Week 29 Highlights

6 July 2011

Anna Richardson, The Sex Education Show (Tuesday)

The lunar month is approximately 29 days.

Saturn takes 29 years to orbit the Sun.

29 is the highest possible score in Cribbage, and also in Scrabble - if you're very bad at Scrabble.

The Turkish and Scandinavian alphabets have 29 letters.

29 is one of the hardest numbers to find anything interesting to say about.

Fortunately, in Channel 4's week 29 highlights, everything is interesting. Look on our works, ye Mighty, and despair!

 

Saturday, 16/07/2011
11:30am
Pop Up Pop Quiz
Kiss DJs Rickie and Melvin present this new comedy pop quiz. In this show, the guys take their inflatable set to London's Southbank and meet Tinchy Stryder and Joey, Sam and Harry from The Only Way Is Essex.

 

Saturday, 16/07/2011
12:20pm
T4: Dirty Sexy Things 2/8
In the second show, BB, Jessye B, Jay and Ariella set out to crack Paris, the hypercompetitive fashion capital, but will any of the models succeed in signing to a top agency? Before leaving Paris, Jay's agent warns him to clean up his act, but can the bisexual party boy resist a wild night out in the French capital? Back in London Lord Rob and his girlfriend Anastasia set up a disastrous blind date for Charlotte and Jessye B, while Perou sets up a spectacular 'Heroes and Villains' shoot selecting four of the models to take part.

 

Saturday, 16/07/2011
9pm
Camelot: The Long Night
The drama continues. Morgan invites the people of Arthur's court to Castle Pendragon for a feast with a view of showing loyalty to her half brother. The party eat and drink heartily, and Arthur and Morgan swear oaths of loyalty to each other. But the peace is disrupted when an attack is made on the castle and the courtyard is set alight.

 

Sunday, 17/07/2011
8pm
Australia
Network premiere. Director Baz Luhrmann (Strictly Ballroom, Moulin Rouge!) offers a western/ war adventure/ romance hybrid that's set in the Australian outback and stars Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman. It is 1939 and Lady Sarah Ashley (Kidman) has travelled halfway round the world to persuade her husband to sell his cattle station and return back home to Blighty. It's soon obvious that she hasn't anticipated the primitive realities of life in northern Australia, nor has her upbringing prepared her for an encounter with the likes of the rough and ready drover (Jackman) who is instructed to chaperone her from Darwin to the ranch.

 

Monday, 18/07/2011
11:05pm
Coming Up: Home
The second drama in the Coming Up 2011 season, showcasing some of the UK's most exciting new film-makers. Homeless couple Tommy (Johnny Harris) and Mary (Lorraine Stanley) search for the enigmatic Howie, a friend from the streets who has seemingly disappeared. As they dig deeper, new, unsettling truths emerge.

 

Tuesday 19/07/2011
8pm
The Sex Education Show 1/6
The Sex Education Show returns for a fifth series. The new run features the results of a massive nationwide sex survey revealing the sexual landscape of Britain: what we're doing, who we're doing it with, and how often. The new series brings parents up to date with what their kids really get up to: including sexting, internet porn and webcams. There are also films about the sexually invisible, from the blind to people with restricted growth. And the series tackles the thorny topic of sexuality and religion. The first show in the new run visits Redbourne School in Bedfordshire where pupils get to see real living STIs frighteningly close-up.

 

Wednesday 20/07/2011
8pm
Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance 3/8
Six-year-old Madison's mum and dad have sought advice from just about everyone to help cope with their daughter's tantrums and see Jo Frost as their last resort. And the roadshow deals with the parenting generation gap with a dad aged 64 and a 26-year-old mum who can't agree on how to parent their children.

 

Thursday, 21/07/2011
11:05pm
John Oliver Live from New York
The British stand-up comedian, and regular correspondent for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in live performance.

 

Friday, 22/07/2011
7:30pm
The Only Gay on the Estate?
First-time director Michael Ogden makes a personal journey back to his roots in Manchester, exploring his past as a closeted gay teenager and meeting up with his childhood best friend, David, a boy he bullied for being gay. Michael lived in a neighbourhood where being gay was far from accepted. To hide who he really was, he led a double life; to the outside world he was a straight, teenage boy playing football with the lads and going out with local girls while secretly lusting over Ryan Giggs posters. Fearing his secret would be exposed, he also decided that his best friend at the time, a camp lad called David, had to go. Sixteen years later Michael has decided to retrace his past. He wants to know what happened to David after he attacked him in the school playground all those years ago.

 

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