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Kevin Spacey’s “spectacular fall from grace” is set to air on Channel 4 next month.Spacey Unmasked will feature never-before-seen interviews with multiple people who are not connected to the actor’s UK trial last year, speaking for the first time about their experiences with the actor.It will screen in the UK on May 6 and 7, and will air in the US at a later date on Max, and in several other territories through a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Discovery.Check out a trailer for the doc below:In July last year, Spacey was acquitted of all nine charges he was facing, including seven counts of sexual assault, one count of causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent, and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity.This documentary was first announced in 2022, prior to Spacey’s acquittal.An official description of Spacey Unmasked reads: “Spacey Unmasked is a forensic look at a man who was once one of the most admired and respected actors in the world.

Peep Show fans are very happy about the discovery.Celebrating its 20th anniversary last year, Peep Show documented the increasingly tragic lives of bank manager Mark Corrigan (played by David Mitchell) and his layabout flatmate/ occasional musician Jeremy Usborne (played by Robert Webb). The show also featured the characters’ friends and partners, including the drug addict Super Hans (played by Matt King) and Olivia Colman as Sophie.Now, Zodiac Court in Croydon, which is Apollo House in the show – the place where Mark and Jez’s flat was located – is being redeveloped.In a digital image of the new development, fans have spotted what appears to be an Easter egg linking the show.One image features what appears to be a retail unit called ‘SuperHans’, in reference to the show’s beloved character.Check out the image here:A post shared by Dobby Club (@dobbyclub06)Last year, Peep Show co-writer Sam Bain revealed that they received offers to turn the hit Channel 4 sitcom into a play.Speaking to NME, Bain said that he and fellow co-writer Jesse Armstrong (Succession) had to reject the proposal because they couldn’t figure out how to make the show work on stage.The iconic comedy was shot through a POV perspective with the actors performing to camera, while the characters’ internal thoughts were added as narration.

Gogglebox and Celebrity Big Brother star George Gilbey has died at the age of 40 following a fall at work.Gilbey was one of Gogglebox‘s earliest cast members, having joined the reality show in its second season back in 2013. He appeared alongside his mum and stepfather, Linda and Pete.On Wednesday (27 March), it was reported that Gilbey had passed away following a fall at his place of work earlier that day.In a statement, an Essex Police spokesperson told Sky News on Wednesday: “We received a report of an incident at Campfield Road in Shoebury at around 10am this morning (27 March), during which a man who was working at height had fallen and sustained an injury.“The ambulance service including air ambulance were in attendance.

Channel 4‘s boss has apologised to a former employee for not properly investigating a “serious” allegation made against Russell Brand in 2009.However, the broadcaster found “no evidence” that Channel 4 staff knew about the allegations against Brand in a Dispatches programme before it aired.The 48-year-old comedian was accused of rape, assault and emotional abuse as part of the joint investigation with the Times and Sunday Times. Brand has strongly denied all accusations, which relate to a period between 2006 and 2013.Channel 4’s chief executive, Alex Mahon, said in a statement (via The Guardian): “While the investigation did not find any evidence to suggest that any Channel 4 employees were aware of Russell Brand’s alleged behaviour contained in the programme, it did find that one former Channel 4 employee made a serious and concerning allegation about Russell Brand in 2009.“This was not escalated to Channel 4’s then senior management team, nor investigated as it should have been.

she was “lying low” after having received abuse following her appearance of The Big Fat Quiz of the Year. The comedian was a panellist on the year-end Channel 4 quiz on Boxing Day alongside Katherine Ryan, Mo Gilligan, Richard Ayoade, Mel Giedroyc and Kevin Bridges.Now, in a new interview with The Guardian, she has spoken about how the episode affected her personally.“I’d be lying if I said it didn’t upset me, but luckily, I am surrounded by such a strong network of brilliant friends, family, colleagues who support me,” she said.“Do I need a thick skin? Yes, I bloody do.

