Week 23 Highlights

25 May 2011

The 23 enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some modification of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23. It was first popularised by William S Boroughs, and is complete cobblers.

According to the birthday paradox, in a group of 23 randomly chosen people, the probability is more than 50% that some pair of them will have the same birthday. The likelihood of this increases if the group is meeting at a twins convention.

Sports stars to have worn the number 23 shirt include David Beckham, Michael Jordan and Shane Warne.

Julius Caesar was stabbed 23 times.

Ow.

 

Saturday, 04/06/2011
11:25am
T4: New Look Style the Nation
T4 launches a brand new fashion series. Nick Grimshaw begins his search on the streets of London for the most fashion-hungry budding stylist the UK has to offer. From Nick's selection the style-conscious wannabes are given £300 and 48 hours with a mentor to prepare three fantastic outfits for a live strut down the catwalk on the show. The ultimate prize is a dream job as a stylist for Britain's biggest fashion retailer, New Look.

 

Sunday, 05/06/2011
9pm
Role Models
(2008) David Wain's comedy stars Paul Rudd and Seann William Scott as a pair of irresponsible salesmen who find themselves acting as very unlikely role models for two wayward kids. Network Premiere.

 

Monday, 06/06/2011
8pm
America's Secret Killers: Dispatches
The strike that killed Osama bin Laden provided a glimpse of the vast and often secret campaign by US special forces and troops to kill thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters. They call it 'precision targeting'; their critics say it's assassination. A six-month investigation by Dispatches has gone inside the US 'kill/capture' programme to discover new evidence of the strategy's impact, and its costs.

 

Monday, 06/06/2011
8pm
Embarrassing Fat Bodies 1/4
Drs Christian, Dawn and Pixie welcome the dangerously obese into their clinic and help with the embarrassing problems caused by their weight. In the first episode the doctors see some jaw-dropping sights, including Glenn, whose stomach oedema touches the floor, and successful slimmer Julia, whose new slim frame is draped in excess skin.

 

Tuesday, 07/09/2011
9pm
The Fairy Jobmother 1/4
Fairy Jobmother Hayley Taylor is back, helping to get Britain's unemployed back to work. The government are bringing in tough new measures to make sure all those who can work do work. But how easy is it to take people who've become reliant on benefits, and prepare them for the world of work? Hayley visits four unemployment hotspots across the UK to help groups of unemployed locals get off benefits and into employment. In this first episode Hayley visits Bootle, Merseyside. With more than a quarter of its 64,000 work-age residents claiming out-of-work benefits, Bootle has one of the highest rates of unemployment in the country.

 

Wednesday, 08/06/2011
9pm
24 Hours in A&E 5/14
Each programme in this series, filmed in one of Britain's busiest A&E departments at King's College, London, focuses on the dramatic stories of patients treated within the same 24-hour period. This episode reveals what can happen when something goes wrong with the brain, most commonly as a result of a stroke. King's is a specialist Stroke Centre, treating on average three cases a day, and doctors know time is of the essence. 'It's terrifying', says stroke specialist Dr Kumar. 'It's like a heart attack. It's a brain attack.'

 

Thursday, 09/06/2011
8pm
Help! My House is Falling Down 1/10
Sarah Beeny is back with a new series helping homeowners in distress. In Narborough she meets Jamie and Charlotte, who fear their house is sinking. They recently discovered an alarming slope in the first floor of their Edwardian home and are terrified the property could be tilting to the point of collapse. Meanwhile, the roof is leaking and black mould is growing on the walls.

 

Thursday, 09/06/2011
9pm
Born to Be Different 1/3
For the last decade, Channel 4 has been following the lives of six children, each born with a disability. Now in its fifth series, Born to Be Different returns with three films, documenting the children's lives over the last two years, as they turn nine and 10. Some are searching for the independence that will allow them ultimately to live apart from their parents. Others are facing major choices to undertake major surgery that could change their lives. Others are fighting just to stay alive.

 

Thursday, 09/06/2011
10pm
Dermot's Big Fat Comedy Gala 2011
Dermot O'Leary goes behind the scenes of this year's Channel 4 Comedy Gala in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital, sharing dressing rooms, lunch and gossip with Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Sarah Millican, Alan Carr, Jonathan Ross and more. The Gala is on Channel 4 tomorrow night.

 

Friday, 10/06/2011
9pm
Channel 4's Comedy Gala
The UK's biggest stand-up show is back for a second year. Channel 4's Comedy Gala, in aid of Great Ormond St Hospital, returns with a two-and-a-half-hour special, with an all-star line-up including: Alan Carr, Andi Osho, Chris Moyles, Dara O'Briain, Jack Dee, Jack Whitehall, Jo Brand, John Bishop, Jon Richardson, Jonathan Ross, Kevin Bridges, Lee Evans, Mark Watson, Michael McIntyre, Micky Flanagan, Rhod Gilbert, Rich Hall, Sarah Millican, Sean Lock and Shappi Khorsandi.

 

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