18 Channel 4 Boxsets To Watch Online
Buffy The Vampire Slayer – Series 1-7
Created by Joss Whedon in 1997, Buffy The Vampire Slayer has gone on to become a global cult-hit. The show sees Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) attempting to live a normal teenage life at Sunnydale High School. Guided by her Watcher, Giles (Anthony Head) and helped by friends Willow (Alyson Hannigan) and Xander (Nicholas Brendon), Buffy embraces her responsibilities and destiny as a hunter of vampires and demons – making her The Slayer.
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Seinfeld – Series 1-9
Stand-up comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s eponymous 90s sitcom – co-created with Curb Your Enthusiasm’s Larry David – has recently landed on Channel 4, with every single episode available to stream on All4. The hit show stars Seinfeld as a fictionalised version of himself, wrestling with life’s most perplexing yet trivial questions. An outstanding cast of eccentric friends and acquaintances includes Seinfeld’s neurotic best pal George Costanza (Jason Alexander), his friend and ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and his unique neighbour across the hall, Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards). Cringe-making and hilarious.
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Derry Girls – Series 1-2
Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls was an instant hit when it launched in 2018. Set in the early 1990s, the show depicts the lives of four teenage girls (and a male cousin) as they grow up in Troubles-era Northern Ireland. But this is far from a depressing depiction of a war-torn time, rather it’s a genuinely laugh-out-loud tale that follows protagonist Erin Quinn and her friends as they attempt to navigate the highs and lows of being 16. The 90s nostalgia, which covers everything from questionable outfits to nude lipstick, also extends to a soundtrack that includes the likes of Gabrielle, The Cranberries, The Corrs and Whigfield.
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Stath Lets Flats – Series 1-2
This recent Bafta winner sees Fleabag’s Jamie Demetriou as incompetent Greek-Cypriot lettings agent Stath, who works for the family business Michael and Eagle. Stath's hapless sister Sophie (real-life sister Natasia Demetriou of What We Do In The Shadows) dreams of being a professional dancer, but holds a candle for the family's favourite employee. A must for anyone who’s ever dealt with a dodgy estate agent…
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The End Of The F…ing World – Series 1-2
Based on the comic book series by Charles Forsman, Bafta winner The End of the F...ing World sees two 17-year-old outsiders, James and Alyssa, embark on a road trip to find her estranged father, who left home when she was just a child. Meanwhile James, who is convinced he’s a psychopath, has decided it’s time to graduate from killing animals to something bigger – and he already has a target in mind.
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Dawson’s Creek – Series 1-6
Nineties teen hit Dawson’s Creek is now on All 4 in its entirety. Two childhood best friends, Dawson (James Van Der Beek) and Joey (Katie Holmes), go through different stages of adolescence together. Their friendship is later tested when they both start a relationship with different people – played by Joshua Jackson and Michelle Williams. Ideal for anyone after a nostalgia trip.
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Skins – Series 1-6
The show that helped launch the careers of Kaya Scodelario, Nicholas Hoult, Hannah Murray, Dev Patel, Jack O’Connell, Daniel Kaluuya and Joe Dempsey, this irreverent comedy drama from the makers of Shameless, follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol. The teens are followed through two years of sixth form, with story lines delving into controversial subjects such as substance abuse, sexuality, teenage pregnancy, personality and eating disorders and mental illness.
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National Treasure – Series 1
National Treasure is a four-part drama written by Bafta-award winning writer Jack Thorne, starring Robbie Coltrane, Julie Walters, Andrea Riseborough and Tim McInnerny. The story follows Paul Finchley, an adored ageing comedian. Paul's career, as one half of a comedy duo, was a successful one, lasting over several decades. Though no longer appearing regularly on television the comedian is still often recognised in public and fans ask him to repeat his famous catchphrase. However, when a rape case is opened against him, his world falls apart as he stands accused of a sexual offence dating back to the 1990s.
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Catastrophe – Series 1-4
During a business trip in London, an American named Rob meets Sharon, an Irish teacher with whom he shares incredible chemistry. While the two plan to have some fun with no strings attached, things go awry when Sharon learns she is pregnant. The unexpected news inspires the recent acquaintances to try and make it as a couple, despite nonstop complications that include hailing from different countries and a pregnancy that is not without risk. Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney play the starring roles and wrote the series – we’re still gutted they ended it after just four seasons.
