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The Sex Education Show

2008-09-10T17:08:00.004+01:00

There's a favourable and very fair review on The Guardian website about The Sex Education Show. Bearing in mind the painful and just downright strange conversations I had about sex and relationships with my parents this is what caught my eye in Heidi Stephens piece:

This is not my kind of thing, as a rule - people talking openly about sex, how much they're getting it, what kind they're getting. I'd rather clean the oven. But this show claimed to present both teenage and adult perspectives on all matters sexual. And because I have both a 16-year-old son and a nine-year-old daughter, any advice on how to broach this stuff in a way that is less likely to scar my offspring for life is gratefully received.

As it turned out, I didn't need to make notes, because teenage son decided to watch it with me. Which I guess was what Channel 4 intended when they gave it a pre-watershed 8pm slot, but was entirely unexpected and potentially horrifically embarrassing (no, for ME, not him). He wandered in at the start, asked what I was watching, and decided to "give it five minutes". By the end he admitted it had been "interesting" and "useful". And in the mumble-heavy vocabulary of a 16-year-old boy, I believe that counts as a glowing review.

You can see it on 4oD. Alone. With your teenager. Or even with a parent.

The Channel 4 Sex Education website is here (and it's well worth checking out).

Four Wives, One Man

2008-09-03T15:08:00.006+01:00

I always mean to watch these True Stories docs on More4, but then find something easy and trashy on another channel and give them up. But last night when I got in and switched the TV on it just happened to be tuned to More4 (I think I'd probably been watching a repeat of a Grand Designs I'd seen before) and this doc was about half an hour in. And I was completely hooked. It was absolutely fantastic.

It follows a family in an Iranian village: a man, his four wives, twenty children and his mother. The women all have a story to tell of divorce, sadness and betrayal and watching the man squirming when they nag him or answer back is at least a little pay-back for the beatings they say he gives them. The mother pitches in with her view that her husband was a real man, who loved only her, while all five of her sons are 'just sheep'... And yet it isn't ultimately a tragic story. It is full of humour and banter between the women.

What's great about the way this is filmed is that there is no intrusive narrator, or interviewer. It is just the family, talking to camera or to each other.

I have already recommended the programme to everyone I know, and now recommend it to you.

Even more Super Botox Me

2008-08-31T22:04:00.003+01:00

Kate Flett in the Observer writes a nice piece about journalist Kate Spicer's entertaining investigation into Botox treatments. I always like reviews that make me want to watch programmes that I'd otherwise decided weren't for me. While I'm not, as Flett puts it "your average female viewer of a certain age", (I'm of the age but not the gender) I like the fact that Spicer tried the treatments out on herself. Further, Flett's piece makes me wonder if and when I'll switch over from my purely natural beauty regime (mostly trying not to drink a bottle of wine a day) to taking a more man-made solution to the visible problems (mostly caused by my natural beauty regimen). Anyway, this is what Flett says:

In the latest of C4's feisty-femmedocs, Super Botox Me, the likeable, funny journalist Kate Spicer investigated the seductive world of Botox and beyond. At 39, and with an attractive but undeniably lived-in face, a combination of journalistic curiosity and pure vanity led her to have 40 Botox injections and something called a Fraxel Laser Facial, which left her looking as if she'd been blowtorched by a Dalek.

Spicer was amusing and honest about her ambivalence towards procedures which were painful but also painfully addictive. The results were fabulous, knocking five years off her age, which, for your average female viewer of a certain age, was the problem. Being a wuss about needles, I am still stemming the tsunami of time with excellent haircuts, pots of SK-II skin cream and what I call 'Photox': picture-retouching. But who am I kidding? For my 45th birthday I'd be happy enough to look like Kate Spicer's Before, never mind her Afters.

Super Botox Me

2008-08-27T17:52:00.006+01:00

Another programme in the G Spot strand - Super Botox Me - is on the service now. It's another look at cosmetic surgery, but this time above the neck. The clip on the homepage is pretty funny too...

