Week 26 highlights 2012

13 June 2012

Gordon Behind Bars

Here are the most astoundingly funkadelic programmes on Channel 4 for the week from 23rd - 29th June.

 

Saturday 23/06/2012
10pm
The Million Pound Drop Live 4/10
The Million Pound Drop Live continues. With Davina McCall at the helm, new pairs of players will be taking on the Drop in an attempt to win big. And, once again, there will be some celebrity duos playing live in the hope of bagging some serious cash for their chosen charities. Viewers at home can also play with a virtual million pounds.

 

Sunday, 24/06/2012
9pm
Lifers
Every year in Britain, more than 600 people commit murder. The majority of these killers will eventually be sent to Gartree Prison in Leicestershire, which is home to Europe's largest population of life-sentenced prisoners. This Cutting Edge documentary, filmed over six months at HMP Gartree, provides an unprecedented insight into the lives of convicted killers facing a lifetime behind bars.

 

Sunday, 24/06/2012
10pm
Attack the Block
Network Premiere of Joe Cornish's Film4-funded directorial debut, a much-praised sci-fi horror-comedy in which extra-terrestrials invade the wrong part of London.

 

Monday, 25/06/2012
11am
You Deserve This House
Amanda Lamb returns for a new run of the surprise makeover series. In the first episode Amanda surprises Allen Lewis in Devon, who has spent ten years running a football club for children with special needs while raising over £150,000 for charity.

 

Monday, 25/06/2012
8pm
Undercover Undertaker: Channel 4 Dispatches
Channel 4 Dispatches lifts the lid on the funeral industry. Using undercover filming, Jackie Long investigates what really happens to our loved ones when they die.

 

Tuesday 26/06/2012
9pm
Gordon Behind Bars 1/4
Gordon Ramsay thinks it's time Britain's prisoners paid their way. There are 88,000 prisoners in the UK and it costs the taxpayer £38,000 to keep each of them locked up for a year. Gordon's given himself six months to set up a successful food business behind bars. His aim: to get prisoners cooking food on the inside, to sell on the outside. First Gordon needs to pick 12 men for his Bad Boys Brigade business, but none of them can even scramble an egg.

 

Wednesday 27/06/2012
10pm
A Short History of Everything Else 3/4
Comedian Griff Rhys Jones hosts the comedy panel show using archive TV clips to challenge players to give A Short History of Everything Else. Each week Griff is joined by the two regular team captains, Marcus Brigstocke and Charlie Baker who, along with this week's guests Robin Ince and Andi Osho, try to prove that they remember more about 'everything else' - including the first McDonald's in Russia - than the other team, adding their own irreverent interpretations along the way.

 

Thursday, 28/06/2012
9pm
The House the 50s Built 4/4
The final episode of the series steps outside the house to reveal how the inventions and innovations of the 50s improved our leisure time, from affordable foreign travel to instant coffee.

 

Friday, 29/06/2012
8pm
Come Dine with Me
In a week of surprises that include wetsuits and Willy Wonka outfits, David Hasselhoff mega-fan and solar panel engineer Julian Haddock kicks off the West Yorkshire competition with a German theme that includes beer soup and a techno rave in the shed. His guests are student Henry Trevelyan Thomas, who considers himself 'Devon's most eligible bachelor' and online sweet shop owner Jilly Graham, who shocks Zumba instructor Rachel Keighley with her love of toilet humour and wild behaviour.