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T4 is a scheduling slot on Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
 (UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
) from about 09:00 until 14:00 Saturday and 17:00 on Sundays. It also airs on weekdays in the school holidays. The slot has a separate station identification
Station identification

Station identification is the practice of radio or television stations or networks identifying themselves on air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name ....
 on screen graphic
Digital on-screen graphic

A digital on-screen graphic is a watermark-like station logo that many television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area of their programs to identify the channel....
 from Channel 4 and E4. The logo of T4 is noticeably the top right segment of the standard Channel 4 logo.

The slot is targeted at the 16-25 age group.

T4 Executives are Richard Cook (Executive Producer) and Jessica Sebastian (Series Producer).






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T4 is a scheduling slot on Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
 (UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
) from about 09:00 until 14:00 Saturday and 17:00 on Sundays. It also airs on weekdays in the school holidays. The slot has a separate station identification
Station identification

Station identification is the practice of radio or television stations or networks identifying themselves on air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name ....
 on screen graphic
Digital on-screen graphic

A digital on-screen graphic is a watermark-like station logo that many television broadcasters overlay over a portion of the screen-area of their programs to identify the channel....
 from Channel 4 and E4. The logo of T4 is noticeably the top right segment of the standard Channel 4 logo.

The slot is targeted at the 16-25 age group.

T4 Executives are Richard Cook (Executive Producer) and Jessica Sebastian (Series Producer). It was created by Andi Peters
Andi Peters

Andi Peters is an England television presenter, voice actor and executive. He initially obtained national TV exposure as a presenter within CBBC playing second fiddle to Ed the Duck, and subsequently acquired technical experience....
, a former CBBC presenter and Channel 4 commissioning editor for children's and youth at the time.

Early on in T4's run, programmes aimed at children often aired in addition to the content aimed at older viewers, with shows such as CatDog
CatDog

CatDog was an United States animated television series on Nickelodeon created by Peter Hannan....
 and 2 Stupid Dogs
2 Stupid Dogs

2 Stupid Dogs is an American animated television series created by Donovan Cook and produced by Cartoon Network Studios that originally ran from 11 September 1993 to 21 January 1995 on TBS Superstation....
 appearing in the early schedule of the strand. Around 2001, this was dropped and the strand refocused entirely towards the teen/youth market. For the first few months of T4's life, its idents consisted of an animated spaceman like character. In 1999, this character instead appeared on the idents during the early morning pre-school shows, in addition to the weekend children's programmes that fell outside the T4 strand. These idents continued in use until 2004.

T4 also stages an annual summer concert, T4 on the Beach
T4 on the Beach

T4 on the Beach is a British one day music event which is held on the beach at Weston-super-Mare and televised for Channel 4, which is now in its sixth year....
, in the resort of Weston-super-Mare
Weston-super-Mare

Weston-super-Mare is a seaside resort town and civil parish in North Somerset, part of the Ceremonial counties of England of Somerset, England. It is located on the Bristol Channel coast, south west of Bristol, spanning the coast between the bounding high ground of Worlebury Hill and Bleadon Hill....
. The 2006 concert featured musical acts such as McFly, Razorlight
Razorlight

Razorlight are an England-Sweden indie rock band formed in 2002. They are primarily known in their home countries, having topped the charts with the 2006 single America and its parent Razorlight , their second....
, Will Young
Will Young

Will Young is an English singer-songwriter and actor. He rose to fame in 2002 after winning the inaugural Pop Idol contest....
 and The Zutons
The Zutons

The Zutons is an England indie rock band from Liverpool. They were formed in 2001 but did not release their first album, Who Killed...... The Zutons?, until May 2004....
. Each act performs two or three songs, but these are generally mimed as the concert is produced for a TV audience. This isn't always the case however, certain artists like Beyoncé have performed on the show live. The concert on 22 July 2007 was the third year running that 'T4 On the Beach' had taken place in Weston-super-Mare which featured The Pigeon Detectives
The Pigeon Detectives

The Pigeon Detectives are an England band from Rothwell, West Yorkshire, Leeds, who formed in 2002. They have been championed by such well known DJs as Steve Lamacq and Jo Whiley, and performed at the Reading and Leeds Festivals in 2006, where they were tagged "the band most likely to leap to the main stage in 2007? in an NME review....
 and McFly, among others.

