Jeff Koons: Beyond Heaven 600008 1 x 44' | OVATION TV Arts & Performance | Factual To some he is the most iconic artist of our time.  To others, he is a huckster.  JEFF KOONS: BEYOND HEAVEN is a critical exploration of Jeff Koons’ work on the occasion of his first major retrospective. This gorgeous, eye-opening documentary is a spirited overview and discussion of Koons’ work, from the early puppies and vacuum cleaners, through the literal self-exposure of t...

Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children: Revisited 200128 1 x 60' | TRUE VISION PRODUCTIONS LTD Documentary Special | Factual The Heart-Rendering and Eye-Opening Story of Bulgaria’s Institutionalised ChildrenIn 2007 the BBC documentary film “Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children” caused an international outcry because the images of neglect were so shocking to witness in a country that had just become a member of the European Union.   Bulgaria has more institutiona...

Vote Afghanistan 1 x 60' | n/a Documentary Special | Factual VOTE AFGHANISTAN is a one hour documentary that will follow the historic and gripping story of the fight for Afghanistan’s next Presidency. An observational documentary, the film will navigate the spider’s web of ethnic rivalries and gender differences that fuel Afghanistan’s political culture. It will reveal an extraordinary and vulnerable country on the brink of profound change.  ...

Time Team America 200091 5 x 60' | VIDEOTEXT LIMITED History | Factual Time Team America is an adaptation of the British series, Time Team, in collabaration with Channel 4, in which a team of professional archaeologists visit famous archaeological sites across the United States. They are led by host and artist Colin Campbell.Over five episodes, Time Team America tracels to Roanoke Island to look for evidence of the Lost Colony of Fort Raleigh...

Blood of the Rose 200055 1 x 100’ | Dragonfly Film and Television Productions, formerly Firefly Productions Documentary Special | Factual ** WINNER OF THE 2009 SHEFFIELD GREEN AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY ADDRESSING ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES** Joan Root, with her husband Alan, produced some of the most beautiful and famous natural history films in history, born of her deep love of Africa and its flora and fauna.  This delicate but fiercely determined member of Kenya’s Happy Valley was gunned down in January 2006 by intruders bearing ...

Seven Ages of Drinking, The 200148 1 x 60’ | RENEGADE PICTURES Documentary Special | Factual Underage drinkers, student boozers, hen party girls, chardonnay mums and tipsy grannies – women in the UK are drinking more than ever. Cherry Healey joins these ladies on the lash to discover why booze is such a big part of their lives regardless of how old they are.  Cherry drinks with women across the country and tries to find out what girls drink, where they drink and how their tastes chang...

The Hogan Twins – Two Sisters, One Brain 1 x 60’ | RENEGADE PICTURES Documentary Special | Factual An Extraordinary Case of Siamese TwinsKrista and Tatiana Hogan are two year old conjoined twins from Vernon, Canada.   They share a key blood vessels in the brain and most extraordinarily of all, some of the same brain matter.  Their mother claims that when one is watching television, the other can see the same images, even if her eyes are closed. But sharing a...

Baroque 200138 3 x 60' | ZCZ FILMS LIMITED Arts & Performance | Factual In this spectacular three-part series, we will explore the Baroque tradition in many of its key locations. Starting in Italy and following the spread of the wildfire across Europe and beyond, art critic Waldemar Januszczak takes us on a tour of the best examples of Baroque to be found, and tells the best stories behind those works. Episode One begins at St.Peter’s in Ro...

Close Up: Photographers at Work 600004 1 x 44' | OVATION TV Lifestyle | Factual Documentaries on photographers often deal with technique. But when Ovation TV asked renowned documentary cinematographer Albert Maysles to talk to some of his famous friends, he focused on a totally different and more human aspect of the photographer’s art: the relationship between the photographer and his or her subject.  First Maysles himself, a photographer himself since the age of 7, goe...

Bill Bailey – Tinselworm 200116 1 x 60’ | Glassbox Productions Performance | Comedy Filmed at Wembley Arena at the end of a sell-out tour of the UK, Tinselworm is everything you’d expect from Bill and more.  Using huge screens, films and animation by award winning film maker Joe Magee, plus Bill’s trademark musical inventiveness and verbal brilliance, this is quite simply the most spectacular one man comedy show ever staged in the UK.  With his thoughts on tatoors, jazz anthems...

God’s Nudist 142092 1 x 60' | GLASSHEAD LIMITED Documentary Special | Factual Bill Martin is a Quaker and devout naturist.  He’s on a mission to set up the first ever Christian nudist camp in USA.  His organization Natura faces huge opposition from the community and even from local Christians.  In the land of the free is this taking liberation just too far?Bill’s quest starts in Florida, the naturist capital of the world where nudism is a multi milli...