Warning: Spoilers aheadThe crime drama Deadwater Fell, starring David Tennant, has arrived on Netflix – but who killed Kate and the children? Read on to find out. The four-part drama was originally broadcast on Channel 4 in January 2020, but it is now available to stream on Netflix, with many choosing to binge through the episodes to find out how the story resolves. The tale revolves around a tragedy in a remote Scottish village in which a fire rages at the home of the Kendrick family.

Taskmaster is on the way – and the line-up for series 17 of the show has been announced.Following the Taskmaster Champion of Champions 3 special that aired last night (January 14), Channel 4 confirmed the five-strong lineup for the next series in a trailer showing the cast and their outfits. Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed and Inside No. 9 star and co-creator Steve Pemberton will be part of the new series, as will Joanne McNally, Sophie Willan and John Robins. The new season is expected to air in the first half of 2024, although a date has not yet been confirmed.Check out the first teaser of the new season here:In other news, a new live experience could give everyone the chance to compete in Taskmaster.In a video announcement in December, show hosts Greg Davies and Alex Horne shared plans for Taskmaster: The Live Experience which would allow viewers to “take part in the same ludicrous tasks that these so-called comedians do”.The duo have launched a mailing list to gauge interest in the idea, with 100,000 sign-ups required to get the project off the ground.In a rallying cry to fans of the show, Davies and Horne said: “Please sign up to the Taskmaster: Live Experience mailing list.

Crazy Rich Asians and Harry Potter are among the film highlights on New Year’s Day.After wishing 2023 a boozy farewell, the TV schedules are loaded with films to help ease you into the new year.Highlights include Ridley Scott’s Gladiator, which is set to receive a sequel starring Paul Mescal later this year. For something lighter, there’s Crazy Rich Asians on BBC Three and Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone on ITV2.Elsewhere, Liam Neeson action flick The Commuter is on Sky Showcase, while the 2020 remake of The Witches starring Anne Hathaway is on BBC One.See all the films airing on New Year’s Day below.If you want new films, streaming services have added a bunch in recent weeks.

No Time To Die and Saving Mr Banks are among the film highlights on New Year’s Eve.As another year comes to an end, the TV schedules clog up with films to fill the gaps before the fireworks begin.Highlights this year include Disney’s 2016 remake of The Jungle Book, featuring the voices of Idris Elba and Bill Murray. Daniel Craig’s last outing as James Bond, No Time To Die, takes the primetime slot on ITV at 8.30pm.Elsewhere, there’s comedies in I Give It A Year, The Inbetweeners Movie and Bridesmaids.

The Lion King and Mean Girls are among the Boxing Day film highlights on TV.In the aftermath of Christmas, the TV schedules are littered with family favourite films, between Disney classics and throwback adventures.Highlights this year include 2019’s live-action remake of The Lion King featuring the voice of Donald Glover, and Indiana Jones: Raiders Of The Lost Ark which airs on Channel 4 in the evening.If you fancy some comedy, Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa is on BBC Three and Mean Girls, which is set for a musical revamp next year, will be shown on E4.See all the films available to watch on Boxing Day below.If you want some new festive offerings, streaming services have added a bunch of new films in recent weeks.

Forrest Gump and Toy Story 4 are among the Christmas Day film highlights on TV.For the big day, TV channels are showing a range of festive, non-festive and family classics while people slump on the sofa.Highlights include the fourth Toy Story on BBC One and Home Alone on Channel 4. Elsewhere, Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands and animated musical sequel Sing 2 occupy the schedule.Many networks have also pulled from the bank of Tom Hanks, with Forrest Gump, Big and The Green Mile all being shown.See all the films available to watch on Christmas Day below.If you want some new festive offerings, streaming services have added a bunch of new films in recent weeks.

The Holiday and Last Christmas are among the film highlights on TV for Christmas Eve.In the run-up to Christmas Day, TV channels will be showing a range of both festive and non-festive fare.Highlights for Christmas Eve include The Holiday starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jude Law and Jack Black. Director Paul Feig’s 2019 film Last Christmas, meanwhile, is showing on BBC Three, which stars Emilia Clarke and Henry Golding.If you fancy violence, Film4 has the best options between Taken starring Liam Neeson and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.See all the films available to watch on Christmas Eve below.If you want some new festive offerings, streaming services have added a bunch of new films in recent weeks.

