On 14 April 2008, in a UK Channel 4 documentary, Tudor Parfitt, taking a literalist approach to the Biblical story, described his research into this claim.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

* Channel 4 History-In Boudica's Footsteps

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

It also came fourth in the 2001 Channel 4 poll The 100 Greatest Kids ' TV shows.

In January 1997, the United Kingdom television station Channel 4 carried a news report that suggested that members of the Royal Anglian Regiment had also opened fire on the protesters and could have been responsible for three of the fourteen deaths.

Charles played the emotionally disturbed and violent prisoner, Eugene Buffy, in the high successful Lynda La Plante drama series The Governor ( 1995 ); the title role in the Channel 4 pirate sitcom Captain Butler ( 1997 ); the warden of a women's prison in the Canadian sci-fi fantasy Lexx ( 2001 ); Detective Chief Inspector Mercer in 7 episodes of the BBC soap opera Doctors ( 2003 ); and soccer agent, Joel Brooks, in the Sky TV football soap Dream Team ( 2004-5 ).

He was a team captain on the sci-fi quiz series Space Cadets ( 1997 ) on Channel 4, which guest starred William Shatner.

Charles was a contestant in the Celebrity Poker Club tournament ( 2004 ) on Challenge, where he reached the semi-finals, and in the Channel 4 reality game show, The Games ( 2005 ), which documented the contestants ' intensive training regime and each live Olympic Games-style sporting event, in which he came fourth overall in the men's competition.

Blue Jam was later made for television and broadcast on Channel 4 as Jam.

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began transmission on 2 November 1982.

With the conversion of the Wenvoe transmitter in Wales to digital on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became an entirely UK-wide TV channel for the first time.

Before Channel 4 and S4C, Britain had three terrestrial television services: BBC1, BBC2, and ITV.

The Broadcasting Act 1980 began the process of adding a fourth, and Channel 4, along with its Welsh counterpart, was formally created by an Act of Parliament in 1982.

Throughout ITV's history and until Channel 4 finally became a reality, a perennial dialogue existed between the GPO, the government, the ITV companies and other interested parties, concerning the form such an expansion of commercial broadcasting would take.

With what can crudely be summed up as a clash of ideologies between an expansion of ITV's commercial ethos and a public service approach more akin to the BBC, it was ultimately something of a compromise that eventually led to the formation of Channel 4 as launched in 1982.

The result was that Channel 4 as seen by the rest of the United Kingdom would be replaced in Wales by Sianel Pedwar Cymru ( S4C ) ().

Initially limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some English Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant, a practice that carried on up until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010.

Since then, carriage on digital cable, satellite and digital terrestrial has introduced Channel 4 to Welsh homes where it is now universally available.

The first person to be seen on Channel 4 was Richard Whiteley with Ted Moult being the second.

" On its first day, Channel 4 also broadcast controversial soap opera Brookside, which ran for 21 years.

On its launch, Channel 4 committed itself to providing an alternative to the existing channels, an agenda in part set out by its remit which required the provision of programming to minority groups.

Speaking on Channel Nine TV on 25 November 2006, he said x-rays of the urn had shown the pedestal and handles were cracked, and repair work had to be carried out.

This was done one year after the rest of the cast ( including both Mumy & Harris ) appeared inside TV Guide and said that the Sci Fi Channel had planned to do a Lost in Space marathon while promoting a new movie.

In response, former Channel 4 chief executive Sir Jeremy Isaacs describing Loach's intervention as an act of censorship, he said: " They must not allow someone who has no real position, no rock to stand on, to interfere with their programming.

On the Channel 4 programme What the Pythons Did Next, Rutles drummer John Halsey ( aka " Barry Wom ") said that he had to switch off Idle's The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch after ten minutes.

In fact, when Serge Danot was interviewed by Joan Bakewell on Late Night Line-Up in 1968 his associate ( perhaps Jean Biard ) said that in France it was thought at first that the UK version of Pollux had been renamed De Gaulle, mishearing the name Dougal ( as seen in the Channel 4 documentary The Return Of The Magic Roundabout ( broadcast 08: 50 on December 25, 1991 and 18: 00 on January 5, 1992 ), and in the BBC4 documentary The Magic Roundabout Story ( 2003 )).

Sweeney had also said that the main goal of the programming on Disney Channel was not to entertain, but to solely make money, officially stating that Disney Channel would be " the major profit driver for the ( Walt Disney ) Company.

" Dish has chosen to be the first distributor to drop The Weather Channel rather than pay the standard industry rates others in the industry have already agreed to pay ", the Weather Channel said in a statement.

Dave Shull, senior vice president for programming for Dish Network said Weather Channel fees are harder for Dish Network to stomach as more people get weather information online.

I got a call from the U. S. from my partner-the executive producer of Space Channel 5-and he said, ' Oh, Michael wants to act in Space Channel 5.

Bede, in the 8th century, said that the Wantsum – meaning Wantsum Channel – was three furlongs wide (), and in 1414 there was still a ferry crossing the Wantsum at Sarre, but by 1550 Thanet was no longer an island.

In a television special on the National Geographic Channel about Ultimate Factories, episode 5-5, it was said that Doritos is a $ 4billion dollar a year product.

Warwick's longtime friend and tour manager Henry Carr acknowledged in a 2002 Biography Channel interview that " when Dionne was going through an airport and a child recognized her as ' that psychic lady on TV ' Dionne was crushed and said she had worked too hard as an entertainer to become known as ' the psychic lady '.

Roderick Dobson in Birds of the Channel Islands said that puffins had been plentiful for over a century.

" Discussing this allegation on the UK ’ s Channel 4, Fitzgerald said: " I assume he would have got very troublesome.

In April 1988, on the evening after the Grand National, she appeared on a Channel 4 After Dark discussion about horseracing " so she said, to put the point of view of the horse ", later walking out of the programme " because she was so very sleepy ".

In the United States, there are six " Local Channel " frequencies, also known as " graveyarders " where nearly every station on those frequencies has the same power and antenna pattern both day and night and, as a result of skywave propagation, there is normally massive co-channel interference in rural areas on these frequencies, often making it difficult, if not impossible, to understand what's being said on the nearest local station on the respective channel, or the other distant stations which are bouncing on the same channel, during the nighttime hours.

The reasons given for the cancellation ( e. g. " the things you said about Burt Reynolds ") are presumably the same problems that led to the real " Back to Normal ..." being dropped by Channel 4.

The announcement sparked criticism from some prominent British Catholics including the Conservative politician Ann Widdecombe, who said that Channel 4 appeared to be trying to " stir up controversy ".

On-screen announcements said, " This is Tyne Tees Television, broadcasting as Channel 3 in the North-East.

She later said she had resigned after failing to agree terms with Channel 4 for a new contract, and it was reported that she had been asked to take a cut of some 90 % from her previous salary, estimated as £ 900, 000.

In a 2006 interview for the History Channel show Our Generation: Death of the Counterculture, Michelle Phillips, also of The Mamas & the Papas, said that she was very good friends with all of the Tate murder victims ( presumably excluding Steven Parent ) and that it was still hard to talk about the murders.