E4 is a British digital television channel launched as a pay-tv companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001. The "E" stands for entertainment, and the channel is mainly aimed at the lucrative 16 - 35 age group. Programming includes US imports such as Friends, ER, The O.C., Smallville, The Sopranos, What About Brian, Desperate Housewives, One Tree Hill, Scrubs, Ghost Whisperer, and British dramas such as Shameless and Skins plus lots of home-grown chat and reality shows. Some of the imports, e.g. The OC, Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives, are screened on E4 up to one week ahead of their Channel 4 broadcasts. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (985x966, 46 KB) E4s current logo - remade from raster into vector. ... January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ... More4 is a digital television channel, produced by United Kingdom broadcaster Channel 4, that launched on 10 October 2005. ... Film4 is a free British digital television channel, owned and operated by Channel 4, which screens high-quality films. ... Freeview is the operator of free digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, using the DVB-T standard. ... Sky Digital is the brand name for British Sky Broadcastings digital satellite television service, transmitted from SES Astra satellites located at 28. ... Virgin Media Inc. ... UPC Ireland N.V. is Liberty Global Europes operation in Ireland. ... Tiscali TV is a UK-based consumer Video on Demand service. ... It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ... January 18 is the 18th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... ER is a long-running, Emmy Award winning American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois. ... The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on FOX in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. ... Smallville is an American television series set in Smallville, Kansas, but produced in Vancouver, Canada. ... This article is about the TV series. ... What About Brian was an American dramatic television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams company Bad Robot Productions. ... Desperate Housewives is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, that began airing on October 3, 2004 on ABC. It is the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with an audience of approximately 119 million viewers. ... One Tree Hill is an American teen television drama. ... Scrubs is an American sitcom that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence, who also co-created Spin City. ... Ghost Whisperer is an American television drama-fantasy-thriller about a young woman who can communicate with the spirits of the dead. ... Shameless is an offbeat British comedy drama television series set in the fictional Chatsworth Estate in Manchester, England. ... Skins is a British teen drama from Company Pictures which premiered on E4 on 25 January 2007. ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. ... The O.C. ( stands for Orange County) is an American television drama/soap opera program broadcast on the Fox Network. ... Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe and Peabody Award winning American television dramedy series starring America Ferrera, Vanessa Williams, and Eric Mabius. ... Desperate Housewives is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, that began airing on October 3, 2004 on ABC. It is the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with an audience of approximately 119 million viewers. ...

Every year, whilst the Big Brother reality show airs, E4 devotes much of its schedule to Big Brother programming such as live coverage from inside the house and interactive features that give access to additional camera angles, although this feature has now been discontinued. The channel also allows Big Brother voting options and Big Brother "catch up" shows (i.e., repeats). Big Brother coverage is among the highest rating programming on the channel, and comes at a time when most of the year's American imports have ended. Big Brother is a reality television series broadcast in the United Kingdom (and Ireland) on Channel 4, and S4C in Wales and E4, in which a number of contestants live in isolation from the outside world in a custom built house trying to avoid eviction by the public with the... Reality television is a genre of television programming in which the fortunes of real life people (as opposed to fictional characters played by actors) are followed. ...

E4 share of viewing 2001-2007 BARB figures

On 16 December 2004, Channel 4 announced that the subscription channel would launch on digital terrestrial television. It was a part of the Top Up TV subscription scheme until 27 May 2005, when the channel joined Freeview and became free-to-air. This decision was made in the hope of attracting a larger audience and increasing advertising revenue. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 22 KB, MIME type: image/png) E4 share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 22 KB, MIME type: image/png) E4 share of viewing I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ... December 16 is the 350th day of the year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Top Up TV is a British television company registered on the island of Jersey, that offers subscription television services via digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom. ... is the 147th day of the year (148th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Free-to-air is a phrase used to describe television and radio broadcasts which are available without subscription and without decryption (pay-TV). ...

In May 2005, E4 began to air "First Look", offering viewers the opportunity to watch an episode of popular programmes, such as Hollyoaks, and drama series, such as Lost and Invasion, in advance of their airdate on Channel 4. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning serial drama television series that follows the lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. ... Invasion was an American science fiction television series that aired on ABC for one season beginning in September 2005. ...

