Week 28 highlights

29 June 2011

The curing time of concrete is 28 days.

There are 28 dominoes in a set.

The surface of the sun revolves once every 28 days (its core revolves once every 33 days).

28 is a mathematically significant number. One of the following sequence is made-up, the others are all true: 28 is a composite number, a perfect number, a Granville number, a Keith number, a Stormer number, a happy number, a harmonic divisor number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number, a centred nonagonal number, and a Mr Blobby's hairy beetroot blancmange number*.

Here are the programmes with which Channel 4 has chosen to delight you in week 28.

 

Saturday, 09/07/2011
7:15pm
The Simpsons Movie
America's favourite family make their debut on the big screen in David Silverman's comedy. When Homer rescues a pig from certain death, little does he realise the full consequences of his action: Springfield will be isolated from the world by a gargantuan glass dome.

 

 Sunday, 10/07/2011
8pm
Marley & Me
David Frankel's light comedy drama stars Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston as a pair of married journalists who welcome a truly unruly dog into their lives. Also starring Eric Dane, Alan Arkin and Kathleen Turner. Network Premiere.

 

Monday, 11/07/2011
5pm
Quiz Trippers
A team of avid quizzers, a small mobile home, and one big challenge - these are the ingredients of Channel 4's brand new daytime show, Quiz Trippers, which follows five keen pub quizzers as they spend a week travelling round the country in a campervan to take part in a different local pub quiz every night. But there's a twist: only one member of the team will walk away with the prize money at the end of the week.

 

Monday, 11/07/2011
8pm
Murder on Honeymoon: Dispatches
What happened to Anni Dewani while on honeymoon in South Africa in November 2010? Why did the life of this young woman, married only a few weeks earlier to Bristol businessman Shrien Dewani, come to such a brutal end in one of South Africa's roughest townships? Dispatches investigates the events surrounding her death.

 

Monday, 11/07/2011
11:10pm
Coming Up: Rough Skin
Coming Up 2011 showcases seven new dramas from some of the UK's most exciting emerging film makers. After nine months in prison Kelly (Vicky McClure ) struggles to adjust to life outside.

 

Wednesday 13/07/2011
8pm
Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance 2/8
Jo meets 9-year-old Max, who hasn't eaten a hot meal in his life, existing on a diet of custard creams, and Trenyce, who is bullied at school and makes her family pay for it at home.

 

Thursday, 14/07/2011
9pm
The Killing: El Diablo
The thriller continues.Detectives Sarah and Holder track down a potential witness to Rosie's murder and are led to a new suspect. They also come across the possible crime scene in the storage cage of the school basement.

 

Friday, 15/07/2011
7:30pm
Double Lesson
Double Lesson is the first programme in the new run of First Cut, the critically acclaimed, eclectic documentary strand that showcases distinctive new films by up and coming directors. Double Lesson follows the fictional story (based on accounts of real cases) of David De Gale, a secondary school teacher nearing the end of his career who, one Monday afternoon, attacks a pupil in his class.

 

Friday, 15/07/2011
10:30pm
Chris Moyles' Quiz Night 1/8
Chris Moyles returns with a new series of TV's most raucous celebrity quiz show. This episode's celebrity guests are Stephen Fry and David Hasselhoff.

 

 

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*Did you spot the fake? Yep, whoever heard of a triangular number?