The Circle: Channel 4 decides not to re-commission the reality show
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image captionChannel 4 has cancelled The Circle after three years
Reality show The Circle will not be returning to Channel 4, after three years on our screens.
Based around catfishing and social media, contestants chat online and vote each other off based on popularity.
It had three regular series and one featuring celebrity contestants, each with contestants living in the same block of flats during the show.
The show has also been sold to Netflix in the US and has a Brazilian and French version too.
A spokesman for Channel 4 said: The Circle has been a huge hit for young audiences and has grown successively over three seasons on Channel 4.
Emma Willis hosted The Circle (Channel 4)
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The Circle will not be commissioned for a further series, Channel 4 has said.
The reality TV programme, which has seen three series and one celebrity special in aid of charity, sees players compete with each other online while housed separately in a block of flats where they communicate via The Circle, an app designed for the show.
The third series was won by military police officer Natalya, who adopted a fake identity, known as “catfishing”, and won masquerading as a 29-year-old soldier named Felix.
Paddy Smith Limited was fined $60k in relation to effluent from a stock truck cleaning operation. Meanwhile, Hauraki farmer William Gary Brunt was fined $49,000 by Judge Brian Dwyer in the Hamilton District Court for unlawfully discharging animal effluent into the environment at his Netherton farm. An effluent holding pond was found to be overflowing into a nearby paddock by regional council staff during a routine inspection in August 2019. The council had alerted Brunt to the risks the system posed to the environment during previous inspections, a council statement said.
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Effluent overflowing from holding pond on Netherton farm. Council’s compliance manager Patrick Lynch said in both cases there was adequate infrastructure to manage effluent; however, they had been poorly managed resulting in two completely avoidable incidents.
Carmina Blewett
Effluent runoff (file image).
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The warning comes after separate incidents of pollution resulted in legal action against a Hauraki farmer and a Matamata truck wash business.
William Gary Blunt was penalised for $49,000 in the Hamilton District Court for unlawfully discharging animal effluent into the environment.
Waikato Regional Council staff found an effluent holding pond at his Netherton farm was overflowing into a nearby paddock.
The discovery came after Blunt was alerted during routine inspections of the environmental risks his system posed.
Matamata truck wash business Paddy Smith Limited was fined $60,000 in Tauranga District Court following a complaint lodged to the council in May 2020.
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