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27-03-2008, 09:06
Gok Wan is to host a new fashion series for Channel 4 as part of its new spring/summer programme schedule.
Under the working title Gok's Clothes Show, the host will show the audience how to adopt the latest fashion trend on both a small and large budget. The series will also take a look into the wardrobes of celebrities.
Also featured in the forthcoming season is the six-part series How TV Changed Britain which will use shows from Z-Cars to Cracker to examine police-public relations and will also reflect on the role of teenagers in soaps and programmes dedicated to the national obsession with homes.
There is also to be a Victorian Passions season, including four documentaries about sex and love in Victorian England.
Rupert Everett travels from Bombay to Egypt in the footsteps of Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who brought the Kama Sutra and The Arabian Nights to the UK.
Dickens' Double Life looks at the hidden story of Charles Dickens' adulterous passion for a woman 22 years his junior.
Granada is making Upstairs Downstairs Love, which reveals the true story of a gentleman and his servant lover who broke Puritanical codes by embracing master-slave role-playing, ritual and fashion.
Channel 4 is to launch a new nightly topical comedy series featuring new talent.
The Nightly Show will air on weeknights across three weeks in August as part of Channel 4's new talent month.
Other new comedy will include two commissions from last year's new talent initiative Comedy Showcase - The Kevin Bishop Show, produced by the team behind Star Stories, and Plus One, from writing partnership Tim Allsop and Stewart Williams. Peep Show will also return for a new fifth series.
The channel's summer season also marks the final run of Richard and Judy's teatime show on the channel.
Charlotte Church is returning for a third series of her show, the first since her baby was born in September.
Other popular programmes which are returning for new series include The Friday Night Project.
One of the show's hosts, Justin Lee Collins, will embark upon a quest to reunite the cast of the Star Wars film franchise.
Star Stories' Kevin Bishop will star in a self-titled comedy show
A ninth series of Big Brother will be screened with regular host Davina McCall - but Channel 4 has yet to reveal the details of this year's format.
Under the working title Gok's Clothes Show, the host will show the audience how to adopt the latest fashion trend on both a small and large budget. The series will also take a look into the wardrobes of celebrities.
Also featured in the forthcoming season is the six-part series How TV Changed Britain which will use shows from Z-Cars to Cracker to examine police-public relations and will also reflect on the role of teenagers in soaps and programmes dedicated to the national obsession with homes.
There is also to be a Victorian Passions season, including four documentaries about sex and love in Victorian England.
Rupert Everett travels from Bombay to Egypt in the footsteps of Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who brought the Kama Sutra and The Arabian Nights to the UK.
Dickens' Double Life looks at the hidden story of Charles Dickens' adulterous passion for a woman 22 years his junior.
Granada is making Upstairs Downstairs Love, which reveals the true story of a gentleman and his servant lover who broke Puritanical codes by embracing master-slave role-playing, ritual and fashion.
Channel 4 is to launch a new nightly topical comedy series featuring new talent.
The Nightly Show will air on weeknights across three weeks in August as part of Channel 4's new talent month.
Other new comedy will include two commissions from last year's new talent initiative Comedy Showcase - The Kevin Bishop Show, produced by the team behind Star Stories, and Plus One, from writing partnership Tim Allsop and Stewart Williams. Peep Show will also return for a new fifth series.
The channel's summer season also marks the final run of Richard and Judy's teatime show on the channel.
Charlotte Church is returning for a third series of her show, the first since her baby was born in September.
Other popular programmes which are returning for new series include The Friday Night Project.
One of the show's hosts, Justin Lee Collins, will embark upon a quest to reunite the cast of the Star Wars film franchise.
Star Stories' Kevin Bishop will star in a self-titled comedy show
A ninth series of Big Brother will be screened with regular host Davina McCall - but Channel 4 has yet to reveal the details of this year's format.