Channel 4 Autumn 2011 Press Pack
Published: 15/09/2011
Channel 4 today unveils a rich and varied autumn season which includes dramas from Ronan Bennett and Charlie Brooker, comedy from the team behind Comic Strip, a campaigning series from George Clarke and a wide range of ambitious factual shows.
Comedy and Entertainment
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TX: October. Award-winning funny man and everyone's favourite loveable chat show host, Alan Carr returns to Channel 4 with the seventh series of Chatty Man -
Black Mirror is a contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world -
This December Jonathan Ross returns to Channel 4 to host British Comedy's most exciting night of the year - and hell be doing it all live -
TX: October. Quiz master Chris Moyles returns to Channel 4 this autumn to host a brand new, fifth series of Quiz Night -
TX: October. The Comic Strip team return for a one off special - a 50s-style 'fugitive' film noir spoof -
TX: October. Derren Brown returns to Channel 4 this autumn in The Experiments, a brand new four-part series -
Kayvan Novak, star of BAFTA winning Fonejacker, returns with a second series of the ground-breaking BAFTA-nominated Facejacker -
TX: October. Stand-up sensation Jack Whitehall stars in his first prime time role, headlining his own brand-new entertainment series -
A comedy panel show where team captains Micky Flanagan and Mark Watson try to find out if they've got what it takes to make it in advertising
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TX: October. Rafe Spall returns to Channel 4 for a second, six part series of the hit comedy sitcom
Drama
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TX: September. A brand-new comedy drama series about the hilarious and painful truths of being a student -
TX: Weekdays. The new term sees Hollyoaks' sixth form college open for business and a new intake of Freshers are welcomed to the local university HCC -
Renowned filmmaker Shane Meadows follows up the explosive award-winning This Is England '86 with three new one-hour films
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On London's Summerhouse Estate, lives are lived along lines, and challenges come in all forms, even - especially - for kids
Factual
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TX: October. Professor Stephen Hawking presents a global exploration of the scientific breakthroughs that are transforming lives in the 21st century -
A major four-part documentary series about the professional and private lives of nurses
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Channel 4's flagship documentary strand returns with a diverse and fascinating selection of films -
History comes to life as engineers, archaeologists, and serving RAF officers excavate the tunnel from which 76 allied airmen escaped in 1944 -
Channel 4 provides viewers with access to a live drug trial
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TX: September. A major new seven-part documentary series that reveals what life is really like for pupils and teachers in an English secondary school -
TX: September. This three-part documentary series reveals what it's really like fighting on a tour of duty in Afghanistan today -
In a pioneering new eight-part specialist factual series, Channel 4 examines the science behind using food as medicine -
TX: October. A new five-part series transforms a family's home from top-to-bottom, filling it with futuristic technology and gadgets -
This four-part series follows seven people undertaking a range of gender reassignment procedures as they seek to realise their true identities -
This drama documentary examines the life and legacy of Alan Turing, one of the most important British scientists ever -
The notoriously private Amish community opens its doors to a group of British teenagers in a new six-part series -
TX: 24/10/11. It is a mystery that has baffled scientists for centuries: how were the Ancient Egyptians able to perfectly preserve their pharaohs for millennia?
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TX: October. Random Acts is a brand new short-form arts strand airing five nights a week on Channel 4
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In this visceral five-part series, Tony Robinson investigates the extraordinary and shocking beliefs that built Britain - and changed history -
The Turner Prize returns to Channel 4 in December with a dedicated half-hour programme during which the winner of the £40,000 prize will be named
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TX: October. Unreported World's intrepid reporters, among them Krishnan Guru-Murthy, investigate stories from some of the most difficult parts of the world -
TX: October. This six-part series is the story of the front line soldiers' war, not the war as written by generals and historians
Factual Entertainment and Features
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TX: October. Sarah Beeny and husband Graham Swift continue the mammoth task of trying to preserve Rise Hall, their stunning, listed 97-room Yorkshire mansion -
George Clarke (Restoration Man) is on a crusade to tackle Britain's housing crisis for this brand new Channel 4 series -
TX: September. The recession continues to bite, but girls still want to look good, so a timely budget edition marks the return of Gok's Clothes RoadShow -
TX: October. In this six-part series, Jamie Oliver the country in search of inspiration for recipes and to find out what makes British food great -
TX: October. The series returns to help teenagers answer burning questions about anything and everything to do with relationships, love and sex -
Kevin McCloud sets out to do the impossible: build beautiful, contemporary, affordable, sustainable homes and still make money -
TX: October. Queen of the Homemade Home, Kirstie Allsopp returns with a brand new series that will really test her mettle as a craftswoman -
TX: October. After all these years dishing out the advice, can Mary Portas, doyenne of the high street, cut the mustard in her own fashion venture?
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TX: October. For his latest series of River Cottage, renowned carnivore Hugh challenges himself to spend the summer as a vegetarian