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01 aDVENTURE & TRAVEL 3
02 CHILDREN & FAMILY 23
03 COMEDY & ENTERTAINMENT 47
04 CRIME & INVESTIGATION 55
05 DRAMA & TELEMOVIES 73
06 FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT 81
07 HEALTH & MEDICINE 129
08 HISTORY 147
09 LIFESTYLE 159
10 peOPLE & SOCIETY 183
11 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY 211
12 WILDLIFE & NATURAL HISTORY 219
13 Short-Form Content 231
14 FEATURE FILMS 235
15 genre INDEX 251
16 aLPHABETICAL INDEX 263
1 ADVENTURE & TRAVEL
2 3 adventure & travel adventure & travel
3 CHEFS, 1 CITY | 13 x 30’ HD Chefs are the new rock stars and we have the hottest on the planet. 3 Chefs, 1 City explores the world’s greatest foodie destinations through the eyes of chefs, because no-one knows a culinary scene better than the personalities who define it. In each episode three chefs showcase their kitchen skills, their restaurants, the culinary scene and their own passion for food. Get set as Wolfgang Puck, Alvin Leung, Todd English, Michael Mina, Grant Achatz, Heinz Beck, David Thompson, Dylan Jones, Cristina Bowerman, Ian Kittichai and more show you around their cities. Enjoy rare access to culinary hot shots, whether already famous, up-and-coming or notorious within the business. 3 Chefs, 1 City is a world food tour taking in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, New York, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Rome, Istanbul, London, Panama City and Cape Town. 3 chefs, 3 exclusive views… all in one city. ANH DOES... | 10 x 60’ HD Format rights available Anh Does is a travel and lifestyle show presented by Vietnamese-born Produced by: Re:Source Media Year of Production: 2014 Australian author, actor, comedian and artist, Anh Doh. In his latest series, Anh Do travels to Italy. From the Italian Alps in the north to the southern heel, Anh meets with families, enjoys adventures and eats Acopan Tepui: Mountain delicious food. Anh begins his journey in the Italian Alps to try his hand at a local mating dance called slap dancing and attempts bubble 1 x 60’ HD of Gods | football. Arriving in Venice, Anh learns the art of controlling a gondola A team of extreme climbing legends is determined to be the first to ascend with the help of Franco, a seventh generation gondolier. Ready to head the 700-metre sheer north wall of Acopan Tepui, a table mountain rising south, he mixes it with an opera-singing flash mob in Verona, drives majestically from the deep, primeval jungle of Venezuela. Before they even a handmade Lamborghini, enters a game of cheese bowling and races a begin the dangerous climb, Stephan Glowacz and his companions must carry chariot. Finally Anh arrives in Bari, a hidden gem of the Adriatic, where all their equipment through almost impassable jungle with deadly animal and the seafood nearly walks out of the ocean and onto the plate. At the plant life and treacherous waters to set up base camp at the foot of the plateau end, Anh realises living “La bella vita” is simple – good food shared – all in relentless rain and against the warnings of the local natives who hold the with friends in the most beautiful places. mountain sacred. Spectacular high definition aerial photography reveals this hidden world and shares an adventure that most would fear to live themselves. Anh does Britain 2 x 60’ HD 2013 Anh does Vietnam 2 x 60’ HD 2013 NOMINATED (2008): Best Film on Climbing, Banff Mountain Film Festival Anh does Brazil 2 x 60’ HD 2014 NOMINATED (2008): Award, Torello International Mountain Film Festival Anh does Scandinavia & ICeland 2 x 60’ HD 2014 NOMINATED (2008): Adventure Award, Internationales Berg + Abenteuer Film Festival Graz Anh does Italy 2 x 60’ HD 2015
Produced by: medi-cine and drehxtrem Produced by: Seven Productions commissioned by: ARTE Germany & France COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia Year of Production: 2008 Year of Production: 2013 – 2015 4 5 adventure & travel adventure & travel
Best Job in the World, The | 6 x 30’ HD In February 2009 an extraordinary job position was advertised. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia needed a caretaker for six months. The wage was AU$150,000 and the position was open to all nationalities. 35,000 applications later, the 600 islands of the Great Barrier reef had a caretaker – Ben Southall, a 33-year-old Englishman with a passion for travel and adventure. The Best Job In The World follows Ben from his home in the tiny English village of Ropley to the centre of a worldwide campaign and media frenzy – and not a bad job! The show takes in the staggering beauty of the only living thing you can see from space – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. NEW
Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Productions BEYOND Sahara – Riding commissioned by: NGC International from Cairo to cape town | 2 x 60’ HD Year of Production: 2009 In a thrilling follow-up to Beyond Siberia (2 x 60’), this documentary follows 16 motorbike riders across 20,000 gruelling kilometres through Best of Australia, The | 11 x 60’ Africa. For 80 days, they battle blazing heat, treacherous roads, The Best Of Australia will take you along to discover Australia’s suffocating bureaucracy and bone-crunching crashes, attempting most amazing rainforests, soaring peaks, windswept beaches and to join a very elite group of people to have conquered this journey. extraordinary wildlife. Stunning natural spectacles meet vibrant Riding the vast savannahs and witnessing the world’s greatest wildlife human culture when we journey throughout this spectacular continent. spectacle on the African plains, the riding gets tough as they battle Tropical Queensland, the Warlu Way in Western Australia, Tasmania’s through gravel, sand, dirt and spectacular lightning storms across wilderness, the Australian Alps and the jewels of the Christmas and Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. Cocos Keeling Islands are just some of the destinations in this series. It’s an incredible journey of vast sandy deserts, high mountain passes and never-ending savannahs on roads and tracks which are amongst Episode 9, 10 & 11 HD the most dangerous in the world.
Produced by: Australian Geographic Produced by: Thought Films Year of Production: 2006 – 2012 Year of Production: 2016 6 7 adventure & travel adventure & travel
BEYOND SIBERIA – RIDING THE ROAD OF BONES | 2 x 60’ HD The 30,000 kilometre motorbike ride from London to Magadan, on the edge of Russia, has been described as one of the most challenging rides in the world. For four long months, a group of adventure bikers from around the world travels across a quarter of the Earth’s surface, pushing themselves and their bikes to the limit. Starting in Europe they ride the length of Russia, onto the historical Silk Road, deep into Mongolia, through the Siberian wilderness and experience an incredibly moving final ride through the infamous Road of Bones; a spiritual wasteland where two million people perished, with their bodies used as road fill during Stalin’s reign of terror. Through blazing deserts, inland seas, snow-covered peaks, black ice, torrential rain, raging river crossings and vast empty plains, this is an epic series of extreme highs and gut-wrenching lows. These riders know that every bend in the road could be their last and not everybody will make it to the end. Presented and narrated by Charley Boorman.
Produced by: Thought Films Year of Production: 2015
NEW BOY TO MAN | 12 x 60’ HD Brent Owens – Extreme, Award-winning filmmaker Tim Noonan is on an epic quest to discover what 13 x 30’ HD it means to become a man. He travels the globe to immerse himself in Authentic & Unwrapped | unique native cultures and experience the most extreme and dangerous This brand new series follows Masterchef Australia winner Brent coming-of age rituals. Tim endures ancient ceremonies, bloody initiations Owens as he explores South Africa to discover its beautiful and diverse and gruelling tests of manhood to be accepted as a man of the tribes. cultures and terrain. Experience both the extreme and the authentic Amongst a clan of reindeer people in Siberia, Tim learns to drive a sled, as Brent unearths real food and adventure. He gets stuck into the sleeps in the snow, braves frostbite and drinks reindeer blood. On the kitchen with some of the country’s most established chefs, finding mysterious Guinea Bissau Islands Tim must pass a series of tests such as Sowetan street fare, seafood delicacies, the best city-grown farm being beaten naked, eating bush rats and monkeys and receiving a tribal produce, traditional Afrikaans comfort food, and the famous South scar. Deep in Mongolia, as an ancient rite of passage, he must capture African braai. As he travels the length of the country, he also tries out and train a golden eagle to successfully hunt a fox in the wild. This is a every bit of adventure he can get his hands on, freefalling in Soweto, solitary mission with Tim filming everything himself. There is no backing shark diving in the Western Cape, game drives in Sabi and bungee out so Tim has no choice but to toughen up to survive. jumping from Bloukrans. On his journey, Brent reveals the moving, the inspirational, and sometimes bizarre, people and places that Series 1: 3 x 60’ HD 2014 make South Africa truly unique. Series 2: 9 x 60’ HD 2015 Format rights available Produced by: Seven Productions Produced by: Oxyg3n Media COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia COMMISSIONED by: Discovery Channel South Africa Year of Production: 2014 – 2015 Year of Production: 2016 8 9 adventure & travel adventure & travel
NEW Carnival Eats | 39 x 30’ HD Carnival Eats gives us an inside look at the mouth-watering and outrageous foods famously found at fairs and carnivals, the wacky characters who create them and the culinary thrill seekers who devour and delight in them. There is lots to do at a carnival. Playing the games, riding the rides, delighting in the noise and the neon lights. But for some, the best part of a carnival is the food, some of it unique. This series travels the length and breadth of North America and targets the CHASING MONSTERS | 12 x 60’ HD culinary creations linked to fairgrounds. Calorie-loaded offerings include Chasing Monsters takes us on a mission to seek out colossal and rattlesnake, frogs legs or okra, all deep-fried, and a decadent sundae of dangerous underwater creatures in the most remote corners of the eight doughnuts topped with whipped cream, chocolate or caramel... and planet. From the shark-infested waters of Florida to the rugged don’t forget the cherry! Host Noah Cappe, a novice cook, will eat anything Amazon in Brazil, monster fish adventurer Cyril Chauquet tests the he can while at the same time trying his hand at creating some of these ferociousness of the alligator gar, fights huge catfish with his bare incredible eats. hands and battles with giant Mexican sailfish. He uses himself as bait in shark-infested waters, swabs razor-sharp shark teeth to help develop HD HD Series 1: 13 x 30’ 2014 Series 3 13 x 30’ 2016 life saving antibiotics and comes face to face with the barracuda. This Series 2: 13 x 30’ HD 2015 series explores the fascinating stories behind the elusive monster fish
Nominated (2016): Best Lifestyle Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards living in the hidden depths of the planet’s oceans, lakes and rivers and the adrenaline-packed journeys to get up close and personal with them! Format rights available Produced by: Alibi Entertainment Produced by: Untamed Productions COMMISSIONED by: Cooking Channel US & Food Network Canada COMMISSIONED by: Evasion Canada Year of Production: 2014 – 2016 Year of Production: 2015 10 11 adventure & travel adventure & travel
Chilli Factor | 104 x 30’ COOKING FOR THE CROWN | 8 x 30’ HD With an international mix of music, fashion and extreme sports, each Royal cuisine has intrigued many throughout the years, with royal chefs episode of Chilli Factor features stories, profiles and incredible footage and food-tasters holding their tongues as to what has been served from around the globe. The series shows unique lifestyle trends and throughout the generations. Over the past 13 years, international chef culture, targeting 14-30 year olds, and can be easily adapted to Christian Bauer has prepared meals for many VIPs and celebrities. In include local presenters. each episode of Cooking For The Crown, Christian travels to a different country to meet their royal family. Christian’s objectives will be to learn Series 1: 52 x 30’ 2001 Series 3: 26 x 30’ 2003 what culinary delights are served and how these recipes are prepared, Series 2: 26 x 30’ 2002 before finally meeting a member of the royal family. Christian then
Produced by: Chilli TV prepares the dish for his hosts – with his own adaptation. Cooking Year of Production: 2001 – 2003 For The Crown de-mystifies the monarchy through cooking whilst discovering how their country’s unique and traditional dishes have played a part in their lives.
Format rights available Produced by: The Moving Visuals Co. COMmISSIONED BY: Channel News Asia Year of Production: 2014
Dying For Everest | 1 x 60’ HD When double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mount Everest he was feted by the press and public alike. But only a few days later Inglis was plunged into a storm of controversy when it was learned that he and his fellow mountaineers had passed an incapacitated climber, Englishman David Sharp, leaving him to a lonely death high in the Death Zone. In Dying For Everest we follow the mountaineers on their fateful summit bid and witness the powerful effect Everest has on the rules of survival until finally, at the end, we are able to pass judgement on the morality of climbing in the Death Zone.
Produced by: Balance Vector Productions and Making Movies commissioned BY: TV3 New Zealand Year of Production: 2007
Free | 26 x 30’ Showcasing a variety of action sports, this highly charged series is bursting with epic action sequences from the adrenaline sports arena. Mixed with high-tech gear, fashion, art and music, in each episode we Chuck’s WEEK OFF: Mexico | 8 x 30’ HD travel the globe and profile some of the most celebrated action sports artists of all time to get an insight into the world of these extraordinary Celebrity chef Chuck Hughes is hungry for a break from his daily grind. athletes. Snowboarding, B.A.S.E. jumping and skating are just a few of He wants to head somewhere he can trade in his black t-shirt and apron the featured action sports guaranteed to take your breath away. for a pair of shades and a tank top and enjoy fresh, authentic food… So he’s heading to Mexico and making his way across the country in Series 1: 13 x 30’ 2006 search of culinary adventures. Part cooking show, part travel show, each Series 2: 13 x 30’ 2008 adventure-filled episode has Chuck discovering a different part of Mexico and the authentic food and culture that goes with it. From making beef Produced by: Beyond Action commissioned by: Network Ten Australia jerky with cowboys to slicing up sashimi with fishermen; from cooking up Year of Production: 2006 – 2008 grasshoppers to making tortillas on the side of a volcano, Chuck weaves his way throughout Mexico in his jeep, meeting extraordinary people and experiencing incredible food.
NOMINATED (2014): Best Lifestyle or Talk Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards
Produced by: Whalley-Abbey Media COMMISSIONED BY: Cooking Channel US, Food Network Canada, Cooking Channel Canada Year of Production: 2012 12 13 adventure & travel adventure & travel
Holiday Show, The | 28 x 30’ HD Your perfect holiday is waiting to be discovered. Presenters Ciara Whelan and Jon Slattery visit some of the most popular holiday destinations in the world, with each show focusing on a different type of holiday. There is something to suit everyone with activity breaks, romantic getaways, family holidays, winter sun, luxury and spa and of course shopping! Whether you’re looking for an adventure-packed week away, or an afternoon with a difference, this is the show with it all. Series three and four follow Ciara and Jon as they explore Ireland’s hidden holiday treasures for thrill seekers and luxury junkies alike, making sure there’s something for the whole family.
Series 1: 6 x 30’ HD 2009 Series 3: 6 x 30’ HD 2013 Series 2: 10 x 30’ HD 2011 Series 4: 6 x 30’ HD 2014
format rights available Produced by: Trilogy Media commissioned BY: TV3 Ireland
Lonely Planet – Natural Born Traveller | 4 x 30’ HD MY FRANCE WITH MANU | 6 x 60’ HD Steve Crombie is an Australian thrill seeker who’s travelled half The third series of My France With Manu takes viewers on a way around the world in search of adventure, but has never looked picturesque and entertaining journey through My Kitchen Rules judge, for trouble in his own backyard. That’s about to change. Steve is Manu Feildel’s beautiful homeland, France. From Paris, Manu heads embarking on a 7,000km bone-breaking motorcycle journey along towards the Rhine, stopping to visit the esteemed House of Bollinger in one of Australia’s most beautiful landscapes – The Great Dividing the Champagne-Ardenne. In Alsace-Lorraine, he creates a simple rustic Range. This iconic range spans thousands of kilometres through quiche lorraine before travelling to Strasbourg through the Alsation rainforest, semi-desert and alpine pasture down the entire length vineyards. Here he tastes traditional sauerkraut and paté, culminating of the continent’s eastern seaboard. in the formidable ‘Choucroute’, a feast of meat!
WINNER (2009): Best Cinematography, Asian Television Awards My France with Manu: Brittany to Biarritz 2 x 60’ HD 2014 My France with Manu: The Rhone Valley 2 x 60’ HD 2015 Lonely planet – Six Degrees 25 x 60’ HD 2003 – 2006 My France with Manu: Paris to Strasburg 2 x 60’ HD 2016
Produced by: Lonely Planet Television Produced by: Seven Productions commissioned by: Discovery Asia COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia Year of Production: 2008 Year of Production: 2016 14 15 adventure & travel adventure & travel
PATI’S MEXICAN TABLE | 39 x 30’ HD In Series 5, Pati sets out to explore the Maya world in the Yucatan NEW Peninsula. Embarking on a road trip that will cross three states, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Pati meets with local producers, 2 x 60’ HD MY Ireland with COlin | growers and chefs, both in restaurants and in their homes, to learn about My Kitchen Rules Australia judge and restauranteur Colin Fassnidge the unique cuisine of the region. From visiting remote fishermen’s villages returns home to discover the changing face of food in Ireland. He revisits to historic haciendas, to bustling markets and pre-Hispanic ruins and his childhood haunts where we meet his family, then takes a culinary tour underground cenotes, Series 5 goes deeper than ever before. of some of Ireland’s most beautiful food producing areas on his beloved Ducati 1200 motorbike. From seaweed harvesting to collecting delicious Series 3: 13 x 30’ HD 2014 Series 5: 13 x 30’ HD 2016 HD golden honey, picking apples for cider and feeding pigs on their own Series 4: 13 x 30’ 2015 private island in Fermanagh, Colin rediscovers the spectacular scenery, NOMINATED (2016): Best Culinary Series and Outstanding Host, Emmy Awards while showcasing the world-class food produced in Ireland in a uniquely NOMINATED (2016): Best Culinary Series and Outstanding Host, James Beard Awards personal way. Format rights available Produced by: Seven Productions Produced by: WETA Washington DC and Mexican Table in association with Follow Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia COMMISSIONED by: PBS USA Year of Production: 2015 Year of Production: 2014 – 2016 16 17 adventure & travel adventure & travel
ROD & RUCKSACK | 5 x 60’ HD Sport Star Insider | 2 x 60’ HD Rod & Rucksack is a fishing and adventure series that charts the journey Former professional sportsman Andrew ‘ET’ Ettingshausen immerses of seasoned fisherman Guy Elson; an angler with a penchant for adventure himself in sports that are extending the boundaries of human ability, and extreme fishing challenges. This trip takes him all over the world from in the air and in the water. In the air it’s gliding to paragliding to Canada to Australia with Bolivia, Mongolia and Panama in-between, to aerobatics; in the water it’s surfing to free-diving to speed sailing. some of the most remote yet stunningly beautiful places on the planet. Through the eyes of champion ‘insiders’, ET explores the unique Living with local people who act as his guides, Guy pits his fishing wits combination of advanced technology and athletics required to master against many of the fiercest fighting fish imaginable. Keen to experience sports. We meet the athletes who have powered their way to the the local customs and traditions, Guy takes us on a journey of discovery as winner’s circle, revealing the techniques, secrets and technology he seeks out his target species. We see nature wild and untamed with an keeping them at the top of their game. abundance of magnificent wildlife that is rarely seen by man. Produced by: Beyond Productions Produced by: Cinesite and Gass Productions COMMISSIONED by: Discovery Asia Pacific Year of Production: 2012 Year of Production: 2009
Surfmag | 36 x 30’ Surfmag is a fast-moving magazine series that covers the spectrum of locations to meet the surf stars of today and tomorrow, exploring the diverse aspects of surfing and its competitions. From world championship tours to big wave competitions, Surfmag features an in-depth look at the lifestyle that surfing embodies.
Series 1: 12 x 30’ 2003 Series 3: 12 x 30’ 2005 Rush TV | 101 x 30’ Series 2: 12 x 30’ 2004 Rush TV brings you all the action from the best proponents of action Produced by: Chilli TV sports around the world. Featuring extended personality profiles from Year of Production: 2003 – 2005 the masterful riders of surf and snow, episodes are also dedicated to free-running, parkour, wakeboarding, body boarding and motocross. Highlights of the latest series include Australian pro surfers Chippa Travel Fact or Fiction | 2 x 30’ HD Wilson and Tyler Wright gunning for international success, Aussie Think you know about travel and the world? Jayms Ramirez knows nothing snowboarder Biba Turnbull in action in the first-ever women’s event is what it seems and he goes to the ends of the earth to discover the at the prestigious Stylewars competition, snowboarder Jess Rich and truth. Most people think The Statue of Liberty is New York property, but is skier Anna Segal in training for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Puerto she really? Lombard Street in San Francisco is renowned as ‘The World’s Rican motocross star Tarah Gieger and pro free-runner and Crookedest Street’ and cracking the lid on this secret might just get Jayms stuntwoman Luci Romberg. run out of town. For centuries Australians have been known to the world
Series 1: 26 x 30’ 2010 Series 3: 26 x 30’ HD 2013 as ‘convicts’, descendants of British criminals sent ‘Down Under’ to the Series 2: 26 x 30’ 2010 Series 4: 23 x 30’ HD 2013 world’s biggest prison. But is that slur correct? Your hotel room is a clean, hygienic home away from home, right? Jayms sorts the fact from the fiction. Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Action Produced by: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED by: ABC3 Australia commissioned by: Travel Channel USA Year of Production: 2010 – 2013 Year of Production: 2009 18 19 adventure & travel adventure & travel
VINTAGE HUNTER | 18 x 60’ HD Flea market junkie Dominic Johnson-Hill takes us on a journey to find captivating curios and antiques, both valuable and intriguing! It can be like finding a needle in a haystack, but whatever happens it’s a road trip that Dominic always gets a kick out of. Flea markets are haunts for colourful characters from all walks of life. Dominic gets a different peek at history via its collectors and their prized possessions. In modern Singapore, he discovers a secret connection to WWII POWs and the city’s thriving underground vintage culture. Behind Tokyo’s polite veneer, Dominic unravels the intense Japanese fixations with old boy’s toys – Godzilla figures, anime toys and Samurai swords. He jets off to Mumbai to be dazzled by Bollywood’s history and in China he digs out hidden stores of antique furniture while in India he unravels the remnants of the riches of its textile past.
Series 1: 6 x 60’ HD 2012 Series 3: 6 x 60’ HD 2015 Series 2: 6 x 60’ HD 2012
FINALIST (2015): Lifestyle Category, Banff World Media Festival’s Rockie Awards
Format rights available Produced by: The Moving Visuals Co COMMISSIONED by: MediaCorp Okto Singapore Year of Production: 2012 – 2015 WorLD’S WEIRDEST RESTAURANTS Vivienne Westwood’s London 28 x 30’ HD 1 x 60’ HD World’s Weirdest Restaurants serves up the planet’s most extraordinary eateries, crazy characters and curious cuisines. Want your chicken Vivienne Westwood’s London is an entertaining journey through the British capital led by one of the world’s most influential fashion designers. flambéed, hurled through the air on a catapult, then skewered mid-flight Considered a national treasure and accorded rare access to London’s by a unicycle-riding server? Or your sushi served to you by a dancing grandest cultural institutions, Dame Vivienne Westwood is our engaging robot? Would you like to eat the bust of a Ukrainian soldier, sculpted host and humorous tour guide; proudly showing off the city that inspires from a pound of pure pig fat? Bob Blumer experiences all this and more her work and gives her life ‘meaning and purpose’. She introduces us to in this crowd-pleasing series in which each episode showcases four of her favourite places and what she does when she’s not designing clothes, the world’s most jaw-dropping, show-stopping, taste-topping restaurants.
as well as teaching a whole new way of looking at the world in which Series 1: 13 x 30’ HD 2012 we live. Fuelled by an enthusiasm for London so passionate it’s virtually Series 2: 15 x 30’ HD 2013 contagious, we guarantee this will be one tour you won’t soon forget! Format rights available Produced by: Fashion Television Channel Produced by: Paperny Entertainment COMMISSIONED by: CTV Canada COMMISSIONED BY: Food Network Canada Year of Production: 2010 Year of Production: 2012 – 2013 20 21 2 CHILDREN & FAMILY
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ABSOLUTE GENIUS WITH DICK & DOM | 20 x 30’ HD From Archimedes to Faraday, Dick and Dom explore the work of the most important inventors and scientists in history. In each episode they reveal a pioneer in science, engineering or culture who had a genius NEW idea that helped shape the world. Dick and Dom look at surviving examples of their inventions in our everyday lives. Inspired to come All over the workplace up with their own genius idea, Dick and Dom attempt to defy the laws HD of gravity by riding The Wall of Death, record their own version of the 10 x 30’ Doctor Who theme tune with a twist, demonstrate the explosive power All Over The Workplace offers children a unique opportunity to explore of poo and even attempt a journey into space. It is fun, entertaining what it is really like to do the jobs they dream about when they get and humorous, yet the show sets out to educate and introduce older. In each episode, two children get to do just that, meeting audiences to a diverse range of historical figures. various celebrities and well-known role models along the way. They even manage to try doing the job for real, often with funny and mind- Series 1: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 boggling outcomes! Whether you want to join the police or write your HD Series 2: 10 x 30’ 2014 first novel as an author, or cook sumptuous dishes as a chef, make people laugh as a comedian, wow the crowds as a footballer or even WINNER (2014): Children’s Presenter, BAFTA Awards NOMINATED (2014): Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series, Kidscreen Awards govern the country as a politician, this series sets out to discover just NOMINATED (2013): Children’s Factual, BAFTA Awards what it takes!
Produced by: CBBC Productions Produced by: CBBC Productions COMMISSIONED by: CBBC UK COMMISSIONED by: CBBC UK Year of Production: 2013 - 2014 Year of Production: 2016 24 25 Children & family Children & family
Backyard Science | 78 x 30’ or 156 x 15’ Amazing Extraordinary Science is fun and we can prove it! Based on the best-selling Dorling Friends, The | 39 x 30’ Kindersley book of the same name, Backyard Science continues to be an international success. This fun and educational series for children This hit children’s drama series gives the traditional superhero genre a aged six to twelve years rips science out of the laboratory and into the new spin. This is a story of an ordinary boy who discovers the power to real world. This is science for kids by kids. Each program shows kids be extraordinary. Fifteen-year-old Ben Wilson is an average kid whose demonstrating easy, practical and cool activities that anyone can do. Fast life changes dramatically when he discovers a mysterious insignia paced and fun, Backyard Science looks at everything a bit differently to that endows him with amazing powers as Captain X. With the help help kids unravel the mysteries of life, the universe and everything – all of a retired superhero sidekick known as The Green Termite and best from their backyard! Suitable for international versioning. friend Roy Bottle (alias NightLite), Ben sets out to unite the world’s few remaining superheroes under one common banner: The Amazing Series 1: 26 x 30’ or 52 x 15’ 2003 Series 3: 26 x 30’ or 52 x 15’ 2007 Extraordinary Friends. Their mission is to save the world... and still be Series 2: 26 x 30’ or 52 x 15’ 2005 home in time to do their homework! WINNER (2004): Platinum Award in TV Series – Family/Children, WorldFest-Houston Series 1: 13 x 30’ 2006 Series 3: 13 x 30’ HD 2008 International Independent Film Festival Series 2: 13 x 30’ 2007 Produced by: Beyond Productions WINNER (2011): Award for Advancement of Television Drama, Seoul International commissioned by: Super RTL Germany, TVO Ontario Canada Drama Awards Year of Production: 2003 – 2007 FINALIST (2011): Best Children’s Programme, AFTA Aotearoa (New Zealand) Film & Television Awards FINALIST (2008): Best Juvenile Drama, Seoul International Drama Awards NOMINATED (2008): Continuing Series (Serial), RomaFictionFest International Competition NOMINATED (2008): Best Children’s/Youth Series, Director of Photography and Sound Design, Qantas Media Awards
Produced by: Greenstone commissioned by: TVNZ New Zealand Year of Production: 2006 – 2008
Buzzy Bee & Friends | 52 x 7’ HD In this charming CGI animated pre-school series, Buzzy Bee and his friends live together in a colourful little town called Rolling Downs. Buzzy, with his infectious positive attitude and wonderful kind manner, is our hero. Mary Lou and Oscar Ostrich are Buzzy’s right-hand helpers, along with other characters like boy racer Trikey Tom, cantankerous Driver Don, matronly Dorable Duck and her brood, and the sweet but very shy Elle-Gator. Stories revolve around the delightful calamities that Buzzy Bee and his friends resolve with cheerful aplomb. Each episode starts with Buzzy in his radio studio where callers, including viewers from around the world, phone in to find solutions to life’s little conundrums, illustrated by a story involving the Rolling Downs characters.
Format rights available Produced by: Lion Rock Ventures and Lemon Sky Animation COMMISSIONED by: TVNZ New Zealand Year of Production: 2011 – 2012 26 27 Children & family Children & family
Dick ‘n’ Dom Go Wild! | 40 x 30’ HD Dick and Dom get their hands on back-stage passes for willing helpers to get stuck in at Britain’s busiest vets, wildlife sanctuaries and animal rescue centres. Their young volunteers are up for a massive challenge but they’re not all big animal lovers. Will a day on the frontline looking after wounded wildlife and poorly pets change their minds? For some recruits this is the first time they’ll have come into close contact with animals. Some of them aren’t allowed pets, others are scared of wild animals and many of them think that British wildlife is downright boring. Dick and Dom are out to show their volunteers that pets and wildlife really rock and that animals need their help!
Series 1: 20 x 30’ HD 2011 Series 2: 20 x 30’ HD 2011
Format rights available Produced by: True North Productions COMMISSIONED by: CBBC UK Year of Production: 2011
Dig and Dug with Daisy | 16 x 10’ or 4 x 40’ Dig and Dug are loveable workmen who create mechanical mayhem wherever they go. They always set out with good intentions as they attempt to ‘mend’ all kinds of crazy machines, but just end up making things worse! Luckily their friend Daisy knows about how things work and saves the day again and again. This hilarious model animation series is the perfect answer to kids’ fascination with machines and is sure to delight an inquisitive young audience.
