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The Great British Food Fight season is among the highlights of Channel 4's winter schedule.
A follow-up to January's Big Food Fight, it will feature new shows from Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Heston Blumenthal.
Blumenthal will attempt to rejuvenate the fortunes of Little Chef in Big Chef, Little Chef, while Fearnley-Whittingstall is continuing his quest to promote free range chickens in Chicken, Hugh and Tesco Too. Meanwhile, Oliver is investigating the decline in the pig farming industry on Jamie Saves Our Bacon.
The channel's drama centre-piece is Red Riding. Based on David Pearce's cult noir books, it is an interlocking police trilogy with a cast including Andrew Garfield, Sean Bean, Warren Clarke, David Morrissey and Mark Addy.
Other projects include the eight-part documentary commission Christianity, which will explore alternative viewpoints of the history of the religion. Michael Portillo, Rageh Omaar, Cherie Blair and Anne Widdecombe are among the presenters. The Hunt For Britain's Sex Traffickers and The Great Sperm Race are among other documentaries on the schedule.
A quiz programme for Radio 1's Chris Moyles and sitcom Free Agents, created by the team behind Spaced and Black Books, are new comedy shows on the channel. Peter Kay also returns with two follow-ups to Britain's Got The Pop Factor.
Returns for Celebrity Big Brother, teen drama Skins and US imports Reaper, Beverly Hills 90210 and Dirty Sexy Money were also announced.