The Devil and Daniel Johnston: trailer and on 4oD

2008-08-27T16:33:00.013+01:00

For a long time musician Daniel Johnston's fame was one based on notoriety more than anything else. Whenever his name came up it was almost always in the context of David Bowie and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain being huge fans of his. For me I first encountered him at London's Chisenhale gallery as part of a show by Peter Friedl that dealt with the King Kong theme. Daniel Johnston's soundtrack, recorded at a live performance of his song 'King Kong' and its lyrics, are the things that stays with me. There's an unease that comes with the artistic output of those who suffer obvious issues around their mental health and the audiences they attract. In Johnston's case his depression and schizophrenia aren't the only things: there's his drug abuse and violence to take into account. I've seen him twice now and both were thrilling and painful in equal measure. If anyone sang the Bond theme 'Live and Let Die' on the X Factor as badly as he did at the Royal Festival Hall they'd be booted out the door straight away, but seeing him on stage with his beat up guitar and out of tune voice it's impossible to not stare, marvel and finally revel at what you're seeing and hearing. It's not that he sings so badly it's good at all - it's just that he sings it like nobody except Daniel Johnston.

I'm not sure if I want to go and see him play again as much as I love playing the tapes and CDs - the second time he looked scared and in worse shape than the time before. Like Kurt Cobain I have the Hello How are you? Daniel Johnston t-shirt except that mine is white text out of black. I think of him whenever I wear it. Maybe that's enough.

4oD on The Devil and Daniel Johnston:

Daniel Johnston is an acclaimed singer and artist who suffers from manic depression. Jeff Feuerzeig's Sundance-winning film is a unique portrait of his work.

In the course of a career which stretches back to the 1980s, Daniel Johnston has written well over 100 love songs. What makes them unusual is that they're all about one woman, Laurie, the object of his unrequited affection for over 20 years. Despite the fact that Laurie rejected Daniel and eventually married an undertaker, his ardour has never dulled. Johnston does have other creative muses though, most notably Jesus, Captain America, The Beatles and Casper The Friendly Ghost. The interview subjects, including Johnston's elderly parents and long-suffering manager, are refreshingly honest about life with a manic-depressive. Home movie footage doesn't just serve as a visual backdrop for anecdotes, but shows that despite initial appearances, Johnston is one extremely smart and self-aware cookie.

Read about The Devil and Daniel Johnston on More4 and watch it on 4oD.

Dying alone...

2008-08-21T11:06:00.005+01:00

It's something that everyone secretly fears, but doesn't believe that it could happen to them. Except that sometimes it does. The trailers for Watch Me Disappear have definitely got me worried... The programme is part of Channel 4's Generation Next initiative - a season of programmes by new talent throughout August. The Indie's Emma Love talks about the programme and the event here.

Watch Me Disappear is going out on C4 this Friday, but if you miss it, it will of course be available on 4oD for 30 days.

Take a look at other programmes in the Generation Next season, as well as some from people C4 has given a break to over the last 25 years in the Generation Next: Then and Now page.

New features

2008-08-20T17:43:00.004+01:00

A recent addition to the service was the Most Watched Films page. An attempt to give users some idea of what others are renting as inspiration for their own choices.

This has now been extended into the Archive section as well. So, the Free Archive page is now the New in Archive page - flagging up programmes and series that have been added recently - and there is a new Most Watched Archive page. To start with, it's an overview of the top 15 series for the last six month, but when it gets updated it will use data for a shorter time-period. Also, you may notice that perennial favourites such as Shameless and Skins are missing, because they are considered on-going series, which will be returning on-air.

Take a look.

She's Elektra...

2008-08-20T14:28:00.005+01:00

I once saw Zoë Wanamaker at the Donmar in a production of Elektra. That was the version of the tragic Greek myth as told by Sophocles. John Heilpern, writing in the New York Observer, wrote:

Zoë Wanamaker's Electra is a miraculous achievement – one of the finest performances I've ever seen.

For myself I do remember it as being the most intense experience I've had at the theatre, heightened by the fact that old Donmar theatre was a tiny space where the seating and the stage area (no raised proscenium here) were pretty much the same thing. It was like being in a front room with someone who has suffered a series of unimaginable family tragedies.

This, however isn't Sophocles's version but Rob Bowman's. Actually 'version' is the wrong word, judging by the description (I haven't seen it as yet) 'whole-different-story-but-with-a-similarly-named-character' would be a more accurate description:

Rob Bowman's fantasy thriller stars Jennifer Garner as Elektra, an assassin tutored by the mysterious martial arts master Stick (Terence Stamp). Her latest assignment is to keep Mark Miller (Goran Visnjic) and his daughter Abby (Kirsten Prout) safe from the ninja warriors of the evil Order of the Hand, to whom she once paid allegiance. Now on the side of good, her task is to protect those who can tip the balance between good and evil, but can she overcome her once-fellow assassins?

