Channel 4 Sets Premiere Date For ‘Stath Lets Flats’
Channel 4's new comedy series Stath Lets Flats will premiere on Wednesday June 27th at 10pm, it has been announced.
Channel 4's new comedy series Stath Lets Flats will premiere on Wednesday June 27th at 10pm, it has been announced.
After commissioning a not-for-broadcast pilot earlier this year, Channel 4 has picked up factual entertainment format Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back to series with a six episode order. Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back sees Lycett helping out the British public with all their consumer complaints. The series will cover a range of consumer gripes, feature stories relating to consumer issues and go undercover in Joe‘s quest for consumer justice.
Bride & Prejudice is getting a UK adaptation. Channel 4 has given the greenlight to a local adaptation of the A+E Networks format. Five episodes have been commissioned for the show's first season. Bride & Prejudice tells the stories of six soon to be wed couples as they confront a deeply held opposition to their marriage from within their own families whilst trying to organise their dream weddings. For each couple there is at least one family member who is dead set against their wedding ever taking place.
Channel 4 has set nine new shows for their 2019 slate. At an event where Channel 4 Chief Executive Alex Mahon and Director of Programmes Ian Katz updated the industry on their plans, the broadcaster announced a wealth of commissions that will sit on their 2019 slate. Leading the commissions is one-off drama Brexit, starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock), which explores the data driven campaign behind the referendum; Happy AF, a comedy staring Aisling Bea and Sharon Horgan; and over at E4, comedy Maxxx, starring O-T Fagbenle (Looking) about a formerly famous boyband star turned drug-shamed tabloid laughing stock.