Also, after E4's launch in 2001, T4 initially also had a slot on the channel. However, this was short lived. They also had an equally short lived Friday evening slot on Channel 4. Following the sale of Quiz Call
Quiz Call

Quiz Call is a late night/early morning phone-in quiz TV show, produced by Ostrich Media for Five , Five US and Fiver_%28channel%29.It is broadcast live every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from around midnight through to 4.00am....
 by Channel 4, it is rumoured that a T4 channel was one of the proposals to fill the vacant slot on Freeview (and subsequently on satellite and cable). However, the plan is also thought to have been rejected by director of television Kevin Lygo, as the slot was filled by Film4+1
Film4

Film4 is a free-to-air digital television channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, owned and operated by Channel 4, that screens films....
 (now replaced, in turn, by Channel 4+1
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
).

Presenters

Current presenters
  • Steve Jones
    Steve Jones (presenter)

    Steve Jones is a Welsh people Presenter, actor and Model . He is most well known for presenting Channel 4's T4 strand of programmes.Born in Rhondda near Cardiff, Wales, he started as a model for Esquire , then moved into presenting starting with The Pop Factory and 99 Things To Do Before You Die....
     (2005-)
  • Miquita Oliver
    Miquita Oliver

    Miquita Zorra Oliver is a United Kingdom television presenter. Born in Paddington, London, her mother is former Rip Rig & Panic singer and television presenter Andrea Oliver....
     (2006-)
  • Rick Edwards
    Rick Edwards

    Rick Edwards is a United Kingdom TV presenter who mainly works on Channel 4 and E4 . Rick currently presents T4 with co-hosts Steve Jones , Miquita Oliver and Alexa Chung....
     (2007-)
  • Alexa Chung
    Alexa Chung

    Alexa Chung is a United Kingdom TV presenter and former fashion model....
     (2008-)
  • James Delow (Continuity announcer)
  • Marcus Bentley
    Marcus Bentley

    Marcus Bentley is a United Kingdom actor, presenter and voiceover artist. Born in Gateshead, he was brought up in Stockton on Tees and attended East 15 Acting School in London....
     (Stand-in continuinty announcer)


Previous presenters
  • Fran Lee (1998-1999)
  • Simon Amstell
    Simon Amstell

    Simon Marc Amstell is a BAFTA nominated, award-winning England comedian and television presenter. In 2007, Amstell was nominated for "The Times Breakthrough South Bank Show Award"....
     (2003-2006)
  • Anthony Crank
    Anthony Crank

    Anthony Crank is a British television presenter, journalist and actor, probably best known for his work on Channel 4's T4 , MTV and Bingo Night Live on ITV1....
     (2004-2005)
  • Dermot O'Leary
    Dermot O'Leary

    Dermot O'Leary is a presenter of radio presenter and television presenter, best known for presenting Big Brother's Little Brother and, currently, The X Factor ....
     (1998-1999)
  • Margherita Taylor
    Margherita Taylor

    Margherita Taylor is a British DJ and television presenter.She found fame in 1993 when Birmingham based radio station BRMB offered her a slot as a DJ as part of a talent contest....
     (1999-2001)
  • Ben Shephard
    Ben Shephard

    Ben Shephard is an England television presenter....
     (1999-2000)
  • Alex Zane
    Alex Zane

    Alex Zane is an England television presenter, stand-up comedian and Disc jockey....
     (2007-2008)
  • MC Harvey (2003-2004)
  • Robby C
  • June Sarpong (2000-2007)
  • Vernon Kay
    Vernon Kay

    Vernon Charles Kay is a United Kingdom television presenter, DJ and former model from Bolton, Lancashire, England. He began TV presenting on the BBC children's show FBi, a spin-off of Fully Booked....
     (2000-2005)