It's new on 4oD. Check it out.

V Festival

2008-08-18T11:44:00.009+01:00

Not to keep harping on about newspaper reviews, but The Guardian was pretty impressed with this year's V Festival. And lucky you, all the C4 highlights are on 4oD. Take a look. Or a listen. Up to you.

The Perfect Vagina

2008-08-18T11:30:00.007+01:00

Indeed... Channel 4's G Spot season continued on air last night with The Perfect Vagina. It attracted a fairly large audience for its slot, but if you missed it, it is available on 4oD now. And just in case you mistake it for another 'naughty' late-night show from C4, here's a review by Tim Walker in The Independent. Or read what the programme's author Lisa Rogers
had to say about it on The Guardian blogs.

Kate Flett in The Observer

2008-08-13T18:07:00.004+01:00

Kate Flett in The Observer writes lots of nice things about two shows that you can currently see on the 4oD:
The Genius of Charles Darwin
The Secret Millionaire
The third one that she covers is also a Channel baby but sadly isn't on 4oD. I say sadly because it's The WI Guide to Brothels and it would in all probability do very well.

The Seveth Seal on 4oD

2008-07-23T18:40:00.003+01:00

Yes, I have been unremittingly busy and yes, even so that's no excuse not to have posted anything here for months. OK, many months. But business on 4oD carries on as usual with the latest free catch up and new material from the archive being added all the time. For me personally the best moment of recent times is the addition of a whole series of Ingmar Bergman movies to download (sadly not for free) including The Seventh Seal (pictured). This, remember dear reader, is the film that inspired not only Woody Allen (Love and Death) but also the excellent Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey

Chocolate Junkie Pig:

2008-03-03T17:00:00.005Z

In The Guardian Sam Wollaston takes to Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory and makes me want to watch it. This is what he says about the roasting of a chocolate basted pig:

Junkie pig, that's what I want. It's a dish I wasn't aware of before watching Willie's Wonky Chocolate Factory (Channel 4, Sunday), but that's probably because it almost certainly doesn't exist outside the Harcourt-Cooze family. Willie H-C is one of those posh people it's impossible not to like. He has a wild look in his eye that suggests he's lived a bit, he has big plans, crazy ideas, tons of enthusiasm. It's just not clear whether he's got the down-to-earth skills to make those plans happen.

Chocolate, that's his thing: he's trying to make the king of chocolates, with beans grown on his farm in Venezuela. It's basically that show Jimmy's Farm, with palm trees. It looks fun being one of the Harcourt-Cooze kids. So what if the family Volvo doesn't have glass in all its windows - they get to hang out in the jungle for a month every year, dance salsa, eat chocolate with everything, including junkie pig.

You need a whole pig for Junkie Pig, and an outdoor wood-burning oven big enough to accommodate it. Kill the pig and make a marinade from white wine, balsamic vinegar, apricots, and chocolate of course, all buzzed up together. Then inject it into the pig, using a fresh hypodermic needle (hence the name) - all over, like a proper old smackhead, not like some novice, first-time user. Then pop it into the oven for about three hours, until the skin is nice and crispy. Yum. You don't see that on MasterChef.

Got 4oD? Watch Junkie Pig here right now.

I'm off on holiday: Skins Series 2 is on 4oD

2008-02-12T18:00:00.001Z

Catch up with all of the first series of Skins, watch the second series as it happens on 4oD.

Reaper free on 4oD

2008-01-31T18:02:00.000Z

I've been watching Reaper on 4oD and it's pretty fine. It reminds me of Buffy crossed with Clerks (which isn't surprising as Clerks director Kevin Smith directed the first Ep). The other thing I like is that our hero Sam's sidekick, Bert "Sock" Wysocki (played by Tyler Labine) resembles quite spookily my old (but long time no see) friend Gideon.

Got 4oD? Watch Reaper here!
Not Got 4oD? Get 4oD here!

Semi-exclusive Skins clip

2008-01-29T18:29:00.000Z

Full-house: the Holy Grail of VOD

2008-01-24T14:07:00.000Z

OK, I just made up that stuff about a full-house (where you have all of the peak-time shows from the service's parent channel, in our case Channel 4, on VOD) being the Holy Grail of VOD but it's not actually far from the truth. The point being that the user, not totally up with the rights and compliance complexity involved in putting a TV show into an on-demand environment, comes to expect everything carried on your channel to be there. So looking at the schedule stripe across the bottom of the above screenshot reveals that all of the peak-time programmes are available to watch. (Admittedly you would need to know that the paler blue colour and the fact that they have synopses on rollover designates that they are on the service, by hey, nobody and no VOD service is perfect). Not only that, the night before last and tonight have all the peak-time shows available too. Now, I just need to sort out the customers asking about The Simpsons and Friends.

