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The green button on Film4 via Freeview, allows you to either set the record function on the upcoming featured film on your PVR, or, if your TV supports it, a reminder on your TV to remember to watch the film.
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Product placement is where a company pays a TV channel or a programme-maker/production company to include its products or brands in a programme. As of February 2011, Ofcom has approved product placement in TV programmes specifically made for UK audiences as long as this placement complies with the Ofcom rules. If you would like to read more about this click here to to go to the Ofcom wesite
You’ll know a programme has product placement as the special ‘P’ logo will be shown at the start, after each ad break and at the end of the programme.
However, we don’t need to show this logo if the programme was originally broadcast outside of the UK (i.e. US originated programming).
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Channel 4 commission and buy programmes but don't produce any in-house. Consequently, there are no celebrities working in our offices. For this reason, we're unable to forward e-mails directly to Channel 4 talent and don't have access to photographs or autographs. You would be best to search on the internet for a Fan Club to whom you could forward your mail.
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Programme listings are sent to press two weeks in advance of transmission for all our channels. Until schedules are released to the press, the information is sensitive and embargoed. This policy applies equally to repeats and first showings. So, if you can’t find details of your favourite programme in your TV listing magazine, EPG or on our website, it is not scheduled and we are unable to confirm when it will be.
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You can catch-up with the last 7 days reports on the Channel 4 News site - CLICK HERE to browse.
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As we don’t make the programmes we transmit, we don’t accept programme ideas or scripts. Therefore, you would need to approach an independent production company with your outline and try to persuade them to develop the idea. The television trade magazine, Broadcast, publishes a directory called 'The Production Guide' which lists names and addresses of independent production companies as does the British Film Institute. PACT (Producer’s Alliance for Cinema and Television) also holds information on their website www.pact.co.uk
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If you have a story Dispatches should investigate, e-mail dispatches@channel4.co.uk
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The start and end dates for Big Brother are as follows:
Series 1: 18 Jul to 15 Sep 2000
Series 2: 26 May to 27 Jul 2001
Series 3: 24 May to 26 Jul 2002
Series 4: 23 May to 25 Jul 2003
Series 5: 28 May to 07 Aug 2004
Series 6: 27 May to 12 Aug 2005
Series 7: 18 May to 18 Aug 2006
Series 8: 30 May to 31 Aug 2007
Series 9: 05 Jun to 05 Sep 2008
Series 10: 04 Jun to 04 Sep 2009
Series 11: 09 Jun to 10 Sep 2010
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If we are looking for participants for our shows it would be listed on the Take Part page of our website - click here.
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As Channel 4 screens a number of POLITICAL SLOTS throughout the year, we are exempt, except at the time of a General Election, from showing Party Election Broadcasts.
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