T4 (Channel 4)

T4
Format	Teen, Daytime entertainment
Presented by	Will Best Matt Edmonson Nick Grimshaw Jameela Jamil Georgie Okell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Location(s)	Channel 4 Headquarters (1998 - 2006) Riverside Studios (2006 - 2009) Princess Productions Studios (2009 - present)
Running time	350 minutes (Saturday) 480 minutes (Sunday)
Production company(s)	Channel 4 Television Corp. At It Productions Eyeworks Princess Productions
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4
Picture format	4:3 (1998 - 2000) 16:9 (2001 - present)
Original run	25 October 1998 (1998-10-25) – present

T4 is a scheduling slot on Channel 4 from about 09:00 until 14:00 on Saturdays and 17:00 on Sundays. It also airs on weekdays in the school holidays. The slot has a separate station identification on screen graphic from Channel 4 and E4. The logo of T4 is noticeably the top right segment of the standard Channel 4 logo. Channel 4 originally produced the strand in-house until 2002, when production was passed onto independent companies.

The slot is targeted at the 16-34 age group.

Early history

Early on in T4's run, programmes aimed at children often aired in addition to the content aimed at older viewers, with shows such as CatDog and 2 Stupid Dogs appearing in the early schedule of the strand. Around 2001, this was dropped and the strand refocused entirely towards the teen/youth market. For the first few months of T4's life, its idents consisted of an animated spaceman like character. In 1999, this character instead appeared on the idents during the early morning pre-school shows, in addition to the weekend children's programmes that fell outside the T4 strand. These idents continued in use until 2004.

T4 on E4

After E4's launch in 2001, T4 initially also had a slot on the channel. However, this was short lived. They also had an equally short lived Friday evening slot on Channel 4. Following the sale of Quiz Call by Channel 4, it was rumoured that a T4 channel was one of the proposals to fill the vacant slot on Freeview (and subsequently on satellite and cable). However, the plan is also thought to have been rejected by director of television Kevin Lygo, as the slot was filled by Film4+1 (now replaced, in turn, by Channel 4+1). It was run on 17 April 2010.

T4 on the Beach

T4 also stages an annual summer festival, T4 on the Beach, in the resort of Weston-super-Mare (for its first two years in 2003 and 2004, it was held in Great Yarmouth under the name Pop Beach), and previous musical acts that have appeared include McFly, Calvin Harris, Little Boots, and The Zutons. The concert in July 2010 was the sixth year running that the event had taken place in Weston-super-Mare which featured Dizzee Rascal and Florence and the Machine, among others.

T4 Stars of...

Normally bookended at the tail end of the year, T4 ‘Stars Of…’ broadcasts live form Earls Court Exhibition Centre. The event first was held in 2009 and since then has become a annual fixture in the T4 events calendar. The Stars Of... title usually precedes the year in which it is being held e.g. Stars of 2010, as it is widely regarded as the replacement show for the now defunct Poll Winners' Party that T4 formerly broadcasted alongside defunct pop magazine Smash Hits.

• 2009 Line Up
• Kasabian
• JLS
• Sugababes
• La Roux
• Calvin Harris
• N-Dubz
• Alexandra Burke
• La Roux
• Florence and The Machine
• Example
• Ke$ha
• Paloma Faith
• The Saturdays
• Chipmunk
• Tinchy Stryder

• 2010 Line Up
• Alexandra Burke
• Tinie Tempah
• Pixie Lott
• Professor Green
• Example
• Ellie Goulding
• N-Dubz
• Olly Murs
• JLS
• The Wanted
• Mark Ronson
• Jason Derulo
• The Saturdays
• Roll Deep
• Devlin

• 2011 Line Up
• Labrinth
• Matt Cardle
• Emeli Sandé
• Cher Lloyd
• Rizzle Kicks
• Tinchy Stryder
• Dappy
• Example
• Pixie Lott
• Ed Sheeran
• Wretch 32
• The Wanted
• Professor Green
• DJ Fresh

Presenters

Current

• Will Best (2011–present)
• Matt Edmondson (2011–present)
• Nick Grimshaw (2010–present)

• Jameela Jamil (2009–present)
• Georgie Okell (2010–present)