Rambo: Cookalong Live(ish) - better than real TV

2008-01-22T17:54:00.000Z

If you missed the live Cookalong with Gordon last week you can relive the joy with 4oD. The items you'll need can be found here. In many ways while the live cookalong was fun to watch and had the excitement that only live TV has (trust me I worked on Blue Peter before it was dirty and still live) the ability to pause and study the recipes rather than racing to catch up also has its benefits.

Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack on 4oD

2008-01-04T15:53:00.000Z

Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack, the all new cleaned up non-racist version of this old favourite has started. You can see the whole of the launch show (all 90 minutes of it!) on 4oD or get the news and clips on Channel4.com.

Early coverage of the revamped show on The Sun's website is very positive with their BB columnist writing:

I was sick and tired of BB after Jade Goody’s antics last year.
But Matt’s choice of lumbering Scot John to do his bidding had me laughing aloud.
So that’s the next three weeks’ telly viewing sorted then.

Personally I'm looking forward to the Chapman brothers taking on the celebrity role as I've always enjoyed their antics.

Feeling Shameless: another day another dollar

2008-01-03T18:06:00.000Z

It's a new year so just to reiterate for all our new visitors: If you haven't already installed the 4oD application which lets you watch 100s of hours of new and old Channel 4 programming on your PC all for free you can get it from here.

For the rest of you old skoolers here's some of the highlights on 4oD today, just open the 4oD app and have a browse:

All of the first 4 series of Shameless plus the latest episode of the new series
The Look Good Naked Specials
My Fake Baby
Murderers on the Dancefloor (about the making of the classic YouTube Thriller video. No, not the Jacko one, the one made by the 1,500 inmates of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Philippines)
Hollyoaks
Deal of No Deal
Big Fat Quiz of the Year
and the first episode of series 2 of FX's Brotherhood

4oD over Christmas*

2007-12-22T15:13:00.000Z

As I mentioned already I spent most of yesterday putting together the pages on 4oD for the Christmas break. So do you promote the Catch Up stuff that's on telly or the huge amount of archive that we've just added - what will people want? You run through the different scenarios of how people's TV consumption changes over Christmas alongside questions of whether they'll have broadband access and the like. I had an argument with nice guy Charlie, the 4oD marketing guy, about the rates of broadband penetration in the UK ("Will people have broadband access if they're at their parents?"). The head of new media operations overheard us bickering and suggested as it was past 6pm on the channel's last working day maybe we should just head home. Anyway, I've gone for promoting the archive up to Boxing day and after that it's the four free series of Shameless on 4oD in anticipation of the new series that starts 1 January.

Back in the day when there were only three channels people used to complain about the number of repeats. Now we have whole channels that are effectively the repackaging of repeats (any channel with the word 'gold' in the title). I guess the other way of looking at video-on-demand services is that they're just repeats on demand or repeats that you missed the first time around. Happy Christmas.

* The same entry has already appeared 5 minutes previously on my personal blog. I figure the clever reuse of content (or repeats as we used to call them) is very much in the spirit of the season.

Real quick now: what's on 4oD

2007-12-21T18:16:00.000Z

Just leaving the office having set up all the publishes on 4oD for Christmas - hours staring into a computer monitor. So right now on 4oD you can watch (for free) all of Shameless (new series starts 1 January 2008); Skins; Peep Show; IT Crowd, Wedding Belles; Mark of Cain: Meet the Natives; The Trial of Tony Blair: China's Stolen Children; Rules of Seduction; My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist; The Lie of the Land and a whole lot more. Basically if it's any good and it was on Channel 4 this year, it's now on 4oD. Phew, I'm knackered.

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2007-12-21T11:12:00.000Z

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My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist on 4oD

2007-12-19T18:38:00.000Z

The Guardian has an excellent piece by Julie Bindel about sex tourism which ties in with the Channel 4 programme My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist (4oD link : C4.com link) made by director Monica Garnsey. Garnsey's approach to the subject has been to take the women's point of view as the starting point in examining global sex tourism. The first part looks at "a Venezuelan resort where largely desperate men go to have a holiday with a local prostitutes who act as their girlfriend" while part two looks at prostitution in Thailand and the way that girls use it as a way to support their families.

