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Sandi Toksvig Is Leaving The Great British Bake-Off After 3 Seasons The Danish-born Brit will focus on other duties at the Channel 4 network.
By Nikita Richardson
This Way Up Is an Amiable But Aimless Exploration of RecoveryThe British series starring Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan is at its best when facing ugly emotions rather than hiding them with humor.
By Angelica Jade Bastién
Derry Girls Is Teen TV at Its BestThe Channel 4/Netflix series resists the easy traps that so often hinder teen shows.
By Kathryn VanArendonk
from the archives
Mar. 30, 2018
Garry Shandling and Ricky Gervais’s Epic Sparring Match Looking back on an incredibly awkward interview between the high-energy Brit and Zen-energy American.
By Ramsey Ess
documentaries
Jan. 11, 2018
Now There Are Two Harvey Weinstein Documentaries in the Works Britain’s Channel 4 has ordered a rival Harvey Weinstein documentary a month after the BBC announced its own.
By Dee Lockett
Mitchell and Webb Level Up in Their Sitcom Reunion ‘Back’ Back is the latest show to star David Mitchell and Robert Webb, the stars of Peep Show. In many ways, Back is a reprisal of their odd couple […]
By Harry Waksberg
say it ain’t so
Sept. 22, 2016
Mary Berry Is Leaving Great British Bake Off “My decision to stay with the BBC is out of loyalty to them.”
By E. Alex Jung
Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s ‘Catastrophe’ Renewed for Seasons 3 and 4 Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s Catastrophe is sticking around for at least two more seasons. According to TV Line, the UK’s Channel 4 has […]
By Megh Wright
Rob Delaney Says Season 2 of ‘Catastrophe’ Is on the Way Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s Channel 4/Amazon comedy Catastrophe has a second season in the works. Delaney revealed the news on Twitter […]
By Megh Wright
Amazon Will Premiere Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s ‘Catastrophe’ on […] Last month, Amazon picked up Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe to premiere in the US, but they’re taking an […]
By Megh Wright
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s ‘Catastrophe’ Premieres on Amazon Next […] Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s new Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe just got a US premiere date. The streaming network announced today that the […]
By Megh Wright
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s ‘Catastrophe’ Is Coming to Amazon Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s new Channel 4 comedy Catastrophe is coming to the States. Variety reports that Amazon has signed a deal with […]
By Megh Wright
black mirror
Dec. 4, 2014
By Lindsey Weber
Here’s a Teaser for Channel 4’s New Comedy ‘Scrotal Recall’ If you’re wondering what kind of sitcoms are premiering over in the UK this fall, here’s a particularly intriguing teaser for a new Channel 4 […]
By Megh Wright
Channel 4 Orders Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s ‘Catastrophe’ to Series Back in December, it was announced that UK’s Channel 4 had ordered a single-cam pilot starring and written by comedian Rob Delaney and […]
By Megh Wright
Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan to Star in Channel 4 Pilot ‘Catastrophe’ UK’s Channel 4 has ordered a pilot from Twitter superstar Rob Delaney and Irish actress/writer Sharon Horgan called Catastrophe, Deadline […]
By Megh Wright
‘Peep Show’ Will End After Its Next Season British sitcom Peep Show will wrap up after the next year after its 9th season airs in 2014. In an interview with Chortle, Phil Clarke, head of […]
By Elise Czajkowski
rare interviews
July 27, 2013
By Delia Paunescu
Channel 4 Is Likely to Order Matt Berry’s ‘Toast of London’ to Series
UK network Channel 4 is close to ordering Matt Berry’s pilot Toast of London to series, British Comedy Guide reports. Fans of British comedy […]
By Bradford Evans
Fun Thing to Buy of the Day: ‘Misfits Season 2’ Season 2 of oddly dark British comedy Misfits is now on DVD. The show follows five young delinquents who get strange super powers while doing […]
By Jenny Nelson
Here’s the Trailer for Ricky Gervais’s Controversial New Show ‘Derek’
Ricky Gervais recently tweeted out this trailer for his new show Derek, a comedy-drama that’s set to premiere later this year on Channel 4 in […]
By Bradford Evans
crashing and burning
Apr. 29, 2012
By Andre Tartar
Ricky Gervais Has Entered the ‘Fuck U H8ers’ Portion of his Career Gervais is kind of becoming the Kanye West of comedy, as both are prolific, incredibly successful, continuously lauded geniuses with heavy […]
By Jesse David Fox
Ricky Gervais Claims to Not Be Mocking the Disabled with His Obviously […]
Ricky Gervais has a new show premiering on Channel 4 in the UK on Thursday entitled Derek. In it, he plays the titular character, a nursing […]
By Adam Frucci
Sue Simmons Out After 32 Years at Channel 4 The local television anchor will not have her contract renewed this summer.
By Joe Coscarelli
Casting Calls
June 4, 2010
Be the Star of a Dinner-Party–Competition Show (Sorry, Not Rocco’s) Plus, is ‘Rocco’s Dinner Party’ just a knockoff of ‘Come Dine With Me’?
By Daniel Maurer
U.K.’s Channel 4 Drops Friends After 15 years, the friendship is over.
By Josh Duboff
The U.K. Continues to Get All the Good TV Shows Channel 4 has picked up a pilot from David Cross and Spike Jonze.
By Mark Graham
in other news
May 15, 2008
‘Post’ Projecting Own Foibles Onto Sue Simmons? Despite denials of drunkenness from Simmons, the tabloid keeps hammering away at her.
in other news
May 14, 2008
New York Media Still Grieving Over Sue Simmons’s F-Bomb The print media can’t stop writing about it. It’s almost as if thousands of people DIDN’T die in China this week.