Programming

Programmes that have aired as part of T4 include:
  • Age of Love
    Age of Love

    Age of Love can refer to:* Age of Love , a reality television show on NBC* Age of Love , a 1997 studio album by Scooter* The Age of Love , a 1997 single by Scooter...
     - No longer showing
  • Andromeda
    Andromeda (TV series)

    Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda was a Canada/United States science fiction television series, based on unused material by the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Roddenberry....
  • Angel
    Angel (TV series)

    Angel is an American television series, a spin-off of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer . The series was created by Buffys creator, Joss Whedon in collaboration with David Greenwalt, and first aired on October 5, 1999....
     (Seasons One and Two only, heavily edited)
  • Angela Anaconda
    Angela Anaconda

    Angela Anaconda is a cutout animation television series that aired on the Fox Family Channel in the United States It centers around the adventures of a twelve-year-old girl named Angela, who lives in Oregon, has wacky brothers, weird friends, and hates a snobbish fake-French girl named Nanette Manoir....
  • As If
    As If

    As If is a United Kingdom teen dramedy series broadcast on Channel 4. There were four series, the first broadcast in January 2001 and the last in July 2004....
  • Average Joe
    Average Joe

    Average Joe was an United States reality television show broadcast on the National Broadcasting Company beginning in 2003. There were a total of four seasons, the first two following the original show premise, and the last two bringing back contestants from prior seasons....
     -No longer showing
  • Beauty and The Geek
    Beauty and the Geek

    Beauty and the Geek is a reality television series on The CW Television Network. It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora....
     -Has featured British and American Versions
  • Big Brother
    Big Brother (UK)

    Big Brother is a reality television series broadcast in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland on Channel 4 and E4 , and on S4C in Wales....
     (in particular, censored repeats of the live Friday night eviction shows on Saturdays) - Shows when Big Brother Series is being aired.
  • Celebrity Big Brother
    Celebrity Big Brother

    Celebrity Big Brother could refer to:*Any series of Big Brother #Celebrity Big Brother:** Celebrity Big Brother 2001 ** Celebrity Big Brother 2002 ...
     - Shows when Celebrity Big Brother Series is being aired.
  • Big Brother's Little Brother - Shows when Big Brother Series is being aired.
  • Chancers
  • Charmed
    Charmed

    Charmed is an award-winning, Television in the United States cult television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998 until May 21, 2006, when its network, The WB Television Network, ceased operation....
     (Season Eight
    List of Charmed episodes

    valign="top"||||}The following is the episode list for 178 episodes aired in the eight year run of Warner Brothers television series Charmed, created by executive producer and head writer Constance M....
     only)
  • Cheers
    Cheers

    Cheers is an American situation comedy television series that ran for eleven seasons from 1982 to 1993. It was produced by Charles/Burrows/Charles Productions in association with Paramount Television for NBC, having been created by the team of James Burrows, Glen Charles, and Les Charles....
  • Dawson's Creek
    Dawson's Creek

    Dawson's Creek is an United States primetime television drama which initially aired from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003, on The WB Television Network....
     - No longer showing
  • Frasier
    Frasier

    Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
     - Not currently airing
  • Friends
    Friends

    Friends is an American situation comedy created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, which premiered on NBC on September 22, 1994. The series revolves around a group of friends in the area of Manhattan, New York City, who occasionally live together and share living expenses....
     - Airs Every Weekday at 5:00, 5:30, 8:00 and 8:30, Saturday and Sunday but Quantity of episodes and Timeslot varies from week to week (Heavily edited to suit timeslot)
  • Frock Me
  • Futurama
    Futurama

    Futurama is an Animated cartoon United States Situation comedy created by Matt Groening, and developed by Groening and David X. Cohen for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
     - No longer showing. (Now on Sky1, Sky2 and Sky3)
  • Girls Aloud: Off The Record
    Girls Aloud: Off the Record

    Girls Aloud: Off the Record is a six-part series recorded by Girls Aloud for E4 that started on April 11, 2006 at 10:30pm. It is a Monkey Kingdom production for Channel Four, and is 'onlined' at Bravo Post Production....
     (Now on 4Music
    4Music