Produced by: Penguin Television COMMISSIONED by: Channel 4 UK Year of Production: 1993
Eyewitness | 42 x 30’ The Emmy Award-winning Eyewitness series is the ultimate natural history series for children. Thanks to stunning photography, graphics and animation, Eyewitness doesn’t just describe nature; it lets children take HD DENGINEERS, THE | 21 x 30’ part in the experience – running with birds, hatching from an egg, even The Dengineers Return! Now back for a second series, The Dengineers journeying through the solar system! Eyewitness is a sight to behold! are an elite team dedicated to making out-of-this-world dens for deserving children. Children love creating their own private hideaways, either in the 3 additional ‘Making of’ specials available. house, the backyard or even up a tree. The Dengineers travel throughout the UK making children’s den dreams become a reality – building wherever Series 1: 14 x 30’ 1994 Series 3: 14 x 30’ 1997 Series 2: 14 x 30’ 1996 and whatever the child wants! In this series our intrepid Dengineers build
a magical library den for a girl who loves books, a dazzling Hollywood WINNER (1996): Emmy Award, Outstanding Individual Achievement Award cinema den for a girl and her mum who love the movies and a gingerbread WINNER (1996): Golden Spire, Golden Gate Awards, San Francisco USA den for a girl who is fed up with negative comments about her ginger hair! WINNER (1996): Award for the Advancement of Learning Through Broadcasting, National This visually exciting series aims to inspire, inform and educate. There are Education Association jaw-dropping surprises, celebrity twists, amazing feats of engineering and WINNER (1995): Award of Excellence, Children’s Category – Video Home Entertainment and Entertainment UK (of course!) the kids are in charge! WINNER (1994): Recommended Series, US Parents Choice Award
HD Series 1: 11 x 30’ 2015 Produced by: Penguin Television and BBC Worldwide Americas HD Series 2: 10 x 30’ 2016 COMMISSIONED by: BBC UK and PBS USA Year of Production: 1994 – 1997 Format rights available Produced by: CBBC Productions COMMISSIONED by: CBBC UK Year of Production: 2015 – 2016 28 29 Children & family Children & family
Get Squiggling! | 50 x 15’ Get Squiggling! is based around a friendly monster called Squiglet who loves to draw. He lives in a white world; however it doesn’t stay white for long. With the help of his Squiggle Pad (paper) and Squiggle Sticks (pencils), Squiglet shows the audience how to draw magical characters that leap off the page and come to life! We meet a new character in each episode and Squiglet uses his Squiggle Sticks to build the world around them – a lush vegetable patch for a caterpillar, an icy snow cave for a snowman or a strange alien planet for a spaceman. Get Squiggling! is a unique interactive series for pre-schoolers with a fantastical mix of full body puppetry, animation and live action.
Series 1: 25 x 15’ 2008 Series 2: 25 x 15’ HD 2010
Nominated (2012): Best Mixed Media Children’s Series, British Animation Awards Nominated (2011): Best Pre-School Programme, Broadcast Awards Nominated (2008): Best Children’s Programme, RTS Educational Television Awards
Produced by: Dot To Dot Productions COMMISSIONED by: CBeebies UK Year of Production: 2008 – 2010 NEW get squiggling letters | 26 x 7’ HD Fanshaw & Crudnut Squiglet loves squiggling letters and he’s going to show you how to squiggle 26 x 30’ or 52 x 11’ + 1 x 90’’ them too! Squiglet shows viewers how to write the letters of the alphabet using his trusty Squiggle Pad and Squiggle Sticks. The letter comes to Hilarious new animation series Fanshaw & Crudnut charts the lives of life and leaps off the page and Squiglet then draws three quirky items two badly behaved, childish, bickering slugs from outer space. They are beginning with the letter of the day. For the letter ‘a’ Squiglet draws an ant, on a mission to boldly go where no slug with half an ounce of common an apple and an ambulance, which the audience has to try and spot during sense has ever been before. As royal lackeys in the court of Princess Vial, the story. For example he meets an ant that drops an apple on his foot and a self-centered, spoilt princess slug who rules a second-rate galaxy, they has to be taken to hospital by an ambulance. Get Squiggling Letters will are supposed to attend to her every whim. Unfortunately, they mostly fail encourage children to pick up their pen, pencil, crayon or paintbrush and and annoy the princess. They are their own worst enemies and manage get writing! to turn the most simple of chores into the biggest disaster, stupidest argument or both! For Fanshaw & Crudnut it’s a lose-lose situation. Nominated (2014): Best Mixed Media Children’s, British Animation Awards
Co-Produced by: Beyond Screen Productions and Blue Rocket Productions Produced by: Dot To Dot Productions COMMISSIONED by: Nine Network Australia COMMISSIONED BY: CBeebies UK Year of Production: 2016 Year of Production: 2013 30 31 Children & family Children & family
Henry’s Amazing Animals | 52 x 30’ Henry the Lizard explores the weird and wonderful world of animals in this action-packed series that appeals to children’s natural curiosity. In each episode, Henry and his crazy cartoon friends leave no stone unturned as they explore a particular habitat, group of animals or an aspect of animal behaviour. They have a wild time discovering all sorts of interesting facts. For children aged four to eight years.
Series 1: 13 x 30’ 1996 Series 3: 13 x 30’ 1998 Series 2: 13 x 30’ 1997 Series 4: 13 x 30’ 1999
Winner (1999): Best Children’s Series, International Wildlife Film Festival, Missoula USA Winner (1998): Video of the Year – Parenting Magazine, NYC USA Winner (1997): Certificate of Merit for Children’s Programs, Golden Gate Award, San Francisco USA
Produced by: Dorling Kindersley and Partridge Films commissioned by: Disney Channel Year of Production: 1996 – 1999
HERO SQUAD | 20 x 30’ HD Six children are transformed into Hero Squad cadets and undergo a rigorous training programme alongside real life-savers. Under the watchful eyes of presenter Rav Wilding and closely supervised by experienced mentors, these six wannabe heroes have the experience of a lifetime. In just 48 hours, the Hero Squad cadets have to learn the skills and techniques to cope with a “real life” rescue scenario. This sees our teams dealing with a man overboard at sea, casualties on a cliff, fires, civilians lost on mountains or injured in caves. Can the Hero Squad cadets master the skills of their adult counterparts and prove that kids are capable of saving lives?
Series 1: 10 x 30’ HD 2012 Series 2: 10 x 30’ HD 2013
Produced by: CBBC Production COMMISSIONED by: CBBC UK Year of Production: 2012 – 2013
HISTORY HUNTERS | 26 x 30’ HD NEW Fast-paced, funny and full of facts, History Hunters brings the fun into history and guarantees parents and their children will discover that the past ICe stars | 20 x 30’ HD was weird, wacky and fascinating! Each episode sees pint-sized History Figure skater Josh is aiming high, hoping to smash the British Hunters (aka real life children) tackle missions to match, make and explore championships. But will ice dance couples Jellie and Adriella’s customs, inventions and discoveries from history. Whether it’s making partnerships last the season? We follow the ice hockey team to Quebec a Roman-inspired waterwheel, testing gravity on earth, block-printing and speed skater Izzy continues to strive for a place on the Olympic team. like the Ancient Indians, experimenting with super secret spy gadgets With captain Emily leaving the Icicles synchro team at the end of last or recreating the Great Wall of China, History Hunters inspires children season, the girls are now leaderless. And now they have to focus on their to turn history into fun. With both history and subject-driven episodes big international competition in Salzburg. One thing is for sure, there’s covering topics such as Rome, Ancient Egypt, Aboriginals, Pirates, tension and drama, highs and lows and some very big surprises in store. Spies and Travel, History Hunters has broad appeal for both girls and boys aged from six to ten years. Series 1: 10 x 30’ HD 2015 Series 2: 10 x 30’ HD 2016 Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Productions Winner (2016): Best Childrens Programme or Series, Royal Television Society West Award COMMISSIONED BY: Super RTL Germany, TVO Ontario Canada, ABC Australia, Seven Network Australia Produced by: Drummer TV Year of Production: 2013 COMMISSIONED BY: CBBC UK Year of Production: 2015 – 2016 32 33 Children & family Children & family
JUNIOR VETS | 40 x 30’ HD Junior Vets gives ordinary school kids the chance to become junior vets. In each episode the recruits are split into pairs and sent out to help with real HD Iconicles | 26 x 30’ vet work on animals in a vet school, farms, zoos and other animal hospitals. Iconicles is an innovative entertainment property for older pre-schoolers Some cadets are anxious around animals; others are terrified of blood and that takes the audience on a journey of exploration and discovery while gore; whilst a few are simply determined to get as much hands-on animal encouraging creative and critical thinking about the world around them. experience as possible! The latest series guarantees more full on, hands on Guided by our energetic young host, Nat, we make friends with the vet work and, for the first time, the rookie vets are also on call! Wherever Iconicles, a troupe of quirky animated animals at home in their very there are pets, wildlife or wonderful creatures in need, the team are on hand special worlds, and also join in the fun when they pop through Nat’s to sort them out. The adult vets take a back seat and allow our Junior Vets amazing interactive screen to play in ours. The screen becomes a two- to fly solo. They face decisions and dilemmas and will have to show real way portal and the characters seamlessly transform from 2D into 3D. co-ordination and teamwork to come through each day. Marrying the best of traditional animated storytelling with the latest in digital technology, Iconicles has a fast-paced, flexible modular format Series 1: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 Series 3: 10 x 30’ HD 2015 HD HD that supports a wide range of multi-platform extensions, ensuring that Series 2: 10 x 30’ 2014 Series 4: 10 x 30’ 2016 it will engage and tickle young audiences everywhere. Based on an Winner (2015): Factual Series, Royal Television Society Yorkshire Programme Awards original idea by Lois Lee and Executive Producer Eric Radomski, in NOMINATED (2015): Best Digital Children’s Content, Broadcast Digital Awards association with Foothill Entertainment Inc. NOMINATED (2015): Junior Vets On Call Game, Best Game, Broadcast Digital Awards NOMINATED (2014): Children’s Factual, BAFTA Awards Format rights available Produced by: Create Media Ventures Ltd with phuuz entertainment inc. in association Format rights available with Dinamo Productions Produced by: True North Productions COMMISSIONED BY: CBeebies UK COMMISSIONED BY: CBBC UK Year of Production: 2010 – 2011 Year of Production: 2013 – 2016 34 35 Children & family Children & family
Kid Detectives | 52 x 15’ or 26 x 30’ New Adventures Of Kid Detectives use hands-on forensic skills to solve mysteries big and Ocean Girl, The | 26 x 30’ small at home. When a crime is committed in real life, detectives rely Inspired by the internationally successful and award-winning Ocean on forensic and trace evidence to determine the chain of events and the Girl drama series, The New Adventures Of Ocean Girl is a captivating definite culprit. Now kids can become forensic super sleuths by following children’s animation series set on the mythical water-covered planet of the do-it-yourself activities at home to solve mysteries big and small. Oceana. Oceana was once a peaceful planet that embraced profound Kids will learn to assess and reconstruct a crime scene, collate evidence, knowledge and culture. Princess Neri’s (Ocean Girl) journey leads her analyse clues and then eliminate suspects from their investigation. to a time of danger, discovery and adventure. With the help of her The real culprit cannot escape real forensic science. The kids will be friends, she will conquer the Evil Wizard, unite the clans and restore presented with both ‘at home’ and ‘fantasy’ mysteries where they must peace and harmony to Oceana. determine ‘Who Dunnit?’ Based on the book, Crime Scene Detective by
Dorling Kindersley, this is a fun and educational series for children aged Produced by: Media World Features six to twelve years, with age-appropriate mysteries to solve. COMMISSIONED by: Network Ten Australia Year of Production: 2000 Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Productions commissioned by: Seven Network Australia New Macdonald’s Farm | 135 x 30’ or 50 x 10’ Year of Production: 2009 Created for children aged two to five years,New MacDonald’s Farm is energetic, colourful, informative and, most of all, fun! Each episode Lab Rats Challenge | 130 x 30’ features a new story about Farmer Max, his wife Milly and their interactions Science has never been so exciting, funny or messy! Lab Rats with their lively ‘family’ of animals. Combining live action with studio Challenge is a fast and furious science-based game show for kids. pieces, children are introduced to life on a farm as well as the wider world. Fast and physical, the players will have to use all their intellectual, physical and team skills to win. It is exciting because it’s a race, 50 x 10’ songless versions also available. it’s funny because plenty of things can go wrong and it’s messy Series 1: 45 x 30’ 2004 Series 3: 45 x 30’ 2006 because there’s as much sludge, goo, food and liquids built into each Series 2: 45 x 30’ 2005 challenge as possible. Two teams of kids compete in a range of fun, messy and stimulating science-based challenges whilst two energetic Produced by: Pacific and Beyond hosts commentate along the way. Regular segments include The Nano commissioned by: Nine Network Australia Challenge, Method Madness, The Rat Race and What Will Happen If? Year of Production: 2004 – 2006 The winning team at the end will get cheezed! Everyone has so much fun they don’t realise they are learning heaps along the way! Numberjacks | 66 x 15’ + 1 x 45’ HD Numberjacks is the highly successful and award-winning animation Series 1: 65 x 30’ 2008 Series 2: 65 x 30’ 2012 series featuring ten small superhero numbers living inside an ordinary sofa who, with the help of children, fly out to solve problems in the Format rights available real world. The series helps children develop their early maths skills Produced by: Beyond Entertainment whilst providing slapstick comedy and numerous superhero thrills. COMMISSIONED by: Nine Network, Seven Network, ABC – Australia Numberjacks is all about excitement, fun and learning, problem solving Year of Production: 2008 – 2012 and maths. Numberjacks consistently rated No 1 on CBeebies and has appeared in many countries around the world in multiple languages. Milly, Molly | 26 x 30’ or 52 x 15’ The show has made a huge impact on the web, both on the CBeebies Aimed at children aged four to eight years, Milly, Molly follows the site and the dedicated site at www.numberjacks.co.uk. friendships and adventures of two little girls from different backgrounds. Series 1: 45 x 15’ HD 2007 Specials: 1 x 45’ + 1 x 15’ HD 2009 Each episode has a subtle message about values such as honesty and Series 2: 20 x 15’ HD 2009 responsibility as well as life skills like stranger danger and forgiveness. The catchphrase of the Milly, Molly series is ‘We may look different but Nominated (2008): BVA Award, Best Marketing Initiative, Children’s, BVA DVD Awards we feel the same’, and the programme aims to help children grow up Winner (2007): 0–5 Years, RTS Educational Television Awards with a healthy self-esteem. Nominated (2007): Children’s Programs: Nine Lives Episode, Banff World Television Awards Winner (2006): 0–5 Years, RTS Educational Television Awards Series 1: 13 x 30’ or 26 x 15’ 2007 Produced by: Open Mind Productions Series 2: 13 x 30’ or 26 x 15’ 2009 commissioned by: CBeebies UK Year of Production: 2007 – 2009 Nominated (2008): Best Program in Audiovisual Division and TV Series, Japan Prize
Produced by: Pacific & Beyond and Scrawl Studios Year of Production: 2007 – 2009
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Ocean Girl | 78 x 30’ Ocean Girl is a fantasy live action adventure following the beautiful Neri and the young inhabitants of an underwater research colony. Set against the splendour of tropical Australia and the largest and most spectacular coral reef on the planet, Ocean Girl is a stunning international success and has been applauded as the world’s first new age family series encompassing environmental themes and high production values.
Series 1: 13 x 30’ 1994 Series 3: 26 x 30’ 1996 Series 2: 13 x 30’ 1995 Series 4: 26 x 30’ 1997
Winner (1998): Best International Children’s Programme, BAFTA award Winner (1998): Best Original Children’s Screenplay, AWGIE award Nominated (1998): Best Children’s Television Drama, AFI Award
Produced by: Jonathan M. Shiff Productions commissioned by: Network Ten Australia Year of Production: 1994 – 1997
P.B Bear and Friends | 30 x 5’ or 6 x 30’ Join P.B Bear and Friends in this animated fantasy world packed with wonderful adventures and exciting make-believe games. This is a place where anything can happen and once P.B Bear and his crazy cuddly toy chums get together, there’s no limit to the fun they can have! Their days may start and end up all cosy and safe but in-between it’s all surprises, fun and learning.
Produced by: Penguin Television commissioned by: Channel 5 UK Year of Production: 1997 – 1998
PIPSQUEAKS | 135 x 30’ HD The Pipsqueaks are four funny and furry creatures who live in a huge adventure playground. They are a bit silly and a little naïve, yet they love discovering new things and learning interesting facts. The playground is a maze of tunnels, ladders and slippery dips, with a dance area in the middle, where the Pipsqueaks love to sing and dance; the catchy songs involve simple choreography for kids to follow. The Pipsqueaks have fun discovering new things with the help of the kids who visit. The show focuses on pre-school children at play and NEW how they talk and think about the world around them. It’s fun and informative, thoughtful and entertaining. Quarx | 26 x 11’ or 26 x 5’ What happens if you make someone as heavy as a neutron star? Or use Series 1: 45 x 30’ HD 2013 a tornado to make ice cream? From world-renowned producer Jasper Series 2: 90 x 30’ HD 2014 James (founder of Wide-Eyed Entertainment and Impossible Pictures) the answers to these fascinating questions and more are explored Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Screen Production in new children’s series Quarx. Filmed as a series of short films (in COMMISSIONED by: Seven Network Australia 11 and 5 minute versions), each episode features a trio of teenagers Year of Production: 2013 – 2014 who like to do mad experiments and post them online. However these are no ordinary kids – they have super-powers so they can alter the fundamental laws of physics. So their experiments tend to go completely over the top!
Produced by: Screen Glue Ltd COMMISSIONED by: Curiosity Stream & Discovery Asia Year of Production: 2015 38 39 Children & family Children & family
Rush TV | 101 x 30’ STEAM PUNKS | 40 x 30’ Rush TV brings you all the action from the best proponents of action Only science and teamwork can rescue these contestants from the depths of sports around the world. Featuring extended personality profiles from the earth! Steam Punks is a fast and funny science quiz show for children. the masterful riders of surf and snow, episodes are also dedicated to In a bizarre underground steam punk world, contestants are confronted by free-running, parkour, wakeboarding, body boarding and motocross. a crazed Inquisitor who works for an unseen megalomaniac robot called Highlights of the latest series include Australian pro surfers Chippa Wilson the Machine. Each of the two teams must complete five rounds: The and Tyler Wright gunning for international success, Aussie snowboarder Quizatorium – a multiple-choice question round, often using footage of some Biba Turnbull in action in the first-ever women’s event at the prestigious pretty cool and explosive experiments; The Storeroom – using one of their Stylewars competition, snowboarder Jess Rich and skier Anna Segal in five senses contestants must identify objects on display and quickly locate training for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Puerto Rican motocross star a matching object on the shelves; Bang Crash Splat Splash – contestants Tarah Gieger and pro free-runner and stuntwoman Luci Romberg. must predict the outcome of some jaw-dropping experiments conducted by Steam Punks graduate Marvin, involving cranes, catapults and cannons; Series 1: 26 x 30’ 2010 Series 3: 26 x 30’ HD 2013 Feed the Furnace – contestants compete in a physical game of hurling coal Series 2: 26 x 30’ 2010 Series 4: 23 x 30’ HD 2013 into a furnace while being secured by a bungee cord and pelted with a thick goo by their competitors and finally Fast or Last – a quick-fire buzzer round Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Action of science questions using hammers to bash their buzzers. COMMISSIONED by: ABC3 Australia Year of Production: 2010 – 2013 Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED by: ABC Australia See How They Grow | 40 x 10’ or 10 x 40’ Year of Production: 2012 In this informative and entertaining series we follow a variety of animals from birth to adulthood. Throughout the series, as the animals grow in size and gain knowledge, we visit their homes and join their adventures and antics from the desert to the jungle and from the pond to the sea.
Produced by: Penguin Television Year of Production: 1992 – 1994
Snake Tales | 13 x 30’ Snake Tales is a comedy about two completely different teenage girls from opposite ends of the world who are forced to live together in a snake park in outback Australia. They are stuck in a place called Barren Barren – 300 kilometres from the nearest town. Tiger’s never had a friend her age and at first she is pleased at the thought of having a girlfriend. But Skye is an impossible princess with hair product for brains. Now all Tiger has is an enemy. Yet for all their differences, they Tati’s Hotel | 26 x 15’ HD have two fundamental things in common – a burning desire to get away Tati is eight years old and runs a magical hotel. The number one rule at from the snake park and the fact they both wish they were orphans. Tati’s hotel is to have fun! Everyone is welcome to stay and guests spill in from every corner of the universe. The hotel’s magic transforms each Winner (2009): Best Children’s Television Programme, ATOM Awards guest’s room into their own bespoke environment. The cowgirl receives
Produced by: Westside Film & Television a ranch, a pirate gets a ship’s deck and a gardener is welcomed by a commissioned by: Nine Network Australia beautiful, wild landscape. Nobody fails to be impressed by their tailor- Year of Production: 2008 made guest room. Alongside to share Tati’s excitement are the staff at the hotel – Linny, Bopper, Dizzee and Mr Snapweazle. Finally, the loyal team is supported by the inherent magic of the hotel itself with Alexander the old- fashioned talking telephone, timekeeping Cuckoo the Clock and grumpy Otis the Lift. With the emphasis on entertaining children age four to seven years, Tati’s stories also encapsulate a number of learning objectives.
NOMINATED (2012): Best Non-Animated or Mixed Series, Kidscreen Awards
Format rights available Produced by: Machine Productions and Screen Door COMMISSIONED by: CITV UK Year of Production: 2011 40 41 Children & family Children & family
Thunderstone | 52 x 30’ Toybox | 290 x 30’ Fifteen-year-old Noah lives in the future where no animals roam the Earth. Children love their favourite friends from the bedroom in Toybox, By unlocking the secrets of time travel, he finds a way of bringing the starring Tom the action toy, Patches the rag doll, Tina the sporty animals from the past back to re-populate the world. Thunderstone is doll and Super Ned the robot. Each episode has an overall story, a futuristic live action adventure series from the makers of Ocean Girl. interspersed with songs, drawings, spelling and guessing games, as well as dance and movement sequences. Aimed at children age two Series 1: 26 x 30’ 1998 Series 3: 13 x 30’ 2000 to five years, it is carefully designed with early childhood development Series 2: 13 x 30’ 1999 experts. Join the fun as the toys come alive and the adventures begin!
NOMINATED (2001): Best Children’s Television Drama, AFI Award Series 1: 75 x 30’ 2010 Series 3: 85 x 30’ 2012 WINNER (2000): Best TV Theme, APRA Music Award Series 2: 85 x 30’ 2011 Series 4: 45 x 30’ 2013 Winner (2000): Best Children’s Television Series, ATOM Awards NOMINATED (2000): Best Children’s Television Drama, AFI Award Format rights available Winner (1999): Best Children’s Television Series, ATOM Awards Produced by: Beyond Screen Production Winner (1999): Best International Children’s Programme, BAFTA COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia Year of Production: 2010 – 2013 Produced by: Jonathan M Shiff Productions COMMISSIONED by: Network Ten Australia Year of Production: 1998 – 2000 TWITCH, THE | 13 x 30’ HD The tiny island of Kaitangata is waking up again and only thirteen- year-old Meredith can stop it, before it claims another victim. The last time the island twitched was over fifty years ago and a girl disappeared without a trace, apparently swallowed up by the island. A thrilling, contemporary story for mainstream family audiences, with live action, drama, CGI, myth and magic, The Twitch is an amazing tale from the fertile imagination of internationally renowned author Margaret Mahy. Set in a small coastal village near Christchurch in New Zealand, this is a story of Meredith, her family and the incredible events that shake them – literally and metaphorically.
Also available: The Making Of The Twitch (1 x 30’) and A Tall Long- Faced Tale (1 x 70’), a documentary about author Margaret Mahy.
Winner (2011): Best Dramatic Presentation, Sir Julius Vogel Award, New Zealand FINALIST (2011): Kidscreen Awards, USA Winner (2010): Platinum Remi Award, Houston WorldFest USA Winner (2010): Best Performance by an Actor – George Henare, New Zealand Qantas Film & Television Awards Winner (2010): Best Sound Design – Tom Miskin, James Hayday & Steve Finnigan, New Zealand Qantas Film & Television Awards Winner (2010): Best Production Design – Gary Mackay, New Zealand Qantas Film & Television Awards FINALIST (2010): Prix Jeunesse Festival, Germany
Produced by: ProductionShed. TV 10 x 30’ HD TOTALLY RUBBISH | COMMISSIONED BY: Maori Television New Zealand Totally Rubbish is an exciting art show where our presenters Michelle Year of Production: 2009 Ackerley and Nigel Clarke turn worthless trash into creative and useful treasure. The series focuses on recycling, upcycling and repurposing and is packed full of original and cool ideas. Gaining inspiration from artists who create incredible works of art from recycled materials, Michelle and Nigel show you how to make your own creations from sweet wrappers, old plastic toys, telephone directories and cardboard boxes. Peppered through every episode are amazing animations and facts. Totally Rubbish is innovative and jam-packed full of brilliant ideas!
Format rights available Produced by: Dot To Dot Productions COMMISSIONED BY: CBBC UK Year of Production: 2013 42 43 Children & family Children & family
Wiggles Movie, The | 1 x 90’ This is the first feature film from the hit sensation children’s group The Wiggles. In this enchanting musical adventure The Wiggles must race against time to find their much-loved friend Dorothy the Dinosaur in order to celebrate her birthday, for which they’ve planned a huge surprise party.
Produced by: Hilton Fatt Year of Production: 1998
Wild Animal Baby Explorers WILD BUT TRUE WITH 80 x 15’ or 40 x 30’ HD ROBERT IRWIN | 13 x 30’ HD Join intrepid wildlife explorers Skip, Izzy, Benita and Sammy, under the guidance of Miss Sally, as they encounter the natural world in up close, Come on a mind-blowing journey filled with unreal science and wild glorious detail that viewers can practically see, smell, touch and taste! adventures! Wild But True is a fun and exciting biomimicry series that This captivating animated series serves as an early introduction to the explores how nature and wildlife have influenced our modern day lives. Find natural sciences for pre-schoolers. Viewers will encounter all manner of out how billions of years of nature’s solutions are dramatically changing creatures great and small as well as the wonders of nature such as plants, human lives. Our hosts, ten-year-old naturalist Robert Irwin and science the seasons, the soil and weather. Wild Animal Baby Explorers contains a geek Isabel Yamazaki, combine their passion for nature with fascinating lively mix of visual media to bring a vivid feel of interactivity along with the science facts. The kids discover what ants can teach us about traffic control; endearing and brightly coloured characters in 3D animation. High definition what submarine designers have learnt from birds; how the humble butterfly live action footage of nature and its creatures brings each story to life. can help us make better iPads; and how ‘swarm-intelligence’ is guiding a new generation of cooperative robots. Together Robert and Isabel set Series 1: 52 x 15’ or 26 x 30’ HD 2010 off on an adventure-filled journey across the globe, showing how nature’s Series 2: 28 x 15’ or 14 x 30’ HD 2011 blueprints make our world greener, safer and all round more fun!
Winner (2011): Gold Award, Parent’s Choice Foundation NOMINATED (2015): Best Children’s Programme, Asian TV Awards Winner (2011): Kid’s First Endorsement, KIDS FIRST FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Screen Production for Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific with the Produced by: National Wildlife Federation & Xing Xing Digital Corporation assistance of Screen Queensland COMMISSIONED by: PBS USA COMMISSIONED by: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific Year of Production: 2010 – 2011 Year of Production: 2014 44 45 3 COMEDY & Entertainment
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BOGAN HUNTERS | 10 x 30’ + 2 x 60’ HD Join a national quest to find Australia’s greatest bogan with boganologist Pauly Fenech, bogan translator Shazza Jones and security leader Kev the Kiwi. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a bogan as “an uncouth or unsophisticated person, regarded as being of low social status”. Bogan Hunters travels to the most bogan-dwelling suburbs across the country, where booze, boobs, buttocks, bongs, bikes, burnouts, tattoos, mullets and missing teeth proudly reign supreme! A panel of celebrity judges will choose the biggest bogan each week to send through to the grand final. The finalists will have to prove themselves once and for all in a final bogan showdown before Australia’s Greatest Bogan is crowned.
Two specials Bathurst Conspiracy and Summernats And The Hunt For The Great Aussie Hoon also available.
NOMINATED (2015): Most Outstanding Entertainment Program, Logie Awards
Produced by: Antichocko Productions COMMISSIONED by: Seven Network Australia HD Year of Production: 2014 – 2015 JACK VALE: OFFLINE | 6 x 30’ Jack Vale is the world’s most successful Internet prankster with over 1.2 million YouTube subscribers and more than 200 million views 7 x 30’ Cho Show, The | worldwide. Vale’s unique approach to hidden camera pranks and social The Cho Show follows renowned stand-up comedienne Margaret Cho experiments has earned him mainstream notoriety. He has been able and her eccentric entourage as they scour the absurd depths of the to make a professional career out of fooling the unwitting. However entertainment industry, pop culture and societal taboos. Margaret Cho what happens when the cameras are turned on Jack and his family? has successfully managed to create her own identity, turning the tables Jack Vale: Offline documents his life with his family and his extended on an industry famous for manufacturing its stars. Margaret’s razor production team. The series reveals the hopes and dreams of Jack’s sharp humour and unique outlook on everything from politics to pilates children and their hilarious family antics. Each episode finds Jack have kept Cho fans rocking in their seats for over twenty years. The Cho teaming up with his wife or children to test limits and draw astounded Show will leave audiences rolling with laughter while wondering at the reactions from all of his victims. same time, ‘Did she just say what I think she said?’ Format rights available Produced by: Crossroads and VH1 Produced by: Relativity Television COMMISSIONED by: VH1 USA COMMISSIONED by: HLN USA Year of Production: 2008 Year of Production: 2015 48 49 Comedy & Entertainment Comedy & Entertainment
KINNE | 12 x 30’ HD Kinne is a hilarious comedy series filled with a feisty mix of sketches, rapid-fire one-liners and pearls of wisdom from internet favourite and stand-up comic Troy Kinne. Funny and equally disturbing, Kinne covers key modern issues such as Dating Deal Breakers, Things Said By Couples Assembling IKEA Furniture, Lies We Just Accept and What We’d Really Like To Say To Your Babies. Recurring characters include the narcissistic Impromptu Lifeguard, constantly derailed but never losing his enthusiasm for his self-appointed role as a hero; and the Actual Bachelor, who armed with sub-par personality traits and an over-abundance of confidence, pits his charm and wooing prowess against The Bachelor TV series. Joined by his key collaborator Max Price and an ensemble cast of mates with nothing better to do, Troy Kinne shares his left-field take on the benefits and shortcomings of the little things in life.
