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E4's a happy place this year
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Posted by Jody
Date
Fri 13 Feb 2009 at 16:49

Yep, just as Mr Voiceover Man exclaims, you can say balls to misery in 2009, because we've got some great new shows and loads of old favourites lined up.

We're dead chuffed that you're loving the new series of Skins, as well as 90210 and the second series of Samantha Who - all of which started just the other week. But what's up next…

The Inbetweeners
(sorry, The award winning Inbetweeners) returns for a second series soon after Skins. We were down on location with the team the other week, shooting some behind-the-scenes videos and interviews. It was a fun day and everyone was buzzing about the new series - we're sure you'll like it even more than the first.

We also have a ton of American shows returning for a second series, including Dirty Sexy Money (website coming soon), Big Bang Theory, Reaper and if you can handle another season of camp jokes, Rick and Steve. Expect those to air throughout the year.

One Tree Hill is back for a sixth season in the summer (calm down at the back), along with the eighth series of Scrubs. Beauty and the Geek also returns with a new, fifth series.

We've snapped up a new US cop comedy called Reno 911. The show follows the work lives of seven police officers in a mockumentary-style parody of law enforcement documentaries. It's like COPS, but intentionally funny. Until we get some clips of our own, here's a taster of the show from YouTube:

If you have questions about the TV schedule or anything else relating to E4, the best place to get an answer is at http://help.channel4.com/contact

E4 Games has gone a bit wonky
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Posted by Jody
Date
Mon 2 Feb 2009 at 11:27

We normally add a new game every day, but since Friday, we've been unable to update the Games website. Frankly, we blame the snow.

Our technical people are looking into this and it will be fixed really soon. In the meantime, tuck in to hundreds of great games from the archives. Like these:

Play our most popular games

We hope all of you reading this have managed to make the most of the winter weather and escaped work or school. Frankly, we probably should have skived too, even if the view from the office is quite nice (the red thing in this photo is the back of a gigantic Channel 4 logo that sits at the front of our offices. It's all 3D, like):

The Big 4 in the snow

UPDATE: It's now fixed!