Week 30 4oD Highlights

13 July 2012

Look at what we have for you in the week beginning Saturday 21 July. Yes, that's right. Our weeks start two days earlier because we are special.

 

Myths About Your 5 A Day: Channel 4 Dispatches

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

Dispatches investigates what's happened to the five-a-day campaign, which was designed to get us all eating more fruit and veg. Reporter Jane Moore reveals how this vital health message has been hijacked as a marketing tactic, and how the food industry uses the campaign to promote sugary, fatty, salty products like ready meals, soups and drinks. She also looks at confusion over what actually counts as a five-a-day portion and investigates whether the government is effectively regulating what the food industry tells us about the scheme.

 

Suburgatory

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/suburgatory/4od

(Will be available after broadcast)

US comedy about an anxious father who takes his teenage daughter from the mean streets of New York City to the clean streets of suburbia in the mistaken belief that this will protect her from undesirable influences.

 

Shrink Rap

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/shrink-rap/4od

Shrink Rap is an antidote to the conventional chat show, presented by psychologist Dr Pamela Connolly - also known as actress and writer Pamela Stephenson.

 

Fresh Meat

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/fresh-meat/4od

Comedy drama series from the creators of Peep Show about the hilarious, and often painful, truths of being a student.

 

The Midnight Beast

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-midnight-beast/4od

Sitcom featuring band and online comedy phenomenon The Midnight Beast as wannabe musicians struggling to make it.

 

The IT Crowd

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-it-crowd/4od

Award-winning comedy from writer Graham Linehan. Banished from the ivory towers of Reynholm Industries, the IT crowd lurk below ground, avoiding work and social contact in equal measure...

 

Revenge

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/revenge/4od

US drama with Emily VanCamp playing Emily Thorne, who has arrived in the affluent Hamptons under an assumed identity to gain revenge on those responsible for wrecking her childhood.