If you’re used to catching up with Big Brother on the web while you should be working, then you’re in for a shocker this year folks!

Word has just reached us that Channel 4 are cancelling the live feeds and are replacing them with downloadable clips. According to The Sun, a pilot of this new method was run during Big Brother Celebrity Hijack earlier this year.

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Hell hath no fury like an angry chef, and no chef has a sharper temper than Gordon Ramsay when things go wrong in the kitchen. Now Gordon has taken Kitchen Nightmares across America, giving some of the worst restaurants Stateside a wake-up call they’ll never forget.

The venue for this week’s programme is the Seascape restaurant in the seaside village of Islip in Long Island, New York. Owner Peter Matthews has been struggling for seven years to make the business viable and now - nearly $1,000,000 in debt - he’s nearly reached the end of the line. Meanwhile head chef Doug presides over a kitchen where unprotected meat and fish sit next to mouldy pesto jars, all surrounded by walls hidden in layers of grease so thick that they need to be scraped clean. Cue Gordon, whose radical plan to resuscitate Seascape requires an instant shutdown for staff and diners alike. Will his clean sweep bring it back to life, or is Seascape already past saving?

Channel 4, Wednesday 30 January 2008 9PM

Fussy eaters put up a food fight in the feeding clinic as Superskinny Yasmin Smith is forced to swallow a gargantuan diet of snack foods and diet drinks, while Supersize Darryl Weston weighing in at a whopping 33 stone and one pound suffers on Yasmin’s lactose, wheat, sugar and fat free diet.

Dr Christian Jessen referees the match. Journalist Anna Richardson takes the nip and tuck route to slimming by investigating the world of cosmetic treatments, but she meets with unforeseen complications during the procedure. Gillian McKeith is sent to Coventry as part of her nationwide campaign to turn bountiful bottoms into bums of steel. Read more & comment »

Fashion stylist to the stars Gok Wan returns for a third series of How to Look Good Naked , the fashion and consumer series that shows women how to look great with their clothes on, and off. Each week, Gok takes one woman on a journey from body loathing to body loving. In this episode, Gok meets Sonya Pettigrew, a ballet teacher whose low self-esteem and negative body image are threatening her confidence and, in turn, her marriage.

Wednesday 14 November 2007
8:00pm

Channel 4’s most successful new series in the 9pm slot last year, the Rose d’Or-winning The Secret Millionaire , returns with six brand new episodes. In each programme a millionaire goes undercover and assumes a new identity to enable them to live anonymously as part of the community before revealing who they really are. At the end of their ten-day visit, the millionaires reveal their true identity to the individuals and groups they have met during their stay and who they feel are the most deserving of their own hard-earned cash. Tonight’s millionaire is Gill Fielding who goes undercover in London’s East End.

Wednesday 7 November 2007
9:00pm

Every year we splash out £6.4 billion on beauty products, but do we ever stop to think about what’s in them or what they could be doing to us? The beauty industry spends £600 million a year marketing its products as pure, simple, organic and natural, but what’s the truth behind the hype? Presenter Sarah Beeny wants to find out. Read more & comment »

In this final episode, the entrepreneurs are about to head home. So far they’ve built a potentially money-spinning hotel to encourage tourism, installed electricity in the local maternity ward, and set up water schemes for school children. When it’s time to say goodbye to the village, these usually hard-headed business leaders are reduced to tears.

But their departure isn’t the end of the story. Three months after leaving Uganda, the entrepreneurs return to check up on their projects. Will they have succeeded in changing lives for ever, or will their mission turn out to have been a total failure? Read more & comment »

Jess and Lou Pearson-Faith are a lesbian couple from Essex. They live in a council flat with Jess’s three children from a previous marriage. With no full-time jobs, they are reliant on benefits. Read more & comment »

Eight British business leaders, with a combined fortune of over £600 million, are living in a remote farming community in southern Uganda at the request of aid agency World Vision. They’ve accepted a challenge to develop innovative ways to tackle poverty in the area. And to help get their ideas off the ground, the entrepreneurs have each donated £15,000 to a joint fund. Read more & comment »

Wife Swap , the BAFTA-award-winning hit series, is back with a celebrity swap. The recently married Pete Burns and his husband, Michael Simpson, swap places with the hard man of football, the notorious Neil “Razor” Ruddock, and his partner, ex-page-three glamour girl Leah Newman.

No one gets the better of Pete, and husband Michael takes care of everything in Pete’s life. By contrast, Ruddock’s partner Leah would love some more me-time in her life. Wife Swap: The Aftermath follows on E4, with Pete, Michael, Neil and Leah meeting again after watching the show go out. Read more & comment »