In the second programme of the series a tee-total, Egyptian loving family team up with a partying, patriotic family who love nothing better than a right old booze up in Tenerife.

The Wilson family from the Isle of Mann love to holiday in Egypt, and away from other tourists they immerse themselves in the ancient Egyptian culture. There is step dad Tony, mum Joanne, and 15-year-old Terrance.

They live their lives with the view to always helping others, and they carry this abroad with them too. They think Egypt is a wonderful place for a holiday because of the warm and friendly Egyptian people, and they return year after year to enjoy the culture and visit the friends they have made. Read more & comment »

As the Home Office announces plans to offer drug treatments to child sex offenders to try to stop them re-offending, this shocking and honest film examines the legal castration of child sex offenders in the USA, in a bid to rehabilitate them.

The film talks to five men who believe castration, whether chemical or surgical, is the only solution to their deviant behaviour. The Castration Cure raises difficult and controversial issues including: Can you cure a paedophile? And if so, is castration the answer?

Thursday 5 July 2007, Channel 4

Tough Gig follows one of the six comics as they are plucked from their day-to-day lives and totally immersed into a new world, where they will live, work, sleep and socialise. The series will also offer an insight into some of the most fascinating and often unknown communities flourishing in our midst.

This week sees Patrick Kielty (presenter of hit shows including Fame Academy and Love Island) getting down with a group of British rappers to try to find out what makes them tick. From hanging out at the pirate radio station, to 8 Mile style MC battles, he’s deep in ‘the hood’. At the end of the week, Patrick’s got to perform a stand-up gig that’ll make his new crew laugh. Read more & comment »

BBC are to launch a brand new Saturday night reality Tv show…hurray!!!

The show, which will be made by Endemol, will see pop tribute acts battle it out for the ultimate title. The bands will all live together in tru Fame Academy style!

A source told The Sun: “The aim is to find Britain’s best tribute act. There are hundreds of people out there who think they’ve got what it takes - and some of them are extremely good. Read more & comment »

Monday 2 July 2007 8:00pm - 8:30pm on ITV1.

Should British families get priority for council homes over economic migrants as raised by government minister Margaret Hodge? Mike Nicholson goes behind-the-scenes at a council housing department to see what pressures they face to accommodate immigrants and British families and speaks to those who will never be able to afford their own homes.

Shrink Rap is an antidote to the conventional chat show, presented by psychologist Dr Pamela Connolly - also known as actress and writer Pamela Stephenson. In this programme Pamela talks to Sharon Osbourne.

Famous as an X Factor judge, chat show host, best-selling author and even star of her own real-life soap opera, Osbourne is one of the best-known women in Britain. But her childhood was chaotic - and violent. Here, she talks movingly about her life then and now.

Monday 2 July 2007 Channel 4

In the week Live Earth parties for the planet, Dispatches reveals how attempts to buy our way out of climate crisis may be making things worse.

Channel 4 News science correspondent Tom Clarke dissects the many ’solutions’ to global warming being marketed to consumers, from tree-planting and carbon offsetting to green energy tariffs. Jetting off on holidays and mini-breaks, we’re increasingly turning to offsetting to alleviate our environmental guilt. But what are offsets? And are they really the answer in the fight against global warming?

Monday 2nd July Channel 4

As the country stubs out its collective fag, a one-hour, tongue-in-cheek tribute to the perilous, but also, for some, the highly pleasurable pursuit of smoking. Well-known smokers talk about their first drag, ex-smokers about their last and a few defiant stars who continue to puff away muse on how the ban will effect their lives… or not.

The programme features contributions from Motorhead’s Lemmy, Johnny Vegas, Joan Bakewell, Vic Reeves, Bob Mortimer, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Winner, Will Self and the late Bernard Manning

Sunday 1st July, Channel 4

There’s a major stir at Luton as the male stars of soap opera Hollyoaks are travelling through en route to Sardinia for a photo shoot. After some fun and games with passengers and staff in the airport the action really starts when they’re all on the plane. Read more & comment »

Tough Gig follows one of the six comics as they are plucked from their day-to-day lives and totally immersed into a new world, where they will live, work, sleep and socialise. The series will also offer an insight into some of the most fascinating and unusual communities.

This week is the turn of Arabella Weir (star of The Fast Show and regular contributor to Grumpy Old Women) as she crosses to the other side when she spends a week at Ghost Festival in Edinburgh, joining clairvoyants and ghostbusters as they hold vigils and hunt for poltergeists. These people take the spirit world very seriously but Arabella is a non-believer. Read more & comment »

24 Hours With…provides an innovative twist on the traditional chat show as celebrity and interviewer spend an intense 24 hours locked in a room together.

The next celebrity to leave their mobile phone and PR advisers at the door is Lee Ryan.

This is a rare insight into the true character of the ex-Blue lothario, as famous for his bedroom antics as his singing, who admits that this is ‘probably the most truthful I’ve ever been’.

Lee opens up about the alter ego he has created for the media as a barrier against negative comments and the mistakes he feels he made in his relationship with former Atomic Kitten, Liz McClarnon. Read more & comment »

Society too often fails to take action against bullying in schools, the media and the workplace - sometimes to devastating effect. Presenter Emma-Jane Cross was bullied at school and saw her brother systemically bullied because he was gay.

As a direct result of her experience Emma-Jane set up a charity, Beat Bullying, that aims to put prevention work into every school in the UK. She believes she has the expertise to stamp out bullying but she needs to raise four pounds per child to make it happen.

Friday 29 June 2007, Channel 4

Joel from Salford is 13. He has been smoking since he was eight. Filmmaker James Routh delves into Joel’s world to get behind the shocking image of a child smoker.

The film also follows Joel’s mother as she tries to kick her own habit in a bid to help her son. Child Chain Smoker explores extreme underage smoking in a distinctive observational style. The film also includes contributions from Joel’s teachers, friends and family in a bid to understand the circumstances that led him to take up such an addictive drug at such an early age.

Thursday 28 June 2007 Channel 4

Thursday 5th July, 9pm, ITV2

Beginging 12 months ago with the shattering news that Katie had suffered a miscarriage, through the many trials and tribulations over the following weeks and months, the joy at finding out they were expecting again and onto the final weeks before Katie gives birth to her baby girl.

This episode begings with the heartache the couple felt finding out they had suffered a miscarriage, the pain of that day, and the following days and weeks as they come to terms with what has happened.

We are also with Katie on the day she finds out she is pregnant, and follow her as she tells Peter, and those closest to her, and see their joy also. Read more & comment »

The Daily Mail newspaper has reported today that Peaches Geldof, daughter of Sir Bob of the Boomtown rats, is to have her own reality TV show.

The 18 year old is currently being followed by cameras and the show will be aired this summer on Channel 4.

“Peaches is an entertaining young woman,” explains the source.

“She is funny to watch because she just doesn’t care what people think. She will turn up at a party, throw the most enormous strop and then get drunk.”

The insider adds : “Peaches always tries to impress her mates by taking them all along to the festivals, even though they haven’t got tickets. But she thinks by the time they all get there it will be too late and knows that she will always get her own way.”