Channel 4 Reviews

All 4 or whatever the heck it’s called nowadays is simply awful. I spend a good 5-10 minutes finding the episode of the programme I’ve been watching. When I finally find the programme it starts playing all over again and forces you to watch a ridiculous amount of adverts before watching where you left off. This happens pretty much EVERY time, when you are watching a series it’s really infuriating to use.

The adverts are so long when you finally sit down to watch the show the adverts keep buffering or crashing - I’ve waited 25 mins for the adverts to finish before I could continue the show puts me off from watching it

Absolutely diabolical. Keeps crashing my TV. Programme plays after adverts with zero sound. Then unable to exit without either turning tv off or viewing a different channel via source.

Downloaded this from Amazon apps. and did the September firmware update on my firetv. After 10 minutes of use it crashes whereby you have to restart your device....and no it does not resume from your last position. (The available app versions on Amazon apps and Google play store is also different.)I cleared cache, uninstalled , reloaded,etc.etc. about 3X. Nothing works and the same issue repeats itself.
Surely the app developers and Channel 4 need a reality check before releasing such appalling quality into the public domain.

Please do not promote the conservative party as part of your complains welcome campaign. The woke kids working for you are probably too young to remember the chosen background music was a massively popular anthem for Norman Lamont. Do some research!

Why is it that BBC iPlayer can have a programme up to see within an hour max of it ending and here we are, more than an hour and a half after GBBO has ended and there is no sign of it? Unacceptable and annoying in the extreme.

Terrible Terrible Terrible!

I can never watch a program all the way through without it restarting, crashing, loading copious amounts of adverts and finally causing me to be abducted by the Tralfamadorians who show me the lost time I'll never get back.

This is true over various different platforms and, alas, I am left with several 'Resume Watching' programs that I can never Resume Watching.

When writing to Channel 4 to explain this in a tactful, dignified manner, I get no reply.

So it goes.

Channel 4 catch up app!
Rubbish Rubbish Rubbish and oh yeah Utter RUBBISH!!!!!!!!
Worst catch up app ever!!

Can never get through an episode of bake off without it breaking down because of dumb stupid advert break!

How on earth can you get this so so wrong... Are all your IT staff from the stone age?? BBC can get it right how can you get it so so wrong!

It was this bad over a year ago & you still haven't sorted it!? Seriously what the hell, what the actual feck are you doing... Sitting on your arses & being greedy buggers???

FYI to all those advertising with channel 4...ur wasting your bloody money...everyone will give up watching catch up because it doesn't bloody work always freezes and breaks down on add breaks...

Channel 4 get your heads out of each others arses and actually do something to bloody fix this!.... Only watch channel 4 for bake off and 8 out of 10 cats does countdown... Getting so bored of trying to watch them on your rubbish app though....thank god strictly starts on Saturday good old BBC and their lovely app

Get cracking those eggs and bake up a better app channel 4 before you burn yourself even more!

It would be amazing if it worked!! Every time there’s an ad break it seems to crash. I watch it on our smart TV and on my iPad and it happens on both. So frustrating!

Trying to catch up on Handmaid’s Tale and it keeps having unscheduled ad breaks and then jumps forward about 20 mins in programme or stops before the end. Disaster.

Terrible. App is completely useless at its only purpose of catching up on tv.

Honestly the worst app I've ever came across,,if it loads at all and you get I chance to watch something,,after a commercial,it'll cut back to the start of what I was watching,,,that's when it's not freezing,which, funnily enough doesn't happen when watching adverts,,,ive complained several times,,on many sites and directly,,,with no response,,they really need to get it together and finally sort this out,,I've been experiencing these problems since the app was first introduced,,and it's never ever got better,,,in this day and age it's completely unacceptable,,

Programmes excellent: App dreadful. App doesn't deserve even one star. I have complained about the All 4 App repeatedly with lacklustre results. I give up on official complaints as the responses are as useless as their App. It's a shame such marvellous programmes are let down by the most useless of Apps & generically awful customer service. Channel 4 used to have an up the minute rep - now you're behind even the BBC in your tech.
Hah- now your verification by Google doesn't work either which means you won't get my complaint! Your tech truly sucks (& i am not usually considered to be tech savvy)

Absolute shocker of an app... crashes throughout any programme I try to watch and won’t respond unless I turn my whole tv off and switch back on again which is not what you want when you’re mid episode.... BBC, Netflix and prime have slayed this app!

