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Movie Timelines – Book and Channel Announcements
Movie Timelines: Just some general news and information and hanging out. patreon.com/movietimelines Movie Timelines
1st August 2025
Johnny Vegas: Art, ADHD and Me
Comedian, actor and artist Johnny Vegas is to embark on his most personal project in an artistic love letter to his hometown. Johnny Vegas: Art, ADHD and Me, a 2 x60 mins series made by Rumpus Media, will see one of Britain’s best loved entertainers and trained potters take on the...
11th June 2025
ITV launches brand new channel ‘ITV Quiz’
It’s quiz a clock, round the clock for fans of the genre as ITV has announced the launch of a brand-new quiz channel – ITV Quiz – a dedicated destination bringing viewers non-stop brain-teasing entertainment from 9am to 1am every day. Playing host to a line-up of the broadcaster’s favourites, ITV Quiz will feature...
9th June 2025
Filming commences on Pierre
Filming has commenced in West London for Channel 4 drama Pierre, starring award-winning actor David Harewood OBE (Sherwood, Homeland). Michele Austin (Hard Truths, This is Going to Hurt) joins the cast playing Charlotte Manners, Pierre’s joint managing partner of their solicitor’s firm, as well as Jason Flemyng (Pennyworth, Boiling Point) playing Pierre’s best friend DS Ronnie Miller. The new...
3rd June 2025
Major Players from Molly Manning Walker
Major Players (6×30’) is an original drama co-written by Molly Manning Walker (How To Have Sex) and Yasmin Joseph (A Thousand Blows) about two girls on the brink of adulthood and their mission to start a women’s football team. Inspired by Molly’s own experiences at high school where the crowd...
2nd June 2025
Your Song
From the makers of The Great British Bake Off and The Piano (Love Productions), comes brand-new series Your Song(w/t) for Channel 4. This summer, music takes to the streets and to the hearts of communities nationwide. Presented by Alison Hammond, Your Song(w/t) is about everyday people, who, driven by their love and connection to a particular song, will...
30th May 2025
Inside the Port of Dover
Channel 4 will take viewers inside one of the UK’s most critical transport hubs, the Port of Dover, in the series Dover 24/7: Britain’s Busiest Port (6 x 60′). This new access series, produced by ITN Productions, will introduce us to people hard at work in Dover, and is being filmed this...
27th May 2025
The Inheritance
Broadcaster, barrister and author Robert Rinder MBE is The Executor. Thirteen strangers are summoned to a grand stately home. They are there to compete for part of the fortune left in the will of The Deceased, a fabulously glamourous benefactor played by Elizabeth Hurley. But winning the money won’t be easy. The...
21st May 2025
Coast to Coast: The Scenic Route
Channel 4 today announced the recommission of its branded entertainment series in collaboration with Tourism Ireland, fronted by Babatunde Aléshé and Finlay Christie. The third partnership, Coast to Coast: The Scenic Route, will showcase a new set of travel routes within the island of Ireland, complete with an interactive partnership with Guardian Advertising....
19th May 2025
UNTOLD Returns with Hard-Hitting New Season
Channel 4’s acclaimed digital-first documentary strand UNTOLD is back with a bold new season that dives deep into some of the most pressing, provocative, and underreported issues shaping modern life. Available to stream first on Channel 4’s digital platforms, UNTOLD pushes boundaries with unparalleled access, fearless storytelling, and raw honesty — featuring a fresh...
16th May 2025
Schooled
Schooled, written and created by Delia-René-Donaldson has been greenlit for a six-part series by Channel 4. The series was commissioned as part of Channel 4 and GroupM Motion Entertainment’s Diverse Indies Fund, a ring-fenced fund set up to support small and medium sized ethnically diverse-led production companies to produce new projects....
16th May 2025
Patience returns for a second series
Ella Maisy Purvis returns and Jessica Hynes joins as new detective Frankie Monroe Produced by Eagle Eye Drama (The Couple Next Door, Professor T), filming has commenced on a second series of hit drama Patience. Series one, which aired earlier this year, is Channel 4’s biggest drama of 2025 so far and...
15th May 2025
Pushers starring Rosie Jones
Written by Rosie Jones and Peter Fellows, first look images have been released for Pushers (previously announced as Disability Benefits) which is coming to Channel 4 next month. Produced by Merman Television and 2LE Media, Pushers is based on an award-winning Comedy Blap and stars Rosie Jones in her first ever sitcom. Having...
13th May 2025
Channel 4 commissions Bonnie Blue Doc
The Bonnie Blue Story [W/T] is a Magnificent Pictures production, directed by Victoria Silver and edited by Kate Spankie. The Executive Producer is Mark Henderson and the commissioning editor for Channel 4 is Tim Hancock. When Bonnie Blue announced she’d “bonked” over 1000 men in 12 hours, the internet exploded...
12th May 2025
First Look Images of The Horne Section TV Show S2
“Refreshingly funny and at times quite silly… a first-class comedy” The Sunday Times “Endlessly charming, offbeat humour… Horne’s show sparkles” The Independent “This riotously fun sitcom is an utter delight… The Horne Section TV Show TV Show is a lot of fun. It’s a riotous, good-natured sitcom that sits somewhere between...
