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Companies: Best Movies & TV Shows/Series by Channel 4 Television

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the state-owned Channel Four Television Corporation. It is publicly owned, unlike the BBC, it receives no public funding and is instead funded entirely by its own commercial activities. It began its transmission in 1982 and was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom. At the time, the only other channels were the licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV. Originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. Until 2010, Channel 4 did not broadcast in Wales, but many of its programmes were re-broadcast there by the Welsh fourth channel S4C. In 2010, Channel 4 extended service into Wales and became a UK-wide television channel. The network's headquarters are based in London and Leeds, with creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol. ()

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The IT Crowd(2006-2010)

TV-14
| 22min per episode | Comedy
4.1/5 (with 531 votes)

Two I.T. nerds and their clueless female manager, who work in the basement of a very successful company. When they are called on for help, they are never treated with any respect at all.

Celebrity Big Brother(2001-)

1h per episode | Reality-TV
2.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Celebrity Big Brother is a British reality television game show in which a number of celebrity contestants live in an isolated house trying to avoid being evicted by the public with the aim of winning a large cash prize being donated to the winner's nominated charity at the end of the run.

Willem & Frieda: Defying the Nazis(2023)

1h 8min | History, Documentary

Willem was an artist who lived openly as a gay man at a time when few did. Frieda was a well-connected musician who became the first woman to lead an orchestra. We learn of their early lives and the selfless decisions that informed their devotion to the anti-Nazi cause, often at great personal risk. The gentle revelation of these extraordinary lives is gradually revealed through archive footage, skillfully combined with photographs and interviews with experts, journalists and family members.

Humans(2015-2018)

TV-14
| 46min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama, Mystery
3.7/5 (with 239 votes)

In a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for any busy family is a 'Synth' - a highly-developed robotic servant that's so similar to a real human it's transforming the way we live.

Father Ted(1995-1998)

24min per episode | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 120 votes)

A crazy comedy about three rather strange parish priests exiled to Craggy Island, a remote island off the Irish west coast.

Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams(2017-2018)

TV-MA
| 52min per episode | Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 106 votes)

A diverse anthology of ambitious, moving tales inspired by Philip K Dick's short stories.

Ring of the Nibelungs(2004)

PG-13
| 2h 13min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy, TV Movie
3.2/5 (with 56 votes)

In this swords-and-sorcery tale, good-hearted blacksmith Eyvind hides away infant Prince Siegfried after two malevolent kings murder his father. But a fiery meteor sent by the gods reveals Siegfried's destiny, sending him on the quest of a lifetime. To save a crumbling kingdom claim the heart of his true love, he'll have to slay the nefarious dragon, Fafnir.

24 Hours in Police Custody(2014-)

45min per episode | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 4 votes)

The landmark documentary series that captures real life drama at its most intense, following police detectives around the clock as they investigate major crimes.

Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel(1987)

4.0/5 (with 52 votes)

Anne Shirley, now a schoolteacher, has begun writing stories and collecting rejection slips. She acts as Diana's maid of honor, develops a relationship with Gilbert Blythe, and finds herself at Kingsport Ladies' College. But while Anne enjoys the battles and the friends she makes, she finds herself returning to Avonlea.

Directed by Kevin Sullivan - With Megan Follows

The Girl Who Leapt Through Space(2009)

4.4/5 (with 3 votes)

In the year 311 of the Orbital Calendar, humanity has migrated to countless colony clusters in space. A space colony girl named Akiha Shishidou encounters a malevolent artificial intelligence named Leopard that has been installed on a colony.

Directed by Masakazu Obara

Three Identical Strangers(2018)

PG-13
| 1h 36min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 289 votes)

New York, 1980. Three complete strangers accidentally discover that they're identical triplets, separated at birth. The 19-year-olds' joyous reunion catapults them to international fame, but also unlocks an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes beyond their own lives – and could transform our understanding of human nature forever.

Directed by Tim Wardle

The First(2018)

TV-MA
| 46min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 32 votes)

Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth.

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Black Mirror: White Christmas(2014)

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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Secret State(2012)

45min per episode | Drama
3.6/5 (with 17 votes)

Secret State explores the relationship between a democratically elected government, big business and the banks.

Directed by Ed Fraiman - With Gabriel Byrne

Swingers(2020)

47min | Documentary
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Observational documentary unlocking the doors of Britain's hidden swinging scene via access to one of the country's most popular swinging clubs and candid interviews with the club's founder, staff and clientele.

Ultraviolet(1998)

50min per episode | Drama, Science-Fiction & Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 12 votes)

Ultraviolet is a 1998 United Kingdom television series written and directed by Joe Ahearne and starring Jack Davenport, Susannah Harker, Idris Elba and Philip Quast. Music was composed and performed by Sue Hewitt. The programme was produced by World Productions for Channel 4.