Die Hard and Fantastic Beasts are among the film highlights on TV for December 23.In the run-up to Christmas, TV channels will be showing a range of both festive and non-festive fare.Highlights for Saturday (December 23) include 2014’s Paddington, voiced by Ben Whishaw, and 2019’s How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. Other family-orientated offerings include How The Grinch Stole Christmas starring Jim Carrey, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald and Home Alone 3.If you’re after an action classic, Die Hard is showing on Channel 4 from 9pm.

Stephen Fry is to condemn antisemitism in Channel 4‘s forthcoming alternative Christmas message.The actor and comedian will point to an increase in incidents in the UK following the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, as reported by the Metropolitan Police in his message which air will after King Charles’ message on Christmas Day (December 25).“Since October the seventh there have been 50 separate reported incidents of antisemitism every single day in London alone, an increase of 1350 per cent according to the Metropolitan Police,” he will say, according to Channel 4.“Shop windows smashed, Stars of David and swastikas daubed on walls of Jewish properties, synagogues, and cemeteries. Jewish schools have been forced to close.

Taskmaster.In a video announcement on Wednesday (December 13), show hosts Greg Davies and Alex Horne shared plans for Taskmaster: The Live Experience which would allow viewers to “take part in the same ludicrous tasks that these so-called comedians do”.The duo have launched a mailing list to gauge interest in the idea, with 100,000 sign-ups required to get the project off the ground.In a rallying cry to fans of the show, Davies and Horne said: “Please sign up to the Taskmaster: Live Experience mailing list. If we get 100,000 sign ups then we’ll know, and Taskmaster: The Live Experience will become a thing, soon-ish.“So what are you waiting for? Sign up now and become a hero.

Brookside, has died aged 68.According to the BBC, his family have issued a statement announcing with “deep sadness” that Sullivan “passed away peacefully following a short illness”. The actor was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018.The statement read: “Dean is best remembered as the longest serving cast member of Channel 4‘s groundbreaking Brookside playing the role of Jimmy Corkhill, making Dean a British soap icon.”“To millions he was and very much still is remembered as ‘Jimmy’, to family and friends he was ‘Dino’.”“Dean’s family wants to thank Arrowe Park Hospital for their unwavering and consistent support,” it continued.“We ask that you respect their privacy in their time of grief.”Sullivan won the British Soap Award for his portrayal of Jimmy in Brookside, which ran between 1982 and 2003.

pushed David Beckham to cease working with Qatar amidst its homophobic policies, threatening to shred £10k if the footballer didn’t end his sponsorship before the World Cup began. It was revealed Lycett donated the money to charity and faked the shredding upon the news Beckham did not stop working with Qatar.In his latest prank, Lycett travelled to the Liverpool Docks to promote the first episode of his podcast, ‘Turdcast’. It was set to feature Gary Lineker and his infamous World Cup fecal failure, along with a giant inflatable toilet Lycett branded ‘The Turdis’.

Lily Allen has criticised Russell Brand, Jimmy Carr and Jonathan Ross for making rape jokes about her while she was on the Channel 4 panel show The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year.The singer, who in recent years has pursed acting, said in a new interview that although she didn’t take offence at the time she now realises how “horrendous” they were.Her comments come in the wake of Brand being accused by multiple women of sexual assault and in some cases emotional abuse.Brand has denied the majority of the accusations levelled against him to date, however, he has not publicly responded to more recent ones including allegedly sexually assaulting an extra on the set of his 2010 film Arthur.A clip of the moment the rape jokes were made during a 2007 episode of the series went viral on X (formerly Twitter) after rape allegations surfaced against Brand in September.In the episode in question, Ross moved Allen, whom he calls “the only sexually attractive young lady” on the show, away from panellists Brand and Fielding, stating: “And then Lily may go home with her dress still on.”Fielding then replied: “How dare you – we’re not rapists.”Host Carr then quizzed Fielding about why he was wearing a cape “if [he] wasn’t a rapist” before Fielding pointed out that the cape he’s wearing is, in fact, a Jack the Ripper cape.Fielding said: “He wasn’t a rapist, he was a…”, before Brand interjected to say: “Serial murderer”.Brand continued: “There is no direct corollary between rapes and capes, it’s just a rhyme.”Allen has now spoken to Grazia UK about the incident.“[There was a clip] where I was on a chat show with Russell Brand and Noel Fielding and Jonathan Ross. And there are comments, I think, about me being raped or something.

