THE END OF T4 AND FRESHLY SQUEEZED.

The final t4 has been shown,
Channel 4 have axed it for a new music driven format show
The move also means that annual event “T4 on the Beach” will be cancelled, however a return in a different guise has not been ruled out.
Following a decline in ratings, the strand moved to E4 earlier this year, and has remained ever since.
I have found a quote from channel 4's head of formats
”This is an incredibly exciting opportunity to develop a credible popular music show for Friday nights,”

“The pilots reflect our continued ambition to provide our younger audiences on Channel 4 with a range of entertaining music content,”

“Whilst T4 has historically been a much loved destination for our young audiences, its popularity has been incrementally diminished over time by the digital revolution,”

“In a landscape where Channel 4 now provides E4, the nation’s most popular channel for 16 -34 year olds, T4 has been fighting incredibly hard to maintain the cut through it once enjoyed, and now is the right time to look at more appropriate ways to serve our younger viewers

How did it end? What did you think? It's good to start a thread with your own contributions rather than just asking others.

I didn't see it but I heard Vernon the other week talk about how he'd done some filming for it.

Saturday it ended like this and was repeated an hour or so ago on E4

Ok I appreciate that but I'm new to the forum and wanted to hear other peoples views.Bare with the new people on the forum when they ask questions that are obvious or set up threads I'm not trying to offend anyone.

Good ridden to bad rubbish, it not been the same for ages and it was like Ch4 trying to flog a dead horse

I agree with you the show hasn't been the same for a while but I'm not sure if people have lost their jobs over this and if so then the best of luck to them

It just looked like a bunch of people pretending to care that T4 was going. Even the presenters singing at the end were looking like they were acting like they cared when they really didn't. It was never going to be as sad as say Andi Peters leaving Live and Kicking.

OK I also compared it to the gmtv ending and it was much happier than Gmtv also would this not harm the people that produce the show princess productions?

I had that problem with the final episode of Top of the Pops...there didn't seem to be any actual regret that it was going from anyone, just "Yay let's show some old clips". I guess by then it did feel a bit of an irrelevance, but it felt more of a celebration that it was finally going rather than a proper tribute (that was handled better by the documentary on afterwards, even though it was just a slightly expanded edit of one from a few years earlier). I imagine T4's goodbye was pretty similar.

Now, the final episode of 'Dick and Dom in Da Bungalow', that was a proper sendoff. Both Ds unscriptedly screaming "WE SAVED CHILDREN'S TELEVISION" into the camera (and presumably the BBC bosses) was a sight to behold!

To be fair I never eally watched T4 over last few years - only to watch Hollyoaks on a Sunday morning, and when that left Channel 4 I, to be fair, couldn't be bothered trying to find it. T4 became irrelevent, in my opinion, when E4 was first set up and was aiming for the same audience and when 4Music started that really should have been when T4 ended!

Watching this and the CITV documentary yesterday and seeing at how much on screen talent both have generated over the years (not to mention the off screen talent aswell) it's unbelieveable how channels are letting these institutions where big names of the future can cut their teeth die.

I've said my piece about T4 over recent months but when earlier this year OFCOM told C4 they needed to do more to attract an audience to axe a brand like T4 in favour of Saturday morning repeats of 90's comedies and a Sunday morning cookery show is just absolute nonsense IMO.

To be fair, Sunday morning have never really been about T4, apart from 5-10 minute between the Thursday and Friday episodes of the Hollyoak Omnibus, which was normally some sort of pre-recorded link anyway. Hollyoaks is still being made and shown so nothing wrong there and Sunday Brunch does bring in the audience, otherwise it would have not been extended to 2.5 hours (normally) or be on air now! Tim and Simon have built up a following audience since Something For The Weekend (SFTW) first started about 8 years ago and its a programme the BBC shouldn't have really axed but they have found their feet at Channel 4 and it's a good magazine style show - its more than just cookery - in fact the cookery very much pephiary nowadays, compared to SFTW show. (I used to tape Hollyoaks to watch after SFTW)

I never really watched T4 before Hollyoaks as I tended to watch Breakfast and Match Of The Day. But wish Channel 4 kept Hollyoaks on a sunday morning.....

8am Hollyoaks Omnibus
1030am Sunday Brunch
1pm 90210