4oD highlights week 45

26 October 2011

Hippo: Nature's Wild Feast

 

Phoneshop, series 1
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/phoneshop/4od
Phoneshop returns with a second series in week 45 and you can top up on all of the first series now on 4oD.

 

Tool Academy, series 2
Link TBC
The reality series in which girlfriends secretly enrol their boyfriends in relationship boot camp, where they compete to win £25,000 and the best prize of all - the love of a good woman. Series 2 starts in week 44 and be sure to catch up on ep 1 on 4oD before the second episode.

 

Hippo: Nature's Wild Feast
Link TBC
A new high-tech natural history event, Hippo: Nature's Wild Feast will present the most comprehensive illustration to date of nature's food-chain in action. The programme, anchored live from Zambia's Luangwa Valley, will show the events of the past fortnight (which have been streamed live on Channel4.com) as an entire ecological system including predators, scavengers, birds and insects consumed the enormous carcass of an adult hippo.

 

The Elephant: Life After Death
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-elephant-life-after-death/4od
If carcasses getting devoured is your thing then make sure you also watch The Elephant: Life After Death on 4oD. Elephants can live for 70 years. But what happens when one of these magnificent beasts dies in the wild?

 

Unreported World - Russia: Vlad's Army
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/4od
Reporter Peter Oborne and director James Jones reveal the huge personality cult around Vladimir Putin as they follow the extraordinary actions of the mass youth movement dedicated to protecting the interests of the Prime Minister and Russia. As Putin announces his intention to return as President next year, Unreported World meets some of the young people who are utterly devoted to him, have seemingly limitless resources, and appear to be above the law. Avaliable on 4oD throughout week 45.

 

Transgender House
Link TBC
Channel 4 follows seven transgender men and women as they come together to share their intimate and on-going experiences of changing gender in a new four-part series, and the whole series will be available on 4oD.

 

Derren Brown: The Experiments - The Guilt Trip
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/derren-brown-the-experiments/4od
In The Guilt Trip, the third show in the series, Derren Brown investigates what it would take for someone to admit to a murder they didn't commit. An unwitting participant finds himself at the centre of a murder mystery - can Derren convince him to admit to a murder he didn't commit? Available all week on 4oD.