Naked Attraction executive producer Darrell Olsen has responded to the show’s divisive reaction following its release in the US.The dating show, which originally debuted on Channel 4 in the UK in 2016, sees a “picker” choose between six nude contestants who are gradually revealed from the feet up.Six seasons of the show were released on US streaming service Max on September 20, sparking both praise for its diverse body positivity and criticism for its explicit nudity.Asked whether he was surprised by the US response in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Olsen said: “What’s happening in the States right now is [like how the UK reacted] seven or so years ago. You have, ‘I can’t believe this is onscreen’ – shock and outrage – mixed with, ‘This is quite amazing.’ The show isn’t for everyone, but everyone is interested in it.“I think what will happen with you guys is, hopefully, what happened over here, where the ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe this is on TV’ turns into, ‘It’s a pretty good show.’ Also the stories get better and we push more boundaries [in the latter seasons].”When asked about criticism levelled at the show, namely whether Naked Attraction can be empowering when contestants are judging others based on their genitals, Olsen said he disagreed with this assessment.“What it proves is that every person is different, and not just facially,” Olsen said.

Naked Attraction has arrived in the US, leaving first-time viewers well and truly shocked.The Channel 4 reality show debuted in 2016 in the UK, but has only just found its way to the States. American audiences can now stream all seven seasons of the show on Max.The basic premise of the game show sees a contestant choose their ideal date from six naked inviduals, with different parts of their bodies being revealed in successive rounds —and evidently, it’s a format that has taken US viewers by surprise.“Whatever else I do in this life, at least I didn’t invent this,” wrote Kim Masters, an editor for The Hollywood Reporter, on X, later adding that the show “couldn’t be unseen.”“Omg, I am so uncomfortable but can’t turn it off,” commented one viewer, while another wrote: “What is this show #NakedAttraction on Max? What a bizarre concept! This wouldn’t fly in repressed America.”One viewer joked: “I’m watching Naked Attraction, and let me just say….

Peep Show could return when the characters are “old men” in their seventies.The actor, who played Jeremy in the Channel 4 sitcom, reaffirmed the idea in an interview with NME to mark the show’s 20th anniversary.“We’ve always said that it would be funny to go back and see them as old men,” Webb said. “Living in the same flat and having the same arguments… I think probably this side of, shall we say, 70?”His co-star David Mitchell, however, believes any future reunion should be a “totally separate thing”.“It’s nice that people still give a shit… I don’t want to tack anything onto the end of it,” Mitchell said.

Peep Show co-writer Sam Bain has revealed that they received offers to turn the hit Channel 4 sitcom into a play.Speaking exclusively to NME, Bain said that he and fellow co-writer Jesse Armstrong (Succession) had to reject the proposal because they couldn’t figure out how to make the show work on stage.Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, Peep Show documented the increasingly tragic lives of bank manager Mark Corrigan (played by David Mitchell) and his layabout flatmate/ occasional musician Jeremy Usborne (played by Robert Webb).The iconic comedy was shot through a POV perspective with the actors performing to camera, while the characters’ internal thoughts were added as narration. This format proved to be revolutionary, but it was one Bain and Armstrong knew they wouldn’t be able to replicate on stage.“There was an offer to do a live Peep Show, a stage show, after the last series, which we did carefully consider because it was coming from some proper people,” said Bain.

