Channel 4 has announced the recommission of hit comedy Catastrophe for another two seasons. Written by and starring Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney, the show launched on Channel 4 last year and follows an Irish woman (Sharon Horgan) and an American man (Rob Delaney) who must navigate instant pregnancy and genuine disaster as they struggle to fall in love … >
New topical thriller The Border will become the first Polish drama to be broadcast on UK terrestrial television. The six-part series will premiere in the UK on Channel 4’s foreign language on-demand service, Walter Presents. The Border is set in a border guard unit specialising in detecting human-traffickers on the extreme border of the EU between Poland and Ukraine. … >
American director Diablo Cody is writing a US remake of Channel 4 sitcom Raised by Wolves. Set on a Wolverhampton council estate and written by Caitlin Moran with her sister Caz, the original Raised by Wolves launched in the UK on Channel 4 in March 2015. > Buy Season 1 on DVD on Amazon. Diablo Cody is best known as the Oscar-winning writer … >
Jack Dee and Claire Skinner will lead the cast of Power Monkeys, a new scripted comedy that will be made and aired in one day. Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin (Outnumbered, Drop the Dead Donkey) return to Channel 4 following the success of their 2015 election comedy Ballot Monkeys. Power Monkeys will lampoon the fictional communications and social media ‘experts’ on both … >
The second season of Shameless creator Paul Abbott’s police procedural drama No Offence has begun filming. Joanna Scanlan (DI Vivienne Deering), Elaine Cassidy (DC Dinah Kowalska) and Alexandra Roach (DS Joy Freers) will be back for seven new 60-minute episodes this autumn on Channel 4. Also returning are DC Spike (Will Mellor), Miller (Paul Ritter), PC Stuart … >
Channel 4 will be airing The Out-Laws, a multi-award-winning comedy from Belgium, in the UK this summer. Described as “a compulsive whodunit featuring one of the best baddies in TV history”, the ten-part series originally aired on the Belgian channel VTM in 2012, where it was titled Clan. The Out-Laws will launch on Channel 4 in early June and will … >
This Is England actor Stephen Graham will star in a new Channel 4 drama written and directed by Dave Nath. Multi award-winning director Nath is best known for his challenging documentaries, including Bedlam and The Murder Detectives. His new fiction project The Watchman is described as “a thought-provoking thriller set on one night, in one location and seen through the eyes … >
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston is executive producing and appearing in a new Channel 4 drama based on the short stories of award-winning sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dick. A co-production between Channel 4 and Sony Pictures Television, the “hugely ambitious” anthology series will be written and executive produced by Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) and Michael Dinner (Justified) alongside Cranston. Each … >
After four seasons broadcast over five years, Channel 4’s university sitcom Fresh Meat has come to an end. In its final season, we saw the six housemates struggle through the last year of their studies and prepare for post-university life. > Buy the complete Season 1-4 box set on Amazon. Now that the gang have graduated from Manchester … >
Dennis Kelly (Utopia) and Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe) have written a new comedy pilot for Channel 4 about “the horror and hilarity of social engagement.” The writers previously worked together on BBC Three’s Pulling and joked: “It has taken just 10 short years for us to agree to work together again. It was a mistake.” Phil … >