The E4 Blog:

Our full Misfits website is now live. We've done something special with the big banner area at the top of the site. Previously, this area has been a big, glossy image from the show, but for Misfits, we've made it interactive.

It's kind of like a game - visit the site, then click the play button to explore the environment and unlock hidden videos, conversations between the cast and more. If you make it to the end, there's a preview clip from the first episode that you won't find anywhere else.

If you get stuck, you can read the FAQs for help. Enjoy!

Remember to follow Misfits on Twitter for the latest news about the show. The characters Simon and Kelly are also on Twitter, so it's worth following them too to find out what's going on inside their heads.

We told you about it a year ago and now it’s a whole lot closer. Our new comedy drama, Misfits, starts soon on E4 and we’ve just launched the first stage of the website.

The series follows a group of teenagers, who are forced to work together on community service. On their first day on the job, a freak storm causes them to develop superpowers. Do they don capes and fight bad guys? Do they f*%&! You’ll have to watch in a few weeks to find out how they deal with their new skills.

That’s enough blurb for now. You should take a look at the Misfits website for more info about the cast and characters, pics, a flash game and more. Oh, and be one of the first to leave a comment, of course.

Be sure to come back at the end of next week, when we add a heap more stuff to the website.

Rude Tube returns for a new, three-part series tonight at 9pm on Channel 4. (Followed by Peep Show, IT Crowd and True Blood - hell, it's almost a shame to go out).

We've revamped the Rude Tube website, with some preview videos from each show. I found the above video while doing 'work-related research' on YouTube - it doesn't have anything to do with Rude Tube, but because it features 100 of the web's biggest video hits, we thought it appropriate. (It was actually made by Hadouken to promote their tune M.A.D.). Anyway, enjoy the LOLs.

Three of the School of Comedy characters arrived on Twitter earlier this week...

Follow The Cabbie for boasts / lies about who he's had in the back of his cab.

Follow Museum Perv to find out about the classic nudes he's currently coveting.

And follow Margo for timewarped, WW2 sexual confusion.

They're all written by one of the show's writers and can get a little risque - you have been warned.

(If you're proper into Twitter, you will already be following E4.com and Skins. Gentle reminder if not).

Hooray! Finally, we're able to tell you about a new, great show that's joining the E4 stable early next year. If you haven't already heard, the hit US musical comedy Glee is coming to your favourite purple-tinged telly channel and we're already buzzing about it. There'll be more stuff about the show here soon.

In fact, 'cos we've had so many great chuffin' programmes on E4 already this year (with loads more to come - Cha'Mone Mo' Fo' Selecta tonight, Misfits and School Of Comedy just around the corner), we've thrown a party. Online!

Tonight, a bunch of so-called journalist-type people will be holed up in a secret British bunker so we can seduce their peepholes with forthcoming televisual goodies. And because we love you, we'll be sharing as much as we can with our lovely E4 fans. Pics, videos, comments, things like that.

Where? Zip over to our Facebook event page and you’ll see what we're up to. Plus, keep a keen eye on Twitter, Facebook and the whole of the internet for any mentions of the critical tag: #e4kneesup. Let's go!

Some of you have noticed / told us off for censoring parts of How I Met Your Mother. This is an issue that we have with all our US comedies that play pre-watershed, including Scrubs, My Name Is Earl and even Friends. These shows were originally made to play in a later slot, so have the occasional naughty bit that we simply can't play before 9pm.

Series 1-3 of How I Met Your Mother will continue to premiere at 7.30pm on weeknights, up until December. These shows are usually repeated in a later slot, and we'll try to always show you the unedited version in these instances.

From December, we'll start showing the forth series of How I Met Your Mother, which we'll be playing in a post 9pm slot, unedited.

UPDATE 09/09/09: The Inbetweeners has been nominated for a National Television Award. Help us win by voting on the NTA website. Cheers!

Phew! Ever since award season began we’ve been getting out the polish and trying to make room for all the lovely honours bestowed upon E4 in our humble trophy cabinet.

Unfortunately for our poor old awards cupboard we’re going to have to upgrade to something a bit bigger because the naughty young schoolboys known to all and sundry as The Inbetweeners just keep bringing 'em in!

The latest in a string of plaudits for the show comes from the TV Quick Awards who last night bestowed the honour of Best Comedy Show onto The Inbetweeners’ shoulders.

 Full marks, boys and girls!

You’ve probably seen it on your tellybox and now you can surf it on the interweb with the launch of the brand spanking new 4Music website!

4Music.com will feature tons of top content including all the latest music news, 4Music playlists, profiles on top artists and exclusive interviews with even more features to be revealed soon. (E4 recommends checking out 4Music's chat with those lovely lasses from the Sugababes.)

The site launches today so what in the name of e4 are you waiting for? Pop over now and say hello to the internet’s hottest newcomer.

We're in a jolly mood right now after picking up the award for ‘Non Terrestrial Channel of the Year’ at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival.

Michael McIntyre presented our boss, Angela Jain, with the super special award during a glam ceremony on Friday. The other nominees (witnessing our glory from the audience) were BBC Three, Dave, FX and Sky1.

As if that wasn't enough, our very own original comedy, The Inbetweeners, beat off stiff competition from BBC Three’s Being Human and serious cop drama The Wire to claim the prize for 'The Network and Fast Track Programme Award 2009.'

Nominees were decided by an online vote so if you were one of the 2000+ people who gave us a nod, we send our hearty thanks and a spiritual pat on the back.

Now where's that purple bubbly?

You've probably heard the news that the final ever Big Brother will air next summer. But wipe away that tear! The end of BB means more money for new drama - so there will be more stuff like Skins and Shameless, but also a whole batch of new shows, like Misfits which will be coming to E4 this November.

If you haven’t already heard about Misfits, it’s our latest drama series about a bunch of ASBO kids who develop weird superpowers after they are caught in a freak storm. But Heroes this ain’t. Nathan, Curtis, Alisha, Simon and Kelly aren’t exactly gonna be saving the world and they won’t be swapping their Reebok classics and ankle tags for capes and tights just yet. They soon realise that life’s not easy when you’re all that stands between good and evil… well, that and your curfew order.

Skins and Shameless will return in January, along with The Inbetweeners later next year and there are more new comedy drama series like these in the pipeline too.

Over on Channel 4, Shane Meadows - the writer/director behind This is England - will be making a drama just for TV. That’s a first! All the main characters from This Is England (Shaun, Gadget, Woody, Lol...) will return. Oh yeah, it's also set in 1986 which can only mean one thing: AWESOME 80s soundtrack!