All 4 – Watch Live & On Demand 17+

I only use it on Apple TV. They did not mess with the video player UI, which if you used Now TV you know the pain, on downside the pause button on the remote doesn’t work but clicking the middle of the remote trackpad does so.. But they do not joke around, it’s ads after ads, so many ads, specially American programs which have so many ad breaks, if you just want to scrub through to the end of a show, you need to see the ads. And it has so many bugs, it’s impossible to scrub through a video, the video Ui just fades away, tapping the edges of the remote for quick 10s skip doesn’t work either. You start seeing a show say s01e01, it then sets the next one to a newer season like s03e02 On that note often doesn’t mark an episode as watched, you have to use the Apple TV app to do that instead, thank god for that integration as browsing a tv show in Apple TV app is more efficient Sometimes just image just goes black, you then have to go back in and you know see ads again Often at the end of a show the image gets smaller to show the next episode way before the show actually reached the end, you then have to maximise it again AND hit play But you know it’s free so..

One more thing: the ad breaks are constantly changing, sometimes they are 3 minutes, sometimes just 30s or even 15, so by time you get up to go the toilet it’s already over, I prefer consistency to be able to enjoy my breaks.

It streams perfectly fine until and ad break comes along. You watch 3.5 mins of ads, then it dies. You start it again, and have to watch another 3.5 mins of ads. If you’re lucky, you might then get to watch the next segment of the programme. Only to go through the same rigmarole when the next ad break comes along. Argh!!!

Update 2021. Still the same problem. Runs perfectly fine during the programme, then freezes during ad breaks. Presumably it doesn’t get to build a buffer during the ads in the same way as it does during the programmes, but it then gets stuck to the point that it won’t resume play without stopping and restating the programme, which then forces you to sit through the ad break again. It’s the same across all my devices. PLEASE fix this, it is ruining what is otherwise a perfectly good app.

Can’t use the app for more than 15 minutes before I have to watch 5 minutes of ads just to be met with a message saying that I can’t play the program at the moment so I have to restart it and watch the same set of ads 5 more times and often it still won’t work. This is the most horrificly useless website this is why you don’t trust these dodgy and dated “channel 4” streaming sites. This isn’t the 19th century nobody knows what a channel is please sort out this redundant website. The only advantage is that I will never have to use it because it mainly has cheap, trashy and terrible sitcoms and soap operas which I would rip my scalp apart than watch. However when there is 1 rare and half watcheable program you will never be able to watch more than 15 mins of it before they try and trick you into watching 30 minutes of ads and use you as an add watching bot, as part of their monitisation scheme. You can’t watch your awful show because they are breeding for ad revenue and automating errors onto your screen. Will have to go and watch Netflix now. Hope this was informative.