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Channel 4 Greenlights ‘Go Back To Where You Came From’ Social Experiment Format Channel 4 has greenlit Go Back To Where You Came From [working title], a social experiment format in which Brits experience the reality of crossing perilous refugee routes to the UK. Based on an Australian format, the…

After a historic victory for the Labour Party, attention in the film and TV industries now turns to the future. Following an all-too brief post-Covid boom era, it’s been a particularly tough couple of years for the sector, with the global recession, dual U.S. strikes and market contraction taking…

Carol Vorderman, the maths genius and political activist who was on Countdown for 26 years, will deliver this year’s Alternative MacTaggart at the Edinburgh TV Festival. Vorderman’s speech will precede the publication of her first book, Now What? On a Mission to Fix Broken Britain, and she has…

Welcome to Global Breakouts, Deadline's fortnightly strand in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. The industry is as globalized as it's ever been, but breakout hits are appearing in pockets of the world all the time and it can be hard to keep track…

Nigel Farage has ended a bad-tempered weekend on the campaign trail attacking a pair of national broadcasters and saying his party will “campaign vigorously to abolish” the license fee. The Reform UK leader and friend of Donald Trump yesterday said he would boycott the BBC over audience bias on its Qu…

When UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak took to the sodden steps of Downing Street just over a month ago, the world of British TV news was blindsided that a general election would take place in just six weeks time, an election that – scarcely believably – will be the first on these isles for five…

EXCLUSIVE: GB News represents “what Nigel Farage wants the future of the right to be,” according to Channel 4’s lead general election anchor. Farage was one of the right-leaning news network’s starriest presenters but quit several weeks ago in order to run for parliament and lead Reform UK, an…

BBC DG Tim Davie has said quality TV should “not be about the person who can pay the biggest check” as British broadcasting chiefs gathered for the launch of free streaming service Freely. Davie, Channel 4 CEO Alex Mahon, ITV boss Carolyn McCall and Channel 5 President Sarah Rose were present at last…

EXCLUSIVE: Starstruck co-writer Alice Snedden is directing a Channel 4 comedy about love in the cost-of-living crisis. Snedden is helming a one-off for Channel’s 4 Blap strand titled Break Clause, which is written and created by Jess Bray (The Outlaws) and will star BAFTA-nominee Samuel Bottomley (So…

Channel 4 has picked up the detective series starring Breaking Bad’s Laura Fraser about a neurodivergent self-taught criminologist. Patience has just wrapped filming and was made by Couple Next Door producer Eagle Eye drama for PBS Distribution and Beta Film, as part of Eagle Eye’s long-running…

Concerns were raised about Russell Brand’s behavior two decades ago on Big Brother’s Big Mouth and a rumor spread about his making crew members wait outside his dressing room whilst he masturbated, according to a Banijay investigation published this morning. Conducted by legal firm Lewis Silkin, the…

EXCLUSIVE: Will this lady be for turning? Succession star Harriet Walter is taking on Maggie Thatcher in splashy Channel 4 drama series Brian and Margaret, which is being directed by Stephen Frears, penned by James Graham and co-starring Steve Coogan. Coogan’s BBC Studios-backed Baby Cow is…