Channel 4

A 1980s Channel 4 ident just played before the DOND 80s special - with an announcement 'You're watching Channel Four on 16th February sometime in the 80s'. Nice touch - perhaps someone can grab it at 5pm on 4+1.

Thankfully no mention of a cat.

And so the format seems to have come full circle. Princess Productions also made Light Lunch with Mel & Sue (named Late Lunch in it's evening slot) on Channel 4 back in 1997.

1997 -> Light Lunch
1998 -> Late Lunch
2006 -> Something for the Weekend
2012 -> Sunday Brunch

I know it appears to some I have this massive vendetta against women in television, and Jay Hunt in particular, but giving Jay Hunt into run C4 is like asking your local Post Office manager to run a surf shop. She just doesn't seem to get the channel and her commissions are turning it into a BBC lite - exactly the opposite of what it should be.

For all the flack (much unwarranted) it got during the Big Brother years the channel could never be accused of being bland - but that's exactly what commissions like this are making it. Hardly a "creative renewal" to take such a show axed by another network.

And C4 are throwing away another US drama by putting it in a weekend slot which doesn't need it. C4 is seriously lacking anything of note at 10pm at the moment - and then they go and put Homeland at 9pm on Sundays, a slot where they can get away with putting films - and get higher ratings. Now Homeland is never going to rate spectacularly, but the C4 schedule would look much stronger with it midweek than on Sunday nights in one of the toughest slots on television.

I assume Sunday Brunch will air at 11:30 unless they plan on pushing the Hollyoaks Omnibus earlier to 8:00 and it being the only T4 programme on a Sunday (perhaps they will dump the T4 presentation).

Something for the Weekend is currently 10:00-11:30. Have the BBC said what will replace it?

Broadcast have said that T4 on Sunday will move to E4.

Interesting - but a shame the last defining strand of weekend television will be lost from the five main channels.

Except T4 Saturdays (and holidays if they still do that?).

T4 seems a pointless brand now anyway, I'm surprised it's still going. Aren't E4 and T4 aimed at exactly the same people?

During T4, the second episode of The Big Bang Theory has aired, when watching on 4HD, there is no speech present, only audience audio. The titles played out correctly. I presume this is something to do with the surround sound output on HD, but everything aired correctly for the first episode.

EDIT: All fixed after the advert, how very odd.

That's happened before on something - very strange how you could here all the background noise but not the actors themselves.

I remember it happened during Jingle All The Way when channel 4 aired it in 2010, being a film there was audience, but you could hear crowds, background music in a shop, etc.

Presumably a bad mix from 5.1? Usually voices are restricted to the centre channel therefore if it was taking Front Left and Front Right and mixing it to stereo then voices would be completely missing.