

Re-inventing the form of current affairs programmes.

What advice would you give to new talent companies keen to connect with your team?

Fire off ideas to us as soon as you have thought them through. Current affairs must be current.