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Channel 4 Drama delivers outstanding growth in 2026 as hit series drive streaming and audience performance

A Woman of Substance, Tip Toe, Falling, Patience and Dirty Business help to drive viewing up 43% year-on-year, generating 10.3 billion viewing minutes across linear and streaming. Channel 4’s drama slate has delivered exceptional audience growth in the first half of this year, driving Channel 4 as a

1 Jul 26 News Release

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Channel 4 Sales welcomes PensionBee as sponsor of Weather programming on Channel 4

Channel 4 Sales today announces UK online pension provider PensionBee as the new sponsor of weather programming on Channel 4, marking the pension company’s first TV sponsorship with the broadcaster. The 18-month partnership will see PensionBee sponsor weather programming across Channel 4 television

30 Jun 26 News Release

Joe Lycett's bid to be a pub landlord as he applies for licence to run a one hour a week pub*

(*ALSO NEW TV SERIES FOR CHANNEL 4) Career comedian Joe Lycett is currently applying for a licence to sell and serve alcohol - because he’s setting up his own pub. And it’s a pub with a difference - because it will only be open for an hour a week. During that hour, it will operate as the setting for

25 Jun 26 News Release

Channel 4.0 expands supplier base with three new digital original pilots

Channel 4 announces three new original pilots for entertainment digital channel Channel 4.0 from GRM, V2L8 and Renaissance Studios , all ethnically diverse-led independent production companies and sees the channel foster new partnerships with more producers in the space. The new 20-minute-long

23 Jun 26 News Release

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Comcast’s Universal Ads Launches in the UK with Channel 4, ITV & Sky to Simplify Access to Premium TV Advertising for SMEs

For the first time, small and medium sized businesses can run a single campaign across ITV Media, Sky Media, and Channel 4 Sales Universal Ads makes buying premium TV advertising "as simple as social," allowing campaigns to go live in minutes from a single self-service platform The launch represents

23 Jun 26 News Release

Ellie Winstanley appointed as Untold Commissioning Editor

Ellie Winstanley has been appointed as Commissioning Editor Current Affairs for Channel4’s Untold strand. Beginning initially on a 6-month FTC, she will directly report to Louisa Compton, Head of News and Current Affairs, Specialist Factual and Sport. Now in its fifth series, the muti award

23 Jun 26 News Release

First Look at Nicola Coughlan and Joe Cole in Channel 4 drama ‘I am Helen’

Channel 4 is today releasing a first look image of Nicola Coughlan and Joe Cole in I Am Helen (2x60), which will air later this year. Created, written and directed by BAFTA-winning filmmaker, Dominic Savage and produced by award winning Me+You Productions, the latest instalment of the critically

22 Jun 26 News Release

Channel 4 announces casting for Mog’s Bad Thing from Lupus Films

Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Adjoa Andoh, Amelie Law and Teddy Skelton to return John Thomson, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Amelia Theodorou join the cast for this seasonal special Channel 4 today announces the cast of Mog’s Bad Thing , Lupus Films’ hand-drawn animated adaptation of

22 Jun 26 News Release

Left - Emma Harte, Right - Brenda Blethyn

Brenda Blethyn and Jessica Reynolds to Return for Series Two of Channel 4’s Hit Drama A Woman Of Substance

Produced by The Forge Entertainment ( National Treasure, The Buccaneers, Marriage ), a Banijay UK company, Brenda Blethyn ( Vera, Pride and Prejudice ) and Jessica Reynolds ( Kneecap, The Wolf, The Fox & The Leopard ) are to return to Channel 4 in a second series of A Woman of Substance as the