Awful App
Pretty much unusable on apple tv. How is an app for watching shows this bad on the Apple tv?? Awful User interface. Skipbacks or skipping forward rarely work anymore. Random crashes. Just too many issues
⭐⭐ Great shows, poor search and no sharing
The search isn't good enough. On long-running shows, finding a specific episode is nearly impossible. There's also no way to share an episode or get a link to send to someone.
Please add better search (by location, people and air date) and a share button on every episode.
Please add better search (by location, people and air date) and a share button on every episode.
So many ads
Ad breaks are 5 mins long and appear every 10 mins, makes shows unwatchable
Not good
This selection of stuff to watch is good but they give you 2 minutes ad every 10 minutes. It’s ridiculous
OK, when it doesn’t freeze
Generally, there are no problems but, when I stop an episode once started, the whole app freezes.
The only solution is to unload, re-install and start again.
Usually if I stop at the first advertisement, there is no issue.
As I can’t guarantee when I’ll be called away, resuming can be annoying.
The only solution is to unload, re-install and start again.
Usually if I stop at the first advertisement, there is no issue.
As I can’t guarantee when I’ll be called away, resuming can be annoying.
awful
get four minute ads every ten minutes impossible to watch anything
Please reduce the ads😭
Please stop with the ads. They nearly have made me stop with channel 4. As I deleted it for a long time due to them. It’s really hard to watch shows when you’re being cut off by 4 minute long ad breaks.
Pierre
Fab!!
Indicate an episode has been watched on Fire TV app like you do in this app
Indicate on an episode level that an episode has been watched on the Fire TV app like you do in this app
Adverts
The adverts are too long and unskippable. If i am not interested you’re wasting my time and the advertisers not getting a click
Needs More Features
Can’t rewind live TV - needs more features.
Ads and bugs
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.
2026 update: on Apple TV app, after the ad breaks the ui is unresponsive and you can’t pause whatever you’re seeing, it’s been going on for weeks, how does Apple even approve this is beyond me
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.
2026 update: on Apple TV app, after the ad breaks the ui is unresponsive and you can’t pause whatever you’re seeing, it’s been going on for weeks, how does Apple even approve this is beyond me
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Too many adverts
Nothing wrong with channel 4’s programs, but the on demand service has way too many advert breaks, unless you PAY for the privilege of not having any, but a 40 minute programme having 4 adverts, each over 3 minutes long, in my opinion is too much, also when you resume an advert break kicks in, also when you search for your previous progress an advert kicks in even if it’s just before the marked advert break. Just annoying but if you love adverts then you’ll love this app!
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No adverts means adverts
The content on Channel 4 is excellent. It is unsurpassed by any other broadcaster in my opinion. However, they mislead customers by offering an advert free service but is absolutely not advert free. Programs are still interrupted with adverts for Channel 4 programs. I believe this to be a violation of regulations.
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No Live View on Smart TV
Why is the Live viewing option in the app not available with the app version on my new Sony Bravia smart TV? Recently installed the app so it is the latest. This is a big problem for me.
Also finding the picture quality through the app is poor following each ad break and adjusts to HD after a few minutes. This is incredibly frustrating and doesn’t happen when live streaming through Freeview.
Also finding the picture quality through the app is poor following each ad break and adjusts to HD after a few minutes. This is incredibly frustrating and doesn’t happen when live streaming through Freeview.
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Nothing loads
Use the app on tv and downloaded onto phone, but anytime I try watching anything (Bake off specifically but tried others) I just get the white loading circle and nothing loads or plays so can’t watch - watching via the website works fine so not my internet and the app previously worked fine
Please reduce ad time
Great app but the ads are just to long please reduce them
Continue watching & end credits
Decent content but let down by making it impossible to watch end credits and difficult to remove items from continue watching….
don’t you hate it when tv shows interrupt all the adverts!!
if all you want to watch is 8minutes per time
of adverts and 5minutes of a tv program
then you’ve come to the right app. absolutely disgraceful, got so fed up i uninstalled it!!!!!!!!
of adverts and 5minutes of a tv program
then you’ve come to the right app. absolutely disgraceful, got so fed up i uninstalled it!!!!!!!!
Thank you
Thank you for bringing Israeli genocide and war crimes to the attention of the general public. Most don’t understand what is really happening in Gaza and the West Bank. Our UK and European news outlets are sanitised and bias towards Netanyahu’s rhetoric.