Alison Hammond has shared a sweet snap of her and a very famous face together on Instagram, describing him as 'my man'.
07.06.2023 - 09:11 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Kirstie Allsopp’s popular daytime series Kirstie’s Handmade Christmas is being rested for a year as part of Channel 4’s efforts to cut costs amid a chastening ad market slump.
Deadline understands that Channel 4’s content chief Ian Katz personally phoned Allsopp to deliver the news last Thursday. He made an explicit reference to the UK broadcaster’s financial difficulties after its ad revenue plummeted by as much as 20%.
We revealed on Monday how Channel 4 is canceling shows at the eleventh hour, asking suppliers to finance productions at short notice, tasking them with rethinking budgets mid-shoot, and pushing projects into 2024 because it can’t afford to pick up the bill.
First screened in 2014, Handmade Christmas was not formally greenlit for another season by Channel 4, but early preparations were underway, including tentative guest bookings. The show is produced by Glasgow-based company Raise The Roof Productions.
Allsopp, one of Channel 4’s highest-profile and most enduring presenters, confirmed that the daytime series will not be made this year, but a primetime version of the show will air.
“I know it’s not personal,” she told Deadline. “We all take a hit on different things at different points in time. Hopefully, the ad market will improve and we’ll be back again.”
Allsopp estimated that up to 30 production crew would lose work as a result of the decision, adding to existing woes for freelancers who are in the throes of what broadcasting union Bectu has described as an “emergency” for unscripted television.
“I am very upset for anybody — not just my colleagues, not just the lovely people that I work with — but anybody in the industry who is struggling for work. I know there are quite a few,” she
Alison Hammond has shared a sweet snap of her and a very famous face together on Instagram, describing him as 'my man'.
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EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4’s content chief Ian Katz has acknowledged that the UK broadcaster is going through a “tough time” amid widespread discontent over show cancelations and cash flow issues.
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EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 has axed documentary series Rescue: Extreme Medics after two seasons.
Like live theater itself, the Tony Awards has had ample opportunity of late to accustom itself to curve balls, upsets and all sorts of real-world intrusions onto Broadway’s rarified and beloved stages. Forget Covid – well, actually, don’t forget Covid, it’s still here one way or another – this year’s big potential disruption came with the WGA strike against the AMPTP.
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Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis thanked the series and its fans in separate online posts. The show, which introduced Carrie Bradshaw, Charlotte York, Miranda Hobbes and Samantha Jones, as they navigated the dating New York dating scene, first aired on June 6, 1998. It ran until 2004 and spawned two feature films released in 2008 and 2010 as well as recent spin-off series, And Just Like That.
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