Series 1: 6 x 30’ HD 2014 Series 2: 6 x 30’ HD 2015
NOMINATED (2015): Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer (Troy Kinne), Logie Awards
Produced by: 7Productions COMMISSIONED by: Seven Network Australia Year of Production: 2014 – 2015
NEW Manny Lewis | 1 x 90’ HD This feel-good comedy-drama film tells the story of fictional stand- up comedian Manny Lewis (played by Australian stand-up comedy performer Carl Barron). Adored by his fans, successful comic Manny Lewis finds himself at the height of his popularity, but at the depths of his loneliness. Disenchanted with life and himself, he feels he can’t trust anyone with matters of the heart. Until one day by chance he meets the beautiful and complex Maria. With his fame skyrocketing and the temptation of overseas riches in America beckoning, Manny must choose between taking a risk on love, or retreating to the confines of his lonely but lucrative career.
Produced by: Beyond Screen Productions COMMISSIONED by: Seven Network Australia Year of Production: 2015 50 51 Comedy & Entertainment Comedy & Entertainment
MovieStar | 104 x 30’ Six Degrees of TV | 26 x 30’ HD MovieStar explores the careers of worldwide big screen superstars and their This star-studded entertainment series proves all your favourite rise to stardom, providing an in-depth celebrity profile in their own words and celebrities are never separated by more than six degrees. Go behind the in the words of their collaborators. The series includes episodes explaining scenes on a tour of Tinseltown and discover the shocking connections, how Cameron Diaz went from The Mask to being one of the best paid insider stories and revealing relationships that link Hollywood’s hottest actresses in Hollywood; how Sean Connery went from modest beginnings to stars and high profile personalities. Each episode gives the inside being knighted in real life; and why Kevin Costner has vowed never to make scoop on your favourite actors, musicians, athletes and pop icons. A a sequel. Get set for an education on all of your favourite superstars from wild ride of true stories about real Hollywood relationships and little the comfort of your couch. No mega celebrity has escaped the list! known connections told through television experts, industry insiders and today’s hottest celebrities. Expect to learn even more about your Series 1: 52 x 30’ 2010 favourite A-listers, including the connections between Jim Carrey and Series 2: 52 x 30’ 2010 George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey and Gordon Ramsay, Barbra Streisand
Format rights available and Tina Fey, John Travolta and Justin Timberlake, Geena Davis and Produced by: Entertainment News Service Barack Obama, to name just a few. Year of Production: 2010 Produced by: Force Four Entertainment COMMISSIONED by: TVtropolis Canada Year of Production: 2010
Tube Tales: TV’s Real Stories | 52 x 30’ Meet the real people, places and events behind our favourite hit television shows. Tube Tales blends our interest in fascinating characters and stories with a look behind the scenes at the television series that have become a part of our lives. Stories feature the real life situations, places, events and people that inspired writers and producers. The series includes commentary by actors, producers and writers who’ve worked on some of TV’s most entertaining and engaging shows, examining the real truth behind shows such as Beverly Hills 90210, The Simpsons, Baywatch, Spin City, Family Ties, Melrose Place, Star Trek: Voyager, Will and Grace, St. Elsewhere, The Bionic Woman and Quantum Leap.
Series 1: 26 x 30’ 2007 Series 2: 26 x 30’ 2008
Format rights available Produced by: Force Four Entertainment COMMISSIONED by: TVtropolis Canada Year of Production: 2007 – 2008 Riverdance Live from Beijing | 1 x 60’ HD Riverdance first stomped its way onto the world stage in 1999, thrilling millions of people around the globe. This celebration of Irish dance and culture has been performed throughout the world, where it has been experienced live by over 22 million people in well over 10,000 performances in 350 cities in 40 countries over 4 continents. The show has lost none of its magic. In December 2009, Riverdance embarked on a 12 city tour of China. The Chinese audience embraced the show and it played to full houses in all cities. This recording, filmed live to celebrate the 15th anniversary, captures the sophistication and vibrancy that Riverdance brings.
Riverdance, the best of 1 x 100’ 2005 Riverdance, the ten years 1 x 60’ 2005 Riverdance, Todays Stars 1 x 60’ 2007
Produced by: Tyrone Productions COMMISSIONED by: Sky Arts UK, PBS USA, CCTV China, TFI France Year of production: 2010 52 53 4 CRIME & INVESTIGATION
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111 EMERGENCY | 10 x 30’ 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, 1 million emergency calls. 111 Emergency is a thrilling close-up encounter with New Zealand’s emergency services, on call at all times ready to respond. This documentary series takes viewers on an action-packed journey into the heart of the police, fire and ambulance services. More than a dozen cameras are stationed in the communications centres and fitted inside police cars, ambulances and fire appliances, ensuring viewers are with the emergency services’ crews every step of the way. Throughout the series, we get to know the courageous police officers, fire and ambulance crews. Intimate interviews show their intense emotions as they reveal what motivates them to risk their own lives to help others.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Sauce Television COMMISSIONED BY: TV3 New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011
ADDICTED TO THE LIFE | 12 x 30’ HD Addicted To The Life tells the stories of everyday men and women NEW who get caught up in a life of crime and can’t break the habit. Driven by ambition, greed, fear, even love, once they’re hooked their morals Beach Cops | 12 x 30’ HD are no match for the lavish lifestyle and the gripping adrenaline rush The heat is on for the policemen and women who work the busy beat of that comes with danger and deception. But the ‘highs’ come with a Sydney’s iconic Northern Beaches. As another Summer season starts, staggering price tag, from broken bones to broken dreams, to time the Beach Cops respond daily to situations ranging from horrific to the behind bars and even death. These are cautionary tales of crime downright hilarious. This fly-on-the-wall series offers a unique insight by people not so different from the rest of us – a high school track into the challenges of policing a stretch of coastline that swells by phenomenon turned drug queen pin, an all-American suburban father seven million visitors every Summer. turned safecracker and a foreign prince turned murderer. They all paid a terrible price and have unbelievable true stories to tell. Series 1: 6 x 30’ HD 2015 Series 2: 6 x 30’ HD 2016 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Story House Productions PRODUCED BY: Seven Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA and OWN Canada COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 – 2016 56 57 crime & investigation crime & investigation
BEHIND MANSION WALLS | 39 x 60’ HD CRASH INVESTIGATION UNIT Money doesn’t always make you happy but it can sometimes make 20 x 30’ + 1 x 60’ or 21 x 30’ you murder. There’s a world of money and power that likes to remain Over 1,500 people die on Australian roads each year. Thousands more hidden. A place the rest of us aren’t meant to see; it lies behind are seriously and often permanently injured. Establishing the causes mansion walls. But one thing can crash through the locked gates of the wealthy and privileged and put all their dirty laundry on view... murder. of these tragic incidents are teams of highly specialised police officers: These are the crimes that rock the millionaire class to its very core. the C.I.U – Crash Investigation Unit. Crash Investigation Unit offers a These crimes hold a special fascination for the ordinary person and we rare insight into the chain of events that leads to a crash, as well as the want to find out what exactly happened to turn the idyllic millionaire extensive detective work and emotional impact on survivors, friends and lifestyle into a murder scene. Behind Mansion Walls will tell the real family. From a high profile hit-and-run, boy racers, a mega pile-up to rural story of high society crimes and use dramatic recreations to show their carnage, these are all intriguing cases for the specialist team at C.I.U. key moments and their investigations, backed by powerful interviews Series 1: 8 x 30’ + 1 x 60’ or 9 x 30’ 2007 with key experts and eyewitnesses in each case. Series 2: 12 x 30’ 2010
HD HD Series 1: 13 x 60’ 2011 Series 3: 13 x 60’ 2013 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Series 2: 13 x 60’ HD 2012 PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007 – 2010 PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 – 2013 DARK MINDS | 20 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD Men and women of law enforcement work hard to solve every murder BREAKING THE LAW: BENT but some cases remain stubbornly open; they run cold. Dark Minds reignites interest in these cases through two obsessive investigators; 1 x 60’ HD COPPERS | true crime author, M. William Phelps, and criminal profiler, John Kelly. Breaking The Law: Bent Coppers tells the incredible stories of some of the They bring fresh eyes and a different perspective to the crimes, using UK’s policemen and policewomen who have been jailed for breaking the law. the combined instincts of an investigative journalist, a psychological These stories look at cops who have turned bad, the motivations behind their profiler and an anonymous serial killer serving multiple life-sentences. crimes and the victims they left behind. A bent cop is sentenced to prison for Together they review known evidence of each case and speculate who drug dealing and planning a robbery. A criminal officer systematically stole the killer might be. By talking to police, survivors, family members and from a 94-year-old widow and even drew up a will to take her life savings. A experts, Phelps and Kelly build a profile of the murderer. traffic officer targeted victims with sinister text messages and offered others a way to avoid prosecution – by sleeping with him! A police community support Series 1: 8 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 3: 4 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD 2014 officer stole money from passengers at Gatwick Airport by simply telling them Series 2: 8 x 60’ HD 2012 they had to hand it over! These cases are just the tip of the iceberg with hundreds more disciplined, sacked or jailed for being bent. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA PRODUCED BY: True North Productions YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 – 2014 COMMISSIONED BY: Channel 5 UK YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 DARK TEMPTATIONS | 6 x 60’ HD CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN | 5 x 30’ HD If you think you’ve seen every motive for murder, think again! Dark There are many sad and untimely deaths each year and in most cases the Temptations pries open the lid of worlds where weird obsessions turn cause of death is tragically clear. But in others, things may not always be as deadly. The bizarre temptations behind these murders shocked even the they seem. Cause Of Death: Unknown explores cases where the circumstances toughest law enforcers. Meet the married man with a shoe fetish that of death may initially appear to be one thing but the investigation ultimately accelerates into serial killing; the cannibal craving fresh human meat; reveals something quite different. Each episode follows a multi-layered the voodoo priest who uses black magic to entrap vulnerable women; investigation in which police officers, investigators and scientists have worked the teenagers who act out their murderous rap lyrics; the snake-handling together to unravel the truth. The investigating teams retell the stories of the preacher who uses serpents to stop his wife’s sin; and the businessman discoveries that cracked the case – illustrated with recreations and original who goes to horrifying lengths to remove his own leg! Dark Temptations evidence including forensics results and scene photos. Interviews with friends explores the intriguing psychology of how twisted the human mind can and family remind us of the human tragedy behind each headline and give a become. Interviews with investigators, friends and victims, coupled with moving testament to the sense of loss felt by those left behind. dark and dramatic recreations, throw open these secret lives.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014
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DOG PATROL | 10 x 30’ Dog Patrol focuses on the work of the Animal Control Officers based in South Auckland, which has the largest dog population in New Zealand. Follow this dedicated team of animal-lovers as they go about their incredibly varied day-to-day work. Every callout is different and no one ever quite knows what they will find when they turn up. The series covers drug raids, dog attacks, roaming and unregistered mutts, lost pets reunited with their owners, abandoned strays successfully put up for adoption, and more! Dog Patrol faithfully follows all aspects of the job about which the Animal Control Officers are so passionate.
PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TV3 New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011
DEADLY WOMEN | 144 x 60’ Deadly Women returns with even more true stories of the world’s most deadly females. Each episode fuses bone-chilling storytelling, sumptuous period drama and forensic fact in a bid to explore history’s most alluring, intriguing and horrifying female killers. Profiling horrific stories from the past, we delve into a deadly world shaped by spiraling forces that are beyond the women’s control: obsession, greed and revenge.
Complementary Facing Evil specials are also available.
Series 1: 3 x 60’ 2005 Series 6: 20 x 60’ HD 2012 Series 2: 6 x 60’ HD 2008 Series 7: 20 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 3: 13 x 60’ HD 2009 Series 8: 20 x 60’ HD 2014 Series 4: 16 x 60’ HD 2010 Series 9: 13 x 60’ HD 2015 Series 5: 20 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 10: 13 x 60’ HD 2016 FACING EVIL | 36 x 30’ HD FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions Candice DeLong, former FBI agent, goes behind prison walls to COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA interview some of the world’s most notorious killers. In candid one- YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 – 2016 on-one interviews, DeLong gives these men and women a unique opportunity to tell their side of the story. Some reveal their innermost secrets of how and why they became killers, others adamantly plead DEADLY WOMEN: KILLER innocence. These interviews are confrontational, emotional and, above COUNTDOWN | 1 x 120’ HD all, compelling. Does a lifetime of horrific abuse justify the ultimate revenge? What turns a hard-working nurse into a serial killer? How can After many series of Deadly Women, it’s time to ask... who is the worst of the worst? Psychological profiler Candice DeLong is our guide on this a man be found guilty when so much forensic evidence points to his fascinating voyage through the minds of the world’s deadliest women. innocence? Candice explores all this and more, taking viewers deep What makes one murderer worse than another? You will be surprised. inside the minds of these convicted killers. Will you believe the tales DeLong knows the criminal mind; she can tell the difference between that the jury wouldn’t?
emotional accident and sociopathic intent as she counts down the Top Series 1: 4 x 30’ HD 2010 Series 4: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 Ten perpetrators to reveal why they were so dangerous and what sets Series 2: 6 x 30’ HD 2011 Series 5: 10 x 30’ HD 2014 them apart from you and me. Series 3: 6 x 30’ HD 2012
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 – 2014 60 61 crime & investigation crime & investigation
62 x 60’ HD FATAL VOWS | HIGHWAY COPS | 50 x 30’ HD Season 5 of Fatal Vows traces the deadly and tragic journeys of thirteen Sometimes hilarious, sometimes haunting, Highway Cops follows marriages that go from mindful bliss to deepest, darkest despair. The the officers who aim to keep motorists safe on 11,000 kilometres series uses personal interviews, family photos, expert commentary and of spectacular and unforgiving roads in New Zealand. From upturned dramatic re-enactments to understand how the relationships deteriorate sheep trailers to washed-out campers, tourists tackling highways for the so tragically. This fascinating series returns, featuring such notorious first time to country boys risking their lives on rural roads, no two days cases as one young woman’s attempt to break free of her husband’s are ever the same! oh-so-loving arms and a California beach bum whose love for the high life pushes his marriage to the brink. Series 1: 10 x 30’ HD 2012 Series 3: 20 x 30’ HD 2015 Series 2: 20 x 30’ HD 2013 Series 1: 10 x 60’ HD 2012 Series 4: 13 x 60’ HD 2015 HD HD Series 2: 13 x 60’ 2013 Series 5: 13 x 60’ 2016 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE HD Series 3: 13 x 60’ 2014 PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TV One New Zealand FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2015 PRODUCED BY: CMJ Productions II Inc COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA and Canada, Canal D Canada, Astral Canada, Investigation Quebec Canada, AETN UK and C&I UK HIGHWAY PATROL | 70 x 30’ + 3 x 60’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2016 Take a seat, buckle up and prepare for a wild ride on the front line. Experience firsthand the breakneck world of Australia’s traffic enforcers FIRE SCENE INVESTIGATION | 10 x 30’ and go into the day-to-day lives of those who carry out this dangerous Every year New Zealand suffers millions of dollars of damage and loss job on the road. High-speed car chases, defiant hooligans, explosive from fires that devastate homes, businesses, farmland and forestry. But crashes and out-of-control drunk drivers are daily hazards in the line what happens after the smoke clears and the embers fade? A team of of duty. These intrepid officers are passionate about their work, proud of highly trained specialists uses the science and art of fire investigation what they do every day and invite viewers to be a fly-on-the-wall as they to determine where it started, what the cause was and how it can be strive to keep the roads a safe place. further prevented. Fire Scene Investigation tracks the investigation Series 1: 10 x 30’ 2009 Series 5: 10 x 30’ 2013 from the initial call-out through to determination of origin and cause, Series 2: 10 x 30’ + 1 x 60’ 2010 Series 6: 10 x 30’ HD 2014 revealing the human cost of fires – the loss of homes, livelihoods and Series 3: 10 x 30’ 2011 Series 7: 10 x 30’ HD 2015 life at the hands of one of the world’s most powerful forces. Series 4: 10 x 30’ 2012 Specials: 2 x 60’ 2015
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009 – 2015 62 63 crime & investigation crime & investigation
INSPECTORS, THE | 53 x 30’ The Inspectors follows public health inspectors on the front line of filth, pollution and illegal operation. It’s their mission to keep us safe as they strive to protect us and our environment; preventing the spread of lethal contaminants, deadly disease, dangerous pests and unlawful activity. There’s never a dull moment on the job as we capture the frustrations, confrontations and victories of our inspectors who take us everywhere; from rat-infested restaurants to maggot-ridden homes, out-of-control bars, contaminated creeks and even through city sewers – all for the sake of protecting public health!
Note: Series one and two are titled The Filth Files. NEW Series 1: 20 x 30’ 2004 Series 3: 10 x 30’ 2009 Series 2: 13 x 30’ 2006 Series 4: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 Inside story | 9 x 60 + 11 x 30 minutes’ WINNER (2006): Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Television Awards This prime time current affairs series investigates major crime stories WINNER (2006): Silver Award (The Inspectors), Houston International Film Festival and events that hit the headlines in Australia and beyond. Inside Story WINNER (2004): Gold Remi Award, Houston International Film Festival exposes the facts behind murders by family members and lovers, brutal WINNER (2004): Silver Remi Award (Episode 1), Houston International Film Festival slayings by teenage killers, tales of cheats, con-artists and fraudsters, WINNER (2004): Bronze Remi Award (Episode 2), Houston International Film Festival WINNER (2004): Hugo Awards – Educational Instructional, Adults, Hugo Television Awards violent and fatal obsessions, cases of outrageous negligence – all those news items where audiences want to know what really happened. Top PRODUCED BY: Top Shelf Productions features include the inside story of Australia’s biggest con artist, a timid COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand accountant who stole more than $45 million from one of the country’s YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2004 – 2013 largest corporations, and went on a wild spending spree. Then there is the case of the jealous obsessed stalker who not only kidnapped and murdered 1 x 60’ her pretty and popular neighbour after five years of secret plotting, but MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISONS | then set about stealing her victim’s identity in order to become her. Not to In this documentary we are given a rare and compelling insight into mention the 16 year old American horror movie fans whose slasher video life behind bars at two of America’s maximum security prisons, where captured everything, from planning the murder in the school library to their the ‘worst of the worst’ are incarcerated. But while Oklahoma State adrenaline-fuelled get-away after the killing. Penitentiary’s H Unit and Minnesota’s Oak Park Heights are separated by 700 miles, a vast chasm exists in their operating philosophies. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Nine Network Australia PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Nine Network Australia COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1999 64 65 crime & investigation crime & investigation
NATURAL BORN OUTLAWS | 10 x 60’ HD Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, The Krays: they are the stuff of legend. Natural Born Outlaws tells the larger-than-life stories of some of history’s toughest and meanest outlaws. The series recounts the gruesome shootouts, audacious robberies and scandalous kidnappings that made each bandit famous. It also details the deadly manhunts, stakeouts and ambushes orchestrated by the intense and dedicated lawmen intent on getting them at all costs. Using a combination of dramatic re-enactments, in-depth interviews and animated comic book panels, Natural Born Outlaws sweeps you along for the rise and fall of history’s most notorious criminals, plus the thrilling cat and mouse chase that ended their reigns of terror. From the mean streets of Chicago to the dark alleys of London, Natural Born Outlaws draws a vivid picture of those legendary criminal masterminds whose smarts, grit and guts made them a terrifying force to be reckoned with, and of those ready to risk everything to bring them down.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: CMJ Productions II Inc COMMISSIONED BY: American Heroes Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015
MOTORWAY PATROL | 160 x 30’ Motorway Patrol is motorway pandemonium as those who drive on New Zealand’s motorways never fail to deliver when the cameras are rolling. There is full access not only to the officers who are patrolling the motorways, but also CCTV footage from the motorway cameras. Tune in to catch an entertaining glimpse into the working world of the Road Policing Team as they deal with the daily dramas the motorways throw their way. Motorway Patrol continues to deliver a great line-up of motorway mayhem that will make you laugh, cry and cringe. This is some of the best and worst behaviour to be found on a motorway, so buckle up!
Series 1: 7 x 30’ 1999 Series 9: 10 x 30’ 2008 Series 2: 7 x 30’ 2000 Series 10: 10 x 30’ 2009 Series 3: 10 x 30’ 2000 Series 11: 12 x 30’ 2010 Series 4: 7 x 30’ 2001 Series 12: 10 x 30’ 2011 Series 5: 10 x 30’ 2004 Series 13: 10 x 30’ HD 2012 Series 6: 7 x 30’ 2005 Series 14: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 Series 7: 10 x 30’ 2006 Series 15: 10 x 30’ HD 2014 Series 8: 10 x 30’ 2007 Series 16: 20 x 30’ HD 2015
WINNER (2004): First place: TV Guide Reader’s Poll – Best Reality TV WINNER (2001): Third place: TV Guide Reader’s Poll – Best Reality TV
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1999 – 2015 66 67 crime & investigation crime & investigation
POISONOUS WOMEN | 1 x 60’ Poisonous Women reveals a remarkable untold story. For thousands of years poison, convenient, simple and secretive, has been the murder weapon of choice for the fairer sex. This documentary takes us on a gruesome journey of discovery into the minds and actions of four murderous women.
PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2003
SERIOUS CRASH UNIT | 49 x 30’ + 1 x 60’ With hundreds of people dying and being seriously injured on New Zealand roads every year, it is up to the dedicated officers of the Serious Crash Unit (SCU) to establish how these tragic crashes occurred. Cameras are there 24/7 to capture the development from the first phone call, which can come at any time of the day. Each episode takes the viewer behind the scenes as the SCU carry out their detective 14 x 30’ investigation in order to piece together the cause of each crash. With SPECIAL INVESTIGATORS | expert analysis and heart-felt family interviews, this compelling series In this investigative documentary series we follow extraordinary men drives home some hard-hitting safety messages. and women employed by government agencies to investigate serious, sometimes fatal, accidents. Planes crash, boats collide and people Series 1: 7 x 30’ 2003 Series 5: 7 x 30’ 2011 die at work without good reason. From the start to the conclusion, the Series 2: 6 x 30’ + 1 x 60’ 2005 Series 6: 7 x 30’ 2012 series accompanies the investigators on the job as they piece together Series 3: 7 x 30’ 2006 Series 7: 7 x 30’ HD 2014 Series 4: 8 x 30’ 2008 the facts to determine the cause of each accident. It’s a challenge to uncover the truth behind many serious accidents and these NOMINATED (2015): Best NZ Popular/Factual Unscripted Programme, Qantas Television Awards investigators are our only chance to stop them happening again.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2003 – 2014 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 – 2007 68 69 crime & investigation crime & investigation
SUPERMAX | 8 x 30’ Wabash Valley Prison is a super maximum security facility that houses some of the toughest criminals in the United States. This compelling observational series follows selected inmates, including a former District Attorney and police officer, along with the prison’s correctional officers and management figures, as they confront the myriad of dramas and pressures that occur daily.
PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2000
WILL, The: FAMILY SECRETS REVEALED | 35 x 60’ HD When grief and greed collide, family secrets come out of the woodwork. The Will: Family Secrets Revealed follows the emotional and intimate journey as the final wishes of the deceased are revealed to those left behind. Whether it is through the explicit final wishes listed in one’s will, or the debatable desires of someone who dies without a will, the drama that unfolds is captivating. STRANGER IN MY HOME, A Steeped in circumstances, legal complexities and raw family emotion, a will 26 x 60’ HD has the ability to tear families apart or bring them together. Or worse, what if a person leaves no will at all? Fame and fortune go hand in hand and series If there is one thing you don’t expect to find in your own home, it is three is dedicated to celebrity episodes, delving into the personal details of danger lurking around every corner. This may be the place where we renowned people such as Ted Williams, Etta James, Stieg Larsson, Tammy feel most comfortable, but there’s no better way to get inside our lives Wynette, John Kennedy Toole, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix. than to get inside our homes. Each episode traces the path where a trusting victim has invited a stranger across the threshold into their Three specials titled The Will: Outrageous Final Wishes are also available. home, and paid the ultimate price. Anyone invited under your roof, be These unusual and shocking last requests of the deceased range from a it a neighbour, guest, hired help, boarder or a new partner, can cross woman asking for her heart to be transplanted into a dog to save his life, the line into deceit and be the ultimate threat within. A Stranger In My to a mother asking for the cremated remains of the different generations Home is the perfect blend of mystery and suspense, telling the true of women in her family to be compressed into a sparkling diamond ring. stories of how strangers can turn against you. Let the wrong person in and it could be the last mistake you ever make! Series 1: 10 x 60’ HD 2010 Series 3: 12 x 60’ HD 2012 Series 2: 10 x 60’ HD 2012 Specials: 3 x 60’ HD 2012 Series 1: 10 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 3: 10 x 60’ HD 2015 Series 2: 6 x 60’ HD 2014 NOMINATED (2011): Best Non-Fiction Programming With Recreations, Realscreen Factual Entertainment Awards FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: CMJ Productions II Inc FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA, Canal D Canada and Investigation PRODUCED BY: CMJ Productions II Inc Quebec Canada COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA and Canada, Canal D Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 – 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 – 2012 70 71 DRAMA & TELEMOVIES
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Adrenalin Junkies | 48 x 60’ In this job a split-second decision can mean life or death. Set on the front line of emergency medicine, the Adrenalin Junkies are a dedicated emergency medical team who handle crisis situations, both on city streets and in remote regions. Under extreme pressure they thrive on defying the odds. Delve into their private lives, their reality, their human fragility and their loves.
Series 1: 13 x 60’ 1996 Series 3: 13 x 60’ 1998 Series 2: 20 x 60’ 1997 Telemovie: 2 x 60’ 1996
Produced by: Liberty & Beyond COMMISSIONED by: Network Ten Australia Year of Production: 1996 – 1998
Dirt Game | 6 x 60’ HD Fire | 26 x 60’ A British CEO is sent by his London board to head up a debt-ridden Fire is a fast-paced series that revolves around the lives and adventures Australian mining firm and, with the help of a hastily formed crisis of a platoon of firemen.Fire is their enemy and their life; from battling management team, is under ruthless instruction to either save the blazes in abandoned warehouses to explosions that could engulf an company or dump it. From the corporate boardroom to the hazardous entire city. One misjudgement, one hesitation, one second of fear, ore face, Dirt Game is a strong, character-driven drama played out could cost your life or the life of one of your mates. in the unique natural setting of the Australian outback. Dirt Game presents an all-star cast including Gerald Lepkowski, Joel Edgerton, Series 1: 13 x 60’ 1995 Freya Stafford, Shane Connor and Katie Wall. Series 2: 13 x 60’ 1996
Winner (2009): Mini-series (Episode 5), Australian Directors’ Guild Award Nominated (1996): Most Popular Drama, LOGIE Awards Nominated (2009): Mini-series (Episode 4), Australian Directors’ Guild Award Nominated (1996): Most Popular Series, LOGIE Awards
Produced by: Harvey Taft Productions Produced by: Beyond Productions and Liberty Films COMMISSIONED by: ABC Australia COMMISSIONED by: Seven Network Australia Year of Production: 2009 Year of Production: 1995 – 1996 74 75 drama & telemovies drama & telemovies
Good Guys Bad Guys | 28 x 60’ + 1 x 90’ Good Guys Bad Guys is an exciting rollercoaster ride through the quirky, unpredictable and dangerous world of crime, where the good guys and bad guys are hard to tell apart. Elvis Maginnis is an ex-cop from a family with criminal connections. Now trying to lead a quiet life, the family and the law won’t leave Elvis in peace and both want him to do ‘just one last job’. An offbeat crime series with laughs, action and romance.
Series 1: 15 x 60’ 1996 Telemovie: 1 x 90’ 1996 Series 2: 13 x 60’ 1998
Winner (1997): Best Achievement in Direction in a Television Drama, AFI Award Winner (1997): Best Mini Series or Telefeature, AFI Award
Produced by: Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier COMMISSIONED by: Nine Network Australia Year of Production: 1996 – 1998
Halifax f.p. | 21 x 100’ This award-winning psychological drama pushes murder mysteries into the new realms of suspense and intrigue. Jane Halifax is a freelance forensic psychiatrist and expert witness called to testify in some of the most twisted criminal cases. As Jane delves deep into the dark side of the human mind, she enters a world of lies and shadows where truth is never what it seems and she has her own demons to face.
Series 1: 6 x 100’ 1994 Series 4: 3 x 100’ 1998 Series 2: 3 x 100’ 1996 Series 5: 3 x 100’ 2000 Series 3: 3 x 100’ 1997 Series 6: 3 x 100’ 2001
Winner (2002): Telemovie (Original), AWGIE Award Winner (2002): Young Actors Award – Emily Browning, AFI Award Winner (2001): Telefeatures, TV Drama & Mini Series: Award of Distinction, ACS National Award Winner (2001): Most Outstanding Mini Series or Telemovie, LOGIE Award Winner (2000): Best Performance By an Actor in a Telefeature or Miniseries – Steven Vidler, AFI Award Winner (1999): Original Telemovie, AWGIE Award Winner (1998): Telemovie, AWGIE Award Winner (1998): Victoria (Silver) – James Grant, ACS Victoria/Tasmania Award Winner (1998): Victoria (Gold) – Ron Hagen, ACS Victoria/Tasmania Award Winner (1995): Best Performance By an Actor in a Television Drama – Steven Vidler, AFI Award Winner (1995): Best Performance By an Actress in a Television Drama – Jacqueline NEW McKenzie, AFI Award Winner (1995): Outstanding Actress in a Television Drama – Jacqueline McKenzie, Manny Lewis | 1 x 90’ HD LOGIE Award This feel-good comedy-drama film tells the story of fictional stand-
Format rights available up comedian Manny Lewis (played by Australian stand-up comedy Produced by: Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier performer Carl Barron). Adored by his fans, successful comic Manny COMMISSIONED by: Nine Network Australia Lewis finds himself at the height of his popularity, but at the depths Year of Production: 1994 – 2001 of his loneliness. Disenchanted with life and himself, he feels he can’t trust anyone with matters of the heart. Until one day by chance he meets the beautiful and complex Maria. With his fame skyrocketing and the temptation of overseas riches in America beckoning, Manny must choose between taking a risk on love, or retreating to the confines of his lonely but lucrative career.
Produced by: Beyond Screen Productions COMMISSIONED by: Seven Network Australia Year of Production: 2015 76 77 drama & telemovies drama & telemovies
Small Claims | 3 x 100’ HD Murder, mayhem and motherhood team up in this series. Jo and Chrissy are sleuthing mothers battling to get the kids to school on time while risking life and limb in the pursuit of justice. Chrissy, a former Legal Aid solicitor turned housewife and Jo, a policewoman raising a young son on her own, find they have much more in common than they thought as they go about exposing a simmering hotbed of drug deals, murder and crimes of passion.