In August 2005, E4 became a 24 hour channel with the introduction of E4 Music. It airs from 6 a.m. each morning (7am on E4+1) except if Big Brother or other reality shows are in progress.

In October 2005, More4 was unveiled alongside E4 to complement Channel 4's digital channels. The West Wing has since been moved exclusively to More4. More4 is a digital television channel, produced by United Kingdom broadcaster Channel 4, that launched on 10 October 2005. ... “The West Wing” redirects here. ...

E4 launched a dedicated Republic of Ireland service in June 2002 and the channel has become the second largest viewed non-terrestrial channel in Ireland next to Sky One, with a 1.1% market share [2]. This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

In 2006, E4 sponsored the E4 UdderBELLY venue (part of Underbelly) at the Edinburgh Fringe and Brighton Festival. The venue took the form of a giant upside cow in the purple colour of E4's logo. The udderBELLY is an upside-down giant purple cow tent owned by the event venue and management company Underbelly. ... Underbelly is a company that operates a series of four venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. ... A street performer on the Royal Mile, with volunteer (2004). ...

Promotions

E4 has become somewhat notorious for is strange promotion campaigns, narrated by the infamous ‘voice of E4’, the late Patrick Allen. Since Allen's death in 2006, the similar voice of Peter Dickson has been used. Trailers often make use of dry humour and phrases which at first, do not appear to make any sense. Past examples include: Promotion may mean: Promotion (chess), a term used in the game of chess Promotion (marketing), a marketing term Promotion (rank), an increase in position in a hierarchy Promotion (academic), German academic degree that is roughly equivalent to the Ph. ... As Captain Collier in Night Creatures (1962), Allen doffs his hat to the late Captain Clegg John Keith Patrick Allen (March 17, 1927 - July 28, 2006) was a British actor and voice actor. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Peter Dickson is a British radio presenter, television announcer and voice over artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s. ... Droll humor is an often dry, witty form of humor that elicits laughs through amusingly odd, sometimes zany behavior or speech. ...

• “Big shiny films in your dinky little home!”
• “In 1886 we invented music telly. We just didn't bother telling anybody.”
• “The bestest stuff that’s better than any other stuff.”
• “Second chance Sunday — not just a bunch of repeats, honest.”
• “It's funnier than a cat in a bomber jacket!”

Programme trailers sometimes have the narrator repeating things that characters have said, such as, in an trailer for Ugly Betty that includes one character asking Betty "Why are you crying in the bathroom?", the narrator immediately asks "Why is Betty crying in the bathroom?". Sometimes the narrator appears to interact with the characters of the programme, especially notable in recent trailers for Miss Match and What About Brian. Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe and Peabody Award winning American television dramedy series starring America Ferrera, Vanessa Williams, and Eric Mabius. ... Miss Match was a 2003 American television series produced by Twentieth Century Fox, Darren Star Productions and Imagine Entertainment. ... What About Brian was an American dramatic television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams company Bad Robot Productions. ...

Films are usually gently ridiculed in their promotion, such as with the voice of E4 telling viewers they "probably will" guess the ending of She's All That and naming actress Kim Cattrall as "That slaggy one from Sex and the City" when advertising an old film she was in. There is also quite heavy use of British words which have generally fallen out of circulation, such as ‘ruddy’ and ‘gaff’. Shes All That is a 1999 romantic comedy film, directed by Robert Iscove, and is a modern remake of George Bernard Shaws Pygmalion (which was also the basis for the musical comedy My Fair Lady starring Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison). ... Kim Victoria Cattrall (born August 21, 1956 in Widnes, England) is an Anglo-Canadian actress. ... Sex and the City is a popular American cable television program. ...

