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Channel 4 at 25

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Brass Eye was the best show not only on C4 but also on TV in my book.

Its a shame Chris Morris was stopped in his prime - Think he was a bit to off the beaten track for most but I loved him.
 
Happy birthday Channel 4 - if you think about the impact they've had, the programmes they've made, the programmes they've brought to our screens, compared to (say) Channel 5... well, it doesn't bear thinking about.

There's very little TV that I would say I habitually watch... but if there is, it's on C4.

Best - Channel 4 cricket. I was hugely sceptical when BBC lost Test cricket to C4, and was bemoaning the fact that we'd be deprived of the dulcet tones of Tony Lewis and others... but C4's coverage was always, well... crackerjack!

C4 sport has always generally been well done. I was a massive fan (pardon the pun) of their Sumo coverage - and it was inspired to get Brian Blessed to do many of the talkovers. Kabbadi was ace, I loved Gazzetta Football Italia, and their racing coverage is also excellent.

Also a huge fan of Grand Designs - programmes about domestic architecture are either dull as dishwater, or simply prurient about people's personal tastes / budgets. Instead, here was a programme which was simply celebrating architecture for its own sake, for the beauty of good (and occasionally not-so-good) design. Brilliant.

The great US series that, for reasons I can't explain, the other channels have eschewed - Cheers, Frasier, ER, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ugly Betty, My Name is Earl and even, in their first series, Friends and Desperate Housewives. The Beeb's feel for US shows - other than Seinfeld and Larry Sanders has been, on the whole, much weaker.

Dispatches - some of the most compelling TV documentaries on TV today. If you're not moved by programmes like The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off - RIP Johnny Kennedy, and a programme that has won Nell McAndrew my eternal admiration - then you ought to check for a pulse.

Film4 - not merely the separate channel, but also the foundation that has produced some of the very best in British and independent cinema in the last 25 years. East is East, Trainspotting, Sexy Beast, This is England, Last King of Scotland, Brassed Off, Buena Vista Social Club, Four Weddings & A Funeral, The Motorcycle Diaries... that's just a few of the films that Film4 Productions have made.

Worst. The worst aspect of C4 is not knowing when to kill something off. BB should have died a death a couple of seasons ago. Hollyoaks should have finished yonks ago. A lot of the T4 stuff is garbage - e.g. bringing back Shipwrecked, FFS - one series was painful enough, so why do it again?! Wife Swap and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares have outlived their welcome, and some of the endless property shows try even my patience (although I've always got time for Phil & Kirsty, who are great). They occasionally used to get a bit obsessed by arty titillation, most of which was garbage (Eurotrash aside, which was legendary); and some of their other arty stuff (e.g. some bloody weird Polish / Czech cartoons) was just crap.

But the good stuff vastly outweighs the bad stuff. Put it this way: if I could only have one channel, I'd probably pick Channel 4.

:)
 
Best - Their investment in low budget films giving us classics like Backbeat and Motorcycle Diaries that no studio in their right mind would ordinarily touch.

Worst - Pretty much their entire current output. From being daring and groundbreaking, they've become as tired, hackneyed and sheep-like as all the other channels with their celebrity/reality/shock value bollocks.
 
GlasgowSUFC said:
He was only in the 1st ep of Series 2, where he kills himself.
As I said elsewhere yesterday, mmmmmmmmmm Jen off the IT Crowd. Another one for my ginger hitlist!!! hubba hubba ;)
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Oh. There you go. Hope if I watched it really.

Watched the first one, didn't like it.
 
Slipperduke said:
Best - Their investment in low budget films giving us classics like Backbeat and Motorcycle Diaries that no studio in their right mind would ordinarily touch.

Worst - Pretty much their entire current output. From being daring and groundbreaking, they've become as tired, hackneyed and sheep-like as all the other channels with their celebrity/reality/shock value bollocks.
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Have you seen ITV recently?
 
one of the best things spawned from C4 is E4 and More 4.... loving the re-run of Skins at the moment on C4
 
fatshrimp said:
Told you I was sad...

Which football team do you support?

Watford

Watford can't play football to save their lives

I agree

[pauses] Well I disagree. I think they can play football, they just need a new Manager.

Anyway amigo, you're going to diiiiiieeee!!!

[both fire their cap guns at each other]


Sorry! Couldn't resist! Good to find a kindred spirit.
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My favourite character in 'Fistful...' is Ade Edmonson's all to brief appearance; "I used to be a matador, but I lost my driver's license... now I work up at abattoir". Brilliantly surreal.

The first 2 series of 'Comic Strip presents...' are just about my favourite comedy ever. War, Beat Generation, Bad News, Dirty Movie, Slags, Summer School, Five Go Mad in Dorset/On Mescalin - comedy gold every one of them.
 
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