Week 46 Highlights

Category: News Release

Ah, 46. A great number. Significant as well. It's the atomic number of  palladium and the number of human chromosomes. It is also the international dialling code for Sweden. Charlie Sheen, Calista Flockhart and Steve Coogan are 46. It's also the number of my Nan's house.

 

Saturday 12/11/2011

21:00 TWILIGHT

(2008) To launch a triple bill of vampire movies on Channel 4 tonight, Kristen Stewart stars in Catherine Hardwicke's adaptation of Stephenie Meyer's best-selling series of romantic fantasy novels about a teenage girl who falls in love with a vampire. With Robert Pattinson. Network Premiere.

 

Sunday 13/11/2011

23:05 TEENAGE VAMPIRES

Vampires are being resurrected across popular culture from Twilight to True Blood, spawning a new phenomenon of bloodthirsty real-life teen vampires. The internet is helping to bring together those with an interest in the occult, some of whom are forming vampire cults. Filming with a 'pack' of teens from San Antonio, Texas, this documentary follows the 'vampires' in their daily lives.

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Monday, 14/11/2011

21:00 CONFESSIONS OF AN UNDERCOVER COP

With exclusive access to Mark Kennedy, Britain's most controversial undercover police officer, this gripping and revelatory documentary tells the definitive inside story of how Mark Kennedy went from being a regular south London police officer with a wife and two children to becoming Mark Stone, who for eight years lived a remarkable double life as an undercover cop and dedicated activist.

 

23:05 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, who are undertaking some of the most profound changes any human being can go through, give uniquely personal insights into what it's like to change gender in Britain in 2011.

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Tuesday, 15/11/2011

20:00 THE FOOD HOSPITAL 3/8

In the third instalment the Food Hospital experts employ cutting-edge research as they treat a 19-year-old dancer with Crohn's Disease, an ex-soldier with a sleep disorder, and a man whose sperm needs a boost if he's to father the child he wants so much.
Press Contact: Cecile Quinney, 020 7306 1095

 

Wednesday, 16/11/2011

22:00 FRESH MEAT 8/8

In the final episode, Josie embarks on a 'girl power' booze and sex fest, aided and abetted by Vod, who believes her uni days are well and truly over.
Press Contact, Julie Pickford, 020 7306 3648

 

Thursday, 17/11/2011

21:00 THE QUEEN'S HIDDEN COUSINS

The sad but true story of Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, nieces to the Queen Mother and first cousins to the Queen; two girls who were born with learning difficulties and, as a result, spent most of their lives in an institution, hidden away from the public gaze at a time when attitudes towards the learning disabled were very different to now.

 

Friday, 18/11/2011

19:30 UNREPORTED WORLD 7/10: India's Child Savers

Reporter Evan Williams and Director James Brabazon journey to the dark side of India's booming economy, where they that find thousands of children are being kidnapped into domestic slavery for the growing middle class and businesses; and the growth of a deadly new terror: children being kidnapped for ransom by those desperate to share some of the country's new wealth.