T4 (Channel 4)

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T4 is a scheduling slot on Channel 4 (UK) from about 9 a.m. to 3:20 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday mornings and in school holidays, the "T" nominally standing for teenager. 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.

The slot is targeted at the 16-25 age group, and its flagship programme Popworld features top-name music artists as guests. The current presenters of T4 include June Sarpong, Steve Jones, Anthony Crank, , Miquita Oliver, Alex Zane and Alexa Chung. Previous presenters have included Dermot O'Leary, Margherita Taylor, Ben Shephard and Vernon Kay. The 'voice of T4' is provided by James Delow.

T4 Executives are Richard Cook (Executive Producer) and Jessica Sebastian (Series Producer)

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.

Also, after E4's launch in 2001, T4 initially also had a slot on the channel. However, this was short lived.

[edit] Programming

Programmes that have aired as part of T4 include:

• Angel (season 1-2 only)
• Angela Anaconda
• As If
• Big Brother (in particular, repeats of the live Friday night eviction shows on Saturdays) (censored)
• Big Brother's Little Brother
• Charmed (season 8 only)
• Cheers
• Dawson's Creek
• Frasier
• Friends
• Futurama
• Hollyoaks
• Johnny Bravo (1999 to 2001)
• The O.C.
• Planet Pop - (Later replaced by Popworld)
• Renford Rejects (1999 to 2001)
• Shipwrecked
• Smallville
• Sister, Sister
• The Simpsons
• The Sopranos
• Totally Frank
• Star Trek: Enterprise
• Stargate SG1
• The West Wing
• Ugly Betty
• Will & Grace
• WWF HEAT - (SAME MATCHES AS LIVE USA VERSION. DIFFERANT COMMENTATORS
• Popworld

[edit] External links

• T4 at channel4.com
• Photos of T4 on the Beach 2006 in Weston-super-Mare
• Review of T4 on the Beach 2006 in Weston-super-Mare