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What, no Boys And Girls?
Huw | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 1:47 a.m. | #
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Ah, Max Headroom and Blipverts. How I miss thee.
God I feel old. 
The Girl | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 2:32 a.m. | #
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Dude, no Peep Show?!
Tim | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 8:16 a.m. | #
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Anneka Rice on Treasure Hunt. Now there was a woman!!
But they also sometimes had a rude drama on afterwards. Felix Krull, Nana. All Great Literature(TM) of course!
Richard | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 8:42 a.m. | #
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Still remember that first day though the multi-coloured four was wasted as two friends and I viewed on a small black and white set in our first post Uni flat. Here's to the next twenty five years, still, loving the channel (and its add-ons).
NiC | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 9:40 a.m. | #
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Wot? No Countdown?
Scaryduck | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 9:49 a.m. | #
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Also: Wot? No Father Ted?
Scaryduck | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 9:50 a.m. | #
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No GBH!
No After Dark!
garax | 02.11.07 - 10:30 a.m. | #
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"Moviewatch" was where I first became aware of Johnny Vaughan and I believe that was a Channel 4 offering too. Big Breakfast was definitely the pinnacle of his career - I don't think he's ever managed to match it with any of his other projects... Anyone who can make me laugh like a drain at 7am is to be applauded
(Great list - I watched most of these too)
anxious | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 10:40 a.m. | #
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Terrific list, but why no mention of the awesome Father Ted?
Channel 4 used to have the occasional season of really unusual films, too. I still have tapes of several of the Chinese horror films they showed one Christmas.
Alyx | 02.11.07 - 11:23 a.m. | #
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>the occasional season of really unusual films
Ah, those red triangle nights, watching in the dark with the volume low so as not to wake my sleeping parents. Very cultural experience (ahem)
Wayne | 02.11.07 - 11:50 a.m. | #
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For heaven's sake man! Spaced! Are you mad?
Jack | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 12:03 p.m. | #
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A similar list on Guardian Unlimited today:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/
orga...en\\_highs\\_a.html
Scaryduck | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 12:17 p.m. | #
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You've missed Father Ted, Spaced and the amazing Ultraviolet - a classy science fiction thriller off of the late 90s that WASN'T about vampires...  (They were code Vs - never vampires!)
I still miss The Big Breakfast, nothing wakes me up in quite the way the over loud crew and clashing colours managed.
And Wanted - that was brilliant, and I disagree with you DG, I think it would work wonderfully today - the t'internet would enable the viewers to get behind the chase in a far more involved way than technology allowed 10 years ago.
smeg\\_head | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 1:13 p.m. | #
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Wanted was fantastic, just about the only good thing Richard Littlejohn has done.
Talking of Gay Daleks, TV Offal anyone?
Kevinho | 02.11.07 - 3:06 p.m. | #
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Ahhhhh Network 7...
Trying to keep up with all that bloody scrolling text!
A Reader | 02.11.07 - 5:58 p.m. | #
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I'd put Countdown, GBH, Peep Show and Ultraviolet in my "Next 10", along with Porterhouse Blue, Manhattan Cable, A Very British Coup, Sean's Show, So Graham Norton and Banzai.
But I never really got into Father Ted and Spaced, not at the time, for which I apologise.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 6:06 p.m. | #
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Murun Buchstansangur http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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mclm | 02.11.07 - 6:25 p.m. | #
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Max Headroom > Ali G + Borat
minijonb | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 7:20 p.m. | #
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Channel 4 has delivered some great TV, no question!
Jon Combe | 02.11.07 - 9:21 p.m. | #
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I auditioned for The Crystal Maze when I was 16, yes, people really auditioned for it! Well, I was young and it looked like fun, is my defence...
From what I remember I wrote to them asking to go on, they sent back a form with logic/maths questions that you had to send back, too hard for me, so I got my mum and her friends to fill them all in and the result was I was asked to London to audition. When I got there I was told the first audition was all about maths (much to my dismay), and if you passed that, the next was like a army course to show you were fit enough. I also noticed I was the youngest in the room by about 10 years and everyone else was a bit drama school luvvie... We had to stand up and talk about ourselves for about 5 minutes (they spoke about crossing the Sahara, I spoke about going to Spain with my mum), and then get into groups to answer maths/logic questions. I did experience a moment of pleasure when everyone thought I was a maths genius, as I guessed a right answer, but it swiftly went downhill for me from there on in. Unsurprisingly, didn't get called back!
Jayne | Homepage | 02.11.07 - 9:53 p.m. | #
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Sean's Show!!! I forgot about that! That was great.
smeg\\_head | Homepage | 03.11.07 - 3:10 p.m. | #
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Did Chris Evans really, one of those TFI Fridays, aggressively confront Sinead O'Connor, flecking her with spittle and ranting about the babies she had not had? This apparent memory has haunted me for years. Someone else must have seen the same show, so, please, let me genuinely empty my brain of this. What was actually going on?
Ian Appleby | Homepage | 04.11.07 - 3:23 a.m. | #
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Good list of some innovative output. I know it faces the getting revenue vs producing original output dilemma, so its worth putting up with (not watching) a few celeb/reality dumbdowns if it subsidizes some of the good stuff.
rashbre | Homepage | 04.11.07 - 8:57 a.m. | #
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Great list... but so many exclusions. Many mentioned above. But what about A Very British Coup - brilliant drama crushing Thatcher. And Teachers - brilliant comedy during a dead patch in British history... and its follow on - Shameless.
Long Distance | 04.11.07 - 8:10 p.m. | #
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Channel 4 was also responsible for producing a whole swag of rather excellent movies.
Uroskin | Homepage | 05.11.07 - 3:07 a.m. | #
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