4oD Highlights for Week 22

18 May 2012

Fresh Meat

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/fresh-meat/4od

Comedy drama series from the creators of Peep Show about the hilarious, and often painful, truths of being a student.

 

My Big Fat Fetish

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-big-fat-fetish/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

This is a film about a group of big women who are happy with their weight and of some who want to get even fatter. Fat girls eating food is becoming an underground internet activity. Magazines and online websites featuring 'Big Beautiful Women' have become more and more popular. These women love their bodies and there are millions of men around the world who admire them. This fascinating documentary follows the lives of four 'Big' models in the USA and UK, exploring the relationship these women have with their food and bodies, and also with their fans, and reveals what motivates them to this bizarre sexual lifestyle.

 

Gok Cooks Chinese

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/gok-cooks-chinese/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

Gok Wan is firing up his wok to showcase his other great passion in life: Chinese cooking. Growing up with a Chinese restaurateur and chef for a father, Gok loves nothing more than home-cooked Chinese food, and over the years has perfected many dishes of his own. Now he is joined by his dad, known as Poppa Wan, for this brand new cookery show. In this first programme Gok demonstrates the basics of Chinese cooking, from the 'holy trinity' of ingredients - garlic, ginger and spring onion - to the 'love box' of condiments.

 

Jimmy and the Giant Supermarket

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/jimmy-and-the-giant-supermarket/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

Animal welfare standards might have come a long way in the UK, but most of the country's chickens are still reared intensively, 60% of pigs still spend their whole lives in sheds, and tens of thousands of dairy calves are needlessly slaughtered each year because it's too expensive to rear them. But in these cash-strapped times, a lot of customers can't afford to care about free range food. Rare breed pig farmer Jimmy Doherty has a dream to make free range food affordable for everyone. So he's challenged Britain's biggest supermarket, Tesco, to let him prove he can do it, and they've agreed. In this first episode, Jimmy tries to transform Tesco's best-selling own brand meatballs.

 

Loveshaft

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/love-shaft/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

A brand new six-part series that takes speed-dating to a whole new level as one lucky girl or boy travels up the love shaft to a luxury penthouse bar looking for love along the way. Their mission is to find a dream date among the weird and wonderful candidates who are waiting to impress them as the lift stops at different floors on the journey. But they can only have one companion in the lift at a time, so when the doors open the dater must decide whether to stick with their current ride or select someone new. Between floors, they have some fun with quirky icebreakers designed to help them get to know each other better. Up in the penthouse, presenter Will Best is joined by family and friends, watching to see if love blossoms. But when the lift reaches the top, the tables turn and the successful suitor faces a dilemma of accepting the date or turning them down in order to gamble for a cash prize. In the first episode, Manchester lass Olivia is treated to some spectacular dancing, a celebrity dinner party and a very unusual massage, all inside the love shaft lift! There's also a surprise guest who throws a spanner in the works. But will Olivia's chosen beau select her or the cash?

 

Revenge

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/revenge/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

The hit US drama premieres its first season on E4. Emily Thorne (Emily Van Camp) is the newest arrival in the Hamptons. She appears to be a friendly and sophisticated 'girl next door', but has a dark family history and is not what she seems. Seventeen years ago, her father was framed for a crime he didn't commit by neighbours he trusted, and sentenced to life in prison. Emily never saw him again and spent her childhood consumed by rage, loss and betrayal. Now she's returning under an assumed identity with just one goal - revenge - and every social overture she makes is a carefully planned chip at the foundation of her sworn enemies. Emily rents the seaside home she once shared with her father and, with the help of her only friend, events planner Ashley, sets her sites on her first target and puts her carefully organised plan in motion. Her focus unexpectedly wavers when she comes across Jack, a friendly face from the past, makes a new romantic connection with the son of her sworn enemy, and is pushed into an uneasy alliance with the only person who knows her secret. Madeleine Stowe, Henry Czerny and Josh Bowman also star.

 

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dont-trust-the-b-in-apartment-23/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

The US sitcom about the unlikely friendship between a small-town girl with big ambitions and a wild New York City party girl premieres on E4. Sweet, innocent June (Dreama Walker) moves from rural Indiana to start a new life amid the bright lights of New York City. Things immediately turn sour when she finds her dream job (and the amazing flat that goes with it) no longer exists because the company has shut down. In debt and on the streets, fresh-faced, trusting June thinks her luck has changed when she gets the chance to move in with party girl Chloe (Krysten Ritter). However, it transpires that Chloe is a con artist with the morals of a viper who attempts to scam the newcomer.