Week 4 highlights

11 January 2012

New Girl

Here are the best programmes on Channel 4 for week 4, Saturday 21st - Friday 27th January.

If your birthday falls between those dates, you will win a part in Hollyoaks this year, only to have to pull out at the last minute due to being too old and ugly.

You will also be tempted to write very nice words, all in a row, about what makes Channel 4 the best broadcaster in the world. Give in to temptation. If you don't, you will suffer an agonising hernia in your toe.

Fate sees romance waiting for you in Dictionary Corner on Thursday's Countdown.

 

Saturday 21/01/2012
6:05pm
Fame
(2009) Kay Panabaker and Asher Book star in this update of Alan Parker's 1980 musical about a group of young showbiz wannabes desperate to see their names up in lights. Network Premiere.

 

Sunday, 22/01/2012
6pm
Time Team 1/11
Tony Robinson and his team of archaeologists return for another new series. In this first episode they visit a tiny windswept island off the west coast of Wales.

 

Sunday, 22/01/2012
9pm
127 Hours
(2011) Danny Boyle's part Film4-funded fact-based drama stars James Franco as a mountain climber who gets himself into a desperate predicament when his arm gets stuck under a rock while out hiking alone in the wilderness.Will he be able to summon the sheer grit and force of will needed to commit the act that could give him a slim chance of survival? Network Premiere

 

Monday, 23/01/2012
11am
Secret Location
Brand new daytime property series that takes location out of the equation, and whisks house hunters off to areas they would never normally consider. Property expert Sunita Shroff transports house hunters to viewings in a blacked-out car, leaving them entirely in the dark as to the location of the properties, and ensuring they judge each house on its merits rather than its postcode.

 

Monday, 23/01/2012
10pm
Party Paramedics 1/3
Each weekend, across the UK, a culture of binge drinking is in full swing. In the battle to deal with over a million drink-related casualties a year, mobile medical units, known as 'Booze Buses', bid to ease the pressure on overstretched hospitals. Filmed over a summer in one of Britain's hardest drinking towns - Colchester, Essex - this documentary tells the story of one SOS Bus, its volunteer paramedics, and the patients they treat.

 

Tuesday 24/01/2012
9pm
15 Kids and Counting 2/3
This series explores the lives of some of the UK's biggest families. The second film meets two big families with serious sibling rivalry, including the Lewis family from Bournemouth, who have 12 daughters and one son.

 

Wednesday 25/01/2012
8pm
How to Cook Like Heston 4/6
In this edition Heston challenges the way we cook chicken; the most popular meat in the world, but an old bird he believes is in need of a makeover.

 

Wednesday 25/01/2012
8:30pm
The Fabulous Baker Brothers 4/6
This time the brothers focus on slow food, like slow-cooked pulled pork and a sourdough loaf.

 

Thursday, 26/01/2012
9pm
Restoration Man 4/6
School bursar Tim and teacher Emma Verdon bought a derelict Victorian brickworks in the heart of rural Oxfordshire planning to convert it into a comfortable home for themselves and their young children. Nestling in six acres, the unlisted Engine House is nothing more than four walls and no roof. Meanwhile George Clarke uncovers some disturbing history about their brickworks.

 

Friday, 27/01/2012
8:30pm
New Girl: Naked
Nick sets up a date with his sarcastic colleague Amanda, while Winston becomes obsessed with pop-culture references on Wikipedia.

 

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