The Return of Free Archive on 4oD

2007-12-19T17:58:00.000Z

4oD has started offering a wide range of free TV shows as well as the free 30 day catch up. It currently includes all of Shameless, Peep Show, Father Ted, Black Books, Queer as Folk, Teachers as well as less well-know gems like Lipstick on Your Collar, GBH, Spaced and Desmond's.

If you've already installed 4oD on your PC this link will take you to the list of free shows.
You can find out more about 4oD by following this link.

Sam Wollaston on Make Me a Muslim

2007-12-18T10:45:00.000Z

In today's Guardian Sam Wollaston gives Make me a Muslim (4oD link: C4.com link)another kicking:

Make Me a Muslim (Channel 4)? It's easy. All you need to do is to follow some simple rules. It's all about banning a few things. No pork then, and ease off on showing human flesh, too, especially in public. Less swearing, please, and no booze. Don't read Nuts, be less British, and less gay, wear the right gear, do more praying and less pole-dancing.

The teaching of the prophet Muhammad? The Koran? Nah! Don't be worrying about any of that. Islam - it's basically a few rules, stuff you can't do. And that's it, a major world religion in a nutshell, job done, sorted by reality TV.

Either that, or this show's a disgrace

You can have your say at the Channel 4 Forums or over at The Guardian's TV Blog

Make me a Muslim

2007-12-17T11:45:00.000Z

Make Me a Muslim (4oD link: C4.com link) started last night (and continues tonight and tomorrow night).

Gareth McLean in the Guardian's TV page today really doesn't like it with such a ferocity that you can't help but be intrigued. He writes:

It's some feat to be cynical and stupid simultaneously - some of us manage to be both but only at different times - but this exercise in pointlessness achieves it with aplomb. From a glamour model to an obnoxious taxi driver, a bunch of "ordinary" white British folks so stereotypical I'm not convinced they're not being played by actors, are schooled in the ways of Islam, for reasons currently beyond my grasp. They huff and puff predictably at the mentors' demands as the narrator reveals that "lapdancing is unacceptable in Islam". Who knew? Simplistic, contrived and inane.

Aliens on 4oD (with plot spoiler if revealing the end of the film counts as spoiling it)

2007-12-13T16:16:00.000Z

I was re-watching Aliens (Aliens on 4oD : Aliens review on C4.com) the other day and after all these years it's still one of my all time favourite films. Admittedly first seeing it in 1986 as part of a James Cameron double with Terminator in New York in a smoking cinema where the light of the projector would catch the smokers' fug as it rose from the pit has lent the whole thing a certain romance. Even so Terminator and Aliens is one of the all time classic double bills. While Linda Hamilton's character, Sarah Connor, in Terminator graduates from the slightly ditzy valley girl that we see at the outset of the film into the potential saviour of the world at the end, Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley has already proved that she's more than capable of handling herself in Ridley Scott's Alien. In fact part of the many great pleasures of Aliens is the tension that builds while waiting for it to kick-off, assured by the near certainty that despite her very humanness Ripley can give as good as she can get. It's a testament to the script and Weaver's poise in the role that the whole thing isn't preposterous and yes, perfectly natural that she should rescue the mission, save the girl and kick the alien's ass. A fairer match might have been Ripley vs Alien, Predator and the Terminator. Even then you wouldn't bet against Ripley.

Rent Aliens for £2.99

Ramsay's Curry Nightmares

2007-12-12T17:51:00.000Z

Gordo heads off to Nottingham to help the Curry Lounge get out of trouble in Kitchen Nightmares (Watch it on 4oD: Ramsay on C4.com). I haven't watched it yet but the resident foodie whose opinion I value highly tells me it's a goodie.

Hollyblokes

2007-12-11T17:45:00.001Z

One of the mainstays of 4oD is Hollyoaks which makes me wonder if there are lots of people who only ever watch it on 4oD and never see it on regular TV. Presumably the relatively early time slot at 6.30pm must make it hard for many of the show's viewers to catch it every day. At home since we got Sky+ we find ourselves watching fewer and fewer shows in their allocated slots. If it's something one of us wants to see (Heroes or Dexter for example) then it'll get watched the same night, just time-shifted to suit us.

