ITS MISSION IS TO ‘CREATE CHANGE THROUGH ENTERTAINMENT’. THE TRUTH IS VERY DIFFERENT
. . . A DEPRESSING HISTORY OF PORNOGRAPHY AND SHLOCK TV Mini-Pops (1983)
Described as music performances on a brightly coloured set featuring pre-teen children singing then-contemporary pop hits and older classics. The Observer newspaper said: ‘A shop-window full of junior jailbait? And does the show thrust premature sexual awareness on to its wide-eyed performers?’
Hookers, Hustlers, Pimps and Their Johns (1993)
Billed by Channel 4 as ‘an exploration of New York’s prostitution scene in the early 90s’. Tom Sutcliffe, a former presenter of Radio 4 arts show Saturday Review, said: ‘There were several moments which brought tears to my eyes. The moment, for example, when Mistress Scarlett, a successful New York dominatrix, applied a condom made of rough-grade sandpaper to her client’s genitals.’
Me And My Penis (2020)
Presented as ‘men talking openly about the physical realities of sex’. The Sun’s TV critic said: ‘An hour of pretentious nonsense. There’s never going to be any let-up now in an endless supply of fame-chasing exhibitionists to feed C4’s insatiable demand.’
Naked Attraction (2016)
Channel 4 said it was ‘the daring dating series that starts where some good dates might end – naked’. Telegraph critic Gerard O’Donovan said: ‘Naked Attraction essentially reduced human attraction to a kind of game show meat market. How low could this new Channel 4 dating show go?’
. . . SCHEDULES OF FOREIGN-MADE REPEATS – LIKE LAST THURSDAY Schedule for last Thursday
6.45am CHEERS (US-made comedy. Repeat. First shown 1984)
7.10 CHEERS (Repeat)
7.40 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (US comedy about a dysfunctional family. Repeat. Series first shown in 1996)
8.05 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (Repeat)
8.35 EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND (Repeat)
9.05 FRASIER (US comedy. Repeat. First shown in 1999)
9.35 FRASIER (Repeat. First shown in 1999)
10.05 FRASIER (Repeat. First shown in 2000)
10.35 RAMSAY’S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES USA
(Repeat. First shown 2007)
11.30 NEWS SUMMARY
11.35 UNDERCOVER BOSS USA (American-produced reality series. Repeat. First shown 2020)