Russell Brand.Ryan’s previous comments about an unnamed sexual predator, believed to be about Brand, came to light last week after he was accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse following an investigation by Channel 4, The Times and The Sunday Times. Brand has strongly denied the allegations.Ryan has not yet addressed the allegations against Brand directly, but in a recent interview with Metro, the Canadian comedian spoke about the importance of consent amid public calls for her to address the claims.“If you came here for anything else, I should put you out of your misery now and let you know that I have nothing else to say about anything,” she said about the allegations.The comedian then went on to argue that he consent appears to be “totally unimportant” when it comes to her decision not to comment further.She continued: “Apart from, I guess, passing observation, when a woman says ‘No, I don’t want to engage in that conversation and I have no comment on that story.

following sexual assault allegations against the comedian.Lock, who died at the age of 58 in 2021 from cancer, is seen discussing Brand after the latter had urged people not to vote during an interview on Newsnight in 2013.Speaking in the clip from the Channel 4 show 8 Out Of 10 Cats, Lock said: “The main problem now is that people get the politicians they deserve, because they don’t take any interest in politics.

Big Brother spin-off Big Brother’s Big Mouth between 2004 and 2007. During these years, he also presented various shows on MTV, E4 and BBC Radio, before landing roles in Hollywood movies like 2008’s Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek.In recent years, the comedian is better known for his political activism and YouTube channel – where he has over 6million subscribers.

Channel 4 has announced Taskmaster series 16 will kick off later this month.The comedy game show returns on September 12 on Channel 4 at 9pm, with a new batch of celebrities joining hosts Greg Davies and Alex Horne.In the sixteenth series, the line-up includes comedians Julian Clary, Lucy Beaumont, Sam Campbell and Sue Perkins. Rounding out the roster is actor Susan Wokoma, best known for starring in Chewing Gum, Cheaters and Enola Holmes.A synopsis for the series reads: “Week by week this fragrant five will wrangle giant ducks, design fresh sausages and create googly-eyed gangs as they seek to attract a word of praise from the Taskmaster.Big news! Series 16 of #Taskmaster is arriving on @Channel4 Thursday 21st September at 9pm.

The Inbetweeners can never return for a new season.The actor, who played Jay Cartwright in the Channel 4 sitcom and its two film adaptations, told the Daily Mail that the characters wouldn’t be able to realistically behave the same way as they did in the original show.“It was all justified because they were never the heroes,” Buckley said, referring to the antics of the sixth-former friendship group (via Lad Bible). “They were idiots and they got what they deserved.”He continued: “That’s why it can’t come back – you can’t have men in their late thirties acting like they’re in sixth form and getting away with that stuff.“I always get asked if I’d ever do more [episodes] and I said, ‘for no amount of money’ and that quote got run away.”Buckley added: “I didn’t mean about money – it means more to me than money.”The actor, 36, is the youngest among the main cast of The Inbetweeners, which also starred Simon Bird (39), Blake Harrison (38) and Joe Thomas (39).Earlier this year, Bird (who played William McKenzie) said the show “wouldn’t be made today” due to its “casual homophobia” and sexism.“I rationalise it to myself by saying that at the time it was an accurate representation of the way teenagers talk to each other.

Alone has been evacuated after sustaining an axe injury just hours into the series.The six-part Channel 4 show premiered on Sunday (August 6) and saw 11 ordinary members of the public left in the Canadian wildness with only basic supplies, with the goal of being the last person standing to win a £100,000 prize.The show is in its tenth series in the US, while other versions have aired in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, with other territories due to be announced soon. This is the first time the format has come to the UK.Mike, 49, was among contestants on the show, a former heroin-addict who hoped that the show might “open doors” and be a “defining” moment in his life.However, just four hours after being dropped off, Mike was forced to withdraw after injuring himself with an axe while building his shelter.“I can’t fucking believe it. I’ve fucking nailed myself,” he said into his camera.

Sacha Baron Cohen is reportedly reviving his character Ali G for a new feature film.According to Hollywood insider Daniel Richtman (via World Of Reel), Cohen has been secretly working on a new movie which sees him return to his early breakout character.This would be the second Ali G film following 2002’s Ali G Indahouse, directed by Mark Mylod. Cohen originally played the character on Channel 4 comedy series The 11 O’Clock Show and Da Ali G Show, which aired from 2000 to 2004.In 2021, Cohen reprised the character for a string of stand-up shows.