National Treasure(2016)

48min per episode | Drama
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

Paul Finchley is a bona fide "national treasure", one half of a popular, long-running comedy double act. The famous comedian's world is thrown into chaos when he is accused of historic sexual abuse.

Directed by Marc Munden

The Hoobs(2023-)

25min per episode
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

The Hoobs is a BAFTA-winning television programme created and produced by The Jim Henson Company and Sesame Workshop.

Caravaggio(1986)

NR
| 1h 33min | Drama, History, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 60 votes)

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Queen: Live at Wembley Stadium(1986)

1h 50min | Music
4.3/5 (with 60 votes)

One of the world's biggest bands returns to the scene of their Live Aid triumph (one year earlier in 1985) to play all their greatest hits in front of a packed Wembley Stadium.

Directed by Gavin Taylor - With Freddie Mercury

Bob and Margaret(1998-2001)

30min per episode | Animation, Comedy
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Bob and Margaret is a Canadian/UK animated television series that was also shown in the United States and all over the world. The series was produced by Nelvana, a Toronto animation studio, and created by Canadian David Fine and Brit Alison Snowden. The series was based on the Academy Award winning short film Bob's Birthday, featuring the same main characters, which won the Best Animated Short Film Oscar in 1994. The series is one of the few Canadian TV shows to ever have regular American exposure. In Canada, it was the highest rated Canadian made animation series ever when it aired in prime time on Global Television. The show revolved around a married English couple named Bob and Margaret Fish, a middle class 40-ish working couple with no children and two dogs named William and Elizabeth. Bob is a dentist and Margaret is a chiropodist. Bob and Margaret struggle with everyday issues and mid life crisis. Stories often revolve around the mundane, but in a way which is eminently relatable. From the trials of shopping to dealing with friends who annoy them, but owe them a dinner. In the first two seasons, Bob and Margaret lived in England, in the South London community of Balham. For the third and fourth seasons, however, they moved to Toronto, Canada, allowing the writers to explore the humour of culture clash. The move was actually inspired by the realities of funding, with certain Canadian tax benefits dependent on stories actually based in Canada. As such, to keep the series funded, the move was necessary. The creators of the series chose to take an executive role on these latter two seasons, reviewing scripts and consulting, but not involved in the detail they were for the first two seasons. Snowden continued to provide the voice of Margaret, but Bob's voice, originally played by Andy Hamilton, was replaced by Brian George.

The Virtues(2019)

TV-MA
| 45min per episode | Drama
3.8/5 (with 15 votes)

Joseph falls into despair when his nine-year-old son Shea leaves for Australia with his ex Debbie. Suffering the hangover from hell, he walks away from his present life and boards a boat bound for Ireland to confront memories from his childhood.

GamesMaster(1992-1998)

30min per episode
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

GamesMaster was a British television show, screened on Channel 4 from 1992 to 1998, and was the first ever UK television show dedicated to computer and video games.

Deceit(2021)

47min per episode | Drama, Crime
4.1/5 (with 5 votes)

The true story of a controversial honeytrap at the heart of the 1992 police investigation into the murder of a young mother in London. Examining the complicated and toxic sexual politics of the early ‘90s and the police’s obsession with the wrong man, Deceit enters a dysfunctional world, where a female undercover officer, codename ‘Lizzie James’, is asked to become sexual bait for a suspected killer.

A Dance to the Music of Time(1997)

1h per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.

The Irish R.M.(1983-1985)

50min per episode | Drama, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The Irish R.M. refers to a series of books by the Anglo-Irish novelists Somerville and Ross, and the television comedy-drama series based on them. They are set in turn of the 20th century west of Ireland.

The Bisexual(2018)

30min per episode | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 9 votes)

Leila takes a break from her decade long relationship with partner Sadie, and begins to explore her own bisexuality.

Directed by Desiree Akhavan

Shackleton(2002)

1h 43min per episode | Drama, Action & Adventure
3.5/5 (with 13 votes)

The true story of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition to the the South Pole and his epic struggle to lead his crew to safety after his ship was crushed in the pack ice.

New Worlds(2014)

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Set in the turbulent 1680s, this four-part drama takes place on both sides of the Atlantic, as these two young men and two young women commit their lives to a fairer future with blood, passion and urgency. New Worlds is a gripping story of love and loss and the human price paid for the freedoms we enjoy today.

Directed by Charles Martin

Wife Swap(2004-2010)

TV-PG
| 1h per episode | Reality-TV
2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Have you ever wondered whether the grass is greener on the other side of the fence? Two wives discover that it often isn't when they hand over the keys to their homes and literally switch families ” but not bedrooms ” for two weeks on the new reality show Wife Swap, already a critically-acclaimed smash hit in its third season in the U.K.

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