It's no secret here I'm a fan of C4 - but without Channel 4 there would probably have been no Ricky Gervais, and that might just have been a sacrifice worth making!
Hands off. Ricky Gervais is pure genius, and we have both C4 and the BBC to thank for him.
I'm sure Ricky would have made it big even if he hadn't appeared on Ch4. it's not like the BBC saw him on the dire 11' o'clock show or his little watched chat show and said "We mush have him!" like they did with Norton and Vaughan. He was still a relative unknown until The Office.
Ricky Gervais is brilliance. Although arrogant with it, but its all comedy at the end of the day.
I've had more requests for 'Four Score' (am I suddenly the only one who has it?), this is the last time I will be uploading it yet again until 2nd November, so if you want it..here it is available for the next
7 days
only. Please remember the copyrights...
http://download.yousendit.com/012F1FDD56D44CF2
I'm sure Ricky would have made it big even if he hadn't appeared on Ch4. it's not like the BBC saw him on the dire 11' o'clock show or his little watched chat show and said "We mush have him!" like they did with Norton and Vaughan. He was still a relative unknown until The Office.
his show with Stephen Merchant on Xfm probably helped as well.
With the TV guides for next week now out, it's very disappointing that from the covers at least, C4's 25th birthday seems to have gone unnoticed. The only hint I saw was Countdown's 25th mentioned briefly on the front of the TV Times.
Saturday 27 October 2007
10:50pm
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: TRAINSPOTTING
Film4 celebrates Channel 4's 25th anniversary with a nine-day season of films funded by the channel through the years. Trainspotting , directed by Danny Boyle and starring Ewan McGregor, is acknowledged to be one of the most original films to come out of Britain in the last two decades. Followed at 1.00am by Some Voices , Simon Cellan Jones' drama starring Daniel Craig as a mental patient released into the care of his family who can only watch him helplessly deteriorate.
Sunday 28 October 2007
10:55pm
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: RITA, SUE AND BOB TOO
Continuing Film4's celebration of Channel 4's 25th anniversary, Alan Clarke's film stars Siobhan Finneran and Michelle Holmes as Sue and Rita, two teenage friends who babysit for Bob and Michelle. When Michelle goes off sex, Bob starts looking elsewhere… At 12.55am, P'Tang Yang Kipperbang is Michael Apted's charming tale of adolescent angst in post-War Britain.
Monday 29 October 2007
11:20pm
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE
Continung Film4's celebration of Channel 4's 25th anniversary, Stephen Frears' social comedy stars Daniel Day Lewis as Johnny, an ex-NF member who befriends Asian Omar (Gordon Warnecke) and helps him open a laundrette that is more like a picture palace than a laundromat. Followed at 1.40am by The Ploughman's Lunch , Richard Eyre's acerbic look at 80s Britain, as the Tories revel in 'victory' in the Falklands.
Tuesday 30 October 2007
11:05pm
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: THE PILLOW BOOK
Continuing Film4's celebration of Channel 4's 25th anniversary, Peter Greenaway's film is a feast for the eye, using graphics, subtitles and superimpositions. Nagiko (Vivian Wu), who has a fetish for calligraphy on the human body, meets ideal soul-mate Jerome (Ewan McGregor). At 2.00am, Simon Pummell's Bodysong is the amazingly collated story of the voyage of human experience, from birth to death.
Wednesday 31 October 2007
11:00pm
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: SECRETS AND LIES
Continuing Film4's celebration of Channel 4's 25th anniversary, Mike Leigh's winning tale of love, caring and deep longings sees a young black woman (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) track down her birth mother who turns out to be Brenda Blethyn. Followed at 2.00am by My Name is Joe , Ken Loach's drama with Peter Mullan as a reformed drinker who falls for social worker Louise Goodall.
Thursday 1 November 2007
10:50pm
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: DEAD MAN'S SHOES
Continuing Film4's celebration of Channel 4's 25th anniversary, Shane Meadows' thriller sees ex-squaddie Richard (Paddy Considine) return to his Derbyshire home to find out what happened to his slightly retarded, beloved brother Anthony (Toby Kebell), who latched on to the local drugs cartel. Followed at 12.45am by Asif Kapadia's BAFTA-winning The Warrior , an epic set in ancient India where a war lord's warrior renounces violence and seeks spiritual guidance only to pay a terrible price.
