[Jon]

It's really not just one show unfairly picked out. This isn't 80's/90's Channel 4 anymore, the scales tipped and the commercially safe, and often bland, programming vastly outnumbers the genuinely old school ''channel 4'' stuff.  They project this image of it being all 'It's A Sin' and none of that generic stuff that everyone else does but it’s mostly 'Britain’s Best Beach Huts' filling the schedules just like everyone else.

The point is they’d probably be things in any given week in the history of Channel 4 that could be picked out. Brookside was just another soap that was probably just a bit ofa more risqué version of what you’d see on TV. Countdown is just a gameshow that came from an ITV region, and this is a time at which ITV showed University Challenge so not sure that it would have been out of place elsewhere. 

What you need to do to prove your point is pick out the 5 most ‘different shows’ from a random week in the 80s or 90s and compare them with 5 shows from now.