91Èȱ¬ One Winter/Spring 2007
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Panorama
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Panorama returns to the heart of the 91Èȱ¬ One schedule in January after six years of keeping its loyal audience up late on Sunday nights.
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Jeremy Vine is the new face of the award-winning current affairs programme as it goes back to its roots by having a main presenter.
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Jeremy says: "Panorama is one of the 91Èȱ¬'s most important brands and the programme is going like a train at the moment. It has the best team of reporters and producers in British television journalism and I can't wait to start working with them."
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Panorama will continue with its inquiring journalism and timely investigations – tackling issues that resonate with its mid-evening audience.
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The One Show
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Weekday evenings are about to be transformed as The One Show returns to 91Èȱ¬ One for a full year following a successful debut last summer.
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Presenters Adrian Chiles and Nadia Sawalha introduce items from across the UK including topical features, consumer stories and current affairs investigations.
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Viewers can look forward to contributions from the very best production teams around the nations and regions – Adrian, Nadia and the team could be coming to your neighbourhood as The One Show hits the road and meets its public.
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Castaway
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Seven years on, Castaway returns with a new shape and new twists, but the same underlying intentions: take a group of Brits as far away from their current lives as possible – physically, psychologically and emotionally – to explore what's really important to them and discover how they shape their community.
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In the last series, there was one set of castaways; this time, the group will evolve throughout the three months of the project which is broadcast live. One viewer will be able to join the experiment during the run in a remote location in New Zealand.
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The series launches on 91Èȱ¬ One and weekly update programmes on the channel will climax in the live result of a group decision that will have a crucial effect on the castaways.
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This is a cross-channel/cross-platform project, so will feature programmes on 91Èȱ¬ One and 91Èȱ¬ Three as well as interactive features.
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GM
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How We Built Britain
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Following the success of 91Èȱ¬ One's Picture Of Britain last year, David Dimbleby returns to author and present How We Built Britain – the dramatic and heroic story of the nation's architecture.
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The series explores the extraordinary buildings that define Britain and grew out of the experiences and beliefs of the British people.
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From magnificent cathedrals to the privations of a Glasgow tenement; from the splendours of the most palatial stately home to the urban terraced house; and from the invention of Britain's industrial cities to the romance of the thatched cottage.
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Not forgetting the railways, bridges, canals and airports along the way – David tells the story of How We Built Britain.
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Travelling through the country, the presenter explores each region of Britain in turn, revealing fascinating stories about their inhabitants and social history and a keen personal engagement with the places he encounters.
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Expedition Borneo
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Expedition Borneo takes a trip into the unknown as a team of six intrepid explorers are dropped into one of the most remote places on earth to study and help protect its fragile eco-system.
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Borneo has been described as the "lungs of the planet" and is one of the last island wildernesses in the world.
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During their journey through this extraordinary landscape, the team members scale mountains, map rivers and abseil into caves the size of football stadia, as they meet the animals unique to this habitat, including gibbons, orang-utans, forest elephants, monitor lizards, hornbills and numerous snakes.
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The six presenters are:
- Gordon Buchanan – an experienced 91Èȱ¬ Natural History Unit cameraman;
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- Justine Evans – camerawoman and tree climber;
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- Steve Backshall – climber and biologist;
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- Tara Shine – an environmental and development consultant;
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- Dr George McGavin – Curator of Entomology at the University Museum in Oxford;
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- Professor Tyrone Hayes – a frog expert from the University of Berkeley, California.
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Superstorm
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It's one of man's greatest endeavours: to control the weather. But what if fantasy became reality? What would it mean for the human race? Who would have control of this immense power?
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In this science-based thriller – from the team behind Supervolcano – a group of scientists are asked to do just that. What happens if they succeed? Where do you divert hurricanes to? Who decides who lives and who dies?
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For the scientists, it becomes apparent that what was once a research project is turning into something entirely different when they are asked to put their ideas into practice and divert a hurricane from the prosperous state of Florida.
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Events take a sinister twist when an unidentified US agency hacks into the team's computer and creates a disaster of unprecedented scale – a superstorm heading for New York.