Jo Frost: Extreme Parental Guidance 200143 6 x 50' | OUTLINE PRODUCTIONS Factual Entertainment | Factual The headlines say we are a nation of bad parents and our kids are out of control.  But is that really true?  Jo Frost is going to find out.    We read endless column inches about rising knife crime, underage sex, gang violence, obesity and more. It would be easy to believe that British kids are a lost generation. According to UNICEF’s most comprehensive survey yet into childhood an...

Restaurant in your Home 200136 ZIG ZAG PRODUCTIONS Factual Entertainment | Factual Do you love cooking? Always wanted to have your own restaurant? Well why not open one in your own home. This format follows couples as they take the ultimate step by opening a restaurant in their own front room. Two successful restaurateurs, who have done exactly this, accompany design experts as they travel around the country to help others fulfil their dreams. For one night only the experienced restaurateurs will p...

The Queen in 3D 2 x 48' | RENEGADE PICTURES History | Factual One amazing televisual event.  One incredible story.  The nearest thing to time travel. Renegade Pictures is producing, for the first time on television, newly-discovered and unique 3D footage taken of The Queen during her Coronation year. The footage has been languishing in the vaults of the BFI for over fifty years and is part...

The Street Kids of Mumbai 200119 1 x 60' | TRUE VISION PRODUCTIONS LTD Documentary Special | Factual Dispatches reveals the brutal reality of life on the streets and in the slums of Mumbai, following the daily struggles of four young children to survive. A few weeks after running away from his abusive stepmother, 11 year old Salam is living rough outside the main train station.  Befriended by a gang of begging boys, run by 20 year old Asif, Salam speaks fondly of his new ’brother’.  But it soon ...

Mandela’s Daughters 200146 1 x 60' | TRUE VISION PRODUCTIONS LTD Documentary Special | Factual The Story of South Africa’s Young Girls Fighting for a FutureBalancing her bag containing all her worldly possessions, 13yr old Fuzeka, her little sister, and their mother slowly make their way over the uneven scrubland littered with garbage and faeces towards their new home – a small square box of hardboard precariously held together with a few nails.  There is no toilet,...

The Great Fan Dance 200139 RENEGADE PICTURES Factual Entertainment | Factual Key Format Points Emotionally-charged stories of Superfans The power of a music star on the lives of regular people Culminating in a huge tribute performance Format Structure This is more than a dance tribute; this is the story of the super...

Greatest Cities of the World 200123 Sr 1: 3 x 60' and Sr 2: 3 x 60' | Modern TV Factual Entertainment | Factual Griff Rhys Jones gets under the skin of six of the greatest cities on earth for a new three part documentary series.  Exploring a day-in-the-life of New York, London, Paris, Rome, Sydney and Hong Kong - Griff paints a landmark portrait of each metropolis revealing what gives each city its uniq...

My Kidnapper and Me 200147 1 x 60’ & 1 x 75’ | RENEGADE PICTURES Documentary Special | Factual What would you do if your kidnapper asked you to be his Facebook friend? In June 2003  Mark Henderson decided he needed a break from his career in TV. He wanted to explore the world. So three months later he found himself trampling through the Columbian jungle with 7 other back packers. On day 2 of the trip the group heard a rustle in the undergrowth, and seconds later found t...

World’s...And Me Series 3, The 200126 4 x 60' | Dragonfly Film and Television Productions, formerly Firefly Productions Factual Entertainment | Factual Mark Dolan is back, exploring the outer limits of the human race in search of some of the world’s most incredible people.  But finding them is just the start.  His real journey is to discover how they react to the world and how the world reacts to them.Mark immerses himself in the lives of the fattest families in the world, comes face to face with the world’s bigge...

Seven Ages of Pregnancy, The 1 x 60’ + Format | RENEGADE PICTURES Documentary Special | Factual The Pregnancy Journey Through All AgesCherry Healy’s life couldn’t have been better, her TV career was taking off, she landed herself a great flat and a cool boyfriend. She was the happiest 27 year old she knew. Then she found out she was pregnant.This was NOT part of her life plan. But this got her thinking “Is there ever a right time to have a ba...

Brilliant Green 600003 1 x 44' | OVATION TV Arts & Performance | Factual Whether constructing a car, designing a building or creating beautiful clothing, green design is hitting the cultural tapestry with force, and there’s no stopping it. Art is becoming socially aware, and the pioneers of green design are paving the way for a future where man and nature live in unison.BRILLIANT GREEN explores how the integration of eco-friendliness and design has...