Friday 2 November 2007
11:25pm
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: SEXY BEAST
Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley star in this Oscar and BAFTA-nominated crime thriller with Winstone as a professional criminal retired in Spain and Kingsley as the terrifying psychopath sent to recruit him for one last job. Followed at 1.30 am by The Low Down , Jamie Thraves' debut feature that follows the life of a props-maker (Aidan Gillen) as he negotiates his relationship with new girlfriend (Kate Ashfield) while juggling his friends, his past and his future.
Saturday 3 November 2007
11:05pm
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: THE CRYING GAME
Neil Jordan's highly-acclaimed and Oscar-winning tale of love, loyalty, murder and seduction. Terrorist Fergus (Stephen Rea) decides to track down the girlfriend Dil (Jaye Davidson) of one of his victims Jody (Forest Whitaker) and finds himself falling in love. However, he's pursued by his commander, JUde (Miranda Richardson), who believes him to be a traitor and finds his love affair evolving into a series of challenges to his self-image and sexuality.
Saturday 3 November 2007
1:25am
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: CROUPIER
Mike Hodges' film was a surprise sleeper, ignored in this country until it was lauded in the States. Clive Owen plays Jack Manfred, a croupier who works by night and writes by day. His girlfriend Marion (Gina McKee) becomes increasingly frustrated by his seemingly aimless life, but he becomes focused when glamorous South African Jani de Villiers (Alex Kingston) arrives in his casino, and then his bed, with a plan to defraud the house - but is she playing with a straight deck of cards?
Sunday 4 November 2007
10:50pm
CHANNEL 4 AT 25: MISCHIEF NIGHT
UK TV PREMIERE
For those not fortunate enough to have been born in or live in God's Own County, Mischief Night is Yorkshire's unique take on Halloween, held on November 4, when minor acts of troublemaking are tolerated. Director Penny Woolcock's film takes the night as its central premise, with Kelli Hollis as Tina, living on a Leeds housing estate with her unruly kids. The estate is pretty evenly split between white and Asian families, which allows Tina to meet up with her ex-lover Immie (Ramon Tikaram), now stuck in a loveless arranged marriage. But there are underlying tensions, with the mullah at the local mosque showing jihad-promoting videos and both sides involved in the local, lucrative and roaring drugs trade. But as Mischief Night approaches, the racial tensions begin to reach a dangerous level. The film, from the producers of Channel 4's Shameless , forms a loose trilogy with Woolcock's two previous films, Tina Goes Shopping and Tina Takes a Break , and like those two (and Shameless ), it takes people forced into grim circumstances and looks for the humanity and humour they have, which enable them to survive.
C4 at 25 spills over slightly into the weekend after:
C4: Sat 3 Nov:
4:40pm COUNTDOWN: 25TH BIRTHDAY SPECIAL Repeat Subtitles BB
6:30pm DEAL OR NO DEAL'S 2ND BIRTHDAY SPECIAL Subtitles BB
9:10pm FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL Subtitles BB Wide AD
11:20pm CHANNEL 4 AT 25 (repeat of the More4 documentary)
More4: Sun 4 Nov
10.00pm THE BIG FAT ANNIVERSARY QUIZ repeat
Well now in case anyone is interested, S4C have rather lately decided to mark their 25th anniversary on 1 November, with a week or so of programmes, dramas, Welsh tv history documentaries etc.
For probably the last time before the analogue service ceases in two years, the children's programming and weather presentation are to be updated, and ten further idents to be released.
Promos for the programming have the on-screen dog thingyo showing 25/ until the end, this example being the Welsh tv history series.
Correct if I'm wrong but the analogue version & the SKY version(certainly the one shown in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland) are both different, as C4 England is shown on SKY on a different channel.(Dunno about Freeview/Cable)
Would I be correct in thinking that this arrangement would continue in it's present form after analogue switchoff?
(In other words Welsh viewers wanting to avoid S4C programming can still watch C4 England!)
How come England etc have never had the option on SKY to watch the analogue S4C schedule rather than the all Welsh one on there?
The Welsh, using both analogue & digital could watch all versions surely!
A. F. A. I .K., S4C is going to remain, with just the Welsh language programmes. All of the English programmes will stay on Channel Four. The English–Welsh S4C will disappear with analogue switch-over.
P. S.: In case you're wondering, I've not had Internet since February, so that is why I havn't been at this website for a while. Hello again. Missed you all*. This seems like an awful first message. Sorry.
