How to Survive a Dictator: North Korea – Munya Chawawa might just make Channel 4 cool again

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With this charming documentary-sketch mashup, it is clear that Chawawa has bossed the move from 'internet's favourite joker' to bona fide television star

I'm going to open this week's preview with a fairly bold statement but one that comes with a caveat, and that is: I would like you to forget that the last TV show I previewed on this channel was Grand Designs. OK? Hey, have you noticed that Channel 4 is becoming cool again?

I suppose it has always been a bit of a swinging pendulum of coolness, hasn't it? When the broadcaster launched it was very: "Check it out, guys – The Word!" The Big Breakfast was amazingly cool until the exact moment it wasn't, which sadly was many years before it was actually cancelled. But it ebbs and flows. Channel 4 will occasionally have a year where the only thing you really remember them doing is a harrowing exposé you read about but didn't actually watch, plus First Dates. Sometimes you put the channel on and it's a generationally good comedy series. Sometimes it's Couples Come Dine With Me.