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Bill Bailey to host Ingenious, a new Channel 4 competition celebrating British invention

Channel 4 today announces Ingenious, a new four-part feel-good competition series from Curve Wales, hosted by comedian, musician and lifelong enthusiast for clever contraptions Bill Bailey. Celebrating Britain’s proud tradition of tinkering, and the nation’s fondness for innovation Ingenious brings

26 May 26 News Release

‘How to Get Filthy Rich’ – Gary Stevenson fronts new Channel 4 documentary on inequality

Channel 4 has commissioned How to Get Filthy Rich a new 1x90 documentary presented by YouTube sensation and best-selling author Gary Stevenson, exploring the growing wealth inequality which he argues is tearing UK society apart. In this provocative state-of-the-nation film, Stevenson travels across

21 May 26 News Release

Narrow Escapes Returns to Channel 4 for a third series with New Waterways Adventures and a First-Ever Journey into Scotland

Narrow Escapes is back for a third series, bringing fresh adventures, unforgettable characters and stunning journeys across the UK’s waterways - with a landmark first voyage into Scotland.

21 May 26 News Release

It shows three separate cooking workbenches in a TV studio with people cooking at each of them. Behind them is a large which curtain and on a big screen it says Now We're Cooking!

Tesco launches ‘Now We’re Cooking’ campaign after Channel 4's Diversity in Advertising Award Win

Tesco, BBH & EssenceMediacom were named winners of £1 million worth of advertising space across Channel 4 last November Tesco, with BBH London and WPP Media’s EssenceMediacom, has today unveiled its winning campaign for Channel 4’s Diversity in Advertising Award 2025/26. The annual competition

20 May 26 News Release

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