The British Miracle Meat, with some praising it as “absolute genius” and others labelling it “gross”.The one-off show – which aired on Channel 4 yesterday (July 24) – is a spoof documentary that was presented as a real investigation into a company that sold “engineered human meat” as a solution to the cost of living crisis.“With food prices soaring, Gregg Wallace explores a cheap new lab-grown meat product that its makers claim could be a solution to the cost-of-living crisis,” a synopsis for the show reads.At the end of the documentary, Wallace learns that the best tasting meat comes from children.TONIGHT at 8.30pm! @GreggAWallace explores the answer to rising food prices and the cost-of-living crisis in Gregg Wallace: The Miracle Meat. You don't want to miss it… #MiracleMeat pic.twitter.com/aohJrR5KE9— Channel 4 (@Channel4) July 24, 2023The Guardian said that “the anger of it will linger for years”, asking if the show was “the most disturbing TV satire ever”.Confused and disgusted viewers also took to Twitter to share their reactions to the show, with many questioning whether Wallace’s show was real or fake.“This is either great comedy or we’re all doomed!” one person wrote.

Channel 4.The comedian, best known for appearing on 8 Out of 10 Cats, QI, Have I Got News for You and The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year, died of cancer in August 2021, aged 58.The Sean Lock Comedy Award will now honour the late TV star’s legacy and showcase “talented new writers and performers who embody the alternative comedic spirit of Sean and Channel 4”.Winners will receive £5,000 to support their live work and a £1,000 script commission from the comedy team, along with mentoring and support from the broadcaster for newer writers and performers.Bill Bailey, who worked with Channel 4 to set up the award, said he was “delighted”, adding: “It’s a way to honour Sean’s memory and to inspire others to pursue their own unique comic brilliance.”Lock’s former agent, Damon Pettitt from Off The Kerb, said: “I hope the recipient proves to be a worthy winner and shows the same integrity, work ethic and eye for the absurd, in both writing and performance, so evident in Sean’s fine body of work.”Channel 4 has announced The Sean Lock Comedy Award, which will showcase talented new writers and performers: https://t.co/6hS629dlrW pic.twitter.com/dsANAYC4U2— Channel 4 Press (@C4Press) July 17, 2023Head of comedy at Channel 4, Charlie Perkins said that the channel is “honoured to have collaborated with Sean’s friends and family on our first comedy scheme that melds the genres of scripted, entertainment and digital together.”“Combining a love for Sean’s polymathy and supporting and nurturing new generations of homegrown comedy talent, we’re proud as hell to be part of this award,” he said. “Thank you so much to our passionate nomination panel for giving up their time to help stretch our tendrils out across the UK.

Channel 4 documentary.The comedian leads a film titled Rosie Jones: Am I A R*****?, which sets out to explore the online abuse disabled people face across social media platforms.Three influencers who contributed to the documentary – Shelby Lynch, Kate Stanforth and Lucy Dawson – recently pulled out due to the use of an ableist slur in the title, saying that it would be “damaging to the disabled community”.Speaking to Press Association (via Evening Standard) about the documentary, Jones said she “wanted to take control” of the slur so people will “realise how offensive it is”.A post shared by Rosie Jones (@josierones)“I need to say, first and foremost: it was my choice, my idea,” Jones said. “I really wanted to take control of it and say, ‘This is not OK’…  I understand that some people may be offended, or will be very upset by it, but at the same time, it is unfortunately still a word that has been used every day towards me.“I fundamentally believe that people don’t take ableist slurs as seriously as other slurs, so I decided to put it in the title so that hopefully people will still realise how offensive it is.”She added: “This might sound very rude, I do hope disabled people watch, but if I’m being honest, this documentary is not for disabled people, ‘cause they already know all this shit.

