Wednesday 7 November 2007
10:00pm

Who are the most romantic men on earth? If there was an Olympics of Love, which nation would win gold? How much of our courting behaviour is innate and how much is cultural? Love Trap is going to find out by putting the mating rituals of different nationalities under the microscope. Five men from across the world have been brought to London: their mission is to win the heart of Carolina, a 24-year-old single girl from Sweden.

Husband and Wife team, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan have announced that they will be leaving their Channel 4 chat show.

The pair plan to finish with the show when their contracts run out next year.

“The programme is still full of life, but we have taken the difficult decision to leave it on a high,” Madeley said.

“After seven consecutive years we both feel we have achieved everything we wanted with the show.

“We want the chance to launch other projects in broadcasting and writing while we are still young enough,” he added.

Friday 2 November 2007
10:00pm, Channel 4

Can you name all four of the Sex and the City girls? Can you remember why Ollie Reed was booted off After Dark ? Can you remember how Pob used to write his name? If you know the answers to questions like these, then be sure to join host Jimmy Carr and celebrity team-mates Frank Skinner, Jack Dee, Alan Carr, David Mitchell, Carol Vorderman and Richard Ayoade for a special edition of Channel 4’s legendary annual star-studded entertainment fest, The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz .

Friday 2 November 2007
7:35pm

In this week’s Unreported World , reporter Hamida Ghafour and producer James Brabazon travel to one of the strangest, wildest cities on earth: Buenaventura, on Colombia’s Pacific coast. There is little running water or electricity in Buenaventura and housing is so scarce that people have constructed whole neighbourhoods of shacks built on stilts. Yet, over the last two years violent death has become an everyday fact in this city of around 300,000 people. Everyone is affected, almost everyone has lost someone.

Thursday 1 November 2007
9:00pm

Conclusion of the gripping two-part thriller. Part two follows the story of Nasima (Manjinder Virk). Unlike her brother, Nasima, a medical student in Leeds, witnesses at first-hand the relentless targeting of her Muslim neighbours and finds herself increasingly alienated by the British Government’s domestic policy. Nasima is not only forced to question her liberal views, she is left feeling so angry at and estranged from the country of her birth, that she embarks on an extraordinary journey that eventually takes her to a terrorist training camp in north-west Pakistan.

Like The Office before it, Simon Pegg’s Channel 4 sitcom, Spaced will be adapted into an American version by US network, Fox.

Having starred in recent box office hits such as Hot Fuzz, Run Fatboy Run and of course Shaun Of The Dead, things just can’t get much better for Mr Pegg, can they!

Tuesday 30 October 2007
9:00pm, Channel 4

Multi Michelin-starred chef Gordon Ramsay is back with his trademark mix of tough talking and inspiration. The venue for tonight’s first programme is Ruby Tates in Brighton, owned and run by ex-actor Allan Love. It’s an oyster bar and seafood restaurant but Allan’s never tasted the food because he hates fish. He won’t even put his head round the door of his own kitchen, where lurk two angry chefs - furious Frenchman Alex and indolent Aussie Jamie - busy doing nothing but turning out a lacklustre menu including hot fruits de mer and ageing lobster. Get ready for flying sparks.

Tuesday 30 October 2007
8:00pm Channel 4

Sarah Beeny returns offering more A1 advice to new and established developers who want to turn bricks and mortar into some serious pounds, shilling and pence. In Wysall, just outside Nottingham, Steve Lumb is trying to ward off a mid-life crisis by converting a striking Methodist chapel. The building offers up the most amazing space but Steve is suffering from a complete lack of vision and wants to carve it up into a bog-standard three-bedroom home. In Elm, Cambridgeshire, carpenter Vaughan Dibble and his partner Jackie Vickers fall hook, line and sinker for a quaint former pub.

Britain’s Deadliest Addictions follows three people addicted to different substances - alcohol, class A and prescription drugs - as they attempt to kick their habits under the supervision of experts at a leading detox clinic.

Presented by Krishnan Guru-Murthy and addiction psychologist Dr John Marsden, the series looks at the terrible effects of Britain’s growing addiction epidemic and what addicts can do to break the cycle. Read more & comment »

Brat Camp returns with a new focus: the mothers. They are all very different kinds of mothers, but whether they are career mums, hippy mums, single mums or traditional mums they all share one thing in common, their daughters are totally out-of-control brats. Somewhere along the way it has all gone horribly wrong, and now the warring duos find themselves at the last chance saloon, better known as Brat Camp . Read more & comment »