Comments on: Worst on 4

By: Steve Williams

Steve Williams — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:39:48 +0000

I see this long, long run of Ramsey’s Kitchen Nightmares USA has now finished, to be replaced by… repeats of Ramsey’s Kitchen Nighmares USA! Gaaahh!

By: Glenn Aylett

Glenn Aylett — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:48:43 +0000

Well the summer isn’t that far away and the bulk of Channel 4′s budget will be spent on yet another 12 weeks of tedium that costs the channel £ 100 million, ie Big Brother. Wouldn’t it be better axeing this ailing and boring reality show and spending the money saved on decent comedy? You can watch a ten year old repeat of Father Ted and still find it hilarious but who in ten years time could stomach a re run of Big Brother, or even remember who actually won it. Hopefully if BB finally dies this year, then it gives Channel 4 the money to spend on comedy and comedy drama.

By: Jamie Rush

Jamie Rush — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:42:58 +0000

yeah I largely agree, though thought Green Wing was one of the funniest sitcoms in years, but most of C4′s other comedic output over the past few years has been largely forgettable. Pretty much every sitcom seems to be aimed at teenagers now, and a lot of it seems aimed at being the next Bo Selecta (which wasn’t exactly a classic to start with). Peep Show and The IT Crowd aside (which I’ve never really taken to myself) the channel has produced a long string of comedic duds, and yeah, the reality TV fixation I think is largely to blame

By: Nick H

Nick H — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:21:19 +0000

Ever since it started chasing the reality show dollar, CH4 has produced almost nothing of note in comedy in the last decade…

By: John

John — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:37:56 +0000

One man’s meat is another man’s poison, and that’s probably more true of comedy than any other type of TV. For my money Free Agents was perhaps the best thing on any channel so far this year: a fast-paced comedy with at times devastating emotional power – a brilliant piece of drama as well as being very funny. I might have missed the references in the article to The IT Crowd and Green Wing (I never got the latter myself, but it was undeniably a success for the Channel), and several of the Comedy Lab pilots last year held a lot of promise. OK, C4 has a lot of cheap filler in all of its genres, but I don’t recognise the picture of a barren comedy landscape painted by this article.