You should sack your entire IT department and start again! Appallingly bad playback!!! Surely the 88% 1 🌟 reviews warrant some action C4? The All4 app is terrible. I have never successfully got through an entire programme without issue. Watching last night's Bake off and half way through it starts to buffer and now it's displaying "content currently unavailable. Please try again later." Even after exiting the app and restarting at least 5 times, it's still unavailable. Please sort it out C4, this has been an issue for years!!!

Like everyone else has said the streaming service is so bad. GBBO you can't stream live, like BBC iplayer. You have to wait the next day for it to appear on catch up. Thwn you enjoy crash, after crash, after crash. Jumping from one part to another, or suddenly cutting off. Why is such an outdated streaming service even offered. Yet no current update resolves these issues.
If I wasn't bothered about a programme I would give!!!

Doesn't work despite allowing Flash settings. Disappointing.

If I could give it 0 stars I would! The app just randomly decides where it wants to go during the adverts. It's taken me back to the start, to the next episode all while I in the middle of watching something and then you have to watch like 5 minutes of adverts for the second time. They need to get this sorted! I've heard too many complaints about this from other people!

Can someone remember Mr Coulthard that not everyone is a fan of Mr Hamilton? And also who was paying most of his wages during his average f1 driver career? May be having a more decent commentating of the races would get more people watching them.

Downloaded this from Amazon apps. and did the September firmware update on my firetv. After 10 minutes of use it crashes whereby you have to restart your device....and no it does not resume from your last position. (The available app versions on Amazon apps and Google play store is also different.)I cleared cache, uninstalled , reloaded,etc.etc. about 3X. Nothing works and the same issue repeats itself.
Surely the app developers and Channel 4 need a reality check before releasing such appalling quality into the public domain.

Update; On emailing Channel4 regarding this issue I received a ready made Copy and paste reply echoing my exact steps to follow as mentioned in my letter. So what more can I say. Thank you for investigating the cause Channel4.

The worst online streaming service I've had the displeasure of using. It simply does not work. We have tried watching Bake Off and instantly our sour memories of trying to use this servece last year (also to watch Bake Off) came screaming back to us! If there's an advert, the streaming pauses and does not come back on. If you pause it, it will not come back on. Sometimes you cannot pause or scroll to a certain point. When it does actually let you pause, when you press play again, the tinted black fade with the large faint white pause symbol remains on screen as you try to watch the footage through it. It then cuts to an advert and then gets stuck in the loading screen. If you manage to scroll through the timeline to play from a certain point, it'll play for a moment and then jump back down the timeline to a seemingly random point (which we've already watched). It's the most frustrating streaming service of all time. Absolutely useless.

Once a channel which was apart from the norm, but was brought into line with lashings of EU money for the left wing propaganda machine. AVOID

Good lord. How, in 2019, a broadcasting giant such as channel 4 can get its streaming app to be so utterly inept, is actually quite an achievement. What an absolute embarrassment. It’s like they’ve purposefully gone out of their way to make the viewing experience as stressful and rage inducing as possible. Congratulations on a job abysmally done 👏🏻

I tried watching Brooklyn nine nine on All 4 because I wanted to do it legally, that was a mistake. The video quality is lower than most illegal streaming sites, the "cold open" before the title sequence was sacrificed for the sake of more ad time and the episode itself had been noticeably sped up to shorten it and cram in more adverts. This is why people pirate.

Fake news, propaganda site. AVOID at all cost. Don't let your children watch that!