    4Music is a music Television channel in the Television in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is the only channel within the Box Television Network to be branded under Channel 4 and the only channel in the network to be broadcast in widescreen....
    , also shown on E4)
  • Hollyoaks
    Hollyoaks

    Hollyoaks is an award winning British television soap opera which was first broadcast on 23 October 1995 on Channel 4. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill ....
     - An omnibus including all 5 episodes aired in that week airs every Sunday around 9am-12pm
  • Johnny Bravo
    Johnny Bravo

    Johnny Bravo is an American List of animated television series created by Van Partible. It premiered on July 7, 1997 on Cartoon Network and ran for 65 episodes and 4 seasons....
     (1999 to 2002) - No longer showing
  • King of the Hill
    King of the Hill

    King of the Hill is an Television in the United States List of animated television series created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels, for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
     - currently showing separately as part of night-time schedule
  • Musicool
    Musicool

    Musicool was a UK-based reality TV show, aired on Sundays as part of Channel 4's popular show T4 .The show aimed to write and produce a West End theatre production with a cast of singers and musicians from musical genres unassociated with musical theatre....
     - Not currently airing
  • My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss
    My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss

    My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss was a television show on the Fox Network that was filmed in July 2004 and aired in 2004-2005. Similar to My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance, it was a parody of shows such as The Apprentice ....
     -No longer showing
  • The O.C.
    The O.C.

    The O.C. is an United States teen drama television series that originally aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company network in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons....
     (sometimes edited from the version shown at 9pm on E4 to suit timeslot)
  • T4 MoblieAct Unsigned.
  • Nokia Green Room
  • One Tree Hill
    One Tree Hill (TV series)

    One Tree Hill is a Teen drama which takes place in a small fictional North Carolina town. It was created by Mark Schwahn and premiered on September 23, 2003 on The WB Television Network....
  • Orange unsignedAct
    Orange unsignedAct

    Orange UnsignedAct is a 2008/2009 Channel Four talent competition created by Janosch Brengel, with bands and artists competing for a recording contract with Universal Music, a ?60,000 advance, a single released after the series, an album deal and a multi media marketing campaign....
  • Planet Pop - (Later replaced by Popworld
    Popworld

    Popworld was a United Kingdom television programme that was broadcast on Channel 4, offering pop news, trivia, gossip, interviews and music videos, as well as musical performances from the most recent top artists....
    ) - Not currently airing
  • Popworld
    Popworld

    Popworld was a United Kingdom television programme that was broadcast on Channel 4, offering pop news, trivia, gossip, interviews and music videos, as well as musical performances from the most recent top artists....
     - Was given a revamp in 2006 but later axed in 2007.
  • Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll
    Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search For the Next Doll

    Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll is the first season of Pussycat Dolls Present: that premiered on March 6, 2007 on The CW Television Network, and took place over the course of eight weeks....
     - Now appears on 4Music
    4Music

    4Music is a music Television channel in the Television in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is the only channel within the Box Television Network to be branded under Channel 4 and the only channel in the network to be broadcast in widescreen....
  • Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious
    Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious

    The Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious is the second and final season of Pussycat Dolls Present:, in which young aspiring female singers/dancers compete in order to claim their spots to become the group "Girlicious"....
     - Now appears on 4Music
    4Music

    4Music is a music Television channel in the Television in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is the only channel within the Box Television Network to be branded under Channel 4 and the only channel in the network to be broadcast in widescreen....
  • Reaper
    Reaper

    A reaper is a person or machine that reaps crop when they are ripe....
  • Relentless
  • Renford Rejects
    Renford Rejects

    Renford Rejects was a teen sitcom produced and broadcast by Nickelodeon UK between 1998 and 2001. The show briefly aired in the United States on Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids....
     (1999 to 2001) - No longer showing
  • Shipwrecked
    Shipwrecked (TV series)