Winner (2004): Best Telemovie Screenplay, AWGIE Award
Format rights available Produced by: RB Films COMMISSIONED by: Network Ten Australia Year of Production: 2004 – 2005
TWITCH, THE | 13 x 30’ HD The tiny island of Kaitangata is waking up again and only thirteen- year-old Meredith can stop it, before it claims another victim. The last time the island twitched was over fifty years ago and a girl disappeared Stingers | 192 x 60’ without a trace, apparently swallowed up by the island. A thrilling, contemporary story for mainstream family audiences, with live action, Inspired by true events, reveals the shadowy world of Stingers drama, CGI, myth and magic, The Twitch is an amazing tale from the undercover cops. These are police who defeat crime from inside fertile imagination of internationally renowned author Margaret Mahy. the criminal world – always without a badge and frequently without Set in a small coastal village near Christchurch in New Zealand, this protection. Behind enemy lines, the tools of the trade are lies, trickery is a story of Meredith, her family and the incredible events that shake and duplicity. Living literally on the edge, they must lie to those they them – literally and metaphorically. love to protect them from harm. Also available: (1 x 30’) and Series 1: 22 x 60’ 1998 Series 5: 22 x 60’ HD 2002 The Making Of The Twitch A Tall Long- Series 2: 22 x 60’ 1999 Series 6: 14 x 60’ 2002 Faced Tale (1 x 70’), a documentary about author Margaret Mahy. Series 3: 22 x 60’ 2000 Series 7: 40 x 60’ 2003 Series 4: 22 x 60’ 2001 Series 8: 28 x 60’ 2004 Winner (2011): Best Dramatic Presentation, Sir Julius Vogel Award, New Zealand FINALIST (2011): Kidscreen Awards, USA Winner (2004): Best Script for a Television Series – Adam Todd, AWGIE Award Winner (2010): Platinum Remi Award, Houston WorldFest USA Winner (2004): Best TV Drama Series, AFI Award Winner (2010): Best Performance by an Actor – George Henare, New Zealand Qantas Winner (2002): Most Popular Actor – Peter Phelps, LOGIE Award Film & Television Awards Nominated (2001): Most Outstanding Drama Series, LOGIE Award Winner (2010): Best Sound Design – Tom Miskin, James Hayday & Steve Finnigan, Winner (2000): Best Script for a Television Series – Sally Webb, AWGIE Award New Zealand Qantas Film & Television Awards Winner (2000): Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a TV Drama Series – Winner (2010): Best Production Design – Gary Mackay, New Zealand Qantas Film & Chris Haywood, AFI Award Television Awards FINALIST (2010): Prix Jeunesse Festival, Germany Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier Produced by: ProductionShed. TV COMMISSIONED by: Nine Network Australia COMMISSIONED BY: Maori Television New Zealand Year of Production: 1998 – 2004 Year of Production: 2009 78 79 6 FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
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111 EMERGENCY | 10 x 30’ ADDICTED TO THE LIFE | 12 x 30’ HD 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, 1 million emergency calls. 111 Addicted To The Life tells the stories of everyday men and women Emergency is a thrilling close-up encounter with New Zealand’s who get caught up in a life of crime and can’t break the habit. Driven emergency services, on call at all times ready to respond. This by ambition, greed, fear, even love, once they’re hooked morals are documentary series takes viewers on an action-packed journey into the no match for the lavish lifestyle and the gripping adrenaline rush heart of the police, fire and ambulance services. More than a dozen that comes with danger and deception. But the ‘highs’ come with a cameras are stationed in the communications centres and fitted inside staggering price tag, from broken bones to broken dreams, to time police cars, ambulances and fire appliances, ensuring viewers are behind bars and even death. These are cautionary tales of crime with the emergency services’ crews every step of the way. Throughout by people not so different from the rest of us – a high school track the series, we get to know the courageous police officers, fire and phenomenon turned drug queen pin, an all-American suburban father ambulance crews. Intimate interviews show their intense emotions as turned safecracker and a foreign prince turned murderer. They all paid they reveal what motivates them to risk their own lives to help others. a terrible price and have unbelievable true stories to tell.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Sauce Television PRODUCED BY: Story House Productions COMMISSIONED BY: TV3 New Zealand COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA and OWN Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013
5 DAYS IN THE RED ZONE | 1 x 60’ HD AIRSHOW | 12 x 60’ HD Tuesday 22 February, 2011 – the day the New Zealand earthquake hit. Camerawoman Pip Walls was embedded with a rural Police Drink Airshow takes viewers behind the scenes to the most dangerous part- Drive team when the squad was called to Christchurch. This was a time profession on the planet. From the ground it looks glamorous, remarkable opportunity to document history from the inside. Pip had but every year more air show pilots are killed than in any other job in already been filming the squad for months and had built a strong the entertainment industry. To survive on the circuit you need to be relationship of trust. The result is extraordinarily candid, behind-the- part salesman, part stuntman and part crazy. The harder you push scenes access inside the operation – from late night debriefs in motel on the ground and in the air, the more likely you are to succeed. But rooms, to coverage of the search and rescue within the Red Zone, push too hard and you will crash. Airshow follows the lives of producers, when all other media were kept outside the cordon. performers and technicians through the season as they face breakdowns, bad weather and each other’s egos. It is hard to believe this is a job FINALIST (2011): Best Editing – Documentary/Factual, AFTA (Aotearoa Film & people are dying to do! Television Awards) FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone PRODUCED BY: Great Pacific Media COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 82 83 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
ANIMAL 999 | 55 x 30’ HD Animal 999 returns, giving viewers a fascinating insight into the work carried out by the SSPCA, who protect and care for thousands of animals throughout Scotland every year. Go behind the scenes with inspectors, rescue officers and rehoming teams as they save and care NEW for abused pets and injured animals. In this new season, the staff have to deal with a media storm around the rehoming of Atlas the giant Beach Cops | 12 x 30’ HD rabbit, and Jack the Jack Russell terrier gets a new lease of life when The heat is on for the policemen and women who work the busy beat of he gets his eyesight back after a cataract operation. As well as rescuing Sydney’s iconic Northern Beaches. As another Summer season starts, a crow trapped up a chimney and an otter hit by a car, it’s all in a day’s the Beach Cops respond daily to situations ranging from horrific to the work for the rescue team! downright hilarious. This fly-on-the-wall series offers a unique insight into the challenges of policing a stretch of coastline that swells by HD HD Series 1: 8 x 30’ 2012 Series 4: 10 x 30’ 2015 seven million visitors every Summer. Series 2: 12 x 30’ HD 2012 Series 5: 15 x 30’ HD 2016 Series 3: 10 x 30’ HD 2014 Series 1: 6 x 30’ HD 2015 HD FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Series 2: 6 x 30’ 2016 PRODUCED BY: Demus Productions PRODUCED BY: Seven Productions COMMISSIONED BY: STV Scotland COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2016 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 – 2016
BBQ CRAWL | 36 x 30’ HD BEHIND MANSION WALLS | 39 x 60’ HD BBQ Crawl is a mouth-watering roadtrip that follows a world champion Money doesn’t always make you happy but it can sometimes make BBQ competitor as she eats and competes her way through America. you murder. There’s a world of money and power that likes to remain Danielle Dimovski (a.k.a. Diva Q) goes head to head with some of the hidden. A place the rest of us aren’t meant to see; it lies behind toughest teams on the BBQ circuit. Each team puts out their best mansion walls. But one thing can crash through the locked gates of the chicken, ribs, pork and brisket with the hope of taking home a trophy wealthy and privileged and put all their dirty laundry on view... murder. or two. Each BBQ joint unearths real gritty people, pitmasters, waiters, These are the crimes that rock the millionaire class to its very core. restaurant owners and patrons, anyone who has a story, recipe or lore to These crimes hold a special fascination for the ordinary person and we share about smoky meat and sauce. Who wouldn’t want to hop in the want to find out what exactly happened to turn the idyllic millionaire car and travel with a lady who happily eats with her fingers… and licks lifestyle into a murder scene. Behind Mansion Walls will tell the real ‘em too? Be careful, this show makes you hungry! story of high society crimes and use dramatic recreations to show their Series 1: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 Series 3: 13 x 30’ HD 2015 key moments and their investigations, backed by powerful interviews Series 2: 13 x 30’ HD 2014 with key experts and eyewitnesses in each case.
Nominated (2015): Best Picture Editing in a Reality/Competition Program or Series, Series 1: 13 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 3: 13 x 60’ HD 2013 Canadian Screen Awards Series 2: 13 x 60’ HD 2012
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: RTR Media Inc PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Travel + Escape Canada COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 – 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 – 2013 84 85 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
BEST JOB IN THE WORLD, THE | 6 x 30’ HD In February 2009 an extraordinary job position was advertised. The Great Barrier Reef in Australia needed a caretaker for six months. The wage was $150,000AUD and the position was open to all nationalities. 35,000 applications later, the 600 islands had a caretaker – Ben Southall, a 33 year old Englishman with a passion for travel and adventure. The Best Job In The World follows Ben from his home in the tiny English village of Ropley to the centre of a worldwide campaign and media frenzy – and not a bad job! The show takes in the staggering beauty of the only living thing you can see from space – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: NGC International YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009
NEW BEYOND Sahara – Riding from Cairo to cape town | 2 x 60’ HD NEW In a thrilling follow-up to Beyond Siberia (2 x 60’), this documentary follows 16 motorbike riders across 20,000 gruelling kilometres through Bespoke | 8 x 30’ HD Africa. For 80 days, they battle blazing heat, treacherous roads, This series celebrates the specific skills that enable craftsmen to suffocating bureaucracy and bone-crunching crashes, attempting skilfully produce bespoke items and the industrial expertise that goes to join a very elite group of people to have conquered this journey. into mass-produced products. Hosted by Justin Bratton, Bespoke Riding the vast savannahs and witnessing the world’s greatest wildlife travels across Asia to feature the engineering and experts behind these spectacle on the African plains, the riding gets tough as they battle products, while paying tribute to their unique heritage and design. We through gravel, sand, dirt and spectacular lightning storms across learn the differences in the manufacture of guitars, cars, knives, jeans, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. shoes, art, pens and furniture, from how they are made on the factory It’s an incredible journey of vast sandy deserts, high mountain passes floor to how they are made in the craftsman’s workshop. and never-ending savannahs on roads and tracks which are amongst the most dangerous in the world. Format rights available PRODUCED BY: The Moving Visuals Co Format rights available COMMISSIONED BY: Mediacorp Channel 5 Singapore Produced by: Thought Films YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 Year of Production: 2016 86 87 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
BEYOND SIBERIA – RIDING THE ROAD OF BONES | 2 x 60’ HD The 30,000 kilometre motorbike ride from London to Magadan, on the edge of Russia, has been described as one of the most challenging rides in the world. For four long months, a group of adventure bikers from around the world travels across a quarter of the Earth’s surface, pushing themselves and their bikes to the limit. Starting in Europe they ride the length of Russia, onto the historical Silk Road, deep into Mongolia, through the Siberian wilderness and experience an incredibly moving final ride through the infamous Road of Bones; a spiritual wasteland where two million people perished, with their bodies used as road fill during Stalin’s reign of terror. Through blazing deserts, inland seas, snow-covered peaks, black ice, torrential rain, raging river crossings and vast empty plains, this is an epic series of extreme highs and gut-wrenching lows. These riders know that every bend in the road could be their last and not everybody will make it to the end. Presented and narrated by Charley Boorman.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Thought Films YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015
BLOOD + THUNDER: BIG EXPERIMENT, THE | 4 x 60’ THE SOUND OF ALBERTS | 2 x 60’ HD What would life be like if you looked different? How would people treat you if your skin was another colour? What if you were a different gender? This is the story of how Australia got its own unique brand of rock Or you had a disability? Or even, if you were disfigured? This series & roll. Blood + Thunder is a tale of two families and the music they brings you a social experiment like no other. Volunteers will undergo a made together. The Alberts – an elegant, well-to-do music dynasty, radical transformation and then walk a day in someone else’s shoes. To and the Youngs – an unruly clan of migrants from the tough suburbs of prepare for their big day, a team of mentors will push them out of their Glasgow. They were from different planets but both had music running comfort zone and into a punishing training schedule. Our highly skilled through their veins. Their bond was the blood of two families and the prosthetic artists radically change our human guinea pigs. Ready or not, thunder was the sound they produced. The Alberts sound was tough, they must face the world looking completely different. This is a social raw and unapologetic, a sound that would become an inspiration to experiment where the public is also put to the test. millions of music fans around the world for years to come. Blood + Thunder features the inside stories of AC/DC, The Easybeats, Rose Nominated (2006): Best Reality Series, Air New Zealand Screen Awards Tattoo, Stevie Wright, John Paul Young and Flash and The Pan.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Screen Production and Bombora Film & Music Co in association PRODUCED BY: Rogue Productions with Screen Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand COMMISSIONED BY: ABC Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 88 89 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
NEW BOY TO MAN | 12 x 60’ HD Brent Owens – Extreme, Award-winning filmmaker Tim Noonan is on an epic quest to discover what Authentic & Unwrapped | 13 x 30’ HD it means to become a man. He travels the globe to immerse himself in This brand new series follows winner Brent unique native cultures and experience the most extreme and dangerous Masterchef Australia Owens as he explores South Africa to discover its beautiful and diverse coming-of age rituals. Tim endures ancient ceremonies, bloody initiations cultures and terrain. Experience both the extreme and the authentic and gruelling tests of manhood to be accepted as a man of the tribes. as Brent unearths real food and adventure. He gets stuck into the Amongst a clan of reindeer people in Siberia, Tim learns to drive a sled, kitchen with some of the country’s most established chefs, finding sleeps in the snow, braves frostbite and drinks reindeer blood. On the Sowetan street fare, seafood delicacies, the best city-grown farm mysterious Guinea Bissau Islands Tim must pass a series of tests such as produce, traditional Afrikaans comfort food, and the famous South being beaten naked, eating bush rats and monkeys and receiving a tribal African braai. As he travels the length of the country, he also tries out scar. Deep in Mongolia, as an ancient rite of passage, he must capture every bit of adventure he can get his hands on, freefalling in Soweto, and train a golden eagle to successfully hunt a fox in the wild. This is a shark diving in the Western Cape, game drives in Sabi and bungee solitary mission with Tim filming everything himself. There is no backing jumping from Bloukrans. On his journey, Brent reveals the moving, out so Tim has no choice but to toughen up to survive. the inspirational, and sometimes bizarre, people and places that Series 1: 3 x 60’ HD 2014 make South Africa truly unique. Series 2: 9 x 60’ HD 2015 Format rights available PRODUCED BY: 7Productions Produced by: Oxyg3n Media COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia COMMISSIONED by: Discovery Channel South Africa YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 – 2015 Year of Production: 2016 90 91 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
BRONX DREAM, A | 1 x 60’ A Bronx Dream is an inspiring look into the lives of 32 kids from a public school in one of the poorest districts of the Bronx, their discovery of Irish dancing and their journey to a country they have only seen in their imagination. It tells the individual stories of the children and their families, explores their often dangerous and uninspiring environment and charts their fierce passion for Irish dancing and the relentless efforts of their inspirational teacher. Filmed on the streets of the Bronx and in Ireland, this is the story of children from the mean streets who have taken on an unfamiliar culture and triumphed.
PRODUCED BY: Tyrone Productions COMMISSIONED BY: RTE Ireland YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008
BUSH DOCTORS | 6 x 30’ In the big city you are never too far from help but in the bush your only chance of survival could be many miles away. Living in the Australian bush is tough – the weather is harsh, the wildlife is dangerous and there are hazards at every turn. Every year an incredible 26,000 medical emergencies come through the doors of Dubbo Base hospital. From venomous snake bites and wild pig attacks to farming casualties, mining calamities and smash-ups on the highway, the staff have seen it all. Bush Doctors is on the front line of the action, alongside paramedics as they manage the trauma at the accident scene, with them as they race patients by road and air to hospital and then inside The Base as medical staff assess, treat and in many cases operate on their patients. By the sheer diversity of its cases and the beauty of the Australian outback, Bush Doctors is a window to a world you won’t see anywhere else.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: dsp Beyond COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008
CAR CZAR | 3 x 60’ HD Searching through dusty garages and barnyards across America, Alan Lewenthal rescues rare classic motorcars and expertly transforms each NEW one into a treasured piece of automotive history. Although Alan takes Carluccio’s 6 seasons | 6 x 30’ HD pleasure in his auto-archaeology adventures, his passion is also his Antonio Carluccio, one of the world’s most well known and respected business. Working with a team of highly skilled restoration technicians, chefs, is taken on a journey of discovery into Noongar country, the Alan has built a worldwide reputation for the immaculate resurrection south-west corner of Western Australia. In one of the largest bio-diverse of rusty heaps that bring astounding sale prices at classic car auctions. areas in the world, Carluccio learns about Australia’s indigenous history, FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE spanning the culture, art and music of the land and, most importantly, PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions the cuisine. He creates real Aussie food with an Italian twist, based YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009 on the six seasons of the Aboriginal calendar and the availability of native and foraged foods at different times of the year. Along the way, TV presenter Richard Walley introduces Carluccio to local characters who accompany them on their quest as they hunt, fish and gather wild plants and experience the simple pleasures of Aboriginal life.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: CM Films COMMISSIONED BY: SBS Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 92 93 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
CAUSE OF DEATH: UNKNOWN | 5 x 30’ HD There are many sad and untimely deaths each year and in most cases the cause of death is tragically clear. But in others, things may not always be as they seem. Cause Of Death: Unknown explores cases where the circumstances of death may initially appear to be one thing but the investigation ultimately reveals something quite different. Each episode follows a multi-layered investigation in which police officers, investigators and scientists have worked together to unravel the truth. The investigating teams retell the stories of the discoveries that cracked the case – illustrated with recreations and original evidence including forensics results and scene photos. Interviews with friends and family remind us of the human tragedy behind each headline and give a moving testament to the sense of loss felt by those left behind.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012
NEW Carnival Eats | 39 x 30’ HD Carnival Eats gives us an inside look at the mouth-watering and outrageous foods famously found at fairs and carnivals, the wacky CHEF SCHOOL | 26 x 30’ characters who create them and the culinary thrill seekers who devour Chef School follows a group of raw and hungry students through the and delight in them. There is lots to do at a carnival. Playing the games, gruelling two-year program at The Stratford Chefs School, a prestigious, riding the rides, delighting in the noise and the neon lights. But for internationally recognised culinary arts academy. It’s one part kitchen some, the best part of a carnival is the food, some of it unique. This boot camp and one part gastronomic finishing school. Set in the pressure series travels the length and breadth of North America and targets the cooker of a small town, students are challenged beyond their emotional and culinary creations linked to fairgrounds. Calorie-loaded offerings include physical abilities and constantly evaluated by industry professionals. The rattlesnake, frogs legs or okra, all deep-fried, and a decadent sundae of only thing these students have in common is their passion for food and their eight doughnuts topped with whipped cream, chocolate or caramel... and desperate need to find out if they have what it takes to become a chef. With don’t forget the cherry! Host Noah Cappe, a novice cook, will eat anything so much to gain and so much to lose, anything can happen – and it does. he can while at the same time trying his hand at creating some of these incredible eats. Series 1: 13 x 30’ 2007 Series 2: 13 x 30’ 2008 Series 1: 13 x 30 HD 2014 Series 3 13 x 30 HD 2016 Series 2: 13 x 30 HD 2015 WINNER (2008): Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series, Gemini Awards NOMINATED (2008): World Television Award – Lifestyle & Light Information, Banff World Nominated (2016): Best Lifestyle Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards Television Awards
Format rights available FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Produced by: by Alibi Entertainment PRODUCED BY: Red Apple Entertainment COMMISSIONED by: Cooking Channel US & Food Network Canada COMMISSIONED BY: Food Network Canada Year of Production: 2014 – 2016 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007 – 2008 94 95 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
CHO SHOW, THE | 7 x 30’ The Cho Show follows renowned stand-up comedienne Margaret Cho and her eccentric entourage as they scour the absurd depths of the entertainment industry, pop culture and societal taboos. Margaret Cho has successfully managed to create her own identity, turning the tables on an industry famous for manufacturing its stars. Margaret’s razor sharp humour and unique outlook on everything from politics to pilates have kept Cho fans rocking in their seats for over twenty years. The Cho Show will leave audiences rolling with laughter while wondering at the same time, ‘Did she just say what I think she said?’
PRODUCED BY: Crossroads and VH1 COMMISSIONED BY: VH1 USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 CHRISTMAS LIGHTS SPECTACULAR 1 x 90’ HD Australians don’t celebrate Christmas with snow – they do lights! Matthew Hayden takes us on a journey to find Australia’s most spectacular and innovative Christmas lights. He will be helping one street achieve its ambition to put on one of the best Christmas light displays. Matthew will also be unearthing some of the most dazzling and dramatic displays across the country – from the latest in computer- controlled equipment and synchronised music to the set-up of a chimney emitting fire and smoke.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: XYZ Networks Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 COOKING FOR THE CROWN | 8 x 30’ HD COMEDY SCHOOL | 4 x 30’ Royal cuisine has intrigued many throughout the years, with royal chefs and food-tasters holding their tongues as to what has been served This observational documentary series follows a genuine beginners throughout the generations. Over the past 13 years, international chef class in stand-up comedy, taught by veteran comedian Rob McHugh. Christian Bauer has prepared meals for many VIPs and celebrities. In each Ten students embark on a life-changing and hilarious quest to episode of Cooking For The Crown, Christian travels to a different country transform from curious novice to emerging comedian. Unbeknown to to meet their royal family. Christian’s objectives will be to learn what them, they must graduate under the spotlight in front of an expectant culinary delights are served and how these recipes are prepared, before paying audience and they have just four weeks to write and perfect finally meeting a member of the royal family. Christian then prepares their routines. Each student has a personal motivation for enrolling the dish for his hosts – with his own adaptation. Cooking For The Crown in the course. The personal, the painful and the peculiar can all be de-mystifies the monarchy through cooking whilst discovering how their spun into comedy as the students learn the mantra – life is funny. country’s unique and traditional dishes have played a part in their lives.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Format rights available PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions Produced by: The Moving Visuals Co. COMMISSIONED BY: SBS Australia COMmISSIONED BY: Channel News Asia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 Year of Production: 2014
CORVETTE – REBUILDING AN ICON | 1 x 60’ For more than fifty years the Corvette, America’s most popular sports car, has been a motoring icon and now a new version is under wraps! Come behind the scenes as Team Corvette builds the C6 – one of the most secretive and highly anticipated projects in motoring history.
PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2004 96 97 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
DAMAGE CONTROL | 6 x 30’ HD DEADLY CROSSING | 1 x 60’ HD Injury is every athlete’s dread – the instant that hard-fought careers plunge Six men, two weeks and the deadliest stretch of ocean in the world. from glory to gut-wrenching disaster. From the moment of injury, a small Known as the Graveyard of The Pacific, 2000 ships have come to grief army of doctors, physios, surgeons, coaches and support teams swings into there and 700 sailors lie dead on the sea floor. On the border of Oregon action. Damage Control follows the extraordinary real-life drama of trauma, and Washington State, a sand bar forces billions of gallons of water surgery, rehab and, for the lucky ones, return to glory. Australia is famous from the Columbia River direct into the swells of the Pacific. The result for its love of sport but this constant pressure for athletes to perform takes is giant waves and deadly currents. Deadly Crossing tracks an exclusive its toll. Bodies are pushed to the limit with no thought of self-preservation. group of sea captains who pilot giant ships over the bar, keeping a billion Every damaged athlete has a personal story – the shock of injury, the dollar trade route open. These Columbia River Bar Pilots are followed for brutality of surgery, the burden of rehab and the emotional return to doing a fifteen-day straight shift. Any mistake puts the ship and lives at risk. what they live for: playing elite competitive sport. The point of most peril for the pilots is boarding and disembarking at sea, either by a small pilot boat or helicopter. Both require perfect timing FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE and skill in order to survive the manoeuvre in the pitching swells. PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 COMMISSIONED BY: truTV USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 DARK MINDS | 20 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD Men and women of law enforcement work hard to solve every murder but some cases remain stubbornly open; they run cold. Dark Minds reignites interest in these cases through two obsessive investigators; true crime author, M. William Phelps, and criminal profiler, John Kelly. They bring fresh eyes and a different perspective to the crimes, using the combined instincts of an investigative journalist, a psychological profiler and an anonymous serial killer serving multiple life-sentences. Together they review known evidence of each case and speculate who the killer might be. By talking to police, survivors, family members and experts, Phelps and Kelly build a profile of the murderer.
Series 1: 8 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 3: 4 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD 2014 Series 2: 8 x 60’ HD 2012
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 – 2014
DARK TEMPTATIONS | 6 x 60’ HD DEADLY WOMEN | 144 x 60’ returns with even more true stories of the world’s If you think you’ve seen every motive for murder, think again! Dark Deadly Women most deadly females. Each episode fuses bone-chilling storytelling, Temptations pries open the lid of worlds where weird obsessions turn deadly. The bizarre temptations behind these murders shocked even the sumptuous period drama and forensic fact in a bid to explore history’s toughest law enforcers. Meet the married man with a shoe fetish that most alluring, intriguing and horrifying female killers. Profiling accelerates into serial killing; the cannibal craving fresh human meat; horrific stories from the past, we delve into a deadly world shaped the voodoo priest who uses black magic to entrap vulnerable women; by spiraling forces that are beyond the women’s control: obsession, the teenagers who act out their murderous rap lyrics; the snake-handling greed and revenge. preacher who uses serpents to stop his wife’s sin; and the businessman Complementary specials are also available. who goes to horrifying lengths to remove his own leg! Dark Temptations Facing Evil explores the intriguing psychology of how twisted the human mind can Series 1: 3 x 60’ 2005 Series 6: 20 x 60’ HD 2012 become. Interviews with investigators, friends and victims, coupled with Series 2: 6 x 60’ HD 2008 Series 7: 20 x 60’ HD 2013 dark and dramatic recreations, throw open these secret lives. Series 3: 13 x 60’ HD 2009 Series 8: 20 x 60’ HD 2014 Series 4: 16 x 60’ HD 2010 Series 9: 13 x 60’ HD 2015 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Series 5: 20 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 10: 13 x 60’ HD 2016 PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 – 2016 98 99 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
DEADLY WOMEN: KILLER DOG PATROL | 10 x 30’ COUNTDOWN | 1 x 120’ HD Dog Patrol focuses on the work of the Animal Control Officers based in South Auckland, which has the largest dog population in New Zealand. Follow this After many series of Deadly Women, it’s time to ask... who is the worst dedicated team of animal-lovers as they go about their incredibly varied day- of the worst? Psychological profiler Candice DeLong is our guide on this to-day work. Every callout is different and no one ever quite knows what they fascinating voyage through the minds of the world’s deadliest women. will find when they turn up. The series covers drug raids, dog attacks, roaming What makes one murderer worse than another? You will be surprised. and unregistered mutts, lost pets reunited with their owners, abandoned strays DeLong knows the criminal mind; she can tell the difference between successfully put up for adoption, and more! Dog Patrol faithfully follows all emotional accident and sociopathic intent as she counts down the Top aspects of the job about which the Animal Control Officers are so passionate. Ten perpetrators to reveal why they were so dangerous and what sets
them apart from you and me. PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TV3 New Zealand FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 DREAM RV | 3 x 60’ The ultimate in road travelling luxury is a customised recreational DESIGN DNA | 13 x 30’ HD vehicle or RV. In Dream RV you’ll meet millionaires including Paul Newman and their million dollar coaches. Life on the American These are the icons of design – we’ve seen them but we’ve never really highways never looked as good as it does from the inside of a dream RV. heard the stories behind them. From conception to creation, Design DNA tells the birth stories of the beautiful and essential items in our PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions homes. A biography of sorts where the hero may be an appliance, COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA a gadget or a chair. Each episode features three essential pieces of YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2004 home design – following the product from the first spark of conception, through the brilliance of the design to the final mechanics of the EXTREME MUSTANG: BACK factory floor. Everyday items include the La-Z-Boy recliner, Miele washing machine, Umbra Garbino bin, Tupperware, Eames lounge TO THE TRACK | 1 x 60’ chair, Toto toilet, Playmobil, Vaughan hammer, Jacuzzi, Pyrex, Maglite Automotive history is in the making: an ‘extreme’ Mustang is being built in flashlight, Toro lawn mower and the Swiss Army knife. Audiences a top-secret project. In order to succeed the creators will need to impress will appreciate the ultimate access inside some of the world’s top the bosses, potential drivers and NASCAR stars, who are all waiting for an manufacturing plants, whilst admiring the artistic and practical design historic ride. Pick up your pit pass for this exclusive journey. elements employed to make these cherished items an integral part of everyday life in a family home. PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA NOMINATED (2011): Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series, Gemini Awards YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2004
PRODUCED BY: Castlewood Productions 36 x 30’ HD COMMISSIONED BY: HGTV Canada FACING EVIL | YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 Candice DeLong, former FBI agent, goes behind prison walls to interview some of the world’s most notorious killers. In candid one-on-one interviews, DeLong gives these men and women a unique opportunity to tell their side of the story. Some reveal their innermost secrets of how and why they became killers, others adamantly plead innocence. These interviews are confrontational, emotional and, above all, compelling. Does a lifetime of horrific abuse justify the ultimate revenge? What turns a hard-working nurse into a serial killer? How can a man be found guilty when so much forensic evidence points to his innocence? Candice explores all this and more, taking viewers deep inside the minds of these convicted killers. Will you believe the tales that the jury wouldn’t?
Series 1: 4 x 30’ HD 2010 Series 4: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 Series 2: 6 x 30’ HD 2011 Series 5: 10 x 30’ HD 2014 Series 3: 6 x 30’ HD 2012
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 – 2014
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FAMILY FEUDS | 8 x 30’ HD Family Feuds is an innovative series following eight different dysfunctional families as they seek help to mend their ways and establish new, healthier dynamics. A son who won’t share a secret from his past, a mother who uses physical violence to bully her adult kids and a couple’s infidelity are just some of the challenges faced. A range of psychological tools and techniques will push below the surface issues and uncover the real reasons for the family conflict. With the key problems laid bare, the families are given new life skills to deal with their present problems and future conflicts.
