Editing Channel 4 (section)

===Scheduling===
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Since the 2010s, Channel 4 has become the public service broadcaster most likely to amend its schedule at short notice, if programmes are not gaining sufficient viewers in their intended slots. Programmes which have been heavily promoted by the channel before launch and then have lost their slot a week later include ''Sixteen: Class of 2021''. This was a fly-on-the-wall school documentary which lost its prime 9pm slot after one episode on 31 August 2021, even after a four-star review in ''The Guardian''. Channel 4 moved the next episode to a late night (post-primetime) slot on a different day and continued to broadcast the remainder of the four-part series in this timeslot.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/sixteen-class-of-2021|title=Sixteen: Class of 2021 – All 4|access-date=19 February 2022|archive-date=28 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028010147/https://www.channel4.com/programmes/sixteen-class-of-2021|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/26/sixteen-class-of-2021-review-what-its-really-like-to-be-a-teen-today|title = Sixteen: Class of 2021 review – what it's really like to be a teen today|website = The Guardian|date = 26 August 2021|access-date = 19 February 2022|archive-date = 23 October 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211023224149/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/26/sixteen-class-of-2021-review-what-its-really-like-to-be-a-teen-today|url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/channel-4/sixteen-class-of-2021-channel-4/5163074.article |title=Sixteen: Class of 2021, Channel 4 &#124; Behind The Scenes |publisher=Broadcastnow.co.uk |date=7 September 2021 |access-date=20 February 2022 |archive-date=7 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907215620/https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/channel-4/sixteen-class-of-2021-channel-4/5163074.article |url-status=live }}</ref>

Also in 2021, the channel launched ''Epic Wales: Valleys, Mountains and Coast'', a version of its More4 documentaries ''The Pennines: Backbone of Britain'',<ref>{{cite web|title=The Pennines: Backbone of Britain – All 4|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-pennines-backbone-of-britain|access-date=26 February 2022|website=www.channel4.com}}</ref> ''The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes''<ref>{{cite web|title=The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes – All 4|url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-yorkshire-dales-and-the-lakes|access-date=26 February 2022|website=www.channel4.com}}</ref> and ''Devon and Cornwall''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Seale |first=Jack |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-1vwe2t/devon-and-cornwall-season-4/?episode=b-5jwm2y |title=Devon and Cornwall Season 4 |publisher=Radio Times |date=21 June 2021 |accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220095148/https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-1vwe2t/devon-and-cornwall-season-4/?episode=b-5jwm2y |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://www.channel4.com/programmes/devon-and-cornwal]{{dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> set in Wales. ''Epic Wales: Valleys, Mountains and Coast''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/06/tv-tonight-exploring-the-epic-wonders-of-wales |title=TV tonight: exploring the epic wonders of Wales &#124; Television & radio |work=The Guardian |date= 6 August 2021|accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=27 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220127130921/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/aug/06/tv-tonight-exploring-the-epic-wonders-of-wales |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Williams|first=Kathryn|date=6 August 2021|title=Epic Wales: All about the new Channel 4 show|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/epic-wales-voice-over-narrator-21242203|access-date=26 February 2022|website=WalesOnline}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-jrnf6g/epic-wales-valleys-mountains-coasts-season-1/ |title=Epic Wales: Valleys, Mountains & Coasts Season 1 |publisher=Radio Times |date= |accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220095158/https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-jrnf6g/epic-wales-valleys-mountains-coasts-season-1/ |url-status=live }}</ref> was initially broadcast in a prime Friday night slot at 8pm, in the hour before its comedy shows,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=19-02-2022%2020:00 |title=TV Guide |publisher=Radio Times |date= |accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220095156/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=19 |url-status=live }}</ref> but was dumped by the channel before the series was completed and replaced by repeats. In February 2022, the channel scheduled a new version of the show under the title ''Wonderous Wales'' with a Saturday night slot at 8pm<ref>''Radio Times'' 12–18 February 2022, Channel 4 listings for 12 February 2022</ref> but after one episode, it decided to take this series out of its schedule, moving up a repeat of ''Matt Baker: Our Farm in the Dales'' to 8pm and putting an episode of ''Escape to the Chateau'' in Baker's slot at 7pm.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rackham |first=Jane |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-nc852j/escape-to-the-chateau-season-8/?episode=b-jeqtlz |title=Escape to the Chateau Season 8 |publisher=Radio Times |date=24 October 2021 |accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220095201/https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-nc852j/escape-to-the-chateau-season-8/?episode=b-jeqtlz |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=19-02-2022%2017:00 |title=TV Guide |publisher=Radio Times |date= |accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220095147/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=19 |url-status=live }}</ref> Other programmes moved out of primetime in 2022, include ''Mega Mansion Hunters'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=23-02-2022%2023:00 |title=TV Guide |publisher=Radio Times |date= |accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220095152/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=23 |url-status=live }}</ref> Channel 4's answer to ''Selling Sunset'',<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/09/tv-tonight-mega-mansion-hunters-we-are-england |title=TV tonight: Selling Sunset meets The Apprentice in this new megabucks property show &#124; Television |work=The Guardian |date= 9 February 2022|accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=18 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218023924/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/09/tv-tonight-mega-mansion-hunters-we-are-england |url-status=live }}</ref> which saw its third and final episode moved past midnight with repeats put in the schedule before it,<ref>{{cite web |last=Crawford |first=Gill |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-8uk2rw/britains-most-expensive-houses-season-1/?episode=b-nvin7t |title=Britain's Most Expensive Houses Season 1 |publisher=Radio Times |date= |accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220095156/https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-8uk2rw/britains-most-expensive-houses-season-1/?episode=b-nvin7t |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-002cos/first-dates-season-18/?episode=b-g47j3f |title=First Dates Season 18 |publisher=Radio Times |date= |accessdate=20 February 2022 |archive-date=20 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220220095141/https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-002cos/first-dates-season-18/?episode=b-g47j3f |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''[[Richard Hammond|Richard Hammond's Crazy Contraptions]]'',<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/richard-hammonds-crazy-contraptions-tries-take-youtube-fails/ | title=Richard Hammond's Crazy Contraptions tries to take on YouTube (And fails) | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=29 April 2022 | last1=Wilson | first1=Benji }}</ref> a primetime Friday night competitive engineering show which saw its grand final moved to 11pm on a Sunday night.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-2zsiz7/richard-hammonds-crazy-contraptions-season-1/?episode=b-wwjkmn | title=Richard Hammond's Crazy Contraptions Season 1 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?ts=1654462800000 | title=TV listings guide | date=7 August 2023 }}</ref> Instead of Hammond's competition, Channel 4 decided to schedule the fifth series of ''Devon and Cornwall'' in its place at 8pm on Friday nights,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?ts=1654880400000 | title=TV listings guide | date=7 August 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-q0nv12/devon-and-cornwall-season-5/?episode=b-tfiuqf | title=Devon and Cornwall Season 5 | access-date=5 June 2022 | archive-date=5 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605140019/https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-q0nv12/devon-and-cornwall-season-5/?episode=b-tfiuqf | url-status=dead }}</ref> with this documentary being put up against Channel 5's ''World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys'' in the same timeslot.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-bp6gnn/worlds-most-scenic-railway-journeys-season-6/?episode=b-q0wdke | title=World's Most Scenic Railway Journeys Season 6 | access-date=5 June 2022 | archive-date=5 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220605134512/https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-bp6gnn/worlds-most-scenic-railway-journeys-season-6/?episode=b-q0wdke | url-status=dead }}</ref>

