Category: Channel 4
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part Four)
Onto the last leg of our list. Which, for the record, doesn’t include The Last Leg. Lots of big programmes we’ve not seen yet on the list, and with only a few places remaining there’s not enough room for all of them. I’m starting to think we won’t see Murun Buchstansangur on this list at…
Mark Gibbings-Jones
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part Three)
Into the top half we tumble. But first, here’s a rundown of the list so far: Right, into that top twenty-one. Dudes. 21: BILL AND TED’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (1989)(21:00 Sunday 11 Apr 1993, 7.29m viewers) To be fair, any film that includes George “Seven Words” Carlin, Tony “Wolfie Smith’s Dad-in-Law After Peter Vaughan” Steedman and…
Mark Gibbings-Jones
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part Two)
More Four. Here’s the next tranche, starting with two entries at joint-30th. =31: GOOD MORNING VIETNAM (1987)(21:00 Sunday 25 Apr 1993, 6.75m viewers) Kicking off a Robin Williams season on Four, this well-received comedy drama about a boisterous US Forces Jock who eschews the anodyne in favour of the raucous, much to the delight of…
Mark Gibbings-Jones
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Forty/Four: Channel Four’s 40 Most-Watched (Part One)
Yes, I know I’m only just over halfway through the list of the 100 Most-Shown Programmes On The BBC, but Channel Four is forty years old on Wednesday 2 November, and that’s an anniversary well worth marking. So, here we go with another ill-considered datagasm. Like in an instalment of the Terminator franchise directed by…
Mark Gibbings-Jones