Channel 4's Autumn Line up

[Bob The Skutter]

Channel 4 have announced their Autumn line up. To be honest there doesn't seem all that much worth watching.

Comedy and Entertainment

Alan Carr: Chatty Man
Black Mirror
British Comedy Awards
Chris Moyles’ Quiz Night
Comic Strip: the Hunt for Tony Blair
Derren Brown: the Experiments
Facejacker
Hit the Road Jack
Mad Bad Ad Show
Pete Versus Life

Drama

Fresh Meat
Hollyoaks
This is England ‘88
Top Boy

Factual

Brave New World
Confessions of a Nurse (w/t)
Cutting Edge
Digging the Great Escape (w/t)
Drugs Live (w/t)
Educating Essex
Fighting on the Frontline
The Food Hospital
Future Family
Girls Will Be Boys and Boys Will Be Girls (w/t)
The Hero of Station X (w/t)
Living With the Amish
Mummify Me (w/t)
Random Acts
Tony Robinson’s Superstitions
Turner Prize 2011
Unreported World
WW2: Front Line Heroes (w/t)

Factual entertainment and features

Beeny’s Restoration Nightmare
Empty Homes Show
Gok’s Clothes Roadshow: Get the Look for Less
Jamie’s Great Britain
The Joy of Teen Sex
Kevin’s Grand Designs
Kirstie’s Handmade Britain
Mary Queen of Frocks
River Cottage Veg

 

[Starkers]

Black Mirror, maybe?

It's hard to know for sure without knowing what many of them actually entail?

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Black Mirror, maybe?

It's hard to know for sure without knowing what many of them actually entail?

Black Mirror is Charlie Brooker's so definitely, This is England 88 is another definite. Probably Comic Strip too, As for the rest...

Fresh Meat is a comedy drama (I think) about a group of Freshers at uni starring one of the guys from inbetweeners and Jack Whitehall

Hit The Road Jack is Jack Whitehall again, this time travelling the country with Stand up and celeb guests.

Top Boy is from the producers of Poppy Shakespeare and is about gangs in Hackney.

From Broadcast

Thelma’s Gypsy Girls (w/t), made by BFGW indie Firecracker Films, will see dressmaker Thelma Madine take on ten inexperienced gypsy and traveller girls as trainees to create dresses for her clients to be shown next year.
Other new programmes announced as part of the season launch included:

• Mummify Me being produced by Blink Films, which will see a group of scientists trying to mummify a man donated specifically for the purpose.
• Brave New World presented by Stephen Hawking and made by IWC Media, will see some of the world’s leading scientists including Sir David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins, Aarathi Prasad, Lord Winston and Maggie Aderin-Pocock in the series. They will examine how science is pushing for the next leap forward.
• Keo Films latest offering, River Cottage Veg, will see Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall challenging himself to spend the summer as a vegetarian and testing his belief that the country has to eat less meat.
• The team behind Blitz Street will recreate the story of surviving WWII veterans in WW2: Frontline Heroes. The Impossible Pictures production will recreate actual battlefield scenarios.
• Fighting on the Frontline will tell the story of servicemen and women in Afghanistan from three points of view: on air, on the ground and from behind the wheel of an armoured vehicle and is being produced by Minnow Films.
• Kirstie’s Handmade Britain will see Kirstie Allsopp testing her skills as a craftswoman as she enters some of the toughest craft fairs around. Raise the Roof productions is making the programme.
• A new line-up of Cutting Edge films have also been ordered including Britain’s Most Extreme Hoarder a film about Mr Wallace whose house is so packed, he has to crawl over mountains of paper to move around the house.
• Beeney’s Restoration Nightmare will return along with Facejacker, Pete Versus Life, and Alan Carr: Chatty Man.
• New arts strand Random Acts, dedicated to short-form films will also start in October.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I have not been impressed by the comedy showcase so far, anyone else seen any of the terrible pilots

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I have not been impressed by the comedy showcase so far, anyone else seen any of the terrible pilots

Chickens just seemed like Inbetweeners translated to the war, Coma girls had a couple of laughs but nothing really good there. Think that's all so far isn't it? So yeah, nothing good really.

 

[Captain Shaw]

I have not been impressed by the comedy showcase so far, anyone else seen any of the terrible pilots

Chickens just seemed like Inbetweeners translated to the war, Coma girls had a couple of laughs but nothing really good there. Think that's all so far isn't it? So yeah, nothing good really.

I know I should know better after just watching the rinnger, but tonight's pilot the fun police looks like there might be hope yet.