Seven Dwarves is a seven-part documentary reality television series commissioned by Channel 4 in the United Kingdom. The show follows seven dwarf actors as they prepare for and take part in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
The series began broadcasting on 16 August 2011 in the 9pm primetime slot. The first episode attracted more than 2.5 million viewers. The subsequent episodes were equally popular, with the second episode being watched by 2.77 million people.
An observational documentary following a very special bridal shop in the north of England which caters for plus size brides who, like their skinnier counterparts, want to feel like a princess on their big day.
But owners of this specialist bridal boutique, lifelong friends Paula and Lucy, appreciate that brides-to-be come in all shapes and sizes. With off the peg dresses ranging from size 20 to 38 and bespoke dresses getting as large as size 54, no bride is turned away for being too buxom.
The shop’s clientele have often suffered humiliating experiences in the past and some have delayed or even called off their big day because of their dress jitters.
Time Signs is a British television series that aired on Channel 4 in 1991. Presented by Mick Aston, the series tells the story of a Devon valley throughout history. Phil Harding does some reconstruction archaeology.
Time Signs was later developed into Time Team, the long-running archaeology series that has aired since 1994. Time Team has the same producer and also features Mick Aston and Phil Harding.
Unanimous was a United Kingdom-based game show broadcast on Channel 4 from 27 October 2006 to 15 December 2006. It was based on an American game show titled Unan1mous.
Unanimous: The Fallout, was shown on E4 later at night after Unanimous. It was hosted by comedians Paddy McGuinness and Olivia Lee and featured regular guest Karl Daly, played by Tom Bennett.
The 'Host' of the show was Alex Humes. Although fairly unknown, Humes starred in the reality TV programme Space Cadets, also for Channel 4, where he played one of the Russian pilots. The voice-over for the programme was provided by Phil Gallagher.
The show was not live but was recorded many weeks before airing. Contestants were not informed of the rules or objectives of the game before it started - only that they were going to be playing in a game show with a substantial prize fund, and they would be filmed non-stop in an enclosed environment.
Anna Richardson and Amar Latif reveal just what you need to do to lose weight, strengthen your body and improve your fitness levels. They separate fact from fiction when it comes to exercise, helping viewers find out the exercise that's right for them. Offering shortcuts and hacks based on up-to-date scientific research, How to Get Fit Fast, ensures viewers achieve the maximum benefit as quickly as possible.
Clare Balding and her Tibetan terrier Archie present the best stories, craziest dogs, action-packed drama and soppiest dog-lovers from Crufts on Channel 4 in the past 10 years
Blind Young Things is a 2007 British documentary about students at the Royal National College for the Blind in Hereford. The film was shown on Channel 4 as part of the Cutting Edge documentary strand, and aired on 30 April 2007. The film won a Royal Television Society award for Channel Four and the Cutting Edge team in 2008.
The Year The Earth Went Wild looks back at a year where almost every month was affected by a natural disaster. A record-breaking cold winter, the Tsunami in Japan, the extraordinary killer American tornado season, the floods in Australia and a hurricane in New York. 2011 has seen an onslaught of epic-scale climate and geological events across the world - all caught on camera in the most spectacular fashion.
Time Team Live is a British television series that airs on Channel 4. The first programme was shown in 1997 and the most recent was in 2006. Presented by the actor Tony Robinson, this is a live version of the archaeology series Time Team, showing more of what happens in real time, than when the cut-down episode airs on Channel 4.
Superfrank! was a 1987 one-hour television special starring English comedian Frankie Howerd OBE. The special show marked his return to television performance after an absence of five years.
The show was made by Channel 4 and HTV. The script was written by Miles Tredinnick, Vince Powell and Andrew Nickolds and recorded before a live audience at the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare close to where Howerd had his country home in the Mendips. At one stage he is joined by some donkeys who do their best to upstage him. Howerd ends the show with some songs accompanied on the piano by Sunny Rogers. The show was produced by Cecil Korer and Derek Clark. It was transmitted in January 1987.
The show's working title was 'Let's Be Frank!'
How do our brains make us who we are? This thought-provoking series follows patients undergoing complex life-changing brain surgery at Southampton's Neurological Centre.
A reality series that follows the lives and loves of a group of British twenty-somethings as they battle to build their American Dream life in The Big Apple.
Get Your Act Together with Harvey Goldsmith is a Channel 4 television programme in which promoter Harvey Goldsmith is given six months to help revive the fortunes of six entertainment businesses or performers.
The acts and businesses he deals with are Irish singer and actress Samantha Mumba, husband and wife opera business Opera Anywhere, heavy metal band Saxon, radio station Big L 1395, Deighton Working Men's Club and Paulo's, Britain's oldest circus. He dealt with all simultaneously over a six-month period, but they are each given a separate show in the series.
Much of the show revolves around the battle between Goldsmith and the people who he is trying to help. The acts are often reluctant to take on board his advice, or even to change at all. Goldsmith is often frustrated at the slow pace at which those he is advising are progressing.
California Dreaming is a British reality television programme, broadcast on Channel 4's T4 strand, that followed six British celebrities seeking success in Hollywood. They lived in a Hollywood mansion and were trained by doing challenges set by acting guru Bernard Hillier. The programme's title came from the song "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas & the Papas.