Channel 4 getting it's act together

Now Graham Norton has gone it looks like Channel 4 is finally getting it's act together with a host of entertainment and drama every weeknight from next week.

Without a Trace, the excellent UK comedy drama Shameless, ER and Sex and the City are on next week at 10pm, with Frasier returning next Wednesday at 11pm and Six Feet Under and NYPD Blue on Thursday from 11pm.

The brilliant Little Friends is on Tuesdays and Banzai returns next Friday, although now in a 11.45pm slot, while Father Ted gets a re-run on Thursday at 10pm.

It's been a while since C4 had programming of this calibre across the week - Graham Norton has pushed alot of it out IMO - so it's nice to have something to watch again.

E4 is also picking up slightly, although still not of the quality of it's early days.

It's nice to see Father Ted back on the main channel, probably one of or the best programme ever to come out of the channel. I am so glad now that Graham Norton will only be on once a week, and thats how it should be, oh well at least he is leaving Channel 4.

It is slightly improving, but why the f*ck are they showing Series 4 of Futurama on at 1.10am?!?!? It's the same with South Park and King of the Hill.

Don't forget NYPD Blue, which is on at midnight.

And how can anyone say that Little Friends is excellent? It's cheap, cruel, nasty TV.

If Futurama were repeats I wouldn't mind but they are NEW EPISODES! What are channel 4 thinking!
It must be popular because Sky show it at a PEAK TIME slot (well, if u call 5pm a peak time slot). Channel 4 should show it at about 6pm and move The Salon to the morning at 7am (instead of repeating them the next day) and put the ruder eps of Futurama on at 9/10pm. I am sure C4 could find a 30min slot for one of the funniest animations around.

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I wouldn't mind if they shownt it around 1pm as part of T4 on Saturdays & Sundays, but 1:10pm is just stupid, especially for new episodes, they may as well let someone else take the rights. Perhaps itv should go for the next rights to put on after CiTV.

Why are Channel 4 hiding Frasier away at 23:00 on Wednesday nights? As this is the final season of Frasier , it
should be returned to the old timeslot it used to have for several years . . . 22:00 on Friday night. Especially
now that Graham Norton no longer has a show that's scheduled in a nightly timeslot anymore.

Its great to have ER back on Channel 4/E4

Friday 10pm is the traditional Frasier slot, but I personally preferred it's slot last year on Monday nights as often I missed it on a Friday. Frasier pulled in good ratings on Friday nights and pushing it back to 11pm may not suit some, but I personally believe that viewers of late night TV deserve quality programming aswell so do get slightly annoyed when you see people pushing for programmes to be moved from daytime/night time to primetime.

One of the things is that I don't like to slate Fraiser, it is okay, but it is isn't the same sort of comedy as Friends or Will and Grace, granted the Friday 10pm slot was the traditional slot it doesn't seem to fit into the schedule if you know what I mean. Monday at 10.00pm I believe is far more sensible. But I have to say 11.00pm is taking the p*ss, though one of the problems is that the quality of Fraiser has gone poorer over the years, IMO gradually getting worse, but it still deserves a good slot. If not hope for lunchtime showing or watch the endless repeats on Paramount.

Does anyone know when The Salon will be ending, as this show is getting on my nerves big time now, is it going to be all year round? As I hope it is not.

Couldn't agree more, it was sad really that they pushed Graham's show too far - its the "wogan effect" - not enough guests to go round 5 nights a week..... and boy it was just getting smutty to the extreme. Good on Graham for leaving, and lets hope C4 gets off their backside with some original new dramas and comedy that it was so good at in the past...something not property related, or watching boring people in a box etc....

It's good that Channel 4 now get the extra tme (well until Big Brother!), but it's a shame that we won't have a 5 night a week show like leno/letterman in the states.
I wonder what he will be like back on friday nights with NY Graham Norton (is it me, or does that not really work aswell as SO... & V...?).

Grahams gone, ah well. He's like a hideous stench of elephant piddle - you'll never get rid of him, he'll be back in some form.

Lots of house programmes on 4, I like some of them simply because I get an evil kick out of watching people mess their lives up with the likes of flowered patterened wallpaper and green kitchen tiles. Classic scream-at-your-screen telly - "NOT THE GREEN PAINT!! no... yes THAT ONE!! THAT ONE!!! NOT THE GREEN PAINT!!"

And finally e4 - all I watch on it is Smallville. I love Smallville, call me an idiot with no taste if you like, I dont care. So in conclusion, C/E4 is ok, when I want it, it's there.

But have you seen these recent break bumpers on e4?! WHAT?! If this was to be the new way of design then I take back all the bad things I've said about sirthaw's mocks.