BBC's More4 Russain Bear Spot
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- Published: 2006-03-28
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- Author: unitednathan
A commercial promoting Russian film month on the BBC's More4.
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| Online serv 1 | TVCatchup |
|---|---|
| Online chan 1 | Watch live (UK only) |
| Online serv 2 | TVCatchup |
| Online chan 2 | Watch live (+1) (UK only |
To encourage new viewers to try the new service, Channel 4 moved its first-run showing of The West Wing, showing season 6 and 7 back to back, from its sister digital station E4 to More4 and Without a Trace from Channel 4. The channel also carries other American imports such as The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and repeats of Channel 4 programmes including game show Deal or No Deal, reality TV show Brat Camp, investigative series Dispatches, and the controversial Body shock. Daytime content includes classic films and reruns of shows such as Hill Street Blues and ER..
The station also carries Morgan Spurlock's reality TV show 30 Days and American dramas such as The Closer. The channel features a nightly discussion programme Starkey's Last Word hosted by David Starkey during the Autumn line-up. This show was originally called The Last Word and hosted alternately by Stanley Johnson, Mark Dolan, Hardeep Singh Kohli and David Mitchell and occasional special guest hosts such as Morgan Spurlock.
On midweek days, it shows hour long and feature length documentaries including Channel 4's Cutting Edge films. On its first night, the channel led with the satirical docudrama A Very Social Secretary about the affair between David Blunkett, the former British Home Secretary, and Kimberly Quinn.
In April 2006, More4 broadcast a live hypnosurgery hernia operation.
From 1 October 2007, More4 broadcast a season of programmes celebrating the 25th anniversary of its parent, Channel 4.
Advertisements starting at the end of September made it much clearer that the "adult entertainment" being offered was the 'intelligent and insightful' programming.
Viewing figures for the launch date gave More4 an average figure of 269,000 viewers , compared to E4's 296,000.
While More4 is available on most cable platforms, More4+1 was available on Virgin Media until 20 August 2007 when it was replaced by Channel4+1 across the digital television network.
Despite initial advertising and official internet communication that it would be free-to-air on satellite television , More4 was encrypted under Sky's pay TV scheme until May 6, 2008 when it dropped its NDS encryption and went free-to-air. It joined the BBC and ITV's new satellite platform, Freesat on the same day.
More4 is available to viewers in the Republic of Ireland via Sky, Freesat and UPC Ireland's digital service. This led to further speculation that Channel 4 would eventually launch on Sky in the Republic of Ireland, which it did in December 2006. C4 has already made its other flagship channels: E4, E4+1, Film4 and Film4+1 available in Ireland via Sky, UPC Ireland digital TV providers. Channel 4 itself is available on almost all Irish cable and MMDS systems (in some cases Channel 4 is replaced with S4C).
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