PRODUCED BY: Top Shelf Productions COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008
FATAL VOWS | 62 x 60’ HD Season 5 of Fatal Vows traces the deadly and tragic journeys of thirteen marriages that go from mindful bliss to deepest, darkest despair. The series uses personal interviews, family photos, expert commentary and dramatic re-enactments to understand how the relationships deteriorate so tragically. This fascinating series returns, featuring such notorious cases as one young woman’s attempt to break free of her husband’s oh-so-loving arms and a California beach bum whose love for the high life pushes his marriage to the brink.
Series 1: 10 x 60’ HD 2012 Series 4: 13 x 60’ HD 2015 Series 2: 13 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 5: 13 x 60’ HD 2016 Series 3: 13 x 60’ HD 2014
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: CMJ Productions II Inc COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA and Canada, Canal D Canada, Astral Canada, Investigation Quebec Canada, AETN UK and C&I UK YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2016
FINK | 13 x 30’ Fink follows the visionary and utterly unconventional crusade of a NEW culinary arts teacher at Northwestern Secondary School in Stratford Ontario. Paul Finkelstein, or ‘Fink’ as the students call him, transforms HEAVY RESCUE: 401 | 9 x 60’ HD the lives of his students by showing them how the food they eat affects From the producers of hit international success, Highway Thru Hell, every aspect of their lives: their bodies, their relationships to family comes a new series that focuses on the unique challenges and difficult and friends and ultimately to the planet. Fink is one of those teachers working conditions endured by heavy rescue vehicles on the 401, that kids never forget. Fink battles to raise the consciousness of a the world’s busiest highway. We follow multiple major tow operators, generation bred on junk-food, runs a funky fine-food alternative high rescue and maintenance crews day and night as they battle to keep school cafeteria called the Screaming Avocado and takes a diverse traffic flowing along North America’s most important trade route. These group of Culinary Club students on a pilgrimage to Italy. businesses work tirelessly to keep the roads open through any weather
PRODUCED BY: Red Apple Entertainment condition. From monster snow storms creating kilometres of mayhem COMMISSIONED BY: Food Network Canada to overturned trucks, their efforts prevent the 401 from grinding to a YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007 crippling halt through the worst of the winter driving season. Heavy Rescue is a series about men and women facing incredible stakes in a fast-paced, relentless environment. Jobs and lives depend on these highways. And it’s up to the Heavy Rescue teams to keep them open.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Great Pacific Media Inc COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 102 103 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
HIGHWAY THRU HELL | 63 x 60’ + 8 reloads HD Join the team once more as they fight to keep some of the most economically important, travelled, and inhospitable trucking routes in North America open during Season 5 of Highway Thru Hell. After expanding his tow business into Alberta’s frozen north two seasons ago, a new reality has set in. Heavy Rescue owner Jamie Davis has been forced to simplify his operation and shift his attention back to his mountain base – where it all began. He’s laying off staff and selling off machines. But this season he’s got a secret weapon. As ‘the boss’ focuses on rebuilding a leaner heavy rescue business, driver Colin McLean continues to anchor the team in Northern Alberta. But this winter Colin will be pushed to his breaking point.
Series 1: 10 x 60’ HD 2012 Series 4: 13 x 60’ HD 2015 Series 2: 13 x 60’ + 4 reloads HD 2013 Series 5: 14 x 60’ HD 2016 Series 3: 13 x 60’ + 4 reloads HD 2014
NOMINATED (2015): Overall Sound, Documentary Program or Series, Leo Award NOMINATED (2015): Sound Editing, Documentary Program or Series, Leo Award NOMINATED (2015): Musical Score, Documentary Program or Series, Leo Award NOMINATED (2014): Best Direction in a Documentary Series, Canadian Screen Awards NOMINATED (2014): Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Great Pacific Media Inc COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2016
HIGHWAY COPS | 50 x 30’ HD Sometimes hilarious, sometimes haunting, Highway Cops follows the officers who aim to keep motorists safe on 11,000 kilometres of spectacular and unforgiving roads in New Zealand. From upturned sheep trailers to washed-out campers, tourists tackling highways for the first time to country boys risking their lives on rural roads, no two days are ever the same!
Series 1: 10 x 30’ HD 2012 Series 3: 20 x 30’ HD 2015 Series 2: 20 x 30’ HD 2013
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TV One New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2015 104 105 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
HILLBILLY PREPPERS – ATLANTA | 6 x 30’ HD HUNKS, THE | 6 x 60’ HD The Hillbilly Preppers are on call to solve any home security problem. Discover just what makes men tick! Ten ordinary, but beautiful, young Military veteran Barry and his ‘boys’ at The Moss Shop specialise in men are put together for the summer in a stunning penthouse in the security for all types of clients. This is the team to train you, arm you party heartland of Cornwall, England. As gorgeous, fit young men they are and build you anything you can dream up to protect yourself. They create sure to attract attention, stir things up and make one hell of an impact. non-lethal traps, secret escape paths and badass safe rooms. Wackier They form a strong bond over the summer and as friendships deepen, requests include constructing zip lines to escape everything from roving they open up to each other and to us. The guys’ pulling techniques, pack marauders to zombies! The gang is an amazing cast of characters the instincts and real views on women are put under the microscope, as they audience will love as they go from one crazy situation to the next. bare their souls and tell us their most intimate thoughts. Discover men’s real attitude to love and romance and what they think women look for in FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: MorningStar Entertainment a man. The insights go deeper as the lads debate more risqué subjects COMMISSIONED BY: Destination America USA such as unplanned pregnancy, abortion, fidelity, fatherhood and sex. YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Back2Back Productions HISTORY UNDER THE HAMMER | 13 x 30’ COMMISSIONED BY: Sky Living UK This series features items of historical significance going under the YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 hammer at New Zealand auction houses. In order to tell the stories of those who came before, we spiral back in time to reveal rich, I COULD DO THAT! | 13 x 30’ HD dazzling and unexpected chronicles of the past. Cameras then follow This is the chance for ordinary people to grab the controls of some the suspense and drama between the buyers and sellers as the items very dangerous machines. The range of machines includes monster realise their prices in today’s auction rooms, where they eventually trucks, cranes, freighters, locomotives, combine harvesters, hovercraft move on into the hands of their next custodians. and even military tanks. The catch is that the participant has no idea what machine he or she will be asked to operate – and is justifiably PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: Prime TV New Zealand shocked and surprised when host Chris Nelson makes the reveal. The YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 participant is thrown into a ‘boot camp’ covering the basics of the machine with an expert in preparation for a series of challenges in HOT ROD BUILD OFF | 2 x 60’ operating it. I Could Do That! is a rare opportunity to operate machines that would normally be completely inaccessible to the ordinary person. Competing to win the US Most Beautiful Roadster at the Grand National Hot Rod Show, Jimmy Shine leads the team of traditional hot rodders FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE against the super-slick street rods of Barry White’s shop. Two different PRODUCED BY: Cream Productions people, two very different roadster philosophies, two radically different COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Canada and Discovery HD Theatre USA cars and only one prize – who will win the ultimate Hot Rod Build Off? YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010
PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions I DO... LET’S EAT | 39 x 30’ HD COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2004 This delicious series showcases nuptial cuisine of diverse cultures. Each episode features one couple from a variety of cultural heritages HOW BEER SAVED THE WORLD | 1 x 60’ HD as they organise their lavish wedding feast, along with the chef who prepares it and the ups and downs in the lead-up to the big day. All Human beings have been around for about 100,000 years. All the couples want to ensure that the food at their wedding reflects accomplishments have been made only in the last ten thousand years. their family traditions. But will everything be perfect on the day? So what exactly happened that put an end to primitivism and kick-started Love, romance and food – the ingredients for a perfect wedding! the age of creativity and invention? Beer happened and it changed the world forever. Known as the agricultural revolution, it ended hunter- Series 1: 13 x 30’ HD 2005 Series 3: 13 x 30’ HD 2007 gathering and led to the world’s first ever civilisation – Mesopotamia. The Series 2: 13 x 30’ HD 2006 drive to grow more barley in order to make more beer led to a cascade of inventions: the plough, the wheel, irrigation, mathematics and even NOMINATED (2006): Best Lifestyle Series, Gemini Awards writing. Beer’s hidden hand has been behind some of history’s most PRODUCED BY: I Do Let’s Eat Entertainment Inc remarkable breakthroughs, from the discovery of germ theory to the COMMISSIONED BY: Food Network and Life Network – Canada invention of refrigeration, the birth of the factory and the end of child YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 – 2007 labour. Beer didn’t just change the world, it saved it!
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011
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INSPECTORS, THE | 53 x 30’ The Inspectors follows public health inspectors on the front line of filth, pollution and illegal operation. It’s their mission to keep us safe as they strive to protect us and our environment; preventing the spread of lethal contaminants, deadly disease, dangerous pests and unlawful activity. There’s never a dull moment on the job as we capture the frustrations, confrontations and victories of our inspectors who take us everywhere; from rat-infested restaurants to maggot-ridden homes, out- of-control bars, contaminated creeks and even through city sewers – all for the sake of protecting public health!
Note: Series one and two are titled The Filth Files.
Series 1: 20 x 30’ 2004 Series 3: 10 x 30’ 2009 LIFE FLIGHT | 20 x 30’ HD HD Series 2: 13 x 30’ 2006 Series 4: 10 x 30’ 2013 The dramatic Life Flight series returns as we follow the inspirational men and women of The Life Flight Trust who crew and operate New Zealand’s WINNER (2006): Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Television Awards WINNER (2006): Silver Award (The Inspectors), Houston International Film Festival 24/7 emergency air service in some of the most challenging flying WINNER (2004): Gold Remi Award, Houston International Film Festival conditions in the world. Hard-hitting, dramatic, heart-warming and heart- WINNER (2004): Silver Remi Award (Episode 1), Houston International Film Festival breaking; this documentary series takes you inside the rescue operations, WINNER (2004): Bronze Remi Award (Episode 2), Houston International Film Festival where every second counts. WINNER (2004): Hugo Awards – Educational Instructional, Adults, Hugo Television Awards Series 1: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 PRODUCED BY: Top Shelf Productions Series 2: 10 x 30’ HD 2016 COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2004 – 2013 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Starfish Pictures COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand HD JETSTREAM | 8 x 60’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 – 2016 Jetstream chronicles the white knuckle adventures and trials of an elite group of Air Force fighter pilots, as they learn to fly one of the world’s 13 x 30’ most advanced supersonic tactical fighter jets, the $35-million F-18 MANHATTAN MATCHMAKER | Hornet. Hand-picked from thousands of high-powered candidates, True love can be hard to find but renowned New York matchmaker Lisa these pilots are getting an opportunity to join the world’s most exclusive Ronis reveals the dating tips and tricks to help luckless singles date flight club. But who will make the cut? The series features unique successfully. Lisa scours the streets and local spots to find suitable and unprecedented access to the inner sanctum of the 410 Training matches then, with the help of her wingman Michael Eckford, uses her Squadron. In each thrilling episode we follow these future warriors proven methods to give clients the skills and self-confidence to ensure a through every adrenaline-charged mission from ground school to long-term relationship. Lisa’s unique approach, combined with Michael’s graduation, while witnessing their fierce drive and relentless struggles. male point of view, may be just what each struggling singleton needs to transform from dating-challenged to finding the love of their lives! NOMINATED (2008): Best Direction in a Documentary Series, Gemini Awards NOMINATED (2008): Best Photography in a Documentary Program or Series, Gemini Awards NOMINATED (2007): Best Host in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Paperny Entertainment PRODUCED BY: Force Four Entertainment COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Canada COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 108 109 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
MANUFACTURED | 13 x 30’ HD MEDICS | 10 x 30’ From the inventors to the factory floor workers,Manufactured tells the Emergency care experts are our lifelines when we need immediate story of great products. Each episode follows the conception, history medical attention. This reality series looks at the work of the highly and manufacture of three objects. These include the Stetson hat, skilled emergency services. From the frontline of emergency care, we signature profile of the Wild West; Toto Drake II toilet, the best thing follow paramedics as they deal with critical call outs. The series also to happen to bathroom visits; Zippo lighter, a flick of fire guaranteed hits the road with an experienced team of ambulance medics. In the for life; Vitamix blender, the power tool for your meals, and Jack busy A&E departments, the senior emergency doctors and consultants Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey, the highest selling American deal with a vast array of cases from critical life-threatening wounds to whiskey to date. Through original filming, historical stock footage simple, yet tricky, injuries. Each episode contains a mix of cases and and interviews, Manufactured tells the stories of thirty-nine iconic call outs, alongside the warm, charismatic and candid team of medics. products from prototype through to the production line. PRODUCED BY: Brilliant Trees Media PRODUCED BY: Castlewood Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ITV UK COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014
MARRIED TO THE GAME | 24 x 60’ HD Married To The Game is a deep-access documentary series that follows the wives and girlfriends of some of the most celebrated and up-and-coming professional ice hockey players across North America. Whether they are married to players new to the pro ranks, already superstars or nearing retirement, these wives form a team of their own to support and encourage each other through personal and MISTRESS, THE | 14 x 30’ HD professional highs and lows. There may be some incredible perks to One of the world’s most famous ex-mistresses is on a mission to rescue being a hockey wife but make no mistake, it also poses extraordinary other mistresses from the despair of their affairs. Sarah Symonds, challenges. These dynamic women must balance the grind of the author and self-proclaimed former mistress of Chef Gordon Ramsay regular season, long periods of separation and their partner’s injuries and Lord Jeffrey Archer, dishes out her no-nonsense tough love to and formidable threat of being traded, all while raising families and mistresses looking to escape the trap of an extra-marital affair. Sarah building their own careers. They navigate the challenging lifestyles has seen it all before and shares her knowledge and experience to take in the high stakes world of professional ice hockey with grace these ladies on a journey of self-realisation and empowerment, giving and humour. viewers a unique glimpse into the lives of often vilified women. At its heart is a story of redemption. It’s about helping ‘the other Series 1: 8 x 60’ HD 2015 The Mistress Series 2: 16 x 60’ HD 2015 woman’ become ‘her own woman’ and waking up to the fact that they have the power to turn their lives around. WINNER (2016): Best Picture Editing in a Factual Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Bristow Global Media PRODUCED BY: Great Pacific Media Inc COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada COMMISSIONED BY: SLICE Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 110 111 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
MONSTER BUG WARS! | 13 x 60’ HD This is ringside access to bug-eat-bug gladiatorial contests! Witness some of nature’s deadliest encounters where stings, spikes and deadly venom are wielded with cold-blooded precision. Enter the no-holds- barred, real life world of spiders, scorpions, centipedes and killer ants fighting to the death. Can the lethal stinger of a Bull Ant overcome the suffocating silk of the Redback Spider? Filmed in extreme close-up high definition and illustrated with state-of-the-art CGI,Monster Bug Wars! brings to life nature’s ultimate fight club. The five encounters per episode are accompanied with expert commentary from Dr Linda Rayor, Cornell University’s eminent entomologist and Dr Bryan Grieg Fry, “Professor Poison” from The University of Queensland.
An accompanying special recaps the Top Ten Bug Battles.
Series 1: 6 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 2: 6 x 60’ + 1 x 60’ HD 2012
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions and Discovery Science Channel USA COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Science USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 – 2012
MOTORWAY PATROL | 160 x 30’ HD Motorway Patrol is motorway pandemonium as those who drive on New Zealand’s motorways never fail to deliver when the cameras are rolling. There is full access not only to the officers who are patrolling the motorways, but also CCTV footage from the motorway cameras. Tune in to catch an entertaining glimpse into the working world of the Road Policing Team as they deal with the daily dramas the motorways throw their way. Motorway Patrol continues to deliver a great line-up of motorway mayhem that will make you laugh, cry and cringe. This is some of the best and worst behaviour to be found on a motorway, 13 x 30’ HD MOTHER OF THE BRIDE | so buckle up! Mother Of The Bride takes us inside the drama that ignites when the mother of the bride tries to find the best dress at one of the most Series 1: 7 x 30’ 1999 Series 9: 10 x 30’ 2008 stressful times. Every day the dress consultants at T. Carolyn Fashions Series 2: 7 x 30’ 2000 Series 10: 10 x 30’ 2009 Series 3: 10 x 30’ 2000 Series 11: 12 x 30’ 2010 navigate the front lines of family conflict – helping moms look great Series 4: 7 x 30’ 2001 Series 12: 10 x 30’ 2011 and satisfying the bride’s often strident opinions. The shop owners Series 5: 10 x 30’ 2004 Series 13: 10 x 30’ HD 2012 Barbara and Terrie Tibbetts and their team help exasperated women Series 6: 7 x 30’ 2005 Series 14: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 overcome figure flaws, bad taste and out-of-control expectations in the Series 7: 10 x 30’ 2006 Series 15: 10 x 30’ HD 2014 quest for the perfect dress. Even after 21 years and 100,000 dress Series 8: 10 x 30’ 2007 Series 16: 20 x 30’ HD 2015 sales, they never know what kind of family drama is about to walk in WINNER (2004): First place: TV Guide Reader’s Poll – Best Reality TV the door and explode all over the pretty carpet. This team is committed WINNER (2001): Third place: TV Guide Reader’s Poll – Best Reality TV each time to get mom looking drop dead gorgeous on the big day. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: RTR Media Inc and Citizen Skull Productions PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: SLICE Canada COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1999 – 2015 112 113 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
MOVIESTAR | 104 x 30’ MovieStar explores the careers of worldwide big screen superstars and their rise to stardom, providing an in-depth celebrity profile in their own words and in the words of their collaborators. The series includes episodes explaining how Cameron Diaz went from The Mask to being one of the best paid actresses in Hollywood; how Sean Connery went from modest beginnings to being knighted in real life; and why Kevin Costner has vowed never to make a sequel. Get set for an education on all of your favourite superstars from the comfort of your couch. No mega celebrity has escaped the list!
Series 1: 52 x 30’ 2010 Series 2: 52 x 30’ 2010
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Entertainment News Service YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010
MOUNTAIN RESCUE | 6 x 60’ HD Towering above the Alps, Mont Blanc is a spectacular natural beauty. But it also has a darker, lethal side that attracts thrill seekers, extreme skiers and obsessed climbers from all over the world. They 13 x 30’ HD throw themselves against the mountain’s steep slopes, treacherous MR FRIDAY | glaciers and vertiginous cliffs in a bid to conquer this most formidable Meet Derek Friday a.k.a ‘Mr Friday’ – your quintessential ‘trust-fund natural challenge. When they fail, the consequences can be deadly. baby’ with a personality big enough to match his hefty bank account. The only thing standing between them and a certain death is the Each week he must switch places with a hardworking, deserving helicopter rescue squad of the PGHM (Peloton de Gendarmerie ‘swapee’ for one day in order to earn his weekly trust fund cheque de Haute Montagne); an elite Alpine force trained for the world’s from his mother, Mama Friday. The ‘swapee’ is offered much-needed deadliest peaks. We ride along with the men and women who confront respite from their daily grind and an opportunity to engage in a dream avalanches, blinding snowstorms, high winds, rockslides and sub-zero day designed personally by the ever-resourceful Mama Friday. So while temperatures to rescue those who have fallen victim to the elements. the ‘swapee’ enjoys the high life, Derek gets a taste of how the other Mountain Rescue delivers an experience that puts viewers on the top half lives. Problem is, Derek has never really worked a day in his life of the world and keeps them on the edge of their seats. and although his intentions are well meaning, more often than not his efforts fall short of the mark. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Candela in co-production with Helion Pictures, Discovery Channel France FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE and RMC Découverte PRODUCED BY: Temple Street Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery France and RMC Découverte France COMMISSIONED BY: SLICE Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 114 115 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
NEIGHBOURS AT WAR | 80 x 30’ + 1 x 60’ If you thought we’d drained the pool of neighbourly disgruntlement, think again. Neighbours At War uncovers plenty of tales of house-to-house combat. If fighting with the neighbours was an Olympic sport, New Zealanders would clean up. Where the police, councils, threatening lawyers’ letters and the courts may have failed, Neighbours At War isn’t afraid to step in and assist – with mixed results admittedly. Helping to bring about peace in these war-torn neighbourhoods isn’t for the faint-hearted so we roped in some expert mediators. Anyone with neighbours, or a penchant for revenge, should make this series compulsory viewing.
Series 1: 8 x 30’ + 1 x 60’ 2005 Series 5: 10 x 30’ 2010 Series 2: 13 x 30’ 2006 Series 6: 10 x 30’ 2011 Series 3: 10 x 30’ 2007 Series 7: 9 x 30’ HD 2013 Series 4: 10 x 30’ 2008 Series 8: 10 x 30’ HD 2015
FINALIST (2010): Best Observational Reality Series, Qantas Film & Television Awards
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 – 2015
OBSESSIONS | 6 x 30’ HD Experience the world from its obsessive side! From the bold to the bizarre, from the freaky to the fun – every society has an obsession. Some are modern while others have existed for centuries. Join happy-go- lucky host Jason Godfrey in this documentary series as he uncovers the obsessive behaviours that make the Chinese, Japanese, Indians, Koreans and Filipinos who they are and learns how one society’s obsession can become the new normal. From exploring Korea’s extreme plastic surgery reality shows to China’s Internet addiction boot camps, this series reveals just how crazy people can be and how society fuels these obsessions.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: The Moving Visuals Co COMMISSIONED BY: MediaCorp Channel NewsAsia Singapore YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012
OUT IN THE COLD | 10 x 30’ HD Out In The Cold takes you to a world few people ever see to meet the unique and varied individuals who tackle the elements and conquer them NEW every day with ingenuity and pure guts! Host Barry Kennedy pitches in and finds out just what it takes to wrangle icebergs from the open sea HD MY Ireland with COlin | 2 x 60’ for their pure ancient waters, or to test new cars under the most extreme My Kitchen Rules Australia judge and restauranteur Colin Fassnidge conditions. Get chills when we fly with an ice pilot as he shows us the returns home to discover the changing face of food in Ireland. He revisits thrills and dangers of flying a plane in icy conditions and learn why he his childhood haunts where we meet his family, then takes a culinary tour does it, or be amazed at a wildlife vet who handles everything from seals of some of Ireland’s most beautiful food producing areas on his beloved to bison out in the freezing temperatures they inhabit. Ducati 1200 motorbike. From seaweed harvesting to collecting delicious HD golden honey, picking apples for cider and feeding pigs on their own Series 1: 6 x 30’ 2007 Series 2: 4 x 30’ HD 2008 private island in Fermanagh, Colin rediscovers the spectacular scenery,
while showcasing the world-class food produced in Ireland in a uniquely NOMINATED (2009): Best Host in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards personal way. WINNER (2008): Gold Plaque, Educational/Documentary Series, Hugo Television Awards
Produced by: Seven Productions PRODUCED BY: Real to Reel Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Canada Year of Production: 2016 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007 – 2008 116 117 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
OUTBACK KIDS | 3 x 60’ HD REMARKABLE VETS | 20 x 30’ Outback Kids follows the work of the Brahminy Group as it attempts to Set against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful landscapes in the rehabilitate seven profoundly troubled young kids deep in the isolated world, the Remarkables mountain range on New Zealand’s South Island, Australian bush. It’s a place of last resort for chronic drug abusers, this series focuses on the fast-paced activities of new rural vet, Geoff juvenile offenders, petrol sniffers, gang members, child prostitutes and Woodhouse. Having made the big move from the city to the country, the sexually abused. Aged between twelve and sixteen, the kids are Geoff faces the many challenges of building a new business from scratch a mixture of boys and girls, black and white, rich and poor. But what and being the ‘new kid on the block’. Set in and around the rural vet unites these kids is the severity of their problems; they are at the end practice, we follow Geoff as he undertakes assignments and challenges – of the line and this place, far from the toxic temptations and traumas from run-over dogs and sick horses to downright pretty pigs. of their usual lives, represents the kids’ last chance of salvation. Series 1: 10 x 30’ 2006 NOMINATED (2012): Best Documentary Series, AACTA Awards Series 2: 10 x 30’ 2006
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Screen Production PRODUCED BY: Great Southern Television COMMISSIONED BY: ABC Australia COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006
PROPERTY SHOP, THE | 39 x 30’ HD Tatiana exudes girlish charm but beneath her trademark cascade of golden curls is a shrewd real estate broker who knows how to use what she’s got to satisfy her craving for success. Tatiana was sick of handing over her hard-earned commission as a realtor, so she took the leap and opened her own agency. Now she’s boss and training a small army of agents to fill her coffers. With her charm, business savvy and her growing team of hungry agents, Tatiana has made The Property Shop an undeniable success. Now she must keep up the momentum while she faces growing pains and big decisions for the agency’s future.
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PRODUCED BY: Whalley-Abbey Media COMMISSIONED BY: HGTV Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 – 2010 REBUILDING A RACE CAR LEGEND – GT40 | 1 x 60’ The performance of the Ford GT40 in the 1960s ensured that it was granted iconic status. Now executives at Ford are rebuilding a version of the classic sports car for a modern market. It is a dream come true for a small team of engineers and designers, but with the opportunity RODEO – LIFE ON THE CIRCUIT | 8 x 60’ HD comes pressure to deliver. Will the new Ford GT40 rewrite history? 1 million dollars, 14 competitors, 60 rodeos and not everyone will survive. Rodeo takes viewers into the world of what ranks as one of the PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions most dangerous sports in North America. With unprecedented access COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2004 to the inner sanctum of the professional rodeo circuit, Rodeo explores the personalities, relationships, danger, rivalry and inevitable stress of life on the road and showcases the courage, strength, athletic skill, character and perseverance of these competitors. Failure means broken bones, shattered dreams and no cash in the bank.
WINNER (2011): Best Documentary Series, Alberta Motion Picture Industry Awards NOMINATED (2011): Best Documentary Series, Gemini Awards
PRODUCED BY: Birds Of A Feather Media Inc COMMISSIONED BY: History Television Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 118 119 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
ROOKIE VETS | 10 x 30’ SIX DEGREES OF TV | 26 x 30’ HD From tending to sick cats and dogs to collecting the semen of prize This star-studded entertainment series proves all your favourite celebrities bulls, it’s all in a day’s work for these trainee vets! Rookie Vets follows are never separated by more than six degrees. Go behind the scenes on a the lives of seven students in their final year of study. These students tour of Tinseltown and discover the shocking connections, insider stories are juggling huge workloads along with the stress of making life and and revealing relationships that link Hollywood’s hottest stars and high death decisions about an animal’s wellbeing on a daily basis. profile personalities. Each episode gives the inside scoop on your favourite actors, musicians, athletes and pop icons. A wild ride of true stories FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE about real Hollywood relationships and little known connections told PRODUCED BY: Greenstone through television experts, industry insiders and today’s hottest celebrities. COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 Expect to learn even more about your favourite A-listers, including the connections between Jim Carrey and George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey and Gordon Ramsay, Barbra Streisand and Tina Fey, John Travolta and Justin Timberlake, Geena Davis and Barack Obama, to name just a few.
PRODUCED BY: Force Four Entertainment COMMISSIONED BY: TVtropolis Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010
SAS: THE SEARCH FOR WARRIORS | 2 x 60’ HD 131 men, 21 days, yet only 26 will survive. For the first time in 25 years the Australian SAS lifts the veil of secrecy on what it takes to pass the toughest military selection course in the world. Candidates try and make the cut for one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. Over three weeks the candidates face sleep deprivation, brutal physical exercise and constant questioning; all designed to break down the body and mind SOUTH SYDNEY STORY | 6 x 30’ to get to the heart of the man. For many the mind games and physical What happens when movie star Russell Crowe and multi-millionaire demands are too much and the number quickly whittles down to half. businessman Peter Holmes a Court join forces to help stage the biggest Their lives become sheer physical and mental hell. On the last day only come-back in sporting history? South Sydney Story gives a fascinating a handful have made it, yet their SAS careers are not guaranteed. The and inspiring insight into the inner workings of a battling rugby league remaining few now face eighteen months of training before they have the club fighting for survival and the two men who stake their high profile right to join the elite ranks of the Australian Special Air Service Regiment. reputations and money on turning the team around. South Sydney Story isn’t just about the sport - it’s about the courage and the hope of one WINNER (2012): Gold Award, Prestige Film Awards WINNER (2012): Best Documentary Series, AACTA Awards extraordinary team and their fighting spirit to stay in the game and be once again ‘The Pride Of The League’. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Prospero Productions PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: SBS Australia COMMISSIONED BY: ABC Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007 120 121 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
STRANGER IN MY HOME, A | 26 x 60’ HD If there is one thing you don’t expect to find in your own home, it is danger lurking around every corner. This may be the place where we feel most comfortable, but there’s no better way to get inside our lives than to get inside our homes. Each episode traces the path where a trusting victim has invited a stranger across the threshold into their home, and paid the ultimate price. Anyone invited under your roof, be it a neighbour, guest, hired help, boarder or a new partner, can cross the line into deceit and be the ultimate threat within. A Stranger In My Home is the perfect blend of mystery and suspense, telling the true stories of how strangers can turn against you. Let the wrong person in and it could be the last mistake you ever make!
Series 1: 10 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 3: 10 x 60’ HD 2015 Series 2: 6 x 60’ HD 2014
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: CMJ Productions II Inc COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA, Canal D Canada and Investigation Quebec Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 – 2015
SPOILED ROTTEN | 13 x 30’ HD TORQUE SHOW, THE | 10 x 30’ Spoiled Rotten follows affluent families who have it all, except an The Torque Show is a high adrenaline series that gears up to challenge understanding of the value of hard work and an appreciation for the automotive world with an unbiased attitude and a critical eye. each other. Each week a different family is taken from their very There are no extreme makeovers, no wannabe pop stars and the hottest comfortable surroundings and dropped into challenging, uncomfortable bodies you’ll be seeing throughout the series will be made out of steel! and sometimes very sticky situations. The families spend two days Rather than standing around kicking tyres and looking at plastic engine labouring in some of the most intense, gruelling, and at times boring, covers, three intrepid and opinionated presenters will be getting their working-class jobs to get a taste for how the ‘other half’ lives and greasy hands all over the cars you’ll want to see – from Ferraris to Fords works. These well-to-do families do not-so-well when it comes to and everything in between. With a mix of car reviews, investigative communication, sharing and being on the other side of the fence. pieces, events and a whole lot of burnt rubber, rev-heads and everyday Spoiled Rotten takes them out of their comfort zone to remind them of drivers alike can be guaranteed that The Torque Show will provide them the good old-fashioned family values of cooperation and perseverance. with the petrol fix they need!
