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The 100 Greatest is a popular long-running British TV strand on Channel 4. These are normally public polls, voted for by visitors of the Channel 4 website. However, some of the polls are decided on by experts. The programmes are usually broadcast in the weekend schedule in three- or four-hour blocks throughout the year. The shows are also repeated on E4 on Saturday nights. The song "Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out!" (by Bentley Rhythm Ace) was used as the soundtrack for several of the earlier shows, while others featured various tracks from the Daft Punk album Discovery.

Episodes

100 Greatest

• 100 Greatest TV Moments (1999) - presented by Graham Norton
• 100 Greatest TV Moments from Hell (2000) ^[1] - presented by Zoe Ball
• 100 Greatest TV Ads (2000) ^[2] - presented by Graham Norton
• 100 Greatest No. 1s (2000) - presented by Graham Norton
• 100 Greatest TV Characters (2001) - presented by Ardal O'Hanlon
• 100 Greatest Kids' TV shows (2001) ^[3] - presented by Jamie Theakston (with Sooty and Sweep)
• 100 Greatest Films (2001) - presented by Graham Norton
• 100 Greatest Sporting Moments (2002) ^[4] - presented by Vinnie Jones, with additional narration from Dickie Davies
• 100 Greatest World Cup Moments (2002) - presented by Bob Mortimer
• 100 Greatest Movie Stars (2003) - presented by Richard E. Grant
• 100 Greatest Scary Moments (2003) ^[5] - presented by Jimmy Carr
• 100 Greatest Sexy Moments (2004) - presented by Anna Chancellor
• 100 Greatest Christmas Moments (2004) ^[6] - presented by Jimmy Carr
• 100 Greatest Musicals (2004) - presented by Denise Van Outen
• 100 Greatest Pop Videos (2005) - presented by Jimmy Carr
• 100 Greatest Albums (2005) ^[7] - narrated by Alexander Armstrong
• 100 Greatest Cartoons (2005) ^[8] - presented by Jimmy Carr
• 100 Greatest Tearjerkers (13 February 2005)^[9] - presented by Jimmy Carr^{[10][11][12][13]}
• 100 Greatest Family Films (2005) - narrated by Bob Hoskins
• 100 Greatest Funny Moments (2006) - presented by Rob Brydon
• 100 Greatest War Films (2006) - presented by Sean Pertwee
• 100 Greatest Stand Ups (2007) ^[14] - narrated by Ann Bryson
• 100 Greatest Sex Symbols (2007) - presented by Anna Chancellor

In addition to these were the sub-strand "100 Greatest TV Treats of [Insert year]", which ran from 2001 to 2004 and acted as a light-hearted review of the year's television.

50 Greatest

• 50 Greatest Comedians (a.k.a - The Comedian's Comedian) (2004) - presented by Jimmy Carr
• 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches (2005) - presented by Tom Baker
• 50 Greatest Documentaries (2005) - presented by Zoe Wanamaker
• 50 Greatest Celebrity Animals (2005) - presented by Bill Oddie
• 50 Greatest One Hit Wonders (2006) - presented by Justin Lee Collins
• 50 Greatest Comedy Films (2006) - presented by Stephen Fry
• 50 Greatest TV Dramas (2007) - presented by Miriam Margoyles
• 50 Greatest Comedy Characters (a.k.a - The World's Greatest Comedy Characters) (2007) - presented by Simon Pegg.
• 50 Greatest Catchphrases (a.k.a - Greatest Comedy Catchphrases) (2008)

100 Worst

• 100 Worst Britons (2003) - presented by Jimmy Carr (a tongue-in-cheek response to BBC 2's popular 100 Greatest Britons series from the previous year. To keep it light-hearted, voters were only allowed to nominate living persons who were not currently in jail, so the likes of Oswald Mosley, Harold Shipman and Myra Hindley did not appear)
• 100 Worst Pop Records (2004) - presented by Jimmy Carr, with additional narration from Ann Bryson

See also

• The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties

External links

• 100 Greatest at Channel4.com
• 100 Greatest at channel4.com/film (Film4)

Notes