Week 45 Highlights

25 October 2011

My Transsexual Summer

 

In the song ‘Brimful of Asha', there are repeated references to the number 45.

The 45 refers to old 45 records.

For the younger readers, 45 records were so called because they were played at 45 rpm.

(Though they sounded well funny if you played them at 33 rpm.)

Rpm refers to the number of revolutions per minute of the record.

A record was something played on a record player.

A record player was like a CD player, only older.

CDs were what people used before mp3 players.

Mp3 players were what people used before iPods.

Man, I feel OLD.

Here are week 45's highlights on Channel 4.

 

Saturday 05/11/2011
9pm
Max Payne
(2008) Mark Wahlberg stars as a cop with vengeance on his mind in the network premiere of John Moore's video game-based CGI noir. When the eponymous NYPD detective's (Wahlberg) life is torn apart by the brutal murder of his wife and child, he sets out to track down those responsible and wreak bloody revenge...

 

Sunday, 06/11/2011
5:35pm
17 Again
(2009) Burr Steers' teen body-swap comedy stars Zac Efron and Matthew Perry in the dual lead role. In 1989, high school student Mike O'Donnell's hopes of a great basketball career were put on hold when his girlfriend Scarlett fell pregnant and he did the right thing by her. Now, the adult O'Donnell (Perry) is down on his luck: he's lost his job, separated from Scarlett (Leslie Mann), lost his kids' love, and ends up moving in with his best friend. On a nostalgic trip back to his old school O'Donnell tells a mysterious caretaker he wishes he could have a second chance at his life... Network premiere.

 

Monday, 07/10/2011
11am
The Renovation Game
Jonnie Irwin and Simon O'Brien present the new property series in which a crack team of up-and-coming builders and designers put their own fees on the line if they fail to raise a property's value. In each episode the experts have three days and £3000 to revamp a property and add to its value by £15,000. If they fail, they don't get paid.

 

Monday, 07/10/2011
12pm
Drop Down Menu
Matt Tebbutt and Gizzi Erskine present Drop Down Menu, the exciting and entertaining new daytime cooking show featuring some of the country's most talented chefs and its best-loved celebrities. What makes this food show unique is that the studio audience gets to decide what's cooked: each time there's a dish to be made, the giant 'drop down menu' offers the audience three options to choose from, and it's their vote which dictates what happens next.

 

Monday, 07/10/2011
9pm
Hippo: Nature's Wild Feast
A new high-tech natural history event, Hippo: Nature's Wild Feast presents the most comprehensive illustration to date of nature's food chain in action. The programme, anchored live from Zambia's Luangwa Valley, will show the events of the past fortnight (which have been streamed live on channel4.com) as an entire ecological system including predators, scavengers, birds and insects consumed the enormous carcass of an adult hippo.

 

Monday, 07/10/2011
10:30pm
Britain's Sex Gangs
Later this month the Minister for Children and Families will launch an action plan outlining what the coalition proposes to do to tackle the problem of sex gangs grooming then abusing vulnerable children and young adults on the streets of Britain. Recent research suggests that thousands of children are potentially being exploited by street grooming gangs. Journalist Tazeen Ahmad investigates street grooming and hears from community leaders who say enough is enough and demand action on the issue.

 

Tuesday 08/11/2011
10pm
My Transsexual Summer 1/4
Channel 4 follows seven transgender men and women as they come together to share their intimate and ongoing experiences of changing gender, in a new four-part series. These seven bright, funny and articulate individuals give uniquely personal insights into what it's like to change gender in Britain in 2011. For five weekends over the summer, this group come to a retreat where they can support each other, understand each other, and guide one another through the next critical stages of their journey to becoming the men and women they have always wanted to be.

 

Wednesday 09/11/2011
10pm
Fresh Meat 7/8
The series continues. Mrs Professor Shales gets suspicious and assumes her husband is having an affair - but with Vod, not Oregon. Meanwhile, Josie's fiancé Dave is moving into the house by stealth, much to Kingsley's chagrin.

 

Thursday, 10/11/2011
9pm
Time Team Special
London's East End was once home to the most advanced shipbuilding industry - and best workers and shipyards - in the world. A hundred and fifty years ago, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was about to launch a ship five times bigger than any that had ever been built before, the most revolutionary vessel the world had ever seen: the SS Great Eastern. But the launch was a disaster. Brunel went from hero to laughing stock overnight as his leviathan stuck on the slipway. Today archaeologists are scouring the banks of the Thames to discover why launching such a big vessel proved a complete disaster. Tony Robinson joins them in their quest to solve the puzzle.

 

Friday, 11/11/2011
7:30pm
Unreported World 6/10: Going for Gold in Gaza
Reporter Aidan Hartley and director Richard Cookson travel to Gaza to meet members of the Palestinian Paralympic team hoping to qualify for London 2012. They find athletes struggling to train in the conflict zone. In a territory where those who die fighting the Israelis are considered the true heroes, the Paralympic team goes completely unrecognised by its own people.

 

Friday, 11/11/2011
9pm
Derren Brown: The Secret of Luck
Derren investigates how quickly a rumour can spread and what can be done to convince an entire community that it is 'lucky'. This episode takes the form of a documentary fronted by Dawn Porter, who acts as Derren's secret agent, starting a rumour in a small community. Can they pull it off?

 

 

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