4oD highlights for week 19

26 April 2012

The Killing

 

Celeb Deal or No Deal
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/deal-or-no-deal/4od
The dream factory opens its doors to some well-known faces for the first ever series of Celebrity Deal or No Deal. In each episode a famous face does battle with The Banker in a bid to win up to a quarter of a million pounds for their chosen charity. Noel Edmonds oversees proceedings as Sarah Millican attempts to win big.

 

Foxes Live: Wild in the City
TBC
This brand new live interactive natural history event will carry out the biggest ever nationwide study into urban foxes in the UK. Using cutting-edge technology, this ambitious project will assemble footage from state-of-the-art tracking technology, camera rigs and user-generated content to provide a fox-eye view of our cities. Every move will be followed with the help of CCTV cameras, GPS tags and mini fox cams that will follow the foxes' movements. And anyone who owns a smartphone is a potential wildlife photographer and can contribute to new natural history research by taking part in the largest ever urban fox census. Veterinary expert and broadcaster Mark Evans co-presents the three-part live series with Anita Rani. There will also be daily fox updates.

 

The Killing
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-killing/4od
(Will be available after broadcast)
The US crime drama returns to Channel 4 for a second series. Sarah is left reeling when she learns that the photo placing Richmond on the bridge at the time of Rosie's murder (and in the very car where her body was found) has been falsified by Holder. She once again abandons her plans to move to California and goes straight to Lt Oakes, who seems oddly reluctant to take this information to the district attorney and worries about Sarah's state of mind. Sarah realises that she's on her own: if Richmond was set up and Rosie's killer is still out there, she can't simply let this go.

 

The World's Largest Snake
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-worlds-largest-snake/4od
(Will be available after broadcast)
In 2009, a group of passionate scientists stumbled upon the fossils of the Titanoboa: the biggest snake of all time. At 48 feet long and weighing well over a tonne, the snake is one of the greatest discoveries since the T-Rex. The spectacular palaeontological find deep in the Cerrejon coal mines in Colombia has blown the doors off a lost period in prehistory. They had unexpectedly discovered a time after the dinosaurs when the world was once again ruled by super-sized reptiles, battling it out to become the planet's top predators; among them, the gargantuan Titanoboa. Using pin-sharp CGI, and scintillating cutting-edge science, the programme brings back the real lost world.

 

The Tallest Tower: Building the Shard
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-tallest-tower-building-the-shard/4od
(Will be available after broadcast)
The story of The Shard: the colossal glass skyscraper that has transformed London's skyline. Built against a backdrop of massive public opposition and one of the worst recessions in history, this feat of architectural engineering in the heart of the capital will stand at over 1000ft: the tallest tower in Western Europe. Love it or hate it, The Shard is destined to become one of London's most dominant landmarks. The film lifts the lid on the challenges and achievements of an enormous engineering project in a densely populated area of London.

 

The Hoarder Next Door
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-hoarder-next-door/4od
(Will be available after broadcast)
The Hoarder Next Door is a brand new series about Britain's growing number of extreme hoarders and their quest to cure themselves with the help of friends and family. In each episode cameras follow the hoarders as they embark upon a unique six week treatment programme with psychotherapist Stelios Kiosses and his team of expert de-clutterers. The first episode features 55-year-old Nigel Jennings in Liverpool, whose only place to sit at home is his mattress. Living in the midst of the most extreme hoarding that psychotherapist Stelios Kiosses has ever seen, Nigel hasn't been inside some of his rooms for over seven years.

 

My Phone Sex Secrets
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-phone-sex-secrets/4od
Phone sex is one industry booming in the face of recession. My Phone Sex Secrets meets the women paid to talk dirty.