Coming Up: the week of Monday 10 December 2007

2007-12-10T12:13:00.000Z

TV's usually a bit slow in the lead up to Christmas what with the endless Christmas drinks, parties and hangovers to be negotiated, never mind trying to get hold of a Nintendo Wii and the packed out-of-town shopping centre on a Saturday afternoon - and that's just for the commissioners and schedulers who decide what we get to watch and when. With that in mind here are some of the (mostly continuing) programmes that will feature on 4oD in the next seven days. I'll pick out some free stuff from the archive later in the week if none of that grabs you.

This week's highlights (all are free except for ones marked *):

Monday
Help Me Love my Baby

Tuesday
Property Ladder
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
The Secret Millionaire

Wednesday
How to Look Good Naked
The End of the World Cult

Thursday
Murder in Paradise
Without a Trace*
Shameless
Studio 60* (More 4)
Nearly Famous (E4)

Friday
Ugly Betty
First Cut: Being Maxine Carr

Regulars
Countdown
Deal or No Deal
Paul O'Grady
Hollyoaks

New on 4oD: First Cut, Rules of Seduction

2007-12-08T16:20:00.000Z

If you were in the pub yesterday evening (as was your correspondent) having a post-work pint or just out with your mates then you'd have missed first time director John Farrar's documentary Rules of Seduction shown in the indecently early 7.35pm time slot. An investigation into the techniques of the Pick Up Artist the programme follows PUA wannabee Ian at his first bootcamp where he learns basic skills including maintaining eye contact, getting girls' phone numbers and presumably not coming across as a creepy weirdo. As Time Out said in their preview (not online sadly):

It's a great little film: there are many more experienced directors who could learn a thing or two from Farrar about the construction of a good documentary.

High praise indeed from our friends at Time Out.

New on 4oD: Hitler's Favourite Royal

2007-12-07T11:23:00.000Z

Hitler's Favourite Royal covers the life of Prince Charles Edward, Queen Victoria's youngest grandchild, who was forced by his Grandmother to take up the Dukedom of Coburg in Germany after a series of unexpected deaths of uncles and cousins. With the advent of World War One, he reluctantly fought for the German army but refused to fight the British. However, once the war was over, he was stripped of his English titles. Disillusioned, he turned to far right politics and became an enthusiastic early supporter of the emergent Nazi Party and unwittingly helped in Hitler's rise to power. The press blurb describes it as the "tragic story of the little English prince who turned Nazi".

In Friday's Guardian Lucy Mangan writes:

Hitler's Favourite Royal (Channel 4) may have made me a monarchist. Not, of course, because of its subject, Prince Leopold Charles Edward - a Nazi-loving blot whom the Windsors have been trying to wipe from the escutcheon for the last 70 years - but because of its inclusion of clips from a 1977 television interview with his sister, Princess Alice. Aged 94, she was a giggling confection of pink hair and delight, recalling idyllic days when she and Charles Edward would visit their grandmother Queen Victoria. "She was awf'lly nice! When we lorst our front teeth, she used to give us a pound!" Once, the princess had lorst three teeth between visits and presented them all proudly to the queen. "'Oh dear!' she said - 'That's very expensive!'" Alice giggled anew, clearly more inclined that her grandmamma to amusement.

New films on 4oD

2007-12-05T16:01:00.000Z

This week's new additions to film on 4oD include (links go to reviews on the C4 Film site or IMDB):
Little Red Flowers
Jesus of Montreal
The Green Ray
Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune
Vie en Revée des Anges
The Aviator's Wife

Now on 4oD: Wed 5 Dec 2007

2007-12-05T15:27:00.000Z

Current highlights in 30 Day Free Catch Up include:
Ugly Betty
Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
How to Look Good Naked
Property Ladder
The Secret Millionaire

Nearly Famous on E4 has been doing well on 4oD. It's like Hollyoaks meets Fame and might help fill the void while waiting for Series 2 of Skins to start in the new year.

Most of the comedy you'll find in archive is now available for free, both for streams and downloading, and that includes every series of Peep Show, Spaced, Father Ted and Black Books.

NB: If you have the 4oD application installed on your PC then the links above will take you straight through to the series page for the programme you're after. If you don't then the link will take you to the 4oD marketing site (Oh joy!) where you can find out more about the service and download the app there. If you know you want the 4oD app without the marketing gumpf then download it here.