E4's continuity sends up the channel's Friends-reliant schedule - while in the past, announcements would generally be the same for example "Now it's time to relax with Friends", more recently the announcers have been more inventive with phrases such as "....after an episode of Friends we've shown so many times the tape's gone a bit wobbly" before a Series 1 episode which indeed had a distorted soundtrack. The "Next" DOG which runs towards the end of programmes on the channel parodies the schedule with phrases such as "Next: The One with Jennifer Aniston". When a late schedule change meant an edition of Big Brother's Big Mouth was moved to Channel 4 in a bid to up ratings, the announcer on E4 said: "Instead, well, I dunno, we'll probably just show another Friends or something." In a typical digital on screen graphic, the stations logo appears in a corner of the screen. ... Jennifer Aniston (born February 11, 1969) is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning American film and television actress. ... Big Brothers Big Mouth (formerly Big Brothers EFourum) is a discussion programme based around the reality television series Big Brother, hosted by comedian Russell Brand. ...

On one occasion when a playout-error caused part of an episode of Desperate Housewives to be repeated, the announcer said, "I know we repeat ourselves a lot on E4 but that was of course a technical fault. Hopefully we'll have it fixed by the time it's repeated on Sunday,"[3] playing on the fact that many of E4's imported American drama programmes are shown at least twice for each episode.

Some Programmes Shown On E4

• Desperate Housewives
• ER
• Friends
• Ghost Whisperer
• Hollyoaks
• Lost (Series 1 & 2)
• Miss Match
• My Name Is Earl
• One Tree Hill
• Scrubs
• Sex In Court
• Shameless (UK TV series)
• Skins
• Smallville
• The O.C.
• The Sopranos
• The War At Home
• Ugly Betty
• What About Brian
• Wife Swap
• Big Brother's Little Brother
• Big Brother Live
• Big Brother's Big Mouth
• Sugar Rush - Series 1 & 2

Desperate Housewives is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, that began airing on October 3, 2004 on ABC. It is the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with an audience of approximately 119 million viewers. ... ER is a long-running, Emmy Award winning American serial medical drama created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Cook County, Chicago, Illinois. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, the lead section of this article may need to be expanded. ... Ghost Whisperer is an American television drama-fantasy-thriller about a young woman who can communicate with the spirits of the dead. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up lost in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Miss Match was a 2003 American television series produced by Twentieth Century Fox, Darren Star Productions and Imagine Entertainment. ... My Name Is Earl is an Emmy Award-winning American sitcom created by Greg Garcia. ... One Tree Hill is an American teen television drama. ... Scrubs is an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning American situation comedy/dramedy that premiered on October 2, 2001 on NBC. Scrubs was created by Bill Lawrence, who also co-created Spin City. ... Sex In Court is a British factual entertainment series which premiered on E4 on March 29, 2007. ... Shameless is an offbeat British comedy drama television series set in the fictional Chatsworth Estate in Manchester, England. ... Skins is a British teen drama from Company Pictures which premiered on E4 on 25 January 2007. ... Smallville is an American television series set in Smallville, Kansas, but produced in Vancouver, Canada. ... The O.C. is an American teen drama television series that originally aired on FOX in the United States from August 5, 2003, to February 22, 2007, running a total of four seasons. ... This article is about the TV series. ... The War at Home is a sitcom that premiered on September 11, 2005 on Fox. ... Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe and Peabody Award winning American television dramedy series starring America Ferrera, Vanessa Williams, and Eric Mabius. ... What About Brian was an American dramatic television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams company Bad Robot Productions. ... Wife Swap is a reality television programme, produced by UK independent TV production company RDF Media. ... Big Brothers Little Brother (BBLB; also known as Big Brothers Little Breakfast during the run of Celebrity Big Brother 4) is a magazine television programme shown on Channel 4 and its sister digital channel E4 during a series of Big Brother in the UK. Presented by Dermot O... Big Brother is a reality television format. ... Big Brothers Big Mouth (formerly Big Brothers EFourum) is a discussion programme based around the reality television series Big Brother, hosted by comedian Russell Brand. ... Sugar Rush is a TV show developed by Shine Limited and broadcast by Channel 4, based on the Julie Burchill novel of the same name revolving around the life of a 15 year old lesbian Kim Daniels who at the beginning of series one moves from London to Brighton on...

External links

• E4.com official site