Can the team do anything to stop the monster they've unwittingly helped to create?
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Superstorm's Anglo-American cast includes Nicola Stephenson and Tom Sizemore.
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Superstorm is accompanied by a documentary series on 91Èȱ¬ Two. The Science Of Superstorm explores the cutting-edge scientific research that informs the drama and features experts who monitor the behaviour of extreme weather around the world.
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Your Wedding In Our Hands
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Decisions about confetti, corsages, cake and veils become a thing of the past in Your Wedding In Our Hands.
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Each week, a couple hands over all the plans for their wedding to their nearest and dearest – only discovering the results, including the choice of wedding dress, when they see them on the big day itself.
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Relatives from both sides of the family are flung together, for better or worse, as they work against the clock, and the budget, to make the wedding day as special as possible.
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On hand to guide them on the road to wedding heaven is a team of experts led by Nick Knowles, top stylist Hannah Sandling and wedding expert James Love.
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Viewers will watch with baited breath to see whether the family and friends achieve "happy ever after" and give the couple the wedding of their wildest dreams – or whether they simply vow never to work with each other again.
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The Apprentice
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The tasks are tougher, the candidates hungrier and the boss even fiercer. The Apprentice is back and a new group of aspiring tycoons face the toughest job interview ever.
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Airing on 91Èȱ¬ One for the first time, the apprentices try their luck at securing the job of a lifetime with no-nonsense boss and self-made millionaire Sir Alan Sugar.
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All have bravely quit their jobs to face the biggest challenge of their lives – a 12-week job interview with the self-confessed "most belligerent person you'll ever come across".
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This new series promises tougher tasks and some of the most explosive boardroom confrontations seen yet. As always, each week, an apprentice is singled out for the sack with Sir Alan's terminal catchphrase: "You're fired".
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The Apprentice – You're Fired! also makes a welcome return immediately after the main show, although this time it's on 91Èȱ¬ Two.
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Adrian Chiles is back once again to interrogate the "fired" candidate and get to the bottom of what they really think of their fellow candidates and, of course, the man himself, Sir Alan Sugar.
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Mission Africa
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Fifteen apprentices are challenged to develop an African game reserve from scratch in the middle of a Kenyan desert in Mission Africa.
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Presented by Nick Knowles and Ken Hames (Beyond Boundaries), the novice builders, architects and carpenters travel to the arid frontier lands of northern Kenya, where they work alongside local craftsmen to help bring life back to this former war zone.
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As Nick helps the apprentices build eco-lodges, dig wells and create solar systems, former SAS Major Ken Hames teaches them to become rangers.
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As well as struggling to complete their mammoth construction project, the volunteers also have to learn to live with the region's wildlife.
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Amongst their many duties, the apprentices have to capture a herd of giraffes, stock rhino, dart lions and collar bull elephants – and they have just six weeks to put everything in place so that sustainable tourism can get underway.
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Street Doctor
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This new series takes GPs out of their surgeries and onto the streets of Britain. There's no appointment necessary and no waiting room as four doctors visit a different town or city each week.
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The Street Doctors diagnose, inform and treat members of the public wherever they are – be it on the street, in shopping centres, at their office or on the bus home.
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These unique, open-air surgeries offer instant reassurance and treatment to patients with a wide variety of common complaints. The series also follows more serious conditions in depth and helps unsuspecting members of the public who may have been previously unaware that they have a health problem to gain follow-up care and treatment.
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The Great British Village Show
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The village show is a national institution and members of the British public take huge pride in growing their own vegetables, decorating sumptuous cakes and creating handicrafts.
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For many people, being a champion of their local village show is the highlight of their year – but in this new series, entrants now have the chance to be "Britain's No.1".
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Presenters Alan Titchmarsh, James Martin and Angellica Bell visit six regional heats in some of the most beautiful stately homes of Great Britain.
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Each show consists of 15 categories, from tallest sunflower to longest carrot, and the winner from each class goes through to the grand final. Well-known guests also chat with Alan about their life in a rural area.
