91Èȱ¬
THREE February 2004 highlights
African
Footballers Wives
The Rubber Man
The Devil's Footpath
Booty Queens
15 Storeys High
Shaun Ryder Comes Clean
Little Angels
The Parent Trap
Playback
Pulling Moves
African
Footballers' Wives
It's several thousand miles from Old Trafford and there isn't a
mock Tudor mansion in sight - this is Footballers' Wives African
style.
From
the sun of Nigeria to the rain of South London, the film follows
a number of league footballers and their dual lives including Charlton
Athletic player Mark Fish and his wife, who are known as Posh and
Fish back home.
Playing in Europe brings fame and fortune to African players and
their families on a level that surpasses even Posh and Becks. But
fame costs as their extended families expect financial support and
charities in their home country want the publicity that only their
overseas ambassadors can bring.
The Rubber Man
Reporter
David Akinsanya drives a truck of condoms through South Africa and
asks why, despite a safe sex campaign, there are 1500 new HIV patients
per day.
He
meets fatalistic youths who "live fast, die young" by
not using a condom and truckers who pay prostitutes more for condom-free
sex.
The Devil's Footpath
Journalist
June Arunga travels from the top of Africa all the way down to the
bottom. By crossing from one country into its neighbour, she shows
there is a continuous path of war through Africa.
Travelling
through Egypt, Sudan, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic
of Congo, Angola, Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa June contrasts
the experiences of the people she meets and the greed of the perpetrators
of the wars in which they suffer.
Booty Queens
How
is beauty defined in today's South Africa? What has been the effect
of foreign notions of beauty on a country that only emerged from
apartheid a decade ago? Why are young African women starting to
suffer from Western eating disorders?
Through
focusing on the work of four South African modelling agencies and
a casting agent, this absorbing documentary explores differing African
and Western notions of beauty, and provides an insight into the
changing faces of South African society in the 21st century.
15 Storeys High
Award
winning stand-up comedian Sean Lock returns for a second series
as Vince in the unconventional sitcom recently nominated for a Bafta
Craft award.
Vince
is still sharing the same flat on the fifteenth floor of a South
London tower block with his flatmate Errol (Benedict Wong). No regular
visitors come to visit the two men, but that's not to say no-one
stops by. In fact quite the opposite is true.
With
dope smoking teenagers inhabiting the lifts, single mothers doing
salsa in the living room and the odd visit from local religious
leaders, life is a constant whirl of social interaction.
Shaun
Ryder Comes Clean
Shaun
Ryder - singer, songwriter and front man of The Happy Mondays and
Black Grape - hit rock bottom down under a year ago. His assets
frozen, locked in litigation and with continuing drug problems,
his family in Australia feared for his life.
The
film-maker Richard Macer (The Real Swiss Toni, Jordan – The
Truth About Me) spends eight months with Shaun as he pieces his
life back together.
Out
of rehab he attempts to adopt a healthy lifestyle and wrestles with
the demands of fatherhood. But he's still on the brink of bankruptcy
following a protracted legal battle with his former manager.
Meanwhile
he relocates to Australia to promote his new album and rejoin his
family who has helped him through his darkest days.
Little Angels
Clinical psychologist Dr Tanya Byron faces up to some junior tantrums
in a new series offering help and advice to four families experiencing
difficulties with their children.
Tanya
offers mums and dads some tips for improving their parenting techniques,
reveals how their own behaviour can have an impact on that of their
children and uses some hands-on techniques to coach parents directly.
Talking
to them via a radio receiver as they interact with their kids, Tanya
can help them change the pattern of their behaviour as and when
situations arise – and keep a sense of humour about it. Remarkable
transformations are expected . . .
The Parent Trap
As
adults, people learn to take control of their own lives making their
own rules and decisions.
But
when it comes to dealing with parents, no matter how close they
are, even a simple phone call to mum and dad can have otherwise
sane and rational adults reverting to teenage behaviour with tantrums
and sulks a plenty.
The
Parent Trap reveals how people cope with spending an entire week
in the company of their parents.
The
series shows what is involved in parents spending 24 hours a day
with their grown-up kids – everything from living together,
going to work, spending an evening in the pub with their mates and
even going out on dates.
Will
the parents and children enjoy getting to know each other as adults
or will there be tears before bedtime?
Playback
One
night a radio talk show host gets a call from a listener, Kate (Keeley
Hawes), who claims she has been raped by a colleague. She has confided
in her friends but they have doubts about her version of events.
Alex
(Stuart Laing), the man in question, has a very different view of
the incident not least because of the flirtatious relationship he
and Kate have enjoyed at work. He believes the sex was consensual.
Kate
craves validation and devises a plan to try and get Alex to admit
he attacked her. But as far as Alex is concerned he's done nothing
wrong. The question is, who is to be believed?
Stacey
Roca, Johann Myers and James Hillier also star.
Playback
is a Blast! production for 91Èȱ¬ THREE.
Pulling Moves
Pulling
Moves is an original new drama series set in West Belfast about
four local lads who spend their time planning scams and 'pulling
moves' in their home town.
Written
by Belfast-born writer Pearse Elliott, it stars four talented Irish
actors: Ciaran McMenamin; Simon Delaney; Ciaran Nolan and Kevin
Elliott.
Set
and filmed entirely in West Belfast, the series follows Wardrobe
(Delaney), Ta (McMenamin), Shay (Nolan) and Darragh (Elliott) as
they spend their time ducking and diving, wheeling and dealing and
avoiding anything that could be considered really hard work.
Notes
to Editors
91Èȱ¬
FOUR February 2004 highlights (06.01.04)
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THREE goes to Africa - Winter season press pack (10.12.03)
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