A new series of ''Unreported World'' was due to start on 18 February 2022<ref>''Radio Times'' 12–18 February 2022: Channel 4 schedules for 18 February 2022</ref> with a report by Seyi Rhodes in South Sudan, but was dropped due to an extended storm report on ''Channel 4 News''. When the programme was rescheduled for following Fridays, it was dropped again as ''Channel 4 News'' was extended due to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=04-03-2022%2019:00|title = TV listings guide| date=7 August 2023 }}</ref> ''Winter Paralympics: Today in Beijing'' was due to take the ''Unreported World'' slot from 11 March 2022<ref>''Radio Times'' 5–11 March 2022: Channel 4 schedules for 11 March 2022 2022</ref> though this sports programme also stood a chance of being moved around the schedule to continue the extended news programmes reporting on the conflict. The invasion of Ukraine has also prompted Channel 4 to acquire and schedule the comedy series ''[[Servant of the People (2015 TV series)|Servant of the People]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-7ka419/servant-of-the-people-season-1/?episode=b-jg1drx|title = Servant of the People Season 1}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=06-03-2022%2016:00|title = TV listings guide| date=7 August 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/c4-zelenskycomedy|title = Channel 4 Acquire Ukraine's Zelensky Comedy|date = 2 March 2022}}</ref> as a last minute replacement. The programme stars the current [[President of Ukraine]] [[Volodymyr Zelenskyy]] as an ordinary man who gets elected to run the country, and was shown on 6 March 2022 along with the documentary ''Zelenskyy: The Man Who Took on Putin''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/programme/b-6akfnf/zelenskyy-the-man-who-took-on-putin/|title = Zelenskyy: The Man Who Took on Putin (TV Series)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/tv-listings/?sd=06-03-2022%2022:00|title = TV listings guide| date=7 August 2023 }}</ref>

In addition to these shows, [[O.T. Fagbenle]]'s sitcom ''Maxxx'' was pulled from youth TV channel E4, after one episode from the series had been broadcast on 2 April 2020, with Channel 4 deciding to keep the series off-air until Black History Month, with the series going out on the main channel from October 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/maxxx-channel-4-tv-series-repeat/|title=Maxxx is back – but why was the Channel 4 sitcom pulled from schedules?|website=Radio Times|access-date=19 February 2022|archive-date=31 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831034251/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/maxxx-channel-4-tv-series-repeat/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5734/maxxx-on-e4-delayed/|title=E4 delays broadcasts of Maxxx|first=British Comedy|last=Guide|date=9 April 2020|website=British Comedy Guide|access-date=19 February 2022|archive-date=9 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210409102416/https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/5734/maxxx-on-e4-delayed/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In May 2022, the reality dating show ''Let's Make a Love Scene'' was [[List of television series canceled after one episode|scrapped after one episode]] with the second programme in the series, hosted by [[Ellie Taylor]], pulled from the 20 May schedule and replaced with an episode of ''[[8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown]]''. The first edition was negatively received,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/channel-4s-smut-obsession-reaches-new-low-bizarre-make-love/|title=Channel 4's smut obsession reaches a new low with the bizarre Let's Make a Love Scene|first1=Anita|last1=Singh|work=The Telegraph |date=13 May 2022}}</ref> with Anita Singh, the arts and entertainments editor for ''The Telegraph'' writing that the show was "the most ill-conceived programme idea since Prince Edward dreamt up ''It's a Royal Knockout''".