Channel 4’s commitment to music continues to grow throughout the summer season as it expands its extensive coverage of the most talked-about music festivals and events of the year. As well as returning to previously covered festivals, Channel 4 will also be adding LoveBox, Wakestock and Rockness to the calendar. Read more & comment »

Channel 4 is to stage the first ever LIVE TV commercial when they screen an ambitious sky diving jump. Described as an ad-vent – an innovative advertising event - this audacious stunt is part of Channel 4’s ongoing commitment to reinventing the commercial break.

D-day for the jumpers is tonight (Thursday 29th May) at 8:10pm BST when the live advert will be screened across the UK during the popular dinner party series ‘Come Dine With Me’.

The commercial, which will last for 3 minutes and 20 seconds, will see the sky divers take to the sky over Madrid to undertake a series of highly challenging formations to spell out a message to viewers. Read more & comment »

Channel 4 is getting ready to reunite the cast of the 80s hit Sci-Fi movie, return Of The Jedi.

Bring Back Star Wars will see comic Justin Lee Collins race around the US trying to get them to attend a reunion bash.

Top targets include Harrison Ford (Han Solo), Carrie Fisher (Princess Leia) and Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker).

The 1977 film’s cast last met two years ago for a Vanity Fair magazine photoshoot.

Music star (or should I say former music star,) Craig David has admitted that he found it hard to deal with jokes made about him on Channel 4 comedy TV show, Bo’ Selecta.

David told The Sun: “I played along with it, I can take a joke, so I went on the show. But it was killing me. This guy has me as a caricature, is ripping the p*** out of me.

“When you’ve got people shouting at you in the street, people in my face telling me this and that about sketches from the show - it was like me against the world.

“It stopped people taking me seriously.”

Hollyoaks’ biggest loser, OB will be exiting the show after a staggering 10 years on the soap. Hands up who feels old now? Do you remember when OB first appeared on the show?

Darren Jeffries is the actor who plays OB, and he feels that it’s time to leave the show and concentrate on other opportunities. Hopefully he won’t find himself typecast as a village idiot.

I wonder what OB’s exit story will be. Hmmm. Something - a girl, money, blowing up Max’s house with fireworks Read more & comment »

The current series of Brat Camp , with its focus this time on mothers, comes to an end. In this episode, traditional mum Del Wardman and her daughter Laura need to learn to stop shouting at each other, but will they ever break the deadlock and make their relationship work again?

Tuesday 13 November 2007
10:00pm, Channel 4

In Forgotten Heroes: The Not Dead , the award-winning combination of director Brian Hill and poet Simon Armitage ( Feltham Sings , Songbirds ) explore the profound human cost of fighting and killing, through the stories of three veterans who have fought in wars spanning six decades. Intimate interviews and poetry based on the lives of, and recited by, the veterans reveals how they have been shattered by war. These are the soldiers it’s easy to forget on Remembrance Day.

Monday 12 November 2007
10:00pm

Sunday 11 November 2007
11:20pm

In January 2001, a British couple hit the headlines having paid £12,000 over the internet to adopt twin babies. Revisiting both the Kilshaws and the ‘mum who sold her babies over the internet’, Tranda Wecka, this one-off documentary discovers the human impact on the two ‘mothers’ who still seemed consumed with the events that made them both ‘infamous’, five years on.

Friday 9 November 2007
10:30pm

Channel 4 celebrates 25 years of great comedy with six brand new 30-minute specials starring some of the UK’s best established and up-and-coming comedic talent. Free Agents is a dark, poignant comedy, an on-but-mostly-off romance about a couple who might just have a future if they can ever shake off their pasts. Starring Stephen Mangan, Sharon Horgan, Anthony Head and Frances Tomelty.

Thursday 8 November 2007
9:00pm

Every 30 minutes a child in Britain loses one of their parents. For many, death is sudden but even when there is some warning, children are rarely involved in the goodbye process. In this series Julie Stokes, a consultant clinical psychologist, pioneer in childhood bereavement and founder of the charity Winston’s Wish, teaches mothers with incurable illness how to say goodbye to their children as well as helping the children come to terms with what’s happening to their mum. In tonight’s first programme, Julie helps Lydia (10) and Felix (13) Cavaliere through the last 12 months of their mum Pam’s life.