    Shipwrecked is a United Kingdom reality television programme airing on Channel 4's youth programming brand, T4 . The original version ran in three series from 2000 to 2002 and was constructed as a social experiment, without a competitive format or a prize....
     - Current series appearing on 4Music
    4Music

    4Music is a music Television channel in the Television in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. It is the only channel within the Box Television Network to be branded under Channel 4 and the only channel in the network to be broadcast in widescreen....
  • Scrubs - Also appears on E4
  • Smallville
    Smallville (TV series)

    Smallville is an Television in the United States series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics fictional character Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster....
     - Airs 3.00pm-4.00pm Every Sunday (Edited to suit timeslot), Also on E4
  • Sister, Sister
    Sister, Sister (TV series)

    Sister, Sister is an United States television program sitcom about identical twin girls , separated and adoption at birth, who one day come face-to-face after 14 years apart....
     - No longer showing. (Now shows on Nickelodeon
    Nickelodeon (TV channel)

    Nickelodeon is an United States cable television network owned by Viacom International, founded in 1977 as Pinwheel. The Pinwheel name was used until 1981....
    )
  • The Simpsons
    The Simpsons

    The Simpsons is an Television in the United States animated cartoon Situation comedy created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company....
     - Every Sunday roughly 4.00pm-5.00pm (Heavily edited to suit timeslot)
  • The Sopranos
    The Sopranos

    The Sopranos was an United States television drama series created and Executive producer#Television by David Chase. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the premium television cable television HBO from January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007, spanning List of The Sopranos episodes....
     (Heavily edited to suit timeslot, No Longer Showing)
  • Totally Frank
    Totally Frank

    Totally Frank was a comedy drama series with a real life band as its stars on Channel 4. It followed a band, Frank , who were struggling to make it in the music industry....
     (No Longer Showing)
  • Star Trek: Enterprise
    Star Trek: Enterprise

    Enterprise, retitled Star Trek: Enterprise at the start of its third season, was a science fiction television program created by Brannon Braga and Rick Berman and set in the Star Trek universe created by Gene Roddenberry....
     (No Longer Showing)
  • Stargate SG1 (No Longer Showing)
  • 4Music On The Beach
  • T4 On The Beach
    T4 on the Beach

    T4 on the Beach is a British one day music event which is held on the beach at Weston-super-Mare and televised for Channel 4, which is now in its sixth year....
  • Postcard from T4 On The Beach
    T4 on the Beach

    T4 on the Beach is a British one day music event which is held on the beach at Weston-super-Mare and televised for Channel 4, which is now in its sixth year....
  • The West Wing
    The West Wing (TV series)

    The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. It was produced/written by Sorkin and also produced by Thomas Schlamme....
     (No Longer Showing)
  • Ugly Betty
    Ugly Betty

    Ugly Betty is an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and Peabody Award winning American television program comedy-drama series starring America Ferrera in the title role, along with Eric Mabius, Vanessa L....
     (repeat of the Friday night episode)
  • When Women Rule The World
    When Women Rule the World

    When Women Rule the World is an announced reality television series originally announced to premiere on Fox Broadcasting in spring 2007, then pushed to June 2, 2008, then delayed again in April 2008....
     -Repeat from Wednesday's show
  • Will & Grace
    Will & Grace

    Will & Grace is a popular Emmy Award-winning United States television situation comedy that was originally broadcast on NBC from 1998 to 2006....
     (No Longer Showing)
  • WWF Heat
    WWE HEAT

    WWE Heat was a professional wrestling show for World Wrestling Entertainment.It was aired on USA Network, MTV and Spike in the United States, Channel 4 and Sky One in the United Kingdom and Rogers Sportsnet in Canada....
     (1999 to 2002)
  • Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
     January 2006 only- Although still on its Wednesday night slot on Channel 4
    Channel 4

    Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
    , the Sunday night at 6.45pm repeat was axed after just the first six episodes of season Two due to poor ratings.
  • Vanity Lair
    Vanity Lair

    Vanity Lair is a reality television program on Channel 4 , which started on the 3rd of February 2008, it is presented by Alexa Chung.The show aims to discover what being beautiful really is....


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