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Community – Series 1-5
When the legitimacy of his college degree is challenged, lawyer Jeff Winger must return to school. Here he finds himself leading a misfit coalition of fellow community college students at Greendale High. Among the comedy series’ highlights is the cast, which is comprised of Joel McHale, Gillian Jacobs, Danny Pudi, Yvette Nicole Brown, Alison Brie, Donald Glover, Ken Jeong, Chevy Chase and Jim Rash. At seven series long, this is a great comedy to get stuck into for the long haul.
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Chewing Gum – Series 1-2
Loved recent BBC hit I May Destroy You? Now you can check out Micheala Coel’s 2018 series debut, Chewing Gum. Tracey Gordon – a religious, Beyoncé-obsessed 24-year-old raised in a Tower Hamlets flat – is fast to find out that the more she learns about the world, the less she understands. At the show’s start, Tracey plans to go all the way with her reluctant and devout fiancé Ronald, until she bumps into charming estate poet Connor…
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The Virtues – Series 1
Shane Meadows, creator of This is England, returned to Channel 4 in 2019 to showcase his inimitable style with a powerful, bold drama that tackles themes of repressed memory, apocalyptic revenge and the hope of redemption. The series stars Line of Duty’s Bafta-nominated Stephen Graham as Joseph, who falls into despair when his young son leaves for Australia with his ex. With no immediate family to live for, Joseph is haunted by a past he has tried, for decades, to forget.
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Deadwater Fell – Series 1
Deadwater Fell is a four-part British drama television miniseries written and created by Daisy Coulam. First shown at the start of the year, the show stars David Tennant as a doctor whose wife and three young children are murdered in a fire. A seemingly perfect family, the small Scottish community they called home becomes riven with mistrust and suspicion following their deaths, as everyone begins to point the finger at potential suspects…
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This Is England – Series 1-3
Shane Meadows’ 2006 film of the same name was one of the very best of the decade and cemented the Midlands-born director as one of the UK’s finest. An ensemble cast – including 12-year-old newcomer Thomas Turgoose and Line of Duty’s Vicky McClure – with some compelling backstories made it essential viewing. Fans were thrilled when Channel 4 launched This Is England ’86 in 2010 – a four-part series showing us what the gang were up to four years later. This Is England ‘88 and ‘90 followed. They focus on mod culture and the rave scene respectively, while – in classic Meadows style – never flinching from the grittiness of growing up working class.
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SAS: Who Dares Wins – Series 1-5
Don’t write this series off as one for the blokes in your life. In SAS: Who Dares Wins, Ant Middleton and other ex-Special Forces soldiers recreate the SAS's secret selection process and put recruits through it, in the ultimate test of their physical and psychological resilience. Still not convinced? Check out the two celebrity versions first, which see the likes of Katie Price and Joey Essex put through truly gruelling challenges that make the celebs open up and reveal new sides to themselves.
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Drifters – Series 1-4
British sitcom Drifters stars Jessica Knappett, Lydia Rose Bewley and Lauren O'Rourke as two cousins and their friend who live in Leeds following their graduation from university. The cast may seem familiar, as all three actresses previously appeared together in The Inbetweeners Movie. From demeaning jobs complete with mad outfits, to pursuing the men of their dreams – yet dating the men of their nightmares – the series follows the girls as they face '#FML-worthy' disasters in both their work and personal lives.
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Teachers – Series 1-4
Early-2000s comedy Teachers follows the chaotic lives of a group of perpetually juvenile teachers – including probationary teacher Simon Casey, played by a young Andrew Lincoln – whose specialist subjects include beer-drinking, kebab-eating and ineptness with members of the opposite sex. They might be qualified to teach, but they've still got a lot to learn...
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Pure – Series 1
Twenty-four-year-old Marnie has been plagued by disturbing sexual thoughts for as long as she can remember, but now she is on a mission to change her life as the intrusive thoughts are piling up inside her head. Pure is Kirstie Swain's painfully human, sharply observed, and outrageously funny adaptation of Rose Cartwright's acclaimed book. It is a moving, warm and truthful exploration of one young woman's search for herself and her very real struggle with mental illness. A must watch.
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