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Channel 4 Annual Report 2025: Stable revenues, financial discipline and continued investment in British content in a challenging market

Consistency: Revenues top £1 billion for fifth consecutive year Cost discipline: £10 million pre-tax deficit broadly in line with 2024 Protecting content: 62% of revenues - £640 million - reinvested in content  Monetising digital: £346 million, up 13%, standing at 34% of total revenue  Prudent

18 May 26 News Release

Channel 4 announces ongoing external review of contributor welfare on Married at First Sight UK

Channel 4 today announced that in April it commissioned an external review into contributor welfare on Married at First Sight UK (MAFS UK). MAFS UK is a reality television series which sees single people - matched by experts - ‘marry’ strangers who they meet for the first time on their wedding day

18 May 26 News Release

Random or Related? Channel 4.0’s new ancestry format unites creators with long-lost family

Channel 4.0 has commissioned a new digital original format from Acclaimed Content which sees famous faces connect with unknown relatives in Random or Related? In this six-part series, Channel 4.0 stars will meet a lineup of strangers, one of whom is a distant family member they have never met before

15 May 26 News Release

CAF Champions League Final to air exclusively on Channel 4 Streaming and Channel 4 Sport YouTube

Channel 4 has secured exclusive rights to broadcast the 2025/26 CAF Champions League Final. The two-leg fixture between South Africa’s Mamelodi Sundowns and Morocco’s AS FAR is to air live on Channel 4 Streaming and Channel 4 Sport YouTube on Sunday 17 and Sunday 24 May.

15 May 26 News Release

First look images released for Steven Moffat, Hartswood Films and Channel 4’s new drama ‘Number 10’ with Rafe Spall, Jenna Coleman and Katherine Kelly

Produced by Hartswood Films, part of ITV Studios, and written by Steven Moffat ( Sherlock, Dracula, Inside Man) in his first project for Channel 4, first look images have been released of Rafe Spall ( Trying, The English) as the Prime Minister, Katherine Kelly ( In Flight, Mr Bates vs The Post

13 May 26 News Release

David Thewlis, Rory Kinnear, Eve Myles and Eleanor Tomlinson lead exciting cast for Wrong Move on Channel 4

Channel 4 and Roughcut Television ( Little Disasters , Coma, Big Boys ) today announce the cast for Wrong Move , the brand-new 6x60’ darkly comic thriller written and created by Ben Edwards ( Coma, Miss Scarlet & The Duke ), with filming currently underway in West Yorkshire. Leading the cast is

12 May 26 News Release

Channel 4 announces factual drama VENGEANCE: MURDER ON THE HEATH from makers of Dirty Business and Consent

Channel 4 has announced Vengeance: Murder on the Heath, a 2x60’ factual drama that tells the story of the killing of 21 year old Gagandip Singh by his friend Harvinder ‘Ravi’ Shoker in 2011. Branded by the press as the ‘ Honeytrap Murder’, the case garnered national interest for the part played by

12 May 26 News Release

Channel 4, Sony Pictures Television and Playground reveal first look at Glenn Close as ‘Maud Oldcastle’ in UP TO NO GOOD

Tanya Reynolds, Mathew Baynton, Iain Glen and Richard E. Grant join the cast. Channel 4, Sony Pictures Television and Playground today reveal a first look at Glenn Close as ‘Maud Oldcastle’ in UP TO NO GOOD. Based on Helene Tursten’s short story collections An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good and An

8 May 26 News Release

Secret Genius to Return for Extended Second Series

Alan Carr and Susie Dent are back to meet more ‘unbelievable brains’ Channel 4 has announced the recommission of recent hit series Secret Genius, which will return for an extended run of seven episodes. Hosts Alan Carr and Susie Dent will be back to guide audiences through a fresh set of