Ads despite paying
Despite paying money to channel 4, they are now sneaking in their own adverts because they're scum.
Even worse, is that after the adverts play it messes with the subtitles which cannot be fixed.
Very scummy channel 4
Even worse, is that after the adverts play it messes with the subtitles which cannot be fixed.
Very scummy channel 4
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adverts to often and too long
Adverts to long
3.5 mins after 10 mins viewing , stopped watching
Gave up because of adverts
This app used to be good and I didn’t mind a few adverts but now the adverts last nearly 4 minutes and come on so regularly disrupting one program that it is just not worth bothering with.
Too many adverts
Great programmes to watch but so many adverts that cause long breaks in the programmes, disappointing
Crashes on adverts
I am literally getting through the last couple of programs I was wanting to watch and then giving up, Adverts will just crash and nothing you can do about it apart from close it and start again, and guess what you have to watch them all over again, six times I had to watch the adverts before getting back to my program
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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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