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Interview with Stephen Wight (Gary Campbell)

How has Toby Phillips’s (Jack Bardoe) murder affected Gary? As with a lot of men with mental health issues, Gary’s unwilling to address them in a professional and modern manner. He has been extremely hurt by Toby's death, especially as the relationship that he's had with Jackie (Laura Checkley) is a

22 Aug 23 Press Pack Article

Interview with Faraz Ayub (Ali Shah)

What did you make of the reaction to the first series? I was happy that it found an audience who liked it enough for us to get a second season! The feedback I've had is that people have really enjoyed it, found it heart-warming and enjoyed the camaraderie between the prison officers and the

22 Aug 23 Press Pack Article

Interview with Ron Donachie (Don Carpenter)

Don’s prone to responding to any given situation with one word: “fantastic”. How do you prepare to deliver each one? It's not as easy as it might seem! Vin Diesel says he's never worked so hard in his life as when all he had to do was to stand in a booth for days going, “I am Groot” for Guardians of

22 Aug 23 Press Pack Article

Interview with Ben Tavassoli (Prisoner Louis Costa)

How was it to be back for season two of Screw? I love it, because I made such good friends. I was looking forward to Louis’s storyline – when they told me what he’d be doing I fell in love with it, and the part is a lot bigger so it was about getting my head down and working hard. What kind of state

22 Aug 23 Press Pack Article

Interview with Rob Williams (Writer, Creator & Executive Producer)

How did you come up with the idea for the second series? As series one grew into itself during the writing, I started thinking about why and how that gun might have come in – it’s far more common than you might think. The statistics for how many guns have been found in prisons in the last five, ten

22 Aug 23

Screw Series 2 Press Pack

Channel 4’s hit prison series returns, with Nina Sosanya (His Dark Materials, Good Omens, W1A) once again leading the cast as Leigh Henry, senior prison officer in charge of C Wing at Long Marsh Prison. After the tragic events of the series one finale, our team of embattled prison officers are

23 Aug 23 News Release

Sue Johnston and Ricky Tomlinson seated in pop-up chairs on a beach

Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston reunite for More4 travel series Ricky, Sue & a Trip or Two

Actors Ricky Tomlinson and Sue Johnston are celebrating four decades on screen together in an all-new More4 series

23 Aug 23 News Release

4Skills Business Boost to offer specialist support to N&R based indies

Channel 4 is to offer specialist training and business support to smaller Nations & Regions based independent production companies to help them navigate unprecedented challenges facing the broadcast industry. The 4Skills Business Boost will offer targeted intervention to support smaller indies to

24 Aug 23 News Release

Channel 4 commissions The Murder Retrial (w/t)

The British jury system – judgement by twelve of one’s peers – is shrouded in secrecy, but does that only serve to cover up flaws in the system? Juries are a cornerstone of British justice, but studies [1] [2] have suggested that up to a quarter of juries’ verdicts may be susceptible to inaccuracies