Week 5 highlights

18 January 2012

Your name IS down, and you ARE coming in - into an world of televisual delights. This is a picture for Bouncers, by the way...

Here are the best programmes on Channel 4 for week 5, Saturday 28th January - Friday 3rd February.

If your birthday takes place in week 5, you will be asked to take part in Come Dine with Me. Don't. Everyone will think you're an arse, your soufflés will taste of cowpat, and the diners will discover the dirty little secret in your garage.

Destiny wears gold hotpants and has a Noel Edmonds fetish.

 

Saturday 28/01/2012

8:30pm
The Million Pound Drop Live
Davina McCall guides more pairs of contestants as they face the daunting Drop in the hopes of taking home some seriously big money. Contestants are given one million pounds at the top of the show; all they have to do is keep hold of it over eight tricky questions... Players at home can also play along with a virtual million pounds.

 

Sunday, 29/01/2012
8pm
The Hotel 5/8
Grosvenor manager Mark packs the hotel with coach parties paying rock-bottom prices. But without a computer, his 'fail safe' old-school booking system of Tipp-Ex, paper and coloured pens comes a cropper and the hotel is now overbooked. A new coach party arrives at the hotel. Among the passengers are the all-singing, all-dancing Baxingdale family from Wigan, and deaf couple Jimmy and Theresa. But will Mark finally embrace 21st century technology and allow guests to reserve their holiday on the internet?

 

Sunday, 29/01/2012
9pm
The Ghost
Network premiere of Roman Polanski's much lauded adaptation of Robert Harris's political conspiracy thriller. When the corpse of the man ghost-writing the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister (Pierce Brosnan) is found, apparently following an accident, another writer is quickly hired to finish the job. The new man (Ewan McGregor) is dispatched to the ex-PM's swish home in the States, where he now resides. But he uncovers documents, seemingly left by the dead man, which suggest Lang and his wealthy friends hide some very dark secrets...

 

Monday, 30/01/2012
5:30pm
Coach Trip
Coach Trip returns, setting off on a brand new 30 day adventure, this week taking in such locations as Amsterdam and Essen. Brendan eagerly awaits a new set of tourists in Blackheath, London. The group quickly get to know each other over an Essex style makeover including fake tan, vajazzling and fish pedicures. And judgements are promptly formed at vote time after an afternoon on an assault course.

 

Tuesday 31/01/2012
8pm
Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Concordia
A hundred years after the demise of the Titanic, the world has been shaken again, by the capsizing of the Costa Concordia. The 400-million-pound cruise ship, which got off to a bad start when the champagne bottle failed to break on its launch, fell prey to the omens when it sank on Friday 13th January off the Italian coast. Piecing together the evidence, this special one-off film for Channel 4 explores how and why it went down. How did this boat, hailed as a glorious example of modern technology, sink?

 

Wednesday 01/02/2012
10pm
Bouncers
Newport is home to LRS Security, a company that looks after many of the city centre's bars and clubs. This funny, irreverent and often surprising film follows the boys of Newport's biggest security firm over a summer of booze, brawls and brotherhood. Out of their HQ above a café on the High Street, ambitious MD Richie Davis and doughnut-loving operations director Len Harrhym run a team of loyal lads who manage the drunk and often difficult locals every week. The boys give a rare insight into life as bouncers in one of the most distinctive cities in Britain.

 

Thursday, 02/02/2012
10pm
Confessions from the Underground
Over a billion passengers a year. And 19,000 employees. All facing a daily battle with the world's oldest subway system: the London Underground. This one-hour documentary provides a rare glimpse into the depths of the iconic Tube network that passengers don't see, as workers reveal the dilemmas and pressures that they must reconcile to keep this hugely complex and strained system running.

 

Friday, 03/02/2012
8:30pm
New Girl: Cece Crashes
The fresh US comedy starring Zooey Deschanel. Cece convinces Jess that Nick likes her as more than just a roommate, and Schmidt tries to seal the deal with Cece.

 

Friday, 03/02/2012
10:30pm
Chris Moyles' Quiz Night 8/8
It's the final episode in the current series as John Barrowman, JLS (playing for Olly Murs) and Alesha Dixon join Chris to flaunt their general knowledge with the aim of becoming series champion.

 

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