SOLD! Million Dollar Auctions 600007 1 x 44' | OVATION TV Arts & Performance | Factual SOLD! takes viewers inside art auctions across the US. This one-hour special covers three auctions: the Christie’s New York sale of the estate of collector Robin Roberts featuring a broad range of exquisite design and art objects; a sale of Twentieth Century furniture and art including several Andy Warhol prints at Los Angeles Modern Auctions; and the multimillion dollar sale of a very rare copy of The ...

Manet 200137 1 x 90' | ZCZ FILMS LIMITED Arts & Performance | Factual Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there’s been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the painter of Dejeuner sur L’Herbe, he can probably be accused of inventing modern art. But his story is fascinating on so many other levels.But none of it would matter a jot were it not for the revolutionary art it provoked and co...

The Inbetweeners, Series 2 200105 6 x 30’ | Bwark Productions Series | Comedy **WINNER BEST MULTICHANNEL PROGRAMME, BROADCAST AWARDS 2010**The Inbetweeners has returned for a much anticipated second series, with just as many embarrassing mishaps and failed seduction attempts as the British Comedy Award winning first series. The show continues where the first series left off - centred around four hapless friends at Rudge Park comprehensive school, all desperately trying...

Bill Bailey – Part Troll 200114 1 x 60’ | Glassbox Productions Performance | Comedy Bill Bailey’s Part Troll tour was the smash hit live comedy show of 2004.  Filmed at Hammersmith Apollo, it showcases a unique blend of the off-the-wall comedy and music for which Bill has become acclaimed.  Part Troll tells how Bill’s native West Country accent cost him a part in Lord of the Rings and why swimming with dolphins shouldn’t be on everyone’s list of ‘Top 50 Things...

Art or Not? 600002 1 x 41' | OVATION TV Arts & Performance | Factual This Ovation TV original is an exploration of a question that has entertained, frustrated, and inflamed passionate – and even casual – art lovers forever: Is “it” art, or is “it” not art? ART OR NOT showcases artists from the edges of the art spectrum and will aim to discover what makes people passionate and highly opinionated about a broad range of visual art.This o...

Gaza - Children Under Siege 200121 1 x 60' | TRUE VISION PRODUCTIONS LTD Documentary Special | Factual The Shocking Effects of War for the Children Living in GazaOn the 21st January 2009 Israeli troops completed their withdrawal from the Gaza strip after their 22 day offensive.  They left behind a scene of total devastation. Approximately 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed and more than 4,000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged, with no hope of ever rebuilding ...

African Railroad 1 x 60’ | RENEGADE FILMS Documentary Special | Factual COMING SOON  - JANUARY 2010Award winning film maker Sean Langan is on a journey to tell the tell the story of modern day Africa.  Sean will be traveling on the beautiful but crumbling Tazara railroad that runs passenger and freight trains the 2000 kilometres from the heart of Zambia’s copper belt to the East coast of Dar Es Salaam in Tanzania.  Every day on the railroad is an...

How To Find God 200140 1 x 60’ | RENEGADE PICTURES Documentary Special | Factual Author and filmmaker Jon Ronson asks, how do agnostics come to Christianity?Increasingly, it’s through Alpha, a course devised many years ago in a well-heeled church in London’s Knightsbridge, but which now operates in tens of thousands of churches of all denominations, in universities, prisons and military bases across the world.Over 11 million people worldwide have now attended an Alpha ...

Mad About The House 200133 6 x 60’ | RENEGADE PICTURES Factual Entertainment | Factual The Ultimate Mastermind Makeover Settling Domestic Disputes Once And For AllHe wants stripped wooden floorboards, she wants deep, luxurious carpet. He wants a state of the art sound system, she wants a top of the range kitchen. He wants a home cinema room, she wants a nursery!   Mad About The House settles this classic domestic argument once and for all by gi...

Mendelssohn, The Nazis and Me 200107 1 x 60' | RENEGADE PICTURES History | Factual The Extraordinary Story Behind Mendelssohn And His Music2009 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Felix Mendelssohn. Everybody knows Mendelssohn; at least, everybody knows his Wedding March. But there’s an extraordinary story about him and his music that nobody knows. Sheila Hayman, Mendelssohn’s great-great-great niece sets out in this film t...

Don’t Tell The Bride Series 3 200141 11 x 60' | RENEGADE PICTURES Factual Entertainment | Factual Each episode follows a couple through the entire process of organising a wedding- but the twist is that the bride has absolutely no involvement, as she has agreed to hand over all control of the wedding to the groom. She has no idea where she’s getting married, or who is turning up, until the big day itself, and she won’t see the dress until just hours before she wears it up the aisle. The couple are sp...

