Channel 4 is surprisingly good. It was, for a long time, considered something of a joke but it is probably one of the better channels around. A lot of the days schedule is...uninteresting, but at certain times of the day they do show some top quality programmes.
The 6-7 slot is also quite often filled with something worth watching. Hollyoaks is a good example of something that is worth watching.
Friday evenings are also good for comedy with Frasier, Friends, South Park, etc being shown. OK these programmes are not to everyone's taste and the decent shows may be spread a bit thinly at times, but at least they do consistently show decent things at the same times. They don't constantly reschedule programmes to try to win more viewers and end up losing existing ones (take note ITV, BBC, Sky One, etc) and this means that you always know when your favourite programmes are going to be on.
They also show Brookside (if you like soaps), Montel/Ricky/etc (if you like talk shows) and occasionally show the odd film that is worth a look.
Overall Channel 4 is pretty good. It's not ideal, but it's a lot better than most of the channels out there and it is a lot better than people might think.
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Advantages: Well there were some good moments.. Disadvantages: But the whole point of showing PITP is for the performances, cutting them out is like showing a football match without the goals.
brianjarvis 11.07.2000 ·
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