Week 18 highlights (2012)

18 April 2012

The Killing

Here are the best programmes on Channel 4 for week 18, Saturday 28th  April - Friday 4th May.

Here is some extra information to help you with your research.

Did you know:

Celebrity Deal or No Deal's first participant, Sarah Millican, is footballer Spike Milligan's nephew.

The Killing, Channel 4's brilliant US import, is actually a remake of a Russian series based on an Enid Blyton book.

McG, the director of Terminator Salvation, is named after the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

 

 

Saturday 28/04/2012
9:30pm
Terminator Salvation
Network premiere. Director McG takes the helm for the fourth instalment of the sci-fi action franchise, starring Christian Bale and Sam Worthington. The principal action takes place in the devastated world of 2018 where a group of resistance fighters battle killing machines that are set on sole control of the planet. John Connor (Bale) is one of the resistance leaders who discovers that their robot adversaries have a potentially fatal design flaw. But they also learn that Skynet plans to decapitate the humans' command structure via a series of assassinations...

 

Sunday, 29/04/2012
8pm
Celebrity Deal or No Deal
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.

 

Sunday, 29/04/2012
9pm
Homeland 11/12: The Vest
Carrie has been hospitalised in the wake of the explosion that killed Al Zahrani in the heart of Washington DC. When Saul comes to retrieve her, he discovers her on a manic flight, postulating a-mile-a-minute about Abu Nazir. Meanwhile, Brody has taken his family to Gettysburg to spend one last weekend with them before his congressional campaign begins, and before his fatal mission is to take place.

 

Monday, 30/04/2012
8pm
Foxes Live: Wild in the City 1/3
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.

 

Tuesday 01/05/2012
9pm
Hidden Talent 2/6
How far can natural talent really go and what if it could change your life? Hidden Talent discovers people with extraordinary hidden talents they never dreamed they had. Hundreds of randomly selected people are put through a series of tests to identify those with hidden abilities and nine participants discover if they can go from being a total novice to a top-class performer in record time. The second episode looks for someone with the physical and mental capacity to succeed in the international free-diving arena, and an individual who, with no previous artistic training, can spot a masterpiece in a room full of fakes. Hosted by Richard Bacon.

 

Wednesday 02/05/2012
9pm
The Tallest Tower: Building the Shard
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.

 

Wednesday 02/05/2012
10pm
The Killing 1/13: Reflections
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.

 

Thursday, 03/05/2012
9pm
The World's Largest Snake
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 animal is a relative of modern boa constrictors and lived in the rainforest of north-east Colombia 58-60 million years ago. 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.

 

Thursday, 03/05/2012
9pm
The Hoarder Next Door 1/4
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.

 

Friday, 04/05/2012
7:35pm
Unreported World 4/8: Congo: Magic, Gangs & Wrestlers
Reporter Seyi Rhodes and director Wael Dabbous travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo and enter the extraordinary world of professional wrestling. In the capital, Kinshasa, they find some of the superstars of the sport practicing 'black magic', and uncover allegations that many fighters are involved in gang violence and political intimidation.

 

Friday, 04/05/2012

9:30pm
Very Important People 2/6
The brand new celebrity impression show that mocks our beloved stars and satirises a culture bamboozled by trivia, gossip and regurgitated ideas. Starring Morgana Robinson and Terry Mynott, as well as a cherry-picked ensemble cast, Very Important People is about to reinvigorate the world of impressions. Keeping things ultra-fresh each show also features a topical sketch recorded in the week of transmission.
An interview with Morgana and Terry is available here.