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Top Shelf Productions PRODUCED BY: Temple Street Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Prime TV New Zealand COMMISSIONED BY: SLICE Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 – 2007 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 TUBE TALES: TV’S REAL STORIES | 52 x 30’ STOP. REWIND | 13 x 30’ Meet the real people, places and events behind our favourite hit Explore the ideas, discoveries, dead ends and eureka moments that television shows. Tube Tales blends our interest in fascinating characters shaped the 21st century. Stop. Rewind plots the most innovative 25 and stories with a look behind the scenes at the television series that years in human history; the giant leap forward in technology from the have become a part of our lives. Stories feature the real life situations, mid 1980s to the beginning of the 21st century. The world was a very places, events and people that inspired writers and producers. The series different place 25 years ago – no digital, no dot-com, no cell phones, includes commentary by actors, producers and writers who’ve worked on no blogs or tweets, nor many of the technological innovations that we some of TV’s most entertaining and engaging shows, examining the real now take for granted. Using images shot over the past quarter century, truth behind shows such as Beverly Hills 90210, The Simpsons, Baywatch, Stop. Rewind showcases the hilarious and often hapless ideas that fell Spin City, Family Ties, Melrose Place, Star Trek: Voyager, Will and Grace, by the wayside, as well as those innovations that really were a preview St. Elsewhere, The Bionic Woman and Quantum Leap. into the future. Themed episodes include fast cars, robots, weapons, space, planes, housing, medical technology, computers, gadgets, boats Series 1: 26 x 30’ 2007 Series 2: 26 x 30’ 2008 and submarines, sport, entertainment and energy.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Force Four Entertainment Inc PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: TVtropolis Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007 – 2008 122 123 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
VINTAGE HUNTER | 18 x 60’ HD Flea market junkie Dominic Johnson-Hill takes us on a journey to find captivating curios and antiques, both valuable and intriguing! It can be like finding a needle in a haystack, but whatever happens it’s a road trip that Dominic always gets a kick out of. Flea markets are haunts for colourful characters from all walks of life. Dominic gets a different peek at history via its collectors and their prized possessions. In modern Singapore, he discovers a secret connection to WWII POWs and the city’s thriving underground vintage culture. Behind Tokyo’s polite veneer, Dominic unravels the intense Japanese fixations with old boy’s toys – Godzilla figures, anime toys and Samurai swords. He jets off to Mumbai to be dazzled by Bollywood’s history and in China he digs out hidden stores of antique furniture while in India he unravels the remnants of the riches of its textile past.
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FINALIST (2015): Lifestyle Category, Banff World Media Festival’s Rockie Awards
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: The Moving Visuals Co NEW COMMISSIONED BY: MediaCorp Okto Singapore YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2015 Week to my wedding, a | 6 x 30’ HD In this new series, we join six couples with one week to go until their VIVIENNE WESTWOOD’S LONDON wedding – a week set to be one of the most intense, stressful and unpredictable they will ever experience. Highly entertaining, emotional 1 x 60’ HD and uplifting, we follow the bride, the groom and their families Vivienne Westwood’s London is an entertaining journey through the through the mayhem, chaos and excitement surrounding the week British capital led by one of the world’s most influential fashion designers. before their wedding. From the country couple who have 900 pigs to Considered a national treasure and accorded rare access to London’s feed the morning of the wedding, to the New Jersey native marrying grandest cultural institutions, Dame Vivienne Westwood is our engaging her “Irish Prince” in a huge American-style three-day wedding, the host and humorous tour guide; proudly showing off the city that inspires couples featured vary in religious beliefs, sexual orientation, attitudes her work and gives her life ‘meaning and purpose’. She introduces us to to marriage, experience of previous marriages and socioeconomic her favourite places and what she does when she’s not designing clothes, backgrounds. Over-stretched budgets, awkward seating plans, difficult as well as teaching a whole new way of looking at the world in which bridesmaids and last minute changes all make this week one they will we live. Fuelled by an enthusiasm for London so passionate it’s virtually never forget! contagious, we guarantee this will be one tour you won’t soon forget! FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Fashion Television Channel PRODUCED BY: Independent Pictures COMMISSIONED BY: CTV Canada COMMISSIONED BY: RTE One Ireland YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 124 125 Factual entertainment Factual entertainment
WORLD’S WEIRDEST RESTAURANTS 28 x 30’ HD World’s Weirdest Restaurants serves up the planet’s most extraordinary eateries, crazy characters and curious cuisines. Want your chicken flambéed, hurled through the air on a catapult, then skewered mid-flight by a unicycle-riding server? Or your sushi served to you by a dancing robot? Would you like to eat the bust of a Ukrainian soldier, sculpted from a pound of pure pig fat? Bob Blumer experiences all this and more in this crowd-pleasing series in which each episode showcases four of the world’s most jaw-dropping, show-stopping, taste-topping restaurants.
Series 1: 13 x 30’ HD 2012 Series 2: 15 x 30’ HD 2013
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Paperny Entertainment COMMISSIONED BY: Food Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2013
WILL, the : FAMILY SECRETS REVEALED | 35 x 60’ HD When grief and greed collide, family secrets come out of the woodwork. The Will: Family Secrets Revealed follows the emotional and intimate journey as the final wishes of the deceased are revealed to those left behind. Whether it is through the explicit final wishes listed in one’s will, or the debatable desires of someone who dies without a will, the drama that unfolds is captivating. Steeped in circumstances, legal complexities and raw family emotion, a will has the ability to tear families apart or bring them together. Or worse, what if a person leaves no will at all? Fame and fortune go hand in hand and series three is dedicated to celebrity episodes, delving into the personal details of renowned people such as Ted Williams, Etta James, Stieg Larsson, Tammy Wynette, John Kennedy Toole, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix.
Three specials titled The Will: Outrageous Final Wishes are also available. These unusual and shocking last requests of the deceased range from a woman asking for her heart to be transplanted into a dog WRECKS TO RICHES | 16 x 60’ to save his life, to a mother asking for the cremated remains of the Barry White is a man dedicated to transforming classic car wrecks back different generations of women in her family to be compressed into to their former glory. In each episode Barry White’s Speed Shop, with its a sparkling diamond ring. dysfunctional team of mechanics, hangers-on and family members, has Series 1: 10 x 60’ HD 2010 Series 3: 12 x 60’ HD 2012 just four weeks to find a dilapidated classic car and turn it into money. Series 2: 10 x 60’ HD 2012 Specials: 3 x 60’ HD 2012 But will his restored classic cars be an auction dud or a dream come true?
NOMINATED (2011): Best Non-Fiction Programming With Recreations, Realscreen Factual Series 1: 10 x 60’ 2005 Entertainment Awards Series 2: 6 x 60’ 2007
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: CMJ Productions II Inc PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA and Canada, Canal D Canada COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 – 2012 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 – 2007 126 127 7 HEALTH & MEDICINE
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200kg Kid, The | 1 x 60’ HD Haumoana is nearly 200kg and his life is a misery. This fifteen-year-old is taking extreme measures to fight his obesity. Regardless of countless failed diet and exercise regimes, he is already showing signs of serious disease. Facing health problems and an early death, his family are at their wits’ end. Now too big to exercise, he is undergoing a lap-band operation. Without this medical intervention, he faces certain death – and soon. Could this surgery be the answer to a normal life for Haumoana?
Produced by: Rogue Productions Commissioned by: TV3 New Zealand Year of Production: 2008
Abbreviated Life, An | 1 x 60’ In this touching story of survival and pure determination, we follow one year in the life of Sarah, a young woman living with Cystic Fibrosis. Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic condition Sarah was born with and inherited from her parents, neither of whom knew they were carriers of the fatal disease. There is no cure for Cystic Fibrosis. Along with Sarah’s theatrical, dynamic and funny personality, the documentary puts a positive spin on living with a fatal illness. Despite the international race for new treatment and ultimately a cure, Sarah knows that without her strong determination to remain healthy, her life will be cut short.
Produced by: AC Productions Commissioned by: TVNZ New Zealand Year of Production: 2007
Axe Attack Survivor | 1 x 60’ HD He went to Afghanistan to make peace but came home fighting for his life. This is the exclusive, moving story of Captain Trevor Greene and his dramatic struggle to rebuild his life after suffering a horrific axe attack to the head whilst on duty. In March 2006 Trevor was taking part in a meeting with village elders, his helmet at his side as a sign of respect, when he was attacked from behind by a young man wielding a homemade axe, who sank it deep into his brain. Initially doctors BODY DONORS – LIFE AFTER DEATH predicted he would never emerge from his coma, would never speak and would be little more than a shell. For more than a year cameras 2 x 60’ HD document Trevor’s journey through an intensive brain injury rehabilitation Body Donors follows the journeys of two people who courageously decide program and his sheer determination to regain his body and brain. to donate their bodies to medical science. Our two donors, Mike Bowyer and Diana King, have both chosen to bequeath their bodies to science. winner (2009): Best Biography Documentary Programme, Gemini Award winner (2009): Best Biography Documentary, Yorkton Film Festival In the months leading up to their deaths, we tell their stories, meet their winner (2009): Golden Eagle Award, CINE loved ones and find out why they decided to donate their bodies. As winner (2009): Certificate of Merit, Documentary, Gabriel Award their journeys beyond death begin, we follow them through two medical FINALIST (2009): Special People, Freddie Awards institutes where their bodies take on a life of their own. Mike becomes a valuable learning tool for anatomy students during a ‘Meet the Cadaver’ Produced by: Dreamfilm Productions and CTV Television Inc session and Diana helps surgeons master pioneering techniques for hip Commissioned by: CTV Canada Year of production: 2008 replacements. When their bodies are no longer needed, a final memorial service brings staff, students and relatives together to acknowledge the donors’ massive contribution to medical science.
WINNER (2016): Factual Series, Royal Television Society Yorkshire Awards
Produced by: Daisybeck Studios and GroupM Entertainment commissioned by: Channel 5 UK Year of Production: 2015 130 131 Health & Medicine Health & Medicine
Bush Doctors | 6 x 30’ In the big city you are never too far from help but in the bush your only chance of survival could be many miles away. Living in the Australian bush is tough – the weather is harsh, the wildlife is dangerous and there are hazards at every turn. Every year an incredible 26,000 medical emergencies come through the doors of Dubbo Base hospital. From venomous snake bites and wild pig attacks to farming casualties, mining calamities and smash-ups on the highway, the staff have seen it all. Bush Doctors is on the front line of the action, alongside paramedics as they manage the trauma at the accident scene, with them as they race patients by road and air to hospital and then inside The Base as medical staff assess, treat and in many cases operate on their patients. By the sheer diversity of its cases and the beauty of the Australian outback, Bush Doctors is a window to a world you won’t see anywhere else.
Format rights available Produced by: dsp Beyond commissioned by: Seven Network Australia Year of Production: 2008
CHARLOTTE: MY STORY | 1 x 60’ HD Eight-year-old Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman has never known a life with limbs. At six months of age she contracted Meningococcal Septicaemia and doctors were forced to amputate part of her arms and legs. Charlotte: My Story starts when Charlotte is six and follows her journey to walk in her prosthetics. She is finding walking difficult and often Children At The Edge | 5 x 30’ or 1 x 60’ painful, increasingly opting to use her power chair. Over a two-year Children’s hospitals are home to a multitude of dramatic, inspirational period we follow Charlotte and her parents, who travel to the USA on and sometimes tragic stories. Through the eyes of the staff, patients a quest for new prosthetics. ‘Team Charlotte’ is finally positive that and parents, we enter the inner sanctum of a hospital and observe Charlotte’s future is up on her legs. Charlotte: My Story is a compelling, the daily battles to provide world-class paediatric care. This is a realm heartfelt documentary showing how the courage, determination where science sometimes succeeds and sometimes fails... all in the and spirit of an eight-year-old girl can overcome the seemingly struggle to save children’s lives. insurmountable challenges life has thrown her way. Episodes one and two available as a one-hour special Chloe’s Story. Also available: Baby Charlotte and Charlotte: A Life Without Limbs. Winner (2005): Outstanding Achievement Award (Outstanding Documentary Production), Baby Charlotte 1 x 60’ 2005 West Australian Screen Awards Charlotte: a life without limbs 1 x 60’ 2009 Winner (2004): Bronze Plaque, Chris Awards (USA) Winner (2004): Best Documentary Human Story, ATOM (Australia Teachers of Media) WINNER (2014): Best Documentary, TV Guide Best On The Box Awards Award
Produced by: Greenstone produced by: Electric Pictures Commissioned by: TV3 New Zealand and New Zealand On Air Commissioned by: ABC Australia Year of Production: 2013 Year of production: 2003 – 2004 132 133 Health & Medicine Health & Medicine
Damage Control | 6 x 30’ HD Injury is every athlete’s dread – the instant that hard-fought careers plunge from glory to gut-wrenching disaster. From the moment of injury, a small army of doctors, physios, surgeons, coaches and support teams swings into action. Damage Control follows the extraordinary real-life drama of trauma, surgery, rehab and, for the lucky ones, return to glory. Australia is famous for its love of sport but this constant pressure for athletes to perform takes its toll. Bodies are pushed to the limit with no thought of self-preservation. Every damaged athlete has a personal story – the shock of injury, the brutality of surgery, the burden of rehab and the emotional return to doing what they live for: playing elite competitive sport.
Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Productions Commissioned by: Seven Network Australia Year of Production: 2010
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW? 1 x 60’ HD Do You Really Want To Know? faces the complex emotional, ethical and NEW psychological issues surrounding the new frontier of predictive genetic testing. This documentary follows three families who have been confronted Crumlin Children’s with the difficult decision of whether or not to be tested for Huntington’s disease – a degenerative neurological illness that is akin to having ALS, 4 x 60’ HD Hospital | Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s. It is one of the first diseases people can be Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin, a suburb of Dublin, is where accurately and conclusively tested for, before the onset of any symptoms. life and death are a daily reality. This series observes medical practitioners There is no treatment or cure and people with the gene have a 50% as they grapple with ethical decisions, complex cases and rare conditions. chance of passing it onto their children. The decision to be tested can Every child presents the team with difficult dilemmas that sometimes never be reversed; you can’t go back to not knowing. As scientists discover require emergency interventions. From the National Children’s Heart more ways to identify diseases before we know we have them, the question Centre, which sees around ten thousand children annually, to the Intensive “Do you really want to know?” will be one faced more and more. Care Unit with over 1,000 admissions each year, the hospital tackles complex and rare conditions, some of which have no known cure. With NOMINATED (2013): Best Feature Length Documentary Program, Leo Awards unprecedented access, Crumlin Children’s Hospital provides a sensitive NOMINATED (2013): Best Direction In A Documentary Program or Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2013): Best Musical Score In A Documentary Program or Series, Leo Awards but searingly honest portrayal of the challenges faced by the medical NOMINATED (2013): Best Picture Editing In A Documentary Program or Series, Leo Awards teams. This series brings us the difficult decisions, the heartache and most WINNER (2012): Best Documentary (Science/Medicine/Technology), Yorkton Film Festival importantly, the joys of working on the frontlines of paediatric medicine. WINNER (2012): Best Director (Non-Fiction), Yorkton Film Festival WINNER (2012): Best Documentary in the Science & Technology Division, Columbus Nominated (2016): Best Factual Series, Celtic Media Festival International Film & Video Festival WINNER (2012): Best Documentary, Okanagan International Film Festival Format rights available Produced by: Independent Pictures Produced by: Optic Nerve Films Inc Commissioned by: RTE One Ireland Commissioned by: Knowledge Network Canada Year of Production: 2015 Year of Production: 2012 134 135 Health & Medicine Health & Medicine
Downside of High, The | 1 x 60’ HD Is today’s super potent pot damaging young minds? Teenagers who start smoking marijuana before the age of sixteen are four times more likely to become schizophrenic. This documentary explores recent scientific discoveries about marijuana and the link to mental illness. Startling conclusions come from some of the world’s top schizophrenia experts, following ground-breaking work on the connection between marijuana and mental illness. Modern growing techniques have dramatically increased the amount of THC – the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, ramping up the threat to the developing teenage brain. Follow three young people as they wage their battle against psychosis, paranoia and hallucinations; all triggered by marijuana use.
Winner (2011): Gold World Medal, Health/Medical Information, New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards In Surgery & Awake | 1 x 60’ Imagine being in surgery under anaesthetic and unable to alert those Produced by: Dreamfilm Productions around you to the fact that you can feel every cut of the scalpel. In this Commissioned by: CBC Canada eye-opening documentary we meet patients who’ve experienced this Year of Production: 2010 nightmarish situation and learn how it can happen and how science is working to lessen the risk. I Don’t Have Time For This: Produced by: Beyond Productions Diagnosed With Breast Cancer Commissioned by: Discovery Channel USA Year of production: 2003 When You Least Expect It | 1 x 60’ HD At an age when most of their peers are enjoying all that life has to offer, these young women are facing a demon that they didn’t expect Is It Safe To Eat? | 6 x 30’ to worry about for many years – breast cancer. A diagnosis of breast Eating is one of the greatest pleasures in life, but it can also be a cancer in your twenties or early thirties is unexpected and devastating. risky business. Too much caffeine can damage your sperm, burnt It takes over and quickly consumes every aspect of a woman’s life. But toast is reputed to cause cancer, fish can contain all manner of toxins what happens when you’ve got so many other things to do – dating, and some vegetables can even contain poisons. Presented by leading marriage, career, pregnancy and children? We follow five courageous organic chef Peter Chaplin, this series will give you the ‘good oil’ on all women who will not let breast cancer get in the way of their lives – they types of food. Using a humorous and irreverent approach, Is It Safe To simply don’t have time for it! I Don’t Have Time For This is the universal Eat? talks to top food scientists and toxicologists to explain everything story of young women building their lives despite the challenges thrown from bacteria and pesticides to the effect of genetic engineering on their way. produce. You’ll never look at dinner the same way again.
Produced by: Big Coat Productions Produced by: Top Shelf Productions Commissioned by: W Network Canada Commissioned by: TVNZ New Zealand Year of production: 2011 Year of production: 2006 136 137 Health & Medicine Health & Medicine
Life Flight | 20 x 30’ HD The dramatic Life Flight series returns as we follow the inspirational men and women of The Life Flight Trust who crew and operate New Zealand’s 24/7 emergency air service in some of the most challenging flying conditions in the world. Hard-hitting, dramatic, heart-warming and heart- breaking; this documentary series takes you inside the rescue operations, where every second counts. Medical Incredible | 22 x 60’ Series 1: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 Exploring the extremes of the human body, Medical Incredible Series 2: 10 x 30’ HD 2016 introduces us to some of the most unique members of the human race
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE – people who live with extreme and unusual medical conditions. Each PRODUCED BY: Starfish Pictures episode presents six in-depth stories that will confound and astound. COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand This is the series that proves that the most incredible species on the YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 – 2016 planet is the human race.
Series 1: 6 x 60’ 2005 Series 3: 10 x 60’ 2005 HD Love in a Time of HIV | 5 x 30’ or 1 x 60’ Series 2: 6 x 60’ 2005 As the headlines have disappeared, young people’s understanding of HIV has become confused. Through a series of direct and often Produced by: Beyond Productions Commissioned by: Discovery Health USA emotional interviews, encounters and experiences, a new generation Year of production: 2005 of young people reveals how they contracted HIV, how they cope and the impact it’s had on their close relationships. At the heart of each episode is a love story. The family trying for a baby, the Indian Medics | 10 x 30’ widow looking for love, the South African singer’s HIV revelation to Emergency care experts are our lifelines when we need immediate her boyfriend and the American mother and daughter who are both medical attention. This reality series looks at the work of the highly HIV positive. The series travels to St. Petersburg, London, New York, skilled emergency services. From the frontline of emergency care, we Johannesburg and Mumbai. Love In A Time Of HIV avoids the tired old follow paramedics as they deal with critical call outs. The series also tales of woe and instead paints a portrait of a generation of HIV positive hits the road with an experienced team of ambulance medics. In the people leading their lives and finding love. These are stories of triumph busy A&E departments, the senior emergency doctors and consultants in the face of the utmost adversity. deal with a vast array of cases from critical life-threatening wounds to
Winner (2009): Best Creative Feature – Television for ‘I Love NY’, Association for simple, yet tricky, injuries. Each episode contains a mix of cases and International Broadcast (AIB) call outs, alongside the warm, charismatic and candid team of medics.
Produced by: Rockhopper TV Produced by: Brilliant Trees Media Commissioned by: BBC World commissioned by: ITV UK Year of Production: 2009 Year of Production: 2008 138 139 Health & Medicine Health & Medicine
MOUNTAIN RESCUE | 6 x 60’ HD Towering above the Alps, Mont Blanc is a spectacular natural beauty. But it also has a darker, lethal side that attracts thrill seekers, extreme skiers and obsessed climbers from all over the world. They throw themselves against the mountain’s steep slopes, treacherous glaciers and vertiginous cliffs in a bid to conquer this most formidable natural challenge. When they fail, the consequences can be deadly. The only thing standing between them and a certain death is the helicopter rescue squad of the PGHM (Peloton de Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne); an elite Alpine force trained for the world’s deadliest peaks. We ride along with the men and women who confront avalanches, blinding snowstorms, high winds, rockslides and sub- zero temperatures to rescue those who have fallen victim to the elements. Mountain Rescue delivers an experience that puts viewers on the top of the world and keeps them on the edge of their seats.
Format rights available Produced by: Candela in co-production with Helion Pictures, Discovery Channel France and RMC Découverte France commissioned by: Discovery Channel France and RMC Découverte France NEW Year of Production: 2015 Pets, Vets & Debts | 1 x 60’ HD The health and welfare of people’s pets is a billion dollar industry. There 1 x 60’ Oops, Wrong Planet | is almost no limit to the treatment available to our furry friends – MRIs Oops, Wrong Planet is a remarkable insight into the world of Asperger and even stem cell transplants are now standard. This documentary Syndrome, a condition at the mild end of the autism spectrum. takes the viewer inside veterinary surgeries across the US and Canada to Stubborn, inflexible, anti-social, with bad fashion sense, poor table witness cutting edge technology being used to treat pets, even including manners and given to temper tantrums, ‘Aspies’ are frequently prostheses. We also visit Toronto Veterinary Emergency Hospital. With a dismissed as nerdish geeks. However, Asperger traits can be identified staff of almost one hundred, and state of the art medical equipment on in many historical geniuses from Isaac Newton to Andy Warhol, with site, this is a real hospital offering the same treatment you’d expect at a Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tales such as The Ugly Duckling being human hospital. Not surprisingly, medical bills can quickly go from the classic allegories of life with Asperger’s. Are whistle-blowers more likely hundreds into the thousands. to be Aspies, just like the little boy in The Emperor’s New Clothes? Produced by: Dream Street Pictures Produced by: Ramsey Films Commissioned by: CBC Canada Year of production: 2008 Year of production: 2016 140 141 Health & Medicine Health & Medicine
Pharma Sutra | 1 x 60’ HD Sleepy Life, A | 1 x 60’ The search is on for the ‘female Viagra’. Three drugs are in the running For most of us sleep is a welcome visitor at the end of a long day. But for for the big prize – the first FDA approval for a sexual desire drug for people with narcolepsy, sleep is a thief robbing them of years of their lives. women. Pharma Sutra follows the race and meets the doctors, critics, Documenting the experiences of three women who suffer from narcolepsy as pharmaceutical reps and, of course, the women who debate the merit they go about their daily lives, A Sleepy Life shows how everyday activities of treating low libido. With Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD) now such as driving, bathing and eating can become life-threatening events and recognised, the pharmaceutical companies have poured billions of how these women and their families cope with the battle to stay awake. dollars into research to come up with the winning formula that will allow women to attain sexual satisfaction. Vying for FDA approval Produced by: The TV Set Commissioned by: TV3 New Zealand are a nasal spray, a skin patch and a daily pill; each formulated to Year of production: 2004 supercharge women’s sex drives. Pharma Sutra follows a trio of women considering taking these drugs: a fifty year old empty nester, a grandma battling a depleted libido and a mother in her forties looking to revive Sperm Wars | 1 x 60’ her marriage. With these new sex drugs on the horizon, Pharma Sutra Sperm trying to fertilise an egg – it’s a battle where only the strongest looks at the forces surrounding one of the biggest global drug stories will succeed. It’s been suggested that the 21st century man is, of the century. reproductively speaking, only half the man his grandfather was! Cell phones, laptops, tight underwear, drinking too much alcohol, Produced by: Cogent/Benger Productions and CTV Television Inc prescription drugs and even chemicals in the food we eat have all been Commissioned by: CTV Canada Year of production: 2009 implicated in studies suggesting that male fertility rates are dropping. But just how much of this are we to believe? Could modern living really be threatening the survival of our species? By understanding more 1 x 60’ HD PROGRAMMED TO BE FAT? | about sperm we can give them a fighting chance.Sperm Wars is an Man-made chemicals may be programming us to be fat – before we’re entertaining guide to all that is good, bad and deadly for sperm. even born! Over the past three decades, the developed world has become increasingly overweight, even after years of struggling to eat Produced by: Top Shelf Productions less and exercise more. Programmed To Be Fat? explores controversial Commissioned by: TV3 New Zealand Year of production: 2007 new science that suggests exposure to man-made chemicals starting in the womb may be triggering changes to our metabolism that result in life-long weight gain. Endocrine disruptors are all around us – in plastic, in cans, in the water we drink, in the food we eat. They’re not supposed to enter our bodies, but they do. If they’re proven to cause weight gain, the implications for human health are profound. Scientists are going beyond animal research to human population studies, testing the theory that foetal exposure to man-made chemicals is a key reason for our global obesity epidemic.
WINNER (2013): Best Health/Medical Information, New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards
Produced by: Dreamfilm Productions Commissioned by: CBC Canada Year of Production: 2011
Sexchange | 2 x 60’ Crossing gender must be the most dramatic personal journey of all. This Survivor Files, The | 10 x 30’ two-part special gives us incredible first-hand accounts from transsexuals Life can change monumentally in just a moment. From a boy about their experience of changing gender – often at huge emotional and electrocuted by a staggering 11,000 vot shock, to a man who survived financial cost. From rock stars to body builders and average suburban a plane crash that killed his pilot, this compelling series celebrates the dads, Sexchange shows us how far medicine has come in fulfilling the wonders and mysteries of the human body and the power of the human dreams of people who were born in the wrong body. mind in its will to survive.
Produced by: Beyond Productions winner (2006): Bronze Award, Houston International Film Festival Commissioned by: Discovery Health USA Nominated (2006): Contribution to Design, Air New Zealand Screen Awards Year of production: 2004 Produced by: Top Shelf Productions Commissioned by: TVNZ New Zealand Year of production: 2005 142 143 Health & Medicine Health & Medicine
Touch Wood | 1 x 60’ Touch Wood takes us on an intimate journey into the strange world of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Fuelled by a desire to understand his own behaviour, director Cosmo Kentish-Barnes meets other people with OCD to discover how it affects their lives. Innovatively crafted using candid portraits and creative animations, Touch Wood creates a contemporary view of this extraordinary mind disorder, making for compulsive viewing!
Nominated (2007): Best Documentary, Air New Zealand Screen Awards
Produced by: Production Line Commissioned by: TVNZ New Zealand Year of production: 2006
Viagra Generation, The | 1 x 60’ The Viagra Generation is an investigation into Viagra, its clones and other sex-enhancing products that are changing sexual behaviour around the world. In this revealing documentary we dive under the covers to discover how a little blue pill has affected the lives of those with erectile dysfunction and libido issues, as well as the lives of porn stars and swingers.
Produced by: Top Shelf Productions Commissioned by: TVNZ New Zealand Year of production: 2004 NEW What’s Good For You | 39 x 60’ + 12 x 30’ You should really see Have you ever wondered whether an apple a day really keeps the doctor a doctor | 12 x 30’ HD away? Whether women really do have a higher pain threshold than men? If lip balm can actually be addictive? Is it true that drinking red In this intriguing new series, patients present their cases as well as wine is good for you? What’s Good For You will answer all your questions their own research and theories to the show’s resident doctors. How about life’s little health mysteries. A team of doctors and reporters acts wrong or how right do they get it? We follow those who require further as detectives-turned-human guinea pigs to investigate some of the exploration on their journey as they go from our location diagnosis to common experiences that impact everyone’s lives and clear away solving their health issues. The self-diagnoses are vast and varied. the common misconceptions behind everyday curiosities. From sleep apnoea to food intolerances, and irritable bowel syndrome to the fabled underactive thyroid. But are our patients’ symptoms real Series 1: 14 x 60’ 2006 Series 3: 12 x 30’ 2009 or the result of too much online research? Led by Dr Pixie McKenna Series 2: 23 x 60’ 2006 Specials: 2 x 60’ 2008 (Embarrassing Bodies, Channel 4 UK) and Dr Phil Kieran, our doctors debunk health fads, explore the latest medical breakthroughs and winner (2007): Most Popular Lifestyle Program, TV Week Logie Awards demonstrate proven medical facts. Nominated (2007): Most Popular New Female Talent – Brooke Hansen, TV Week Logie Awards Series 1: 6 x 30’ HD 2015 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Series 2: 6 x 30’ HD 2016 Produced by: Beyond Productions and Nine Network Australia Commissioned by: Nine Network Australia Produced by: Independent Pictures Year of production: 2006 – 2009 Commissioned by: RTE One Ireland Year of production: 2015 – 2016 When Surgical Tools Get Left Behind | 2 x 60’ You Swallowed What? | 1 x 60’ Medical teams perform miracles every day but mistakes do happen and Meet some people who bit off far more than they could chew! From when things go wrong in surgery, lives can be ruined and reputations those who accidentally swallow things they shouldn’t, to those who shattered. In this frightening documentary you’ll meet some of one eat televisions and swords, this fascinating documentary charts the year’s 2,700 patients in the United States who had surgical tools extraordinary and often-dangerous journey from mouth to stomach left inside them – with often devastating consequences. and looks at how much a stomach really can bear.
Produced by: Beyond Productions Produced by: Beyond Productions Commissioned by: Discovery Channel USA Commissioned by: Discovery Channel USA Year of production: 2005 Year of production: 2004 144 145 8 HISTORY
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5 DAYS IN THE RED ZONE | 1 x 60’ HD Tuesday 22 February, 2011 – the day the New Zealand earthquake hit. Camerawoman Pip Walls was embedded with a rural Police Drink Drive team when the squad was called to Christchurch. This was a remarkable opportunity to document history from the inside. Pip had already been filming the squad for months and had built a strong relationship of trust. The result is extraordinarily candid, behind-the- scenes access inside the operation – from late night debriefs in motel rooms, to coverage of the search and rescue within the Red Zone, when all other media were kept outside the cordon.
