Week 40 highlights 2012

19 September 2012

Hotel GB (er, in case you hadn't worked that out from the picture...)

 

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3. Write about our wicked telly programmes.

 

Saturday 29/09/2012
8pm
The Comedy World Cup 3/7
Hosted by David Tennant, and featuring the pick of Britain's finest comedy talent, Comedy World Cup is a new panel show in which Tennant referees two teams of comedians as they compete against each other in a hilarious knockout competition. In each episode the teams, whose careers and comedy know-how span a total of 100 years, pit their wits against each other in a series of rounds. In episode three, captain Johnny Vegas and team mates Josh Widdicombe and Mick Miller take on Phill Jupitus, who is joined by Roisin Conaty and Barry Cryer.

 

Sunday, 30/09/2012
8pm
Kevin McCloud's Man Made Home
Kevin McCloud has always had a dream - to build himself a cabin in the woods. He's decided that everything for the cabin has to be made by hand from his woodland, and if it not, then it has to be constructed from somebody else's rubbish. Together with a hardy band of friends and experts, Kevin is going to reuse, repurpose and recycle almost all his building materials for his bold building in rural Somerset. In the second episode, Kevin's next major task is to make the cabin both habitable and magnificent. Kevin needs a solid, durable floor, a window to let in natural light, and most important of all; a fire for heat.

 

Sunday, 30/09/2012
9pm
Big Fat Quiz of the 00s: 3/3
Jimmy Carr hosts the third and final of the special editions series. Why did the US briefly rename French Fries? How did the Crazy Frog cause controversy? And what on earth was Touch the Truck? Join guests Alan Carr, Kevin Bridges, David Mitchell, Sarah Millican, Richard Ayoade and Noel Fielding, with special guest appearances from Duncan Bannatyne, Greg Wallace, McFly and Peter Andre, as they give the noughties the Big Fat Quiz treatment.

 

Monday, 01/10/2012
8pm
Cruises Undercover: The Truth Below Deck: C4 Dispatches
Almost two million Brits took a cruise last year. For many, it's the holiday of a lifetime with hard-earned savings going in to a dream adventure. Channel 4 Dispatches goes undercover to investigate the reality of life below deck for the multi-national workforce who toil behind the scenes of glamorous ocean going holidays. Dispatches reporter Tazeen Ahmad - travelling as a passenger on a European cruise, alongside an undercover reporter working as an assistant waiter - discover working conditions below the legal minimum in the UK.

 

Monday, 01/10/2012
9pm
Hotel GB 1/5
If Channel 4 had a hotel.... Gordon Ramsay would run the restaurant and Mary Portas would take charge of the rooms. Gok Wan would run the bar and events, Phil Spencer would be Maitre D', and Dr Christian Jessen would head-up the gym. Kim Woodburn would take on housekeeping, Kirstie Allsopp would be concierge and Katie Piper would run the spa. And Hilary Devey might even pop in for a surprise appearance... Welcome to Hotel GB. For one week only, and airing across five nights, many of Channel 4's stars take over a hotel and staff it with unemployed people desperate for a break, in an attempt to show that hard work and a great attitude are the best way to get on. The challenge is to ensure the hotel makes as much money for employment charities as possible, and to get the trainees into full-time employment by the end of the week... Continues tomorrow, and throughout the week.

 

Tuesday 02/10/2012
8pm
Double Your House for Half the Money
In Surrey, Stuart Allan, his wife Fiona and their two daughters are desperate for more space. They have saved for nine years to turn their ugly duckling of a house into a New England-style dream home. In Liverpool, Vicky Holmstock has an untouched Grade II listed windmill that she dreams of turning into a luxury designer home. Vicky has submitted five planning applications, worked her way through four architects and still hasn't got her permission finalised. Can Sarah turn around the fortunes of both build projects and save them money on the way?

 

Wednesday 03/10/2012
8pm
The Food Hospital 3/6
The Food Hospital experts look at how monitoring our urine can reveal a lot about what is going on inside our bodies. Dr Pixie McKenna meets Dr Lynne Howells from Leicester University to look into claims that a spice used in our favourite curries - turmeric - may become an important weapon in the fight against bowel cancer. Visitors to The Food Hospital include Adam, a student suffering from very bad acne; Charlene, a healthcare worker who has an addiction to cola; and Ellie, who hasn't had a good night's sleep in nearly 30 years.

 

Thursday, 04/10/2012
8pm
Location, Location, Location 4/5
Kirstie and Phil's property finding continues as they search the Tees Valley, in the north east, for first-time parents Nicola Moore and Tony Curry, who are desperate to find their first home, and new buyers jewellery designer Emily Lathan and her graphic designer boyfriend Dani Jones.

 

Friday, 05/10/2012
8pm
Baggage 3/8
Gok Wan hosts this new dating game show with a difference, where daters must choose from three contestants who gradually reveal the hidden secrets and crazy flaws that they'd normally keep firmly under wraps on a first date. In the third show, Hayley has her pick of three handsome guys, Rory, Danny and Harry - one admits he can't use a microwave and another plays Quidditch for England. Whoever she picks, will they be able to work out what's inside her big red bag? And when it's Harry's turn to pick from three sexy ladies, he's faced with revelations of nose picking and worse.

 

Friday, 05/10/2012
9pm
Hotel GB 5/5
If Channel 4 had a hotel.... Gordon Ramsay would run the restaurant and Mary Portas would take charge of the rooms. Gok Wan would run the bar and events, Phil Spencer would be Maitre D', and Dr Christian Jessen would head-up the gym. Kim Woodburn would take on housekeeping, Kirstie Allsopp would be concierge and Katie Piper would run the spa. And Hilary Devey might even pop in for a surprise appearance... Welcome to an extended episode in the last of this week's Hotel GB!