Week 44 Highlights

19 October 2011

Top Boy

 

 

This week's number-facts come from someone on the internet with a beard.

44 is a powerful number. Know why? Because the 4 vibrates with paying attention to detail and building a solid foundation for the future.

In 44, that effect is doubled.

Plus, the two numbers (4 and 4), adding up to 8, have an umbrella vibration of effective management, controlling group dynamics, building large structures (buildings, bridges, organizations), and financial control.

I think we can all agree that there is much food for thought there. Here are the powerfully vibrating programmes on Channel 4 for week 44.

 

 

Saturday 29/10/2011
9:45pm
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
(2009) A romantic comedy from director Mark Waters, who also made Freaky Friday and Mean Girls starring Matthew McConaughey, Michael Douglas, Emma Stone and Jennifer Garner. Network Premiere.

 

Sunday, 30/10/2011
10pm
Alan Carr: Chatty Man 1/7
Funnyman Alan Carr returns with the seventh series of his award-winning chat show.In the first show, Alan is joined by singer Nicole Scherzinger who talks about her latest single, Try with Me. Brit actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost get talk about their roles in the Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson movie: The Adventures of Tintin, and former X Factor 2010 winner Matt Cardle performs a track from his new album, Letters.

 

Monday, 31/10/2011
9pm
Attack of the Trip Advisors: Cutting Edge
Trip Advisor is the largest and most powerful travel guide in the world. But is it a force for good that gives the customer a voice, or an abuse of power that undermines businesses and ruins lives? This Cutting Edge film reveals Britain's most meticulous Trip Advisors and meets some of the hoteliers and restaurateurs at war with the site.

 

Monday, 31/10/2011
10pm
Top Boy 1/4
Featuring an ensemble cast of brilliant new talent, Top Boy is Ronan Bennett's new four-part drama about young people living on the edge in east London today. Thrilling, raw, frightening, sad, hopeful and surprisingly funny by turn, this original drama, showing over four consecutive nights, is an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city life.

 

 

Tuesday 01/11/2011
8pm
The Food Hospital
In a pioneering new specialist factual series, Channel 4 examines the science behind using food as medicine. In experiments conducted with strict scientific rigour, patients suffering from a range of medical conditions and symptoms are invited to attend The Food Hospital, where they are prescribed specific food treatment programmes to find out if their health problems can be alleviated or cured by the food they eat.

 

Wednesday 02/11/2011
8pm
Kirstie's Handmade Britain 3/8
Kirstie Allsopp must master some complex needlework skills as she prepares to enter a cushion of her own design into the needlecraft competition at the Great Yorkshire Show.

 

Wednesday 02/11/2011
11:05pm
Steve Jobs: The Man Who Changed the World
Almost a month has passed since the death of the founder of the Apple computer empire, Steve Jobs. This one-hour special tells the story of the extraordinary life of one of America's most successful innovators and entrepreneurs.

 

Thursday, 03/11/2011
9pm
Educating Essex 7/7
In the final programme of the series, as leaver's day, exams and the all-important prom approach, the school tries to prepare two very different students for the future, while headteacher Vic Goddard finds it hard to sleep in the run-up to results day.

 

Friday, 04/11/2011
6pm
The Simpsons: He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs
The 19th series of The Simpsons comes to Channel 4. Mr Burns rewards Homer with dinner and a flight on his corporate jet, after Homer saves him from drowning. Homer is so impressed by the luxury of the plane that he vows only to fly private jets from now on.

 

Friday, 04/11/2011
7:30pm
Unreported World 5/10: Russia: Vlad's Army
Reporter Peter Oborne and director James Jones reveal the huge personality cult around Vladimir Putin as they follow the extraordinary actions of the mass youth movement dedicated to protecting the interests of the Prime Minister and Russia.

 

Friday, 04/11/2011
11:10pm
Stand Up for the Week 1/6
Topical stand-up show Stand Up for the Week returns for a third series with six brand-new episodes and a new line-up, as Jon Richardson hosts and Rich Hall is joined by team newcomers Seann Walsh, Josh Widdicombe, Sara Pascoe and Paul Chowdhry.

 

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