FINALIST (2011): Best Editing – Documentary/Factual, AFTA (Aotearoa Film & Television Awards)
PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 NEW Ancient Tracks | 3 x 60’ HD AIR COMBAT | 26 x 60’ In this new series, presenter and amateur historian Tony Robinson Air Combat covers the history of military aviation from World War One to (Time Team, Channel 4 UK), makes his way along Britain’s most scenic the present day, focusing on famous aerial engagements, heroic pilots and captivating ancient tracks. These are trails whose origins are lost and a wide variety of aircraft. From top-secret spy planes to Soviet in antiquity and existed from earliest prehistoric times but can still be MIG’s, the Flying Tigers to the Tuskegee air men, from the Ploesti Raid walked today. Revealing and unexpected, Ancient Tracks is a series that to Desert Storm, will reveal the most fascinating aircraft, Air Combat delivers the best of the British landscape, captured in stunning aerial pilots and military aviation stories. Using exclusive archival footage, drone photography, along with the ancient stones, myths and stories, Air Combat brings to life the feats of the aerial heroics that changed past and present, of these wonderful walkways. Ancient Tracks weaves the shape of war. archaeology with on-location interviews to bring the history of the
Series 1: 13 x 60’ 1991 tracks to life as we snake through landscape and time. Series 2: 13 x 60’ 1991 PRODUCED BY: Doubleband Films PRODUCED BY: Direct Video Inc COMMISSIONED BY: Channel 4 UK YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1991 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 148 149 History History
ASIA RISING | 10 x 30’ HD GALLIPOLI FROM ABOVE: Asia Rising is a landmark series designed to answer the most pressing The Untold story of the question of our time: how will the shift from the West to the East impact you? Hosted by business leader, author and philanthropist gallipoli landing | 1 x 60’ HD Vikrom Kromadit, Asia Rising provides a prescient and passionate Gallipoli From Above: The Untold Story Of The Gallipoli Landing perspective on the power and scope of Asia in the decades ahead. The overturns many of the myths surrounding the World War One landing. series explores the impact of Asia’s remarkable economic growth on Many people believe that the Australians landed at dawn, on the its people and society, as well as the world. Travelling to twenty-five wrong beach, with little knowledge of the Turkish defences and that countries worldwide, Asia Rising features interviews with politicians, they were led by incompetent British officers. In fact nothing could business leaders, industry experts and cultural icons. If the 20th be further from the truth. The Australians ran their own show using century was America’s, then the 21st century belongs to Asia. aerial intelligence, emerging technology and innovative tactics to land 20,000 troops on a heavily defended and precipitous shoreline. They FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE used an aircraft carrier, a tethered balloon and a squadron of biplanes PRODUCED BY: Re:Source Media YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 to gather detailed information on the disposition of the Turkish defenders and developed a plan for the landing that avoided significant casualties. Presented by Hugh Dolan, Gallipoli From Above sets out to change the way the world thinks about Gallipoli forever.
PRODUCED BY: Sensible Films COMMISSIONED BY: Foxtel History Channel Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011
HISTORY UNDER THE HAMMER | 13 x 30’ This captivating series features items of historical significance going under the hammer at New Zealand auction houses. In order to tell the stories of those who came before, we spiral back in time to reveal rich, dazzling and unexpected chronicles of the past. Cameras then follow the suspense and drama between the buyers and sellers as the items realise their prices in today’s auction rooms, where they eventually move on into the hands of their next custodians.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: Prime TV New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012
HOW BEER SAVED THE WORLD | 1 x 60’ HD Human beings have been around for about 100,000 years. All accomplishments have been made only in the last ten thousand years. So NEW what exactly happened that put an end to primitivism and kick-started the age of creativity and invention? Beer happened and it changed the world Flashback | 250 x 2’ forever. It sounds almost too bizarre to be true, but many now believe that Flashback is a unique library of two minute programmes that will it was a taste for beer, not bread, that started people farming barley in move, shock, inspire and entertain your audience. From the command around 9000BC. Known as the agricultural revolution, it ended hunter- module of Apollo 13 to the streets of revolutionary Iran, every episode gathering and led to the world’s first ever civilisation – Mesopotamia. The catapults the viewer back to a special specific moment in time. Created drive to grow more barley in order to make more beer led to a cascade from rare and mostly previously unseen stunning archive film, the of inventions: the plough, the wheel, irrigation, mathematics and even ‘flashbacks’ are beautifully crafted, meticulously researched, and can writing. Beer’s hidden hand has been behind some of history’s most be used to keep audiences engaged between long-form shows, or to remarkable breakthroughs, from the discovery of germ theory to the celebrate landmark anniversaries. With hundreds of stories from all invention of refrigeration, the birth of the factory and the end of child over the world, and new ones being produced every day, Flashback is labour. Beer didn’t just change the world, it saved it! an ever-expanding catalogue telling some of the greatest stories of the last 100 years. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA PRODUCED BY: History Television International YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 – 2016 150 151 History History
HULA GIRLS | 1 x 60’ The subject of countless Hollywood films, the bronzed beauties of Polynesia have hula-danced their way into history books and become the stuff of romantic legend. But is the image of the seductive Pacific woman fact or mere sailors’ fantasy? Filmed in spectacular locations and including archival footage of Clark Gable, Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando, this special will open your eyes to the true South Pacific woman.
PRODUCED BY: Electric Pictures COMMISSIONED BY: SBS Australia, AVRO Netherlands, ZDF Germany, ARTE France YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005
NEW NATURAL BORN OUTLAWS | 10 x 60’ HD Al Capone, John Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde, The Krays: they are the stuff Other prince of legend. Natural Born Outlaws tells the larger-than-life stories of some of 1 x 60’ HD history’s toughest and meanest outlaws. The series recounts the gruesome WilliAM, THE | shootouts, audacious robberies and scandalous kidnappings that made The Queen’s cousin was a playboy Royal who spent the 60s travelling each bandit famous. It also details the deadly manhunts, stakeouts and the globe on diplomatic business. A love affair in Japan and a rare ambushes orchestrated by the intense and dedicated lawmen intent on incurable blood disease caused scandal for the British Monarchy before getting them at all costs. Using a combination of dramatic re-enactments, his glamourous life was cut short when he crashed his plane in 1972. in-depth interviews and animated comic book panels, Natural Born Outlaws But why do we not know this other Prince William? This fascinating sweeps you along for the rise and fall of history’s most notorious criminals, documentary, packed with evocative archive footage, documents the plus the thrilling cat and mouse chase that ended their reigns of terror. romance between Prince William of Gloucester and glamorous divorcee, From the mean streets of Chicago to the dark alleys of London, Natural model and former air hostess Zsuzsi Starkloff. William was the Queen’s Born Outlaws draws a vivid picture of those legendary criminal masterminds cousin and pageboy at her wedding to Prince Philip in 1947, at which whose smarts, grit and guts made them a terrifying force to be reckoned time he was fourth in line to the throne. However, his forbidden with, and of those ready to risk everything to bring them down. romance caused consternation at Buckingham Palace, and Starkloff speaks on camera for the first time about their relationship. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: CMJ Productions II Inc PRODUCED BY: Doubleband Films COMMISSIONED BY: American Heroes Channel USA COMMISSIONED BY: Channel 4 UK YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 152 153 History History
ROME: THE LOST CITY OF CHINA | 1 x 60’ In a small village in rural China, the Caucasian features of some of the villagers have for centuries intrigued their neighbours, historians and not the least, the villagers themselves. Is it possible that this village was once home to Roman legionnaires? Using the latest in scientific testing, this fascinating documentary investigates a crucial missing link in our understanding of world history.
PRODUCED BY: The Moving Visuals Co. COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Asia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2004
SECRET FILES OF THE INQUISITION NEW 4 x 60’ HD Rod Taylor – PUlling Based on previously unreleased secret documents from the Vatican, is a major historical series unveiling the 1 x 60’ or 1 x 90’ Secret Files Of The Inquisition no punches | incredible true story of the Catholic Church’s 500-year struggle to remain Rod Taylor was Australia’s most famous Hollywood star in the 1960s. the world’s only true Christian religion. Spanning medieval France, 15th One of his most memorable roles was in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. century Spain and Renaissance Italy, this lavish production reveals how He also featured in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds and starred alongside the most powerful church on earth created the Inquisition to attack its John Wayne in The Train Robbers. Taylor’s rugged on-screen and off- enemies and preserve the unquestioned authority of the Pope. screen persona created a brand of Australian masculinity now enjoyed by actors such as Mel Gibson, Russell Crowe and Sam Worthington. WINNER (2008): CINE Golden Eagle Award This enlightening and very personal documentary features interviews WINNER (2007): Gold World Medal, Docudrama, New York Festivals with Rod Taylor before his death in 2015. There are also interviews WINNER (2006): Bronze Telly Award, Best Series Trailer US, Telly Awards WINNER (2006): Best Cinematography and Best Original Score Canada, Leo Award, British with a variety of actors, including Tippi Hedren and Dame Maggie Columbia Film & Television Smith, as well as producers and directors who reflect on his colourful WINNER (2006): Best Direction in a Documentary Series – David Rabinovitch, Gemini Awards life and career. NOMINATED (2006): Best Cinematography Canada, Gemini Awards
PRODUCED BY: Lowlands Media and Inkwell Films PRODUCED BY: Inquisition Productions with France 5 and New Atlantis COMMISSIONED BY: Foxtel Australia COMMISSIONED BY: PBS USA, France 5 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 154 155 History History
SECRETS OF MARY MAGDALENE | 1 x 60’ HD Mary Magdalene – a sinner and prostitute, or the secret wife of Jesus and leader of his church? Secrets Of Mary Magdalene strips away the veil of history to reveal the woman who served as Jesus’ foremost apostle and was possibly the love of his life. Based on the bestselling non-fiction book of the same name, this documentary uncovers the latest information on one of the world’s most controversial religious figures.
WINNER (2007): Aurora Award, The Aurora Awards WINNER (2007): Platinum Best of Show (Highest Honor), The Aurora Awards
Secrets of Angels, Demons & Masons 2 x 60’ 2005 Secrets of the occult 2 x 60’ HD 2006
PRODUCED BY: Hidden Treasures Productions YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 YEARS THAT MADE US, THE | 3 x 60’ HD STOP. REWIND | 13 x 30’ This is a look into the events that laid the foundation for Australia in the Explore the ideas, discoveries, dead ends and eureka moments that 21st century. Between 1919 and 1939 Australia turned from a rural shaped the 21st century. Stop. Rewind plots the most innovative 25 backwater of the British Empire to a South East Asian nation. Award- years in human history; the giant leap forward in technology from the winning journalist and author Chris Masters investigates the tumultuous mid 1980s to the beginning of the 21st century. The world was a very 1920s and 30s and tells the stories of parents, grandparents and great- different place 25 years ago – no digital, no dot-com, no cell phones, grandparents who survived crisis after crisis and laid the groundwork no blogs or tweets, nor many of the technological innovations that we for the nation we know today. In Australian lore nationhood was forged now take for granted. Using images shot over the past quarter century, in the slaughter of Gallipoli in 1915. But in The Years That Made Us, Stop. Rewind showcases the hilarious and often hapless ideas that fell Chris Masters introduces a very different proposition. Far from bringing by the wayside, as well as those innovations that really were a preview the nation together, the First World War tore the country apart and into the future. Themed episodes include fast cars, robots, weapons, threatened to destroy the Federation dream. The Great Depression space, planes, housing, medical technology, computers, gadgets, boats wrecked a struggling recovery and just when light appeared on the and submarines, sport, entertainment and energy. horizon, the gates of hell reopened with the Second World War.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Screen Production PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ABC Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 156 157 9 lifestyle
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3 CHEFS, 1 CITY | 13 x 30’ HD Chefs are the new rock stars and we have the hottest on the planet. 3 Chefs, 1 City explores the world’s greatest foodie destinations through the eyes of chefs, because no-one knows a culinary scene better than the personalities who define it. In each episode three chefs showcase their kitchen skills, their restaurants, the culinary scene and their own passion for food. Get set as Wolfgang Puck, Alvin Leung, Todd English, Michael Mina, Grant Achatz, Heinz Beck, David Thompson, Dylan Jones, Cristina Bowerman, Ian Kittichai and more show you around their cities. Enjoy rare access to culinary hot shots, whether already famous, up-and-coming or notorious within the business. 3 Chefs, 1 City is a world food tour taking in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, New York, BUILDING LA DOLCE VITA Hong Kong, Bangkok, Singapore, Rome, Istanbul, London, Panama City WITH DEBBIE TRAVIS | 6 x 30’ HD and Cape Town. 3 chefs, 3 exclusive views… all in one city. Design icon Debbie Travis is risking her life savings to buy and transform FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE a 13th century medieval watchtower and farmhouse in Tuscany into a PRODUCED BY: Re:Source Media luxurious women’s only retreat. Inspiring, touching and heart-warming, the YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 series explores the highs and lows of buying and renovating a large property in a foreign country. As Tuscany is deemed an international heritage site, Debbie is forced to conform to rigid historical protection laws and red-tape committees. Working with some of the best architects, designers and tradesmen in Italy, she struggles to grasp the language and assimilate to a new culture. Plus Debbie must also wrap her head around what it takes to run a 100-acre farm with 800 olive trees and a vineyard. At the heart of the series is Debbie’s personal journey to find a new happiness through her desire to create a one-of-a-kind retreat that captures the transformative spirit of Tuscany and the experience of La Dolce Vita – The Sweet Life.
Also available: Debbie Travis’ Painted House and All for one with Debbie Travis.
Debbie Travis’ painted house 78 x 30’ HD 1997 – 2005 All for one with Debbie Travis 7 x 60’ HD 2011
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Whalley-Abbey Media COMMISSIONED BY: Canal Vie Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015
BURN MY MORTGAGE | 13 x 30’ HD What would you do to be mortgage free? Families are put through their paces to prove that the only obstacle between them and their dream HD BEST JOB IN THE WORLD, THE | 6 x 30’ of becoming debt free is a little sacrifice! It’s a financial adventure In February 2009 an extraordinary job position was advertised. The Great with grand challenges, emotionally charged reactions and a heavy Barrier Reef in Australia needed a caretaker for six months. The wage dose of common sense. In each episode, a family faces three big-scale was AU$150,000 and the position was open to all nationalities. 35,000 challenges that reflect three key areas of poor money management in applications later, the 600 islands had a caretaker – Ben Southall, a their household. Each illustrates, in a very active way, where the 33-year-old Englishman with a passion for travel and adventure. The Best family has gone wrong and how it is within their means to pay off their Job In The World follows Ben from his home in the tiny English village of mortgage faster. If the family follows the rules and succeeds at each Ropley to the centre of a worldwide campaign and media frenzy – and not level, they will be rewarded with money along with the tools to change a bad job! The show takes in the staggering beauty of the only living thing their financial future. The series will leave viewers wondering what you can see from space – Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. they’re willing to do in order to burn their mortgage!
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions PRODUCED BY: RTR Media COMMISSIONED BY: NGC International COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 160 161 Lifestyle Lifestyle
BUY ME | 130 x 30’ Buy Me takes viewers behind the scenes as home owners sell their biggest asset. From ‘For Sale’ to ‘Sold’, each episode shows viewers what other shows don’t about the real life drama of selling a home. The money is real, the stress is real and the emotions are real. Informative, funny and always entertaining, Buy Me reveals the highs and lows of the real estate market.
Series 1: 13 x 30’ 2003 Series 5: 13 x 30’ 2007 Series 2: 13 x 30’ 2004 Series 6: 26 x 30’ HD 2008 Series 3: 13 x 30’ 2006 Series 7: 39 x 30’ HD 2009 Series 4: 13 x 30’ 2006
NOMINATED (2009): Best General/Human Interest Series, Gemini Awards
PRODUCED BY: Whalley-Abbey Media COMMISSIONED BY: HGTV Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2003 – 2009
NEW Carnival Eats | 39 x 30’ HD Carnival Eats gives us an inside look at the mouth-watering and outrageous foods famously found at fairs and carnivals, the wacky characters who create them and the culinary thrill seekers who devour and delight in them. There is lots to do at a carnival. Playing the games, NEW riding the rides, delighting in the noise and the neon lights. But for some, the best part of a carnival is the food, some of it unique. This Carluccio’s 6 seasons | 6 x 30’ HD series travels the length and breadth of North America and targets the Antonio Carluccio, one of the world’s most well known and respected culinary creations linked to fairgrounds. Calorie-loaded offerings include chefs, is taken on a journey of discovery into Noongar country, the rattlesnake, frogs legs or okra, all deep-fried, and a decadent sundae of south-west corner of Western Australia. In one of the largest bio-diverse eight doughnuts topped with whipped cream, chocolate or caramel... and areas in the world, Carluccio learns about Australia’s indigenous history, don’t forget the cherry! Host Noah Cappe, a novice cook, will eat anything spanning the culture, art and music of the land and, most importantly, he can while at the same time trying his hand at creating some of these the cuisine. He creates real Aussie food with an Italian twist, based incredible eats. on the six seasons of the Aboriginal calendar and the availability of HD HD native and foraged foods at different times of the year. Along the way, Series 1: 13 x 30’ 2014 Series 3 13 x 30’ 2016 Series 2: 13 x 30’ HD 2015 TV presenter Richard Walley introduces Carluccio to local characters
who accompany them on their quest as they hunt, fish and gather wild Nominated (2016): Best Lifestyle Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards plants and experience the simple pleasures of Aboriginal life. Format rights available PRODUCED BY: CM Films Produced by: Alibi Entertainment COMMISSIONED BY: SBS Australia COMMISSIONED by: Cooking Channel US & Food Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 Year of Production: 2014 – 2016 162 163 Lifestyle Lifestyle
CHUCKMAS | 1 x 60’ HD CHUCK’S WEEK OFF: MEXICO | 8 x 30’ HD Chef Chuck Hughes has opened a new restaurant, bought his first home with Chuck Hughes is hungry for a break from his daily grind. He wants to head his girlfriend and all the while juggled a red hot TV career. Now he’s got a real somewhere he can trade in his black t-shirt and apron for a pair of shades challenge on his hands – he has to host his very first Christmas dinner! In this and a tank top and enjoy fresh, authentic food. So he’s heading to Mexico fun-filled holiday special, Chuck works to pull off a one-of-a-kind Christmas and making his way across the country in search of culinary adventures. celebration. As always he aims big. He wants to create a whole new menu Part cooking show, part travel show, each adventure-filled episode has incorporating his family classics, with a Chuck twist of course, plus a few new Chuck discovering a different part of Mexico and the authentic food and additions to recognise some of his girlfriend Sabrina’s family traditions. Full of culture that goes with it. From making beef jerky with cowboys to slicing holiday fun, great food and family, this is Chuck’s take on Christmas. This is Chuckmas! up sashimi with fishermen; from cooking up grasshoppers to making tortillas on the side of a volcano, Chuck weaves his way throughout Mexico PRODUCED BY: Whalley-Abbey Media in his jeep, meeting extraordinary people and experiencing incredible food. COMMISSIONED BY: Food Network Canada, Cooking Channel Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 NOMINATED (2014): Best Lifestyle or Talk Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards
PRODUCED BY: Whalley-Abbey Media COMMISSIONED BY: Cooking Channel US, Food Network Canada, Cooking Channel Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012
COMPLETELY HAMMERED | 26 x 30’ Imagine having a man with both talent and tools ring your doorbell. Completely Hammered follows four hunky handymen as they teach women how to take care of pesky home repair jobs. These highly skilled contractors visit homes, identify the problems and get down to work. Full of fun and easy on the eyes, Completely Hammered is a ‘how-to’ show for all women.
PRODUCED BY: Whalley-Abbey Media COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2002
COOKING FOR THE CROWN | 8 x 30’ HD HD CHUCK’S DAY OFF | 52 x 30’ Royal cuisine has intrigued many throughout the years, with royal chefs Join celebrity chef Chuck Hughes at his restaurant on his day off and and food-tasters holding their tongues as to what has been served follow him as he prepares a meal for whoever is dropping in – it could throughout the generations. Over the past 13 years, international chef be the cheese guy, the hospital staff that cared for him after his scooter Christian Bauer has prepared meals for many VIPs and celebrities. In accident, the cleaners, or two of Chuck’s friends being set up on a blind each episode of Cooking For The Crown, Christian travels to a different date. However, just because the front doors are closed, doesn’t mean the country to meet their royal family. Christian’s objectives will be to learn business of running a restaurant shuts down. While whipping up an inspiring what culinary delights are served and how these recipes are prepared, meal, Chuck juggles the array of responsibilities, deliveries and challenges before finally meeting a member of the royal family. Christian then of running a restaurant. Sandwiched in-between Chuck preparing mouth- prepares the dish for his hosts – with his own adaptation. Cooking watering recipes are reality segments which give viewers a glimpse into what For The Crown de-mystifies the monarchy through cooking whilst goes on behind the scenes in the kitchen of one of Montreal’s hottest chefs. discovering how their country’s unique and traditional dishes have played a part in their lives. Thirteen corresponding webisodes are also available, featuring super quick and easy recipes. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: The Moving Visuals Co. COMMISSIONED BY: Channel News Asia Series 1: 13 x 30’ HD 2009 Series 3: 13 x 30’ HD 2010 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 Series 2: 26 x 30’ HD 2009
NOMINATED (2011): Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series, Gemini Awards WINNER (2010): Best Host, Factual Entertainment Awards NOMINATED (2010): Food Category, Factual Entertainment Awards NOMINATED (2010): Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series, Gemini Awards NOMINATED (2010): Best Host in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Series, Gemini Awards
PRODUCED BY: Whalley-Abbey Media COMMISSIONED BY: Food Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009 – 2010 164 165 Lifestyle Lifestyle
FROM THE GROUND UP | 20 x 60’ From The Ground Up with Debbie Travis is about a self-made woman who fears the ‘20-something’ generation has it all, except a future. She believes many could find a future in the booming building and design trades. Twelve young participants are put to the test over five weeks and one will walk away with the cash reward. In series two, the winner gets a prize job as Debbie’s chief designer.
Series 1: 10 x 60’ 2007 Series 2: 10 x 60’ 2007
PRODUCED BY: RTR Media and Seven Steps Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Global TV Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007
NEW GAME OF HOMES | 16 x 60’ + 5 webisodes HD Deadline Design | 10 x 60’ Four couples, four houses, four weeks and one winner takes all! Game Of Homes is a big-scale renovation competition that sees derelict dumps Leading interior designer Shaynna Blaze hosts a new series that isn’t transformed into stunning show homes. Four condemned houses have about doing up a house for sale. It’s about designing for people, their been ripped from their foundations and ceremoniously moved to downtown lifestyles, tastes and budgets. And it’s about doing it to a set deadline. Vancouver by massive trucks and barges. Hosted by Emmy-nominated actor In each episode, she takes on a new client and guides their imagination Cameron Mathison, four competing teams will have their skills, ingenuity to a spectacular destination. From a million dollar rebirth to a small and relationships put to the test. Each team must completely renovate renovation, Deadline Design covers all budgets, yet each client has inside and out, whilst living on site inside their slowly improving home! Each something in common – a milestone to celebrate and that means an week guest celebrities like Jonathan and Drew Scott (Property Brothers) absolute deadline. Shaynna walks her clients along an emotional and and Jillian Harris (Love It Or List It) run their critical eye over progress. The financial tightrope; she is equal parts therapist and artist, and the winning team wins not only the house but also a plot of land to put it on! resulting designs are fabulous, ingenious and often spectacular! Series 1: 8 x 60’ + 5 webisodes HD 2015 Also available: Shaynna’s World of Design. Series 2: 8 x 60’ HD 2016
Shaynna’s world of design 2 x 60’ HD 2015 Nominated (2016): Best Reality/Competition Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards
Format Rights Available FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions PRODUCED BY: Great Pacific Media Inc. COMMISSIONED BY: Foxtel Australia COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 – 2016 166 167 Lifestyle Lifestyle
HOT PROPERTY | 26 x 60’ + 106 x 30’ + 1 x 90’ LOVE IT OR LIST IT | 174 x 60’ or 130 x 30’ HD This is the real estate show you’ve been waiting for, packed as always Will they Love It Or List It? The critically acclaimed, internationally with drama, tension and humour. Seeing how buyers and sellers cope adored property show Love It Or List It returns for its seventh series. with the pressure makes for riveting television. Real estate agents It is the season for babies, in-laws and bigger and bolder renovations! adopt “out there” strategies to attract attention in the marketplace and With two impending births, two houses with added rooms required old rules are rewritten with mixed success. But, as always, the tension for the in-laws and multiple attic, garage and basement conversions, of auction day is palpable. Come with us on the journey as we see real David and Hilary face each situation straight on with headstrong people selling real properties. No tricks, no fakes… we show it like it determination to become the victor. When structural realities, is. Hosted by Australian film and television legend, Michael Caton. infestations and budgetary constraints threaten Hilary’s ability to complete every renovation on her list, or unrealistic demands and a Series 1: 10 x 30’ 1999 Series 8: 10 x 30’ 2007 hot, local real estate market prevent David from finding the perfect Series 2: 13 x 30’ 2000 Series 9: 10 x 30’ 2008 combination of house, location and budget, the hosts and audience Series 3: 13 x 30’ 2001 Series 10: 8 x 30’ 2010 Series 4: 11 x 30’ 2002 Series 11: 8 x 30’ 2011 alike will be on the edge of their seats, desperate to hear the Series 5: 13 x 30’ 2003 Series 12: 10 x 30’ 2012 homeowner’s decision: Will they love it? Or will they list it? Series 6: 13 x 60’ 2003 Specials: 1 x 90’ 2003 Series 7: 13 x 60’ 2003 Series 1: 26 x 60’ or 26 x 30’ HD 2009 Series 5: 26 x 60’ or 26 x 30’ HD 2014 Series 2: 26 x 60’ or 26 x 30’ HD 2009 Series 6: 26 x 60’ HD 2015 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Series 3: 26 x 60’ or 26 x 30’ HD 2010 Series 7: 18 x 60’ HD 2016 PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions Series 4: 26 x 60’ or 26 x 30’ HD 2011 COMMISSIONED BY: Nine Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1999 – 2012 NOMINATED (2010): Best Reality Programme or Series, Gemini Awards NOMINATED (2010): Best Direction in a Reality Programme or Series, Gemini Awards
INCOME PROPERTY | 116 x 30’ + 41 x 60’ FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE Scott McGillivray is a triple threat expert in real estate, renovation and PRODUCED BY: Big Coat Productions COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada finance. Scott leads buyers through the house hunt and renovation of YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009 – 2016 their first income-generating property. From student rentals to swanky executive suites, Income Property runs the renovation gamut; serving up bigger renovations and better-than-ever reveals. Scott guides newbie investors through the entire process: buying the house, building the income suite and taking the cheques to the bank. It is never a smooth ride, but every episode delivers an incredible reveal as he makes the homeowner’s financial dreams a reality. The latest series sees three homes transformed into million dollar properties and Scott hits the road to help four homeowners build their vacation rental dreams.
Series 1: 13 x 30’ 2008 Series 7: 13 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 2: 13 x 30’ HD 2009 Series 8: 13 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 3: 13 x 30’ HD 2010 Series 9: 13 x 60’ HD 2014 Series 4: 13 x 30’ + 1 x 60’ HD 2010 Series 10: 24 x 30’ HD 2015 Series 5: 13 x 30’ + 1 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 11: 14 x 30’ HD 2016 Series 6: 13 x 30’ HD 2012
Winner (2016): Best Lifestyle Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards Winner (2015): Best Lifestyle or Talk Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards Winner (2015): Best Direction in a Lifestyle/Practical Information Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards NOMINATED (2014): Best Lifestyle or Talk Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards WINNER (2013): Best Lifestyle Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards NOMINATED (2012): Rockies – Lifestyle & Information Programmes, Banff World Media Awards NOMINATED (2011): Rockies – Lifestyle & Information Programmes, Banff World Media Awards
PRODUCED BY: RTR Media and SKIT Inc COMMISSIONED BY: HGTV Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 – 2016
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LOVE IT OR LIST IT: UK | 14 x 60’ HD The King and Queen of UK property are going head to head to make dream homes a reality! British property experts Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are on a mission to help families who’ve fallen out of love… with their home. The problem is the families can’t agree how to remedy it. One wants to give up and list it, but the other wants to love it by renovating. This is where the dynamic duo Kirstie and Phil (Location, Location, Location) come in to settle the argument. Kirstie will use all her design know-how to completely transform the house in the hope of convincing them to stay put. There will be extensions, new kitchens and bathrooms and some serious structural work. Meanwhile expert house-hunter Phil will prove that there are amazing new homes out there and selling up is the best option. Once the duo have done all they can to help these battling families, they will ask one emotionally driven question: “Are you going to love it or are you going to list it?”
Series 1: 6 x 60’ HD 2015 Series 2: 8 x 60’ HD 2016
Nominated (2016): Best Features/Factual Entertainment Programme, Bafta Awards, Scotland
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Raise The Roof Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Channel 4 UK YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 – 2016
NEW LOVE IT OR LIST IT: GErmany (TraUmhaus oder Raus) | 5 x 90’ HD The globally successful primetime format Love It Or List It travels to Germany, where our two property experts, interior designer Sasha Rossmann-Yessayan and real estate agent Michel Sawall, will compete for the homeowners’ final decisions to stay or go. Michel’s insider perspective on the housing market in Germany helps target listings to prospective buyers, but Sasha is determined to show the homeowners that, within their budget, she can transform their worn-out house into a place they can love. If the owners decide to list it, Sasha’s hard work adds to the home’s resale value. It’s a tough decision either way. Which choice would you make?
