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The investment, which will come from Channel 4’s £20 million Growth Fund, will see the publicly-owned broadcaster take undisclosed minority stakes of up to 25% in four companies.

The new feature provides suggestions of TV shows and movies that a customer might enjoy based on recent recordings and downloads in their Sky+ Planner.

Over the course of 12 programmes, Doctor Who Extra will trace the highs and lows of what the Corporation describes as the Doctor’s “most ambitious run of episodes yet,” including insiders from the people who helped produce it.

Last night Channel 4 took viewers on a precarious airborne journey through some of Indonesia’s most isolated communities in the broadcaster’s latest ‘quirky’ work place documentary, Worst Place to Be a Pilot (9pm).

Only three short days after Channel 5 released the survivors from the Big Brother 2014 compound the broadcaster rounded up another 14 souls…

Channel 4 was still busy picking apart the carcass of that bloke from the car park at 9pm, as Richard III: The New Evidence (9pm) discovered that the 15th century was generally a hotbed of good times.

Despite the rapid rise of VOD services such as Netflix, and the suggested cannibalisation of linear TV, 80% of Americans prefer to watch television on a traditional set, according to new research from BroadStream Solutions.

There were mixed results for commercial television channels in July, with only ITV Breakfast reporting any significant gains.

Last night’s instalment gave viewers one of those episodes where the researchers struck gold, slowly revealing a dramatic and sorrowful tale of a family torn about by circumstance and tragedy.

The second episode of freshly relocated The Great British Bake Off (8pm) continued to attract an impressive prime time audience, even if viewers were down slightly on last week’s BBC One début.