Week 8 highlights

8 February 2012

Homeland

Here are the best programmes on Channel 4 for week 8, Saturday 18th -  Friday 24th February.

If your birthday takes place in week 8, you will take part in the next series of Coach Trip. You will be the first voted off, on account of your poor personal hygiene and even poorer interpersonal skills. Your humiliation will be complete when footage emerges of you picking your nose, and word gets out that you cry yourself to sleep every night, clutching a Boyzone annual.

Destiny sees Kirstie Allsopp smoking a pipe whilst rollerskating.

 

 

Saturday 18/02/2012
9:10pm
The Bank Job 2/10
George Lamb returns with the high-stakes game show. Live from a real bank in the heart of London, contestants aim to pull off the ultimate heist as they play a tense game of knowledge, luck and strategy. Four players are taken to a bank vault packed with hundreds of thousands of pounds, but only one can leave with a life-changing fortune. In a test of general knowledge, courage and nerve, who will get rich and get out?

 

Sunday, 19/02/2012
5:50pm
Fantastic Mr Fox
Network premiere of the stop-motion animated version of Roald Dahl children's classic from offbeat comedy writer-director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums). Now that Mr Fox (voiced by George Clooney) has become the proud father of a cub, he declares to his wife (voiced by Meryl Streep) that he will finally grow up and stop his chicken-pilfering ways. But when some wicked farmers move (literally) in to Mr Fox's neck of the woods, it starts to look as though temptation will prove too hard to resist for our hero... Also featuring the voices of Bill Murray, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe, Owen Wilson and... Jarvis Cocker!

 

Sunday, 19/02/2012
9:30pm
Homeland 1/12: Pilot
The compelling, award-winning US thriller starring Claire Danes and Damian Lewis comes to 4. When CIA agent Carrie Mathison's investigations lead to a serious diplomatic incident, she is stripped of her field status. Meanwhile she hears from an Iraqi source that an American prisoner of war has been 'turned' - and she becomes convinced that Sgt Nicholas Brody, who was missing in action (and presumed dead) for eight years, is that person. While the CIA treat Brody's rescue as a hero's return from war, Carrie is forced to break protocol to prove her theory that Brody is now working for al-Qaeda...

 

Monday, 20/02/2012
10pm
My Online Stalker: True Stories
Ruth Jeffery and her boyfriend Shane Webber seemed a perfectly normal happy couple who talked about a future with marriage and children. But the man Ruth loved began to secretly rip her life apart. With exclusive access to Ruth and her family, this True Stories film unravels Ruth's prolonged ordeal, which came to a shocking conclusion. For three and a half years Ruth was subjected to emotional and mental abuse at the hands of an unknown stalker. But when the stalker was finally caught, the revelation of the man's identity proved equally traumatic. Her tormenter was the person Ruth had confided in the most: her boyfriend.

 

Tuesday 21/02/2012
9pm
Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 2/6
This episode follows Romany gypsies and travellers whose attempts to live a traditional life sometimes get them in trouble with the law. Danielle is determined to live her life in a traditional way, but has one problem: her intended groom, Brendan, is up in court on the same day. Romany gypsy Ambrose takes his horse and trap out to practise ahead of a traditional - but illegal - horse-and-trap road race. But will his fun be scuppered by the local constabulary? And eight-year-old Chloe prepares for her First Holy Communion, despite her father's imprisonment at Strangeways.

 

Wednesday 22/02/2012
8pm
Daddy Daycare 2/3
In Daddy Daycare, long-suffering wives and partners send their men on a crash course in childcare. Three more men are sent to work in a busy London nursery, and tackle every aspect of childcare under the watchful eyes of the staff. Stressed-out father to four girls Grant (32), old-fashioned dad Paul (40) and career-committed new dad Tony (30) spend a week working at a nursery staffed entirely by women. But will the experience of looking after other people's children give the dads the confidence and passion to care for their own children and support their partners more?

More parental programming follows in One Born Every Minute.

 

Wednesday 22/02/2012
9pm
One Born Every Minute 8/14
Hopes and fears about delivering babies provide the theme to tonight's programme. Sarah Sanderson (27) and partner Jamie (24) are anxious as the last time Sarah was pregnant she delivered a stillborn baby at 22 weeks. Midwives discover Sarah's baby is lying sideways (transverse), which is problematic for an easy natural birth. Meanwhile, Natalie (28) and her husband Anthony (32) are hairdressers and can't wait to find out how much hair their baby has and dream of the day when they put their own son in the barber's chair. But Natalie's mother is nervous because she once had a stillborn child herself.

 

Thursday, 23/02/2012
9pm
The Great Ticket Scandal: Dispatches
Fans queuing for hours to buy tickets get turned away empty handed while tickets for the same 'sold out' events appear online shortly afterwards, sometimes at astronomical prices. Channel 4 News correspondent Morland Sander investigates the multi-million-pound world of online ticket reselling. Undercover reporters inside two major 'fan-to-fan' ticket exchange websites investigate who is selling via their websites and why so many tickets appear at over the face value so soon after the box office sells out.

 

Thursday, 23/02/2012
10pm
Strictly Baby Disco
Channel 4 goes behind the scenes of the dazzling and intensely competitive world of kids' freestyle disco in Britain as this one-off documentary follows five hopefuls and their families in the most competitive age brackets - the under tens - as the girls and boys prepare to try and knock the reigning disco kid off the top spot. A booming phenomenon, freestyle disco is the fastest and most furious form of competitive dancing, with children as young as four contorting their bodies for moves the original disco divas could only have dreamt of. And they're doing it for one aim - to be crowned 'Disco Kid' at the illustrious Blackpool Tower ballroom.

 

Friday, 24/02/2012
10pm
The Mad Bad Ad Show 2/6
Hosted by Mark Dolan, The Mad Bad Ad Show is a brand spanking new comedy entertainment series that brings together an original mix of challenges, comic banter and a bit of ad land insight. Each week team captains Micky Flanagan and Mark Watson are joined by a famous guest and an ad industry insider to be quizzed about classic ads from the past, present and overseas. In the second show the ads are themed around smoking, and Micky and Mark are joined by comedians Jason Manford and Matthew Crosby.

 

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