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The stories of the contributors as they plant their seeds, bake their cakes and make their miniature gardens show just how competitive the village show can be.
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Play It Again
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Diane Abbott MP and Lord Robert Winston are among six celebrities who are taken out of their comfort zones as they experience the highs and lows of learning to play a musical instrument.
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All are virtuosos in their respective fields but this series sees the tables turned as they become the novices and undergo musical tuition.
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Play It Again reveals much more than the celebrities' dedication and musical aptitude, it also delves into why they now want to explore the world of music and performance.
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In order to help them face the music, the six also get hands-on tips from top performers including Jools Holland, Stewart Copeland, Courtney Pine and Mark Knopfler.
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And, like any music students, they are expected to attend weekly lessons and fit regular practice sessions into their busy schedules.
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Victoria On Victoria
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Queen Victoria was the very epicentre of her Empire but never visited it. So, over a century after her death, Victoria Wood is going to look for her.
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It is, at times, an ignominious journey that begins in Assin Manso in Ghana, otherwise known as Slave River, a place where slaves were sorted, oiled and bartered, before being transported to sugar plantations in Jamaica.
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Victoria continues at a pace through Newfoundland, India, Hong Kong, Borneo, New Zealand, Australia and Zambia, on the look out for the residual evidence that we were there.
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She talks to people who have first hand experience of the impact of the Brits or have anecdotal evidence of our activities abroad. We hear stories of remarkable deeds, listen to long held grievances and sometimes just experience the places for what they are.
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Working Monarchy
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With remarkable behind-the-scenes access, this landmark series shows how the Monarchy impacts on so many aspects of British life.
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Never before have television cameras been allowed to observe so comprehensively the working life of Her Majesty The Queen and other members of the Royal Family as they go about their duties at home and abroad.
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Working Monarchy documents the activities of a special Royal year – from the celebrations of The Queen's 80th birthday to the State Opening of Parliament; Royal tours, investitures and garden parties; through to the ancient rituals of the Church, the opening of football stadia and the constant liaison between the Household and the media.
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Survival
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The body's ability to survive life-threatening illness and injury is miraculous. Fusing medical imagery and CGI with real-life stories from people in the Emergency Room and beyond, Survival celebrates the body's amazing ability to join forces with modern medicine and come out on top.
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Featuring groundbreaking graphics and specialist photography, each programme in the series shows the wonder of medicine as never before, shedding light on the battles inside as well as the dramas outside the body.
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Electron microscopes and miniature cameras allow viewers to see the internal landscape of the body under threat for the very first time.
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Each film in the series focuses on one life stage and shows how the body responds to severe injury and illness by following real patients from the moment they enter the ER and throughout the crucial stages of critical care.
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Sleep Clinic
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Sleep Clinic takes an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the work of one of the UK's most prestigious sleep centres.
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Although world-famous for heart transplants, Papworth Hospital in Cambridge also houses the biggest sleep clinic in Britain, ushering a staggering 2,500 narcoleptics, parasomniacs and chronic snorers through its doors each year.
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The result of three months' dedicated filming, Sleep Clinic charts the revolutionary treatment of those who sleep walk, sleep talk and those who can't sleep at all.
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Taking on around 24 new patients a week, Papworth's six dedicated sleep laboratory beds allow complex overnight studies to be conducted to diagnose some of the rarest and most dangerous sleeping disorders currently affecting the UK's snoozing population.
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When Love Comes To Town
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With over half the population currently single, those in small towns find it particularly difficult to find love.
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In When Love Comes To Town, eight single men, aged from 30 to 60 and from rural Devon, travel to a remote village in the Scottish Highlands to meet eight single women who have struggled to find that special someone. Some are divorced, others bereaved and a few simply haven't found "the one" ... yet!
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Helped by a larger-than-life matchmaker from each village, the romantically rusty men and women embark on a rollercoaster of dates and group events, in both Devon and Scotland. As they get to know each other better, the singletons also learn the odd thing about themselves.
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There's disappointment and unrequited love for some, while for others it's a surprising journey that takes them well on the way to becoming part of a couple for the first time in years.
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