Week 27 Highlights

22 June 2011

27 is the perfect cube - 3x3x3.

The 27 club is the name for the group of musicians who died aged 27, including Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Brian Jones, Jim Morrison, Richey Edwards (presumed), and Kurt Cobain.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres in circumference. 

The most expensive private residence in the world is a 27-floor skyscraper in Mumbai belonging to businessman Mukesh Ambani. It is worth an estimated $1 billion, is run by 600 full-time staff, has three helipads and an air-traffic control facility.

But, you have to ask, can he get Channel 4 there? And if not, is it really worth it? Look, for example, at all the goodies Mr Ambani will be missing out on in week 27. Does 600 domestic staff and your own in-house airport make up for missing Undercover Boss and The Killing? well, yes, probably, but only just...

 

Saturday, 02/07/2011
1:20pm
The TV Book Club 1/8
This first episode in the new series of The TV Book Club reviews The Lantern, Deborah Lawrenson's tale of romance and mystery, set in a crumbling house in Provence. The guest in this episode is Bettany Hughes. New to this run are exclusive profile interviews with of some the world's biggest authors. The next new episode is on More4 tomorrow.

 

 

Sunday, 03/07/2011
7:20pm
Transformers
(2007) Michael Bay's all-action adventure, based on the popular toy. Earth becomes the battleground between the good Transformers (Autobots) and the bad (Decepticons), who are searching for the all-powerful Allspark, which could destroy humanity. Caught up in the middle is Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), whose beaten-up old car turns out to be an Autobot called Bumblebee (voiced by Mark Ryan). The duo hold the key to the battle which rages between the Decepticons and the government forces, led by Sgt Lennox (John Duhamel), but can they stop the evil Megatron (Hugo Weaving)?

 

Monday, 04/07/2011
8pm
Landlords from Hell: Dispatches
In this undercover investigation, Jon Snow reports on the return of the slum landlord in 21st-century Britain. At a time when more people than ever are having to rent privately, unable to get on the property ladder, Dispatches reveals the shocking conditions in which tenants are forced to live. Dispatches sends an undercover reporter to work for a rogue property empire in the north of England. He reveals a world of forced evictions, slum properties in dangerous condition, and routine bullying of tenants. Jon confronts the man raking in millions while his tenants suffer. Dispatches also exposes an extraordinary new phenomenon: thousands of people living in illegal sheds, transforming parts of London into slums.

 

Monday, 04/07/2011
9pm
Embarrassing Bodies: Teen Special 1/4: Bother Down Below
The journey from childhood to adulthood is littered with embarrassing changes, from development dilemmas to badly behaving bodies. In this series the nation's favourite doctors hit the road to help tackle the ailments that torment teens in all their embarrassing forms. The Embarrassing Bodies truck parks up at Sheffield Hallam University for Freshers' Fair as doctors Christian, Pixie and Dawn unzip some downstairs dilemmas.

 

Tuesday, 05/07/2011
9pm
Undercover Boss 1/6
Undercover Boss returns for a new series as six more business bosses surreptitiously join their own work force in an undercover mission to examine the inner workings of their company. The series kicks off with an undercover look at adult retailer Ann Summers.

 

 

Wednesday 06/07/2011
8pm
Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance
Jo Frost, Channel 4's parenting champion, returns for a second series ready to deal with badly behaved kids and assist their desperate parents. Six-year-old Jack has his mum bruised, battered and defeated by the battle he wages at bedtime, and he's not afraid to take a swing a Jo. This series Jo shares her no-nonsense advice with more parents than ever before through her first ever roadshow. She's ready to tackle all the most persistent parenting problems: this time she deals with sore losers, fears and phobias, and how to handle attention-seeking behaviour. And Jo takes a look at what she believes the single most important cause of parenting problems: families not spending enough time together.

 

Thursday, 07/07/2011
9pm
The Killing: Pilot/The Cage Premiere
The US version of The Killing makes its UK premiere on Channel 4. The show is based on the wildly successful Danish television series Forbrydelsen, and centres around the murder of a young girl in Seattle and the subsequent police investigation. The series ties together three distinct stories around the murder and as it unfolds, it becomes clear that there are no accidents; everyone has a secret, and while the characters think they've moved on, their past isn't done with them. In the feature-length version of the first two episodes, Detective Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) is about to start a new life in California with her son. But on her last day of work, she and her colleague Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) are drawn into a new case about the disappearance of 17-year-old Rosie Larsen.

 

Friday, 08/07/2011
11:05pm
Big Bang Theory: The Love Car Displacement
The Big Bang Theory returns for the second half of series four, starting with a double bill. In The Love Car Displacement, tensions run high when Bernadette runs into her hulk of an ex-boyfriend at a science conference. Then, in The Thespian Catalyst, Sheldon agrees to take part in a short lecture series at the university but is unnerved by the students' apparent dislike of him.

 

 

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