November 5th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: E4, Misfits
Five youngsters gain superpowers when they are caught in a storm while doing community service. Kelly gains the ability to hear peoples’ thoughts, Simon turns invisible whenever he is ignored, and those who touch the beautiful Alisha fall in lust with her. Comedy drama, starring Lauren Socha, Nathan Stewart Jarrett, Iwan Rheon, Antonia Thomas and Robert Sheehan.
School Of Comedy is a unique sketch show where kids take on the world of adults and stars Jack Harries and Son Of Rambow’s Will Poulter plus a host of young, rising British stars.
Episode 1 features Connie, who runs a pub where it’s always last orders (and no, you can’t bring your kids in); Karl and Marv, Hollywood pitch men who make absolutely no sense at all and The Cabbie, who has absolutely no idea where he’s going, doesn’t have change, but has an amazing Jimmy Saville story.
September 24th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: E4, Glee
E4 have bought the rights to air musical comedy series Glee. The Ryan Murphy-created show will launch in 2010.
“The buzz around Glee has been almost as big as its musical numbers,” said Channel 4’s head of acquisitions Gill Hay. “This huge, glossy, all singing, all dancing musical comedy drama series does precisely what it says on the tin.
“It’s the first of its kind on E4 and we are sure the E4 audience will be thoroughly entertained by its fun show-stopping exuberance when it arrives on the channel next year.”
If there was entertainment to be had in Running In Heels, I’m afraid I missed it. Likewise, I missed any hint of a new concept; it’s just yet another show of The Apprentice ilk, or even Jade’s PA, or in the really worst case scenario, Paris Hilton’s Best Friend bilge. And having watched episodes two and three last night, I’m afraid it definitely fell into the latter category.
Joanna Coles is editor-in-chief of Marie Claire in New York and as such, commands – apparently – much the same worship as God, but she has infinitely more clothes; up to five different outfits on any given day actually, according to the lady herself. She therefore has someone who attends to that for her and makes sure she has all the power outfits she needs to hand.
How nice for her. As a lowly TV critic, I must choose my own clothes and have nobody to hand to find my underwear for me, which, to be honest, sucks. Read more & comment »
C21 Media reports that digital TV channel E4 has acquired the rights to How I Met Your Mother and Being Erica.
After all the hype and high profile cameos, I am glad that we will finally get a chance to check out HIMYM. However you will have to wait until the third season to see Britney Spears famous appearance as a crazy receptionist with revenge on her mind.
Exams are looming, and Will is getting stressed. Jay has got other things on his mind, while Simon at last seems to be making some headway with Carli, helping her revise (albeit at the expense of his own revision). Looking back on the year, the boys realise that things haven’t been all bad, but that if they had their time again Jay would be less sensitive (yes, sensitive), Simon would take Carli’s word with a pinch of salt, Will would drink a lot less energy drinks and Neil would remember his kit for his PE exam.
Following the huge success of the first series, the award-winning The Inbetweeners is back with more mishaps, embarrassing attempts to pull and the vital adult initiation – to lose their virginity and become men.
Following the huge success of the first series, the award-winning The Inbetweeners is back with more mishaps, embarrassing attempts to pull and the vital adult initiation – to lose their virginity and become men.
I managed to completely miss the first series but this clip does look quite hilarious so I’ll have to line this one up on the recorder.
What do you get when you have a group of people who are not cool enough to be popular and not geeky enough to be nerds? You get…The Inbetweeners.
Following the huge success of the first series, the award-winning The Inbetweeners is back with more mishaps, embarrassing attempts to pull and the vital adult initiation – to lose their virginity and become men.
February 26th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: E4, Skins
Naomi (Lily Loveless) thinks she has the world worked out, and puts people in their appropriate boxes. There is her hippy mum (Olivia Colman); the adoration from Emily (Kathryn Prescott); Cook’s (Jack O’Connell) insulting misogyny; and her politics teacher, Kieron’s (Ardal O’Hanlon), flattery. She thinks she has them all sussed, and that it’s only her who can see the truth.
February 5th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: E4, Skins
Thomas (Merveille Lukeba) arrives alone in the UK from the Congo. His family are due to join him in a few days, and he has to find somewhere for them to live. He finds an abandoned flat on an estate, but little does he know that local gangster Johnny White (Mackenzie Crook) is his new landlord, and there’s no way Johnny’s going to let him live there for free.
January 26th, 2009 by Lisa McGarry. Tags: 90210, E4
The new and revamped 90210 hits the UK this week on E4, and here is a clip from the pilot episode.
The series begins with a feature-length episode. Harry Wilson, the new principal of West Beverly Hills High School, and his wife Debbie, daughter Annie and adopted son Dixon relocate from Kansas to their new Los Angeles neighbourhood.