7th May 2025
Millionaire Hoarders returns to Channel 4
A rare World War Two Spitfire that defended the skies over Dunkirk and a George Stubbs masterpiece are just two of the hidden treasures uncovered when Millionaire Hoarders returns to Channel 4 for a second series. Launching on Friday 2nd May at 8pm, the new series will see experts Clive Downham, Ronnie Archer-Morgan, Ed Bailey, Katie Ridges and Paula...
1st May 2025
Location Location Location celebrates 25 years
Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer reflect on 25 years of helping the nation find places they can call home. Channel 4 commissions dedicated night of celebratory programming with two new specials on Wednesday 14 May. Pioneering property programme Location Location Location celebrates a quarter of a century on Channel 4 this spring....
29th April 2025
Keeley Hawes & Paapa Essiedu to lead Falling
Filming has commenced in Wales and Bristol on major new Channel 4 drama, Falling, produced by The Forge Entertainment, a Banijay UK company (National Treasure, The Buccaneers, Marriage). Keeley Hawes (Scoop, Miss Austen) will star as Anna, a devoted nun, and Paapa Essiedu (Black Mirror, The Lazarus Project) as David, a Catholic priest, in BAFTA award-winning...
24th April 2025
The Handmaid’s Tale Season 6 – 3rd May 2025
Channel 4 is set to bring Gilead’s gripping story to a close with the sixth and final season of the award-winning series, The Handmaid’s Tale coming to Channel 4 on Saturday 3rd May. The channel has today unveiled the official trailer for the hit series, offering fans an exciting first look...
16th April 2025
New Taskmaster Series Lands Thursday 1 May
Hot on the heels of winning Best Comedy Entertainment Programme at the Royal Television Society Awards for its spin off series Junior Taskmaster, and receiving a fifth nomination in the forthcoming BAFTAs 2025 having previously won Best Comedy Entertainment, the international hit show Taskmaster is set to return with a brand-new series at...
16th April 2025
Summerwater on Channel 4
Channel 4 has announced Emmy award-winning Dougray Scott (Crime, My Week with Marilyn), Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones, Harry Potter), and Valene Kane (Blue Lights, Gangs of London) will lead the cast of compelling Scottish drama, Summerwater. First look images of the new six-part series based on the critically acclaimed, best-selling book of the same...
9th April 2025
Long Bright River starring Amanda Seyfried
Starring Emmy Award® winner and Academy Award® nominee Amanda Seyfried, Channel 4 has acquired suspense thriller Long Bright River from Sony Pictures Television. Based on Liz Moore’s New York Times bestselling novel, Long Bright River is an eight-part limited drama which tells the story of Mickey (Seyfried), a police officer who patrols a...
27th March 2025
Our Welsh Chapel Dream Series Two
In the new series of ‘Our Welsh Chapel Dream’ Master Potter Keith Brymer Jones and Marj Hogarth continue their quest in turning their 163-year-old chapel into their dream home featuring a pottery studio and community hub. Our Welsh Chapel Dream starts Tuesday 1st April at 8pm – stream or watch...
25th March 2025
The Handmaid’s Tale returns for its final chapter
Channel 4 is set to bring Gilead’s gripping story to a close with the sixth and final season of the award-winning series, The Handmaid’s Tale. Series 1-5 of the critically-acclaimed dystopian drama will also be available to stream on Channel 4 ahead of the final series launch. Adapted from the...
24th March 2025
Beth
Channel 4 has commissioned its first digital original drama to broadcast on Channel 4’s YouTube, as well as Channel 4 Streaming and linear. Beth is a three-part science fiction drama written and directed by Uzo Oleh (Edicius), executive produced by Anna Higgs and produced by Dark Pictures and GroupM Motion Entertainment....
22nd March 2025
Exploring Nazi Occupation of the Channel Islands
To mark the 80th anniversary of the eventual Liberation of the islands, ‘Britain Under the Nazis: the Forgotten Occupation’ (w/t) tells the story of one the most controversial periods in WW2 British history, utilising eye-witness accounts from those who lived through it. In June 1940 Britain abandoned the Channel Islands...
20th March 2025
First Look Images from upcoming drama Trespasses
From BAFTA award-winning and double Oscar-nominated Wildgaze Films (Brooklyn, An Education), and in association with All3Media International, first look images have been released for Trespasses, a forbidden love story set against the backdrop of the Troubles, which is coming to Channel 4 to stream and watch live later this year. The images...
20th March 2025
Channel 5 and My5 combine
15 new live channels introduced as part of 5’s expanded content line up, with more to follow The launch is accompanied by a major nationwide marketing campaign for its streaming service – the broadcaster’s biggest campaign ever Chief Content Officer, Ben Frow announces new slate of originated UK...
13th March 2025
Tempting Fortune: Interview with Paddy McGuinness
We sat down with Paddy McGuinness in Malaysia who told us about what we can expect on the new series of Tempting Fortune, what it was like filming in Malaysia and some of the controversial decisions made by some of the Fortune Seekers… Tempting Fortune starts Sunday 16 March at 9pm –...
13th March 2025
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