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FACTS Channel 4 Factsheet December 2020 We are Creators TV. Channel 4: Film. We are Digital. We are Channel 4 is a unique and distinctive part of the UK. Publicly owned but entirely commercial and self-sufficient, our public-service Challengers Champions remit mandates us to take risks and offer alternative programming, Voicing alternative views. Youth. commissioning all of our programmes externally. Experimenting and taking risks. Diversity. Provoking genuine debate and change. Education. Shaping culture. Talent. We’re a network of 12 television channels plus the UK’s biggest Telling today’s full story. Creativity. streaming service, All 4. We have the youngest-skewing PSB channel in the UK – and we reach more 16-34-year-olds than any other commercial broadcaster across TV and streaming. Through Film4, we back creative We are excellence and invest in British filmmakers, to huge critical acclaim – Film4 films have produced 138 Oscar nominations and 35 wins in our Commercial 38-year history. We act commercially in order to deliver our social impact. Our purpose is to create change through entertainment and we do this by representing unheard voices, challenging with purpose and reinventing entertainment. Key stats (2019): TV Digital Social Financials 9.9% 995m 1st £660m viewing share programme views on All 4 biggest channel on Facebook globally total content spend 15.7 % £ m viewing share among 16-34-year- 22.2m 71% 492 originated content spend olds – the only PSB to have greater viewers registered on All 4 of UK 18-24s are reached on share of viewing of 16-34s than Facebook by Channel 4’s page – the third-highest level general population in Channel 4’s history 85% 54% 10bn+ £985m Channel 4’s portfolio reach of views on All 4 are from 16-34s, Channel 4 brands achieved more total corporation revenue of all UK individuals per month making it the youngest-profiling than 10 billion views on social on average – or 51m people PSB streaming service in the UK media in 2019 76% 13k £163m Channel 4’s main channel reach hours of content available digital revenue, now of all UK individuals per month on demand (June 2019) – E4 has the biggest Facebook page making up 17% of total on average – or 46m people versus 5k on BBC’s iPlayer of all the UK broadcasters for both corporation revenue views and engagement 3,000 Inclusion estimated number of new production jobs in the GLASGOW Nations and Regions economy LEEDS and diversity supported by 4 All the UK have always been at the heart of Channel 4’s mission. Our ‘4 All the UK’ plan is the biggest MANCHESTER and most exciting change in our history, as we supercharge the impact we have in all parts of the country. BRISTOL LONDON 4 All the UK: 4 All Recent award wins: International The RTS Craft & Design Baghdad Central: The Rose d’Or Awards • Music - Original Title Emmy® Awards Awards The prestigious Rose d’Or Awards • Sound – Drama The International Academy The RTS Craft & Design Awards define the gold standard for excellence of Television Arts & Sciences recognise the huge variety of and achievement in entertainment announced the winners of the skills and processes involved in programming. The virtual ceremony was 48th International Emmy® programme production. hosted by Nish Kumar on 9 December. Awards on 23 November. • The School That Tried To End Racism For Sama was named Best For Sama: won the award for Best Reality & Documentary Programme. • Director - Documentary/ Factual Entertainment. Factual & Non Drama • Music - Original Score (2019): Impact (2019): Channel 4’s biggest show UK adults rank Channel 4 as the best The Great public service broadcaster for: Taking risks with programmes that other British channels wouldn’t take (41% of UK select C4 as the best – the next highest Bake Off channel was selected by just 17%) reached more 16-34-year-olds (6.5 million) in 2019 than ITV2’s Tackling issues other channels wouldn’t Love Island (6.3 million). (39% of UK select C4 as the best – the next highest channel was selected by just 13%) Channel 4 Reputation News 24 8 Being the home for alternative voices (29% of UK select C4 as the best – the next highest grew its 16-34 share by of the top 30 highest- out of the UK’s top 10 channel was selected by just 12%) +12% and BAME share profiling titles for factual entertainment by +28% year-on-year 16-34s in peak time on programmes in 2019 TV in 2019 were from (main weekday news) Channel 4 were shown on Channel 4 Recent programme highlights Jo Brand’s How to Stay The Year That Changed Quentin Blake’s Clown: The Great British Bake Off: The Sane in a Mad World: Love: In 2020 love Inspired by a book of the same final of The Great British Bake Off Series Jo Brand shares an ABC of lives across the UK were name, Quentin Blake’s Clown 11 consolidated to 11.5m / 41.8%, which is Next on Next tips, quips and expert advice transformed by Covid. This is a half-hour animation that Channel 4’s second biggest commissioned to keep you fighting fit and intimate film celebrates the brings to life the adventures programme ever. The series averaged a mentally strong, and get you to love, from the estranged of a little toy clown. consolidated 10.6m / 40.0%; by far the biggest the other side of the pandemic couple reunited in lockdown to series of Bake Off on Channel 4 to date. in one piece. a couple who isolate together after just one date. The Truth About Amazon: New 3-part series The Truth About Amazon launched with 2.1m viewers, 25% higher than the slot norm. The programme was particularly One Night In… Escape to the Chateau Big Fat Quiz of the Year popular among BAME audiences, with volume Hamleys: Three comedians. at Christmas: With an old 2020: To celebrate the +62% higher than we’d usually see in this slot. One night. No grown-ups. The 19th century Chateau ledger welcome dawn of another programme sees comedians found in the attic and classic year, Jimmy Carr puts a panel A Very Royal Christmas: Romesh Ranganathan, Rob cookbooks to hand, the of top celebrity teams to test Beckett and Tom Allen locked Strawbridges take inspiration as he presents his big, fat and Sandringham Secrets: overnight in world-famous toy from Christmases past - fiendishly difficult quiz. New royal one-off A Very Royal Christmas: shop Hamleys on London’s discovering what food and Sandringham Secrets pulled in an average Regent Street. festivities, gifts and games of 2.0m viewers. 55% of viewers were ABC1 would have been like in adults; ABC1 volume was up +19% versus the bygone eras... slot norm..