Disney+ shows are being licensed to Channel 4‘s official on-demand service.Alias (seasons one-five), The Americans (seasons one-six), Empire (seasons one-six), Scandal (seasons one-seven), The X Files (seasons one-11), Bones (seasons one-12), The Killing (seasons one-four), Star (seasons one-three), Grown-ish (seasons one-six), and Abbott Elementary (seasons one-two) are included in the deal.Except for Star, all the series are available to watch as part of a monthly subscription on Disney+ in the UK.The additions to the Channel 4 streaming platform will be available to watch from later this month.Nick Lee, head of acquisitions at Channel 4, said: “We’re so pleased to have agreed such an extensive content deal with Disney, ranging from their most iconic series like ‘The X-Files’ to fresh hits such as ‘Abbott Elementary’ and ‘Star.’ We look forward to our viewers being able to binge series after series on Channel 4.”Meanwhile, sign-ups for streaming giant Netflix have risen by more than 100 per cent since the streaming service began cracking down on password sharing.Earlier this year, the streaming service announced details of its password crackdown, making it impossible to use one account in several locations.The rule then came into force in May, with Netflix receiving major backlash from existing subscribers.Since then though, Netflix has experienced a large rise in sign-ups, with the days between May 25-28 – shortly after the May 23 announcement – becoming the platform’s four biggest days of new sign-ups in the US since 2019, as Variety reports.On those days, 73,000 new users signed up for Netflix, a 102 per cent increase on the previous 60 days.

Channel 4 documentary.The comedian leads a project titled Rosie Jones: Am I A R*****?, which sets out to explore the online abuse disabled people face across social media platforms.Prior to the show’s announcement, multiple contributors to the documentary – including influencers Shelby Lynch, Kate Stanforth and Lucy Dawson – have withdrawn their consent from the project after going “backwards and forwards” with the network over the title.In a post on Instagram, Lynch wrote: “As some of you may know we were asked to take part in a documentary about Ableism and Online Trolling with a well known disabled comedian. Talking about ableism on mainstream TV [is] obviously something that needs to be discussed but the way it’s happened isn’t something that I can support and all three of us spoke out against them.“We were told a few months ago that the documentary was going to include a slur that is used against disabled people and I was heartbroken.

Black Mirror creator Charlie Brooker says the show was “effectively cancelled” by its original home of Channel 4.Brooker’s hit show started in 2011 on Channel 4, staying on the network until 2014 before moving to Netflix two years later.Ahead of the show returning with a sixth season, the creator has discussed the move, saying that Channel 4 considered the show too expensive to produce.“Channel 4 cancelled us, effectively,” Brooker told The Sunday Times in a new interview of the breakup between the show and network.As The Independent report, Brooker has previously spoken about the situation in his book Inside Black Mirror, written alongside the show’s co-producer Annabel Jones.He goes into further detail about the Channel 4 fall-out in Inside Black Mirror, the book he wrote with executive co-producer Annabel Jones.In the book, he revealed what he called an “outrageous” decision for the network to ask to see “detailed synopses” of each episode in advance, adding: “When feedback came, we were told they weren’t very Black Mirror and they were no longer going to allocate the money for four episodes.”Jones said: “We were trying to get a meeting to discuss why these ideas weren’t Black Mirror, so we could attempt to understand what the concern was.“Given the show had won lots of awards and had been really positively received on the whole, it was strange. I think there wasn’t any clarity from the channel.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard’s highly publicised court case will air on Channel 4 this weekend.Depp vs Heard is a three-part series from BAFTA-nominated director Emma Cooper, and will offer an in-depth look at last year’s trial, which saw Johnny Depp sue his ex-wife for defamation.The miniseries will explore the impact of social media on the infamous Hollywood court case, which was followed by millions of people around the world.A synopsis for the series reads: “The trial of Depp v Heard, in which both parties accused each other of domestic abuse, was a global media event and dubbed ‘the first TikTok trial’. It raised huge questions about violence, gender and the memeifcation of justice in the era of post-truth.“The series, made by Bitachon365 and co-producer Empress Films, places Depp and Heard’s testimonies side by side for the first time, bringing together courtroom footage, news sources, existing interview footage and User Generated Content from various social media platforms to explore some of the extraordinary moments of the trial and the impact this had on public opinion at the time.”Depp sued his ex-wife for defamation over a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post, where she wrote about being a survivor of domestic violence.Come the end of the trial, Heard was instructed to pay Depp $10million (£8.4m) in compensatory damages and $5million (£4.2m) in punitive damages.