Former

• Fran Lee (1998–1999)
• Omar Gurnah (1998–1999)
• Dermot O'Leary (1998–2001)
• Ben Shephard (1999–2000)
• Margherita Taylor (1999–2001)
• MC Harvey (2003–2004)
• Vernon Kay (2000–2005)
• Anthony Crank (2004–2005)

• Simon Amstell (2003–2006)
• June Sarpong (2000–2007)
• Dave Berry (2006–2007)
• Alex Zane (2007–2008)
• Alexa Chung (2008–2009)
• Steve Jones (2003–2010)
• Miquita Oliver (2006–2010)
• Rick Edwards (2007–2011)

Programming

Current

Programmes that are airing currently or still ongoing on T4 include:

• 90210
• Dirty Sexy Things
• Hollyoaks - Omnibus of the week's show. (Signed)
• Hollyoaks Music Show
• Orange RockCorps
• New Look's Style the Nation
• One Tree Hill
• Shipwrecked
• T4 On the Beach, 4Music On the Beach, Postcard from T4 On the Beach and various other spin-off shows
• T4 'Stars Of...' and various other spin-off shows
• The Big Bang Theory
• The Simpsons

Former

Programmes that have aired as part of T4 in the past include:

• 2 Stupid Dogs
• Age of Love
• The Album Chart Show
• Andromeda
• Angel (Seasons One and Two only, heavily edited)
• Angela Anaconda (2001–2003)
• Animal Alphabet (1998–1999)
• As If (2001–2004)
• Average Joe
• Beauty and The Geek - Has featured British and American Versions.
• Big Brother (in particular, censored repeats of the live Friday night eviction shows on Saturdays) - Scheduled when Big Brother was on air - no longer airing
• Celebrity Big Brother - scheduled when Celebrity Big Brother was on air - no longer airing
• Big Brother's Little Brother - scheduled when Big Brother was on air - no longer airing
• Biker Mice from Mars (1998–1999)
• Chancers
• Charmed
• Cheers
• City Guys (2000–2001)
• Coach Trip – seasons 1 and 2 only
• Dawson's Creek
• Desperate Housewives
• Frasier - no longer airing
• Friends - (1998–2011) - series ended on 27th August 2011.
• Frock Me
• Futurama (2004–2006) - no longer airing (Now on Sky1)
• G-Girls (now available on 4oD)
• Girls Aloud: Off The Record (now on 4Music, also shown on E4)
• Glee (now on Sky1)
• Homemade (2006–2007)
• Joe Millionaire (2003–2005)
• Johnny Bravo (1999–2003)
• King of the Hill
• Koko Pop (2010-2011)
• Madeline (1998–1999)
• The Magic Keeper (1998–1999)
• Malibu, CA - (2000–2003)
• Master of the Musicverse - 2007 music trivia quiz aired during the summer schedule
• Musicool - no longer airing
• My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss
• T4 MobileAct Unsigned
• Nokia Green Room
• The O.C.
• Orange unsignedAct
• Pelswick - (2001–2003)
• Planet Pop - later replaced by Popworld
• Popworld
• Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll - now appears on 4Music
• Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious - now appears on 4Music
• Reaper
• Relentless
• Renford Rejects (1999–2001)
• Scrubs - also appears on E4
• Sesame Street (1998–1999)
• Sister, Sister (now on Nickelodeon)
• Smallville
• The Sopranos
• Taina (2001–2003)
• Totally Frank - no longer airing
• Totally Spies! (2001–2004)
• Stargate SG1
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• Ugly Betty
• Ultimate Traveller
• Vanity Lair
• The West Wing
• When Women Rule the World
• Will & Grace - no longer airing
• Wise Up
• WWF Heat (2000–2001)
• Your Face or Mine? (now on 4Music)

Executive staff

T4's executives are Henrietta Conrad (executive producer) and Sebastian Grant (series producer) for Princess Productions, and Cath Lovesey (series editor) and Sangeeta Bhaskar (Channel 4 executive) for Channel 4.

External links

• T4 at channel4.com
• Gallery of the T4 celebrity guests
• Picture gallery of all the T4 Presenters
• T4 on the Beach Tickets
• T4 on the Beach festival is for teens
• Photos of T4 on the Beach 2006 in Weston-super-Mare
• Review of T4 on the Beach 2006 in Weston-super-Mare
• T4 at the Internet Movie Database