21st Century Destroyer 200132 1 x 60’ | ITN FACTUAL Documentary Special | Factual Building the World’s Leading BattleshipAvailable November 2009 It’s the biggest, most expensive and most ambitious British warship to be built since World War Two. The Royal Navy’s new Type 45 “Stealth” destroyer will be packed with state of the art missiles that will revolutionise air defence. Each ship will cost £1 billion. Six will be built. ...

Inside MI5 – The Real Spooks 200131 1 x 60’ | ITN FACTUAL Documentary Special | Factual The Truth Behind The World’s Oldest Secret Service Agency 2009 marks the centenary of an organisation so secret that for nearly 100 years, no one outside the tightest government circles would admit it even existed.  MI5 is the world’s oldest intelligence agency. It started in one room with one man and his assistant. Now it is one of the most sophisticated arms of the gover...

Mr Prince 600009 1 x 44' | OVATION TV Arts & Performance | Factual This Ovation TV Original Special pays tribute to Hal Prince, the eminent theatrical producer and director who is responsible for the most beloved Broadway shows in history (Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, West Side Story). In his first ever television profile, Prince discusses his illustrious career, his love of theatre, and shares little known behind-the-scenes stories.MR. PRINCE features interviews wi...

Art & The City 600001 6 x 22' | OVATION TV Arts & Performance | Factual A city is a living, breathing force. Quite possibly the most defining feature of a city’s vivacious personality is its artwork. Hosted by Los Angeles based design writer David Keeps, ART & THE CITY unearths the hidden treasures that are native to each featured city. Exploring architecture, music, design and cuisine, David Keeps illustrates the inherent spirit of the following cities as only he can.  ...

The Mystery of The Nevada Triangle 200118 1 x 60’ | n/a Documentary Special | Factual When American tycoon Steve Fossett failed to return from a solo flight over Nevada in September 2007 no-one could understand how such an experienced pilot could vanish into thin air.When Fossett’s wreckage was found in the Sierra Nevada Mountains by a lone hiker in October 2008, many believed the story was over.  But ITN Factual can reveal that Fossett’s plane is one of hundreds to have ...

Close Up: Portraits 600005 1 x 44' | OVATION TV Lifestyle | Factual As captured through the lens of Albert Maysels, legendary filmmaker (Gimme Shelter, Salesman, Grey Gardens) and photographer in his own right, we witness intimate moments with fellow artists in their element. Artist to artist, photographer to photographer, we learn the philosophies and techniques with which they approach their craft.  The images the world knows and loves, the photographers that create th...

Everything is Art 600006 1 x 44' | OVATION TV Arts & Performance | Factual EVERYTHING IS ART proves that art can be found everywhere we look. We find art in the commonplace items we take for granted as well as the fantastical paintings and sculptures we see in galleries and museums. This one-hour special covers the following extraordinary designers:Jason Miller has been inspired by the mismatched and imperfect. He tells a story with every piec...

Make the Politician Work 200124 GORILLA MEDIA INC Factual Entertainment | Factual Key Format Points-   Entertainment with a political edge Structure of the programmeFor two days a minister will live the life of an ordinary person that has been directly affected by his decision making in Government: the Minister of Defence will become a soldier, the Minister of Education wil...

Bill Bailey’s Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra 200117 1 x 60’ | Glassbox Productions Performance | Comedy A classically trained musician and award-winning comedian, Bill Bailey lets loose his surreal and musical imagination on the brilliantly versatile BBC Concert Orchestra at The Royal Albert Hall, under the superb direction of Anne Dudley, one of the UK’s most celebrated composers and arrangers.  Bill has for many years included all kinds of music in his comedy and this collaboration takes the form partly of...

Anatomy of the Closet 600000 1 x 44' | OVATION TV Lifestyle | Factual A countdown survey of the fashion icons we all wear every day and yet take for granted. Even though you may not think about it much, your closet contains a short history of modern fashion. ANATOMY OF THE CLOSET counts down 10 style icons that we find in our closets, drawers and vanities.  It explores the history of these icons, including their origins and evolution, the cultural trends an...

Alex Stobbs and the St Matthew Passion 200122 1 x 60’ | Walker George Films Arts & Performance | Factual This is the sequel to The Continuing Adventures of A Boy Called Alex and is a film which features highlights from an astonishing production of Bach’s St Matthew Passion conducted byAlex Stobbs - Cambridge music scholar and cystic fibrosis sufferer – in front of a packed house of 800 paying audience members at the famous Cadogan Hall in London earlier this year. Much of the film is devoted to the pe...