PRODUCED BY: Imago TV Film- und Fernsehproduktion COMMISSIONED BY: Pro Sieben.SAT1 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 170 171 Lifestyle Lifestyle
LOVE IT OR LIST IT: Vacation HOmes 13 x 60’ HD This new spin-off series of the globally successful primetime format Love It Or List It offers viewers something a little different. Featuring a series of unique homes and breathtaking scenery, the focus now turns on homeowners whose love affair with their beloved holiday home has fizzled. Each episode takes viewers on an emotional rollercoaster ride as new hosts, designer Dan Vickery and estate agent Elisa Goldhawke, face off against each other, armed with their list of “must-haves” to sway the vacation homeowners’ final decision to either keep their renovated property or sell. Our designer has to overcome the hidden surprises that come with every renovation and deliver a beautiful transformation so the owners will LOVE their holiday home again. Meanwhile our estate agent will have to pull out all the stops to find the perfect new vacation home and will have them rushing to LIST their current property. So will they or won’t they?
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Big Coat Productions COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 NEW LOVE IT OR LIST IT: VANCOUVER 104 x 60’ or 78 x 30’ HD Following the success of Love It Or List It, this series showcases families in Vancouver along with interior designer Jillian Harris and realtor Todd Talbot. Love It Or List It Vancouver helps families who are struggling with homes that no longer suit their needs. They may have outgrown the home they once loved, or the lustre has worn off, leaving the homeowners faced with the dilemma of whether they should love it or list it! It’s up to Jillian to revive that love and put a stop to the wandering eyes of our homeowners. Armed with a list of “must-haves”, she creates a design she hopes will persuade them to stay. Meanwhile Todd is determined to get the homeowners to relocate by dangling the temptation of dreamy new homes. Right from the start, there is an evident divide among the homeowners – one wants to move and the other wants to stay.
Series 1: 26 x 60’ or 26 x 30’ HD 2013 Series 3: 26 x 60’ or 26 x 30’ HD 2015 Series 2: 26 x 60’ or 26 x 30’ HD 2014 Series 4: 26 x 60’ HD 2016
Winner (2016): Best Hosts in an Information, Llifestyle or Reality Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2015): Best Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2015): Best Direction in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2015): Best Picture Editing in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2015): Best Hosts in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2014): Best Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2014): Best Direction in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2014): Best Cinematography in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2014): Best Picture Editing in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2014): Best Hosts in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2013): Best Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Big Coat Productions COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 – 2016 172 173 Lifestyle Lifestyle
MAXED OUT | 67 x 30’ Are you a shopaholic who lives beyond your means? Do you constantly pay bills late? Do you live paycheck to paycheck? You need to stop playing Russian roulette with your finances and watchMaxed Out. MY FRANCE WITH MANU | 6 x 60’ HD This is the tell-it-like-it-is financial show. Each episode ofMaxed Out The third series of My France With Manu takes viewers on a picturesque features a dramatic personal story where participants reveal their and entertaining journey through My Kitchen Rules judge, Manu financial crisis. A financial investigator delves into participants’ financial Feildel’s beautiful homeland, France. From Paris, Manu heads towards lives, leaving no stone unturned in her search for the cause and cure of the Rhine, stopping to visit the esteemed House of Bollinger in the their debt disaster. She proves that it’s never too late to turn around a Champagne-Ardenne. In Alsace-Lorraine, he creates a simple rustic bad financial situation by learning better spending and saving habits. quiche lorraine before travelling to Strasbourg through the Alsation vineyards. Here he tastes traditional sauerkraut and paté, culminating Series 1: 10 x 30’ 2006 Series 4: 13 x 30’ 2008 Series 2: 14 x 30’ 2007 Series 5: 17 x 30’ 2008 in the formidable ‘Choucroute’, a feast of meat! Series 3: 13 x 30’ 2007 My France with Manu: Brittany to Biarritz 2 x 60’ HD 2014 NOMINATED (2009): Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series, Gemini Awards My France with Manu: The Rhone Valley 2 x 60’ HD 2015 My France with Manu: Paris to Strasburg 2 x 60’ HD 2016 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: RTR Media Produced by: Seven Productions COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 – 2008 Year of Production: 2014 – 2016 174 175 Lifestyle Lifestyle
PATI’S MEXICAN TABLE | 39 x 30’ HD In Series 5, Pati sets out to explore the Maya world in the Yucatan NEW Peninsula. Embarking on a road trip that will cross three states, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, Pati meets with local producers, 2 x 60’ HD MY Ireland with COlin | growers and chefs, both in restaurants and in their homes, to learn about My Kitchen Rules Australia judge and restauranteur Colin Fassnidge the unique cuisine of the region. From visiting remote fishermen’s villages returns home to discover the changing face of food in Ireland. He revisits to historic haciendas, to bustling markets and pre-Hispanic ruins and his childhood haunts where we meet his family, then takes a culinary tour underground cenotes, Series 5 goes deeper than ever before. of some of Ireland’s most beautiful food producing areas on his beloved Ducati 1200 motorbike. From seaweed harvesting to collecting delicious Series 3: 13 x 30’ HD 2014 Series 5: 13 x 30’ HD 2016 HD golden honey, picking apples for cider and feeding pigs on their own Series 4: 13 x 30’ 2015 private island in Fermanagh, Colin rediscovers the spectacular scenery, NOMINATED (2016): Best Culinary Series and Outstanding Host, Emmy Awards while showcasing the world-class food produced in Ireland in a uniquely NOMINATED (2016): Best Culinary Series and Outstanding Host, James Beard Awards personal way. Format rights available Produced by: Seven Productions PRODUCED BY: WETA Washington DC and Mexican Table in association with Follow Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Seven Network Australia COMMISSIONED BY: PBS USA Year of Production: 2016 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 – 2016 176 177 Lifestyle Lifestyle
STAGERS, THE | 26 x 30’ HD Home staging is the art of transforming drab homes that just won’t sell into luxurious living spaces that have the potential to spark all-out bidding wars. The Stagers gives viewers behind-the-scenes access to the high-octane working lives of stagers from one of North America’s premier staging companies. High-drama Matthew Finlason or head-butting mother- daughter duo Maureen Powers and Bridget Savereux work towards selling the home as fast as possible for the most amount of money. From tips to tantrums to last-minute touches, each episode shows just how hard and fast stagers must work to transform a home from dated to designer.
Series 1: 13 x 30’ HD 2008 Series 2: 13 x 30’ HD 2009
WINNER (2009): Best Direction in an Information or Lifestyle Series – Keith Behtman, Leo Awards WINNER (2009): Best Host in an Information or Lifestyle Series – Matthew Finlason, Leo Awards WINNER (2009): Best Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards WINNER (2009): Best Writing in an Information or Lifestyle Series, Leo Awards
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Paperny Entertainment COMMISSIONED BY: HGTV Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 – 2009
NEW Too many cooks | 20 x 30’ HD In this new and fast-paced funny food format, three keen-as-mustard cooking couples compete against each other to lay on the best spread for some very demanding party hosts. Each day of the week they must all prepare in advance before finishing their catering at the party venue and serving up to the picky guests. The host then takes soundings from all the guests at the end of each party, and decides whose food they would pay the most for. At the end of the week – after our amateurs have catered for five very different parties – the winners will walk away with all the cash they’ve earned. From birthday bashes and hectic housewarmings to romantic engagement dinners and exotic bon voyage farewell parties, our highly competitive cooking couples have to dig deep and cater at a scale and to culinary standards they’ve never attempted before.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: True North TV COMMISSIONED BY: Channel 4 UK YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 178 179 Lifestyle Lifestyle
NEW Week to my wedding, a | 6 x 30’ HD WHAT’S GOOD FOR YOU | 39 x 60’ + 12 x 30’ In this new series, we join six couples with one week to go until their Have you ever wondered whether an apple a day really keeps the doctor wedding – a week set to be one of the most intense, stressful and away? Whether women actually do have a higher pain threshold than unpredictable they will ever experience. Highly entertaining, emotional men? If lip balm can actually be addictive? Is drinking red wine really and uplifting, we follow the bride, the groom and their families good for you? What’s Good For You will answer all your questions about through the mayhem, chaos and excitement surrounding the week life’s little health mysteries. A team of doctors and reporters acts before their wedding. From the country couple who have 900 pigs to as detectives-turned-human guinea pigs to investigate some of the feed the morning of the wedding, to the New Jersey native marrying common experiences that impact everyone’s lives and clear away her “Irish Prince” in a huge American-style three-day wedding, the the common misconceptions behind everyday curiosities. couples featured vary in religious beliefs, sexual orientation, attitudes to marriage, experience of previous marriages and socioeconomic Series 1: 14 x 60’ 2006 Series 3: 12 x 30’ 2009 Series 2: 23 x 60’ 2006 Specials: 2 x 60’ 2008 backgrounds. Over-stretched budgets, awkward seating plans, difficult
bridesmaids and last minute changes all make this week one they will WINNER (2007): Most Popular Lifestyle Program, TV Week LOGIE Awards never forget! NOMINATED (2007): Most Popular New Female Talent – Brooke Hansen, TV Week LOGIE Awards
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Independent Pictures PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions and Nine Network Australia COMMISSIONED BY: RTE One Ireland COMMISSIONED BY: Nine Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 – 2009 180 181 0 PEOPLE & SOCIETY
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ADDICTION | 2 x 60’ HD Once considered a moral failing, addiction is now treated as a chronic disease and it is widespread. Whatever their motivation for getting clean, 200KG KID, THE | 1 x 60’ HD rehab is no easy ride and the hardest part of the whole journey is the moment the addicts are released to face the temptations outside. Follow Haumoana is nearly 200kg and his life is a misery. This fifteen-year- the real stories of a diverse group of addicts entering rehab. Some are old is taking extreme measures to fight his obesity. Regardless of doing rehab for the first time and some are old hands who continue countless failed diet and exercise regimes, he is already showing signs to fall back into familiar ways. This emotional and brutally honest of serious disease. Facing health problems and an early death, his documentary shows the tragic consequences of addiction and reveals family are at their wits’ end. Now too big to exercise, he is undergoing the extraordinary courage of those who attempt to step out of its shadow. a lap-band operation. Without this medical intervention, he faces certain death – and soon. Could this surgery be the answer to a FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE normal life for Haumoana? PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions in association with Mushroom Pictures and Screen Australia PRODUCED BY: Rogue Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ABC Australia COMMISSIONED BY: TV3 New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 APOCALYPSE 2012 | 1 x 60’ HD ABBREVIATED LIFE, AN | 1 x 60’ December 21, 2012 – That’s the day ‘life as we know it’ was due to end. In this touching story of survival and pure determination, we follow one It’s no secret that many people were afraid of what might happen at the year in the life of Sarah, a young woman living with Cystic Fibrosis. end date of the Mayan calendar. From building survival communities Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic condition Sarah was born with and inherited at the top of mountains to constructing underground condominiums in from her parents, neither of whom knew they were carriers of the missile silos deep underground, people were getting ready. As well as fatal disease. There is no cure for Cystic Fibrosis. Along with Sarah’s observing the characters who laid the groundwork for that fateful day theatrical, dynamic and funny personality, the documentary puts a and those investing in it, this documentary also looks into the psychology positive spin on living with a fatal illness. Despite the international race behind the 2012 apocalyptic movement, examining where their beliefs for new treatment and ultimately a cure, Sarah knows that without her came from and what people got out of it. Were their actions based on strong determination to remain healthy, her life will be cut short. fear alone? Or is there more to the end of the world hype?
PRODUCED BY: AC Productions PRODUCED BY: Banks Productions COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 184 185 People & Society People & Society
BEHIND MANSION WALLS | 39 x 60’ HD Money doesn’t always make you happy but it can sometimes make you murder. There’s a world of money and power that likes to remain hidden. A place the rest of us aren’t meant to see; it lies behind mansion walls. But one thing can crash through the locked gates of the wealthy and privileged and put all their dirty laundry on view... murder. These are the crimes that rock the millionaire class to its very core. These crimes hold a special fascination for the ordinary person and we want to find out what exactly happened to turn the idyllic millionaire lifestyle into a murder scene. Behind Mansion Walls will tell the real story of high society crimes and use dramatic recreations to show their key moments and their investigations, backed by powerful interviews with key experts and eyewitnesses in each case.
Series 1: 13 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 3: 13 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 2: 13 x 60’ HD 2012
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA HD ASIA RISING | 10 x 30’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 – 2013 Asia Rising is a landmark series designed to answer the most pressing question of our time: how will the shift from the West to the East impact you? Hosted by business leader, author and philanthropist Vikrom Kromadit, Asia Rising provides a prescient and passionate perspective on the power and scope of Asia in the decades ahead. The series explores the impact of Asia’s remarkable economic growth on its people and society, as well as the world. Travelling to twenty-five countries worldwide, Asia Rising features interviews with politicians, business leaders, industry experts and cultural icons. If the 20th century was America’s, then the 21st century belongs to Asia.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Re:Source Media YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014
AXE ATTACK SURVIVOR | 1 x 60’ HD He went to Afghanistan to make peace but came home fighting for his life. This is the exclusive, moving story of Captain Trevor Greene and his dramatic struggle to rebuild his life after suffering a horrific axe BIG EXPERIMENT, THE | 4 x 60’ attack to the head whilst on duty. In March 2006 Trevor was taking What would life be like if you looked different? How would people treat part in a meeting with village elders, his helmet at his side as a sign of you if your skin was another colour? What if you were a different gender? respect, when he was attacked from behind by a young man wielding Or you had a disability? Or even, if you were disfigured? This series a homemade axe, who sank it deep into his brain. Initially doctors brings you a social experiment like no other. Volunteers will undergo a predicted he would never emerge from his coma, would never speak radical transformation and then walk a day in someone else’s shoes. To and would be little more than a shell. For more than a year cameras prepare for their big day, a team of mentors will push them out of their document Trevor’s journey through an intensive brain injury rehabilitation comfort zone and into a punishing training schedule. Our highly skilled program and his sheer determination to regain his body and brain. prosthetic artists radically change our human guinea pigs. Ready or not,
WINNER (2009): Best Biography Documentary Programme, Gemini Award they must face the world looking completely different. This is a social WINNER (2009): Best Biography Documentary, Yorkton Film Festival experiment where the public is also put to the test. WINNER (2009): Golden Eagle Award, CINE WINNER (2009): Certificate of Merit, Documentary, Gabriel Award Nominated (2006): Best Reality Series, Air New Zealand Screen Awards FINALIST (2009): Special People, Freddie Awards FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Dreamfilm Productions and CTV Television Inc PRODUCED BY: Rogue Productions COMMISSIONED BY: CTV Canada COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 186 187 People & Society People & Society
BREAKING THE LAW: BENT COPPERS 1 x 60’ HD Breaking The Law: Bent Coppers tells the incredible stories of some of the UK’s policemen and policewomen who have been jailed for breaking the law. These stories look at cops who have turned bad, the motivations behind their crimes and the victims they left behind. A bent cop is sentenced to prison for drug dealing and planning a robbery. A criminal officer systematically stole from a 94-year-old widow and even drew up a will to take her life savings. A traffic officer targeted victims with sinister text messages and offered others a way to avoid prosecution – by sleeping with him! A police community support officer stole money from passengers at Gatwick Airport by simply telling them they had to hand it over! These cases are just the tip of the iceberg with hundreds more disciplined, sacked or jailed for being bent.
PRODUCED BY: True North Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Channel 5 UK YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 BODY DONORS – LIFE AFTER DEATH HD 2 x 60’ HD CAT CRAZED | 1 x 60’ Body Donors follows the journeys of two people who courageously decide The cat is the world’s most popular pet – and the most disposable. to donate their bodies to medical science. Our two donors, Mike Bowyer Some 100 million cats, domestic and wild, roam the North American and Diana King, have both chosen to bequeath their bodies to science. landscape causing havoc to native flora and wildlife. From the time In the months leading up to their deaths, we tell their stories, meet their of the Pharaohs, human beings have been fascinated with the elusive loved ones and find out why they decided to donate their bodies. As nature of cats. Millions of us keep cats close to us and love them their journeys beyond death begin, we follow them through two medical precisely because they never seem to let us get too close. Millions institutes where their bodies take on a life of their own. Mike becomes a of free-roaming hunting cats means millions more kittens and a valuable learning tool for anatomy students during a ‘Meet the Cadaver’ billion fewer birds. Cat Crazed celebrates our love affair with cats session and Diana helps surgeons master pioneering techniques for hip and encourages a new relationship with our most popular pet – one replacements. When their bodies are no longer needed, a final memorial where all cats are loved and none are abandoned. Cat Crazed marries service brings staff, students and relatives together to acknowledge the documentary storytelling with animation to deftly straddle the line donors’ massive contribution to medical science. between send-up and serious journalism.
WINNER (2016): Factual Series, Royal Television Society Yorkshire Awards A one-hour documentary Dog Dazed is also available.
PRODUCED BY: Daisybeck Studios and GroupM Entertainment PRODUCED BY: Bountiful Films COMMISSIONED BY: Channel 5 UK COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 188 189 People & Society People & Society
CHARLOTTE: MY STORY | 1 x 60’ HD Eight-year-old Charlotte Cleverley-Bisman has never known a life with limbs. At six months of age she contracted Meningococcal Septicaemia and doctors were forced to amputate part of her arms and legs. Charlotte: My Story starts when Charlotte is six and follows her journey to walk in her prosthetics. She is finding walking difficult and often painful, increasingly opting to use her power chair. Over a two-year period we follow Charlotte and her parents, who travel to the USA on a quest for new prosthetics. ‘Team Charlotte’ is finally positive that Charlotte’s future is up on her legs. Charlotte: My Story is a compelling, heartfelt documentary showing how the courage, determination and spirit of an eight-year-old girl can overcome the seemingly insurmountable challenges life has thrown her way.
Also available: Baby Charlotte and Charlotte: A Life Without Limbs.
Baby Charlotte 1 x 60’ 2005 Charlotte: a life without limbs 1 x 60’ 2009 WINNER (2014): Best Documentary, TV Guide Best On The Box Awards NEW PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TV3 New Zealand and New Zealand On Air Crumlin Children’s YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 Hospital | 4 x 60’ HD Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital in Crumlin, a suburb of Dublin, is where CITY LIMITS: AMERICA life and death are a daily reality. This series observes medical practitioners ON THE EDGE | 1 x 60’ HD as they grapple with ethical decisions, complex cases and rare conditions. America is locked in a battle with the forces of nature. The United Every child presents the team with difficult dilemmas that sometimes States is right in the firing line of climate change – one of the biggest require emergency interventions. From the National Children’s Heart challenges facing the planet. Many places in the US are in danger from Centre, which sees around ten thousand children annually, to the Intensive wildfires, rising sea levels, heat waves and dwindling water supplies. Care Unit with over 1,000 admissions each year, the hospital tackles complex and rare conditions, some of which have no known cure. With It’s an explosive mix which could cause chaos, disaster and death. City unprecedented access, provides a sensitive Limits travels across the continent to assess the nightmare America Crumlin Children’s Hospital faces. A key destination is Los Angeles, one of the most polluting cities but searingly honest portrayal of the challenges faced by the medical in the world thanks largely to its long love affair with the car. It is a city teams. This series brings us the difficult decisions, the heartache and most built on consumption and wealth and each person produces around 20 importantly, the joys of working on the frontlines of paediatric medicine. tonnes of emissions a year – twice as much as anyone else in the world. Nominated (2016): Best Factual Series, Celtic Media Festival
A six part documentary series Hot Cities is also available. Format rights available Produced by: Independent Pictures PRODUCED BY: Rockhopper TV Commissioned by: RTE One Ireland YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 Year of Production: 2015 190 191 People & Society People & Society
DARK TEMPTATIONS | 6 x 60’ HD If you think you’ve seen every motive for murder, think again! Dark Temptations pries open the lid of worlds where weird obsessions turn deadly. The bizarre temptations behind these murders shocked even the toughest law enforcers. Meet the married man with a shoe fetish that accelerates into serial killing; the cannibal craving fresh human meat; the voodoo priest who uses black magic to entrap vulnerable women; the teenagers who act out their murderous rap lyrics; the snake-handling preacher who uses serpents to stop his wife’s sin; and the businessman who goes to horrifying lengths to remove his own leg! Dark Temptations explores the intriguing psychology of how twisted the human mind can become. Interviews with investigators, friends and victims, coupled with dark and dramatic recreations, throw open these secret lives.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014
DEADLY WOMEN | 144 x 60’ DARK MINDS | 20 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD Deadly Women returns with even more true stories of the world’s Men and women of law enforcement work hard to solve every murder most deadly females. Each episode fuses bone-chilling storytelling, sumptuous period drama and forensic fact in a bid to explore history’s but some cases remain stubbornly open; they run cold. Dark Minds reignites interest in these cases through two obsessive investigators; most alluring, intriguing and horrifying female killers. Profiling true crime author, M. William Phelps, and criminal profiler, John Kelly. horrific stories from the past, we delve into a deadly world shaped They bring fresh eyes and a different perspective to the crimes, using the by spiraling forces that are beyond the women’s control: obsession, combined instincts of an investigative journalist, a psychological profiler greed and revenge. and an anonymous serial killer serving multiple life-sentences. Together Complementary Facing Evil specials are also available. they review known evidence of each case and speculate who the killer might be. By talking to police, survivors, family members and experts, Series 1: 3 x 60’ 2005 Series 6: 20 x 60’ HD 2012 Phelps and Kelly build a profile of the murderer. Series 2: 6 x 60’ HD 2008 Series 7: 20 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 3: 13 x 60’ HD 2009 Series 8: 20 x 60’ HD 2014 Series 1: 8 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 3: 4 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD 2014 Series 4: 16 x 60’ HD 2010 Series 9: 13 x 60’ HD 2015 Series 2: 8 x 60’ HD 2012 Series 5: 20 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 10: 13 x 60’ HD 2016
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 – 2014 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005 – 2016 192 193 People & Society People & Society
DEADLY WOMEN: KILLER DOG DAZED | 1 x 60’ HD COUNTDOWN | 1 x 120’ HD With 84 million dogs now sharing public space with human beings across North America, conflicts over canines are breaking out all over. There are now more After many series of Deadly Women, it’s time to ask... who is the worst households with dogs than children and that means that the canine has clout. of the worst? Psychological profiler Candice DeLong is our guide on this Intelligent and reasonable human beings turn rabid when anyone attempts to fascinating voyage through the minds of the world’s deadliest women. limit their dog’s freedom. Non-dog owners, forced to defend their increasingly What makes one murderer worse than another? You will be surprised. limited turf, howl in protest. With animation created by Oscar nominee DeLong knows the criminal mind; she can tell the difference between Cordell Barker (The Cat Came Back), Dog Dazed explores the conflicts and the emotional accident and sociopathic intent as she counts down the Top potential solutions as we work to integrate these descendants of wolves into Ten perpetrators to reveal why they were so dangerous and what sets our citified lifestyle without driving them – and our own species – barking mad. them apart from you and me.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE A one-hour documentary Cat Crazed is also available. PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA PRODUCED BY: Bountiful Films YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013
DOWNSIDE OF HIGH, THE | 1 x 60’ HD Is today’s super potent pot damaging young minds? Teenagers who start smoking marijuana before the age of sixteen are four times more likely to become schizophrenic. This documentary explores recent scientific discoveries about marijuana and the link to mental illness. Startling conclusions come from some of the world’s top schizophrenia experts, following ground-breaking work on the connection between marijuana and mental illness. Modern growing techniques have dramatically increased the amount of THC – the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, ramping up the threat to the developing teenage brain. Follow three young people as they wage their battle against psychosis, paranoia and hallucinations; all triggered by marijuana use.
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW? WINNER (2011): Gold World Medal, Health/Medical Information, New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards 1 x 60’ HD PRODUCED BY: Dreamfilm Productions Do You Really Want To Know? faces the complex emotional, ethical and COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada psychological issues surrounding the new frontier of predictive genetic YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 testing. This documentary follows three families who have been confronted with the difficult decision of whether or not to be tested for Huntington’s disease – a degenerative neurological illness that is akin to having ALS, FACING EVIL | 36 x 30’ HD Schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s. It is one of the first diseases people Candice DeLong, former FBI agent, goes behind prison walls to interview could be accurately and conclusively tested for, before the onset of any some of the world’s most notorious killers. In candid one-on-one symptoms. There is no treatment or cure and people with the gene have a interviews, DeLong gives these men and women a unique opportunity to 50% chance of passing it onto their children. The decision to be tested can tell their side of the story. Some reveal their innermost secrets of how never be reversed; you can’t go back to not knowing. As scientists discover and why they became killers, others adamantly plead innocence. These more ways to identify diseases before we know we have them, the question interviews are confrontational, emotional and, above all, compelling. “Do you really want to know?” will be one faced more and more. Does a lifetime of horrific abuse justify the ultimate revenge? What turns a hard-working nurse into a serial killer? How can a man be found NOMINATED (2013): Best Feature Length Documentary Program, Leo Awards guilty when so much forensic evidence points to his innocence? Candice NOMINATED (2013): Best Direction In A Documentary Program or Series, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2013): Best Musical Score In A Documentary Program or Series, Leo Awards explores all this and more, taking viewers deep inside the minds of these NOMINATED (2013): Best Picture Editing In A Documentary Program or Series, Leo Awards convicted killers. Will you believe the tales that the jury wouldn’t? WINNER (2012): Best Documentary (Science/Medicine/Technology), Yorkton Film Festival WINNER (2012): Best Director (Non-Fiction), Yorkton Film Festival Series 1: 4 x 30’ HD 2010 Series 4: 10 x 30’ HD 2013 WINNER (2012): Best Documentary in the Science & Technology Division, Columbus Series 2: 6 x 30’ HD 2011 Series 5: 10 x 30’ HD 2014 International Film & Video Festival Series 3: 6 x 30’ HD 2012 WINNER (2012): Best Documentary, Okanagan International Film Festival FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Optic Nerve Films Inc PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Knowledge Network Canada COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 – 2014 194 195 People & Society People & Society
FLYING SOLO | 1 x 60’ HD GRIDLOCK | 1 x 60’ HD Single living was once considered a shameful social aberration. Not Rush hour is not just an hour any more. Drivers all over the world fume any more! The vast number of adults living alone is something entirely as they sit in traffic jams. We’re going nowhere slowly and as we do, new in the human experience. Today communication technology, our blood pressure rises and so does the risk of heart attacks and lung urbanisation, gender equality and increased longevity are radically disease. Gridlock explores new solutions to sitting in traffic jams. The reshaping reality. Throughout history humans have always lived life old solution of building more roads is not working as they have just filled under a shared roof, whether huddled in igloos, mud huts, Victorian up with cars. More public transit would help a lot; but not enough for row houses or public tower blocks. Exile was the severest form of all those people coming in from distant suburbs. Gridlock explores the punishment, surpassed only by execution. Today we have entered the mysteries of the phantom jam; the kind of congestion that seems to era in which more people are choosing to live alone than ever before. appear suddenly for no good reason, then dissipates again. What about The number of adults living alone has tripled in half a century. Flying taking the driver out of driving by developing the ultimate cruise control? Solo reveals what is fuelling the trend and what it means for our future. That’s where we’re heading: we’ve got night vision, advanced braking systems, alerts that tell us we’re straying from our lane – all to help us PRODUCED BY: Sunday Night Entertainment avoid those inevitable accidents that cause backups down the highway. COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 PRODUCED BY: Spin Free Productions and CTV Television Inc COMMISSIONED BY: CTV Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009
GENERATION BOOMERANG | 1 x 60’ HD More than half of young Canadian adults aged between 20 and HIDDEN IN AMERICA | 12 x 60’ HD 29 still live with their parents. After a childhood of overprotection, Go behind the doors of the most iconic and closely guarded subcultures. overindulgence, over-everything, today’s young adults are finding the From doomsday cults to biker gangs, from underground fight clubs to real world a little too real. Generation Boomerang examines the reasons suburban swingers, from the Bosom Bar industry to drug-smuggling why so many of today’s young adults are slow to launch out into the Mennonites; shines a light into the most secret world. A tough economy gets much of the blame but a peek below Hidden In America corners of American society. Using expert analysis and unseen archive the surface reveals that this is a generation reluctant to give up the footage, this ground-breaking series goes where other shows fear to comforts of home. Generation Boomerang weaves together personal tread; revealing the secrets of outlaw gangs, strange sects and forbidden stories with expert analysis. Sociologists and psychologists weigh in subcultures and giving an insight into society’s mysterious underbelly. with differing views on whether this trend is a good thing or whether
we are raising a generation of Peter Pans who will never grow up. For Series 1: 6 x 60’ HD 2012 better or worse, this new living arrangement is something many experts Series 2: 6 x 60’ HD 2014 believe is here to stay. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Dreamfilm Productions PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada COMMISSIONED BY: Destination America USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2014 196 197 People & Society People & Society
HOT CITIES | 8 x 60’ HD Many of the world’s biggest cities face the danger of rising sea levels, dwindling water supplies and a lack of food – an explosive mix that could leave millions starving and homeless. Cities are big drivers of climate change and even more vulnerable to its effects. Hot Cities travels the world from Lagos to Los Angeles, Shanghai to Surat and Paris to Peru in order to analyse the most significant threat the planet faces. Follow the personal stories on the frontline of climate change, meet the scientists and researchers who are urgently investigating how much our world has been affected and see the politicians who have to come up with solutions and policies to help nations and communities survive. Hot Cities looks at how ingenious people have adapted their lives and surroundings to cope with climate change.
A one-hour documentary City Limits: America On The Edge is also available.
PRODUCED BY: Rockhopper TV COMMISSIONED BY: BBC World News YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010 HYPER PARENTS & CODDLED KIDS 1 x 60’ HD Kids today are the most overprotected, overindulged and overscheduled in history. Are today’s well-meaning parents giving the next generation a competitive edge or creating new problems that will last a lifetime? Gone are the days when children spent hours playing outside on their own, aimlessly exploring the world. Parents are now more obsessed with making sure their child stays ahead of the pack, in what can seem more like product development than childrearing. This documentary looks inside the world of hyper-parenting – a trend that began in the early 80s and continues to spiral out of control worldwide. This is a snapshot of today’s parenting methods whose full results will not be known for years. Will the pendulum swing back or will parents continue to up the ante and escalate hyper-parenting to a point not yet imagined?
PRODUCED BY: Dreamfilm Productions COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010
I DON’T HAVE TIME FOR THIS: DIAGNOSED WITH BREAST CANCER HOW TO DIVORCE & NOT WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT IT | 1 x 60’ HD At an age when most of their peers are enjoying all that life has to HD WRECK THE KIDS | 1 x 60’ offer, these young women are facing a demon that they didn’t expect The end of a marriage doesn’t have to be the end of a family. Three to worry about for many years – breast cancer. A diagnosis of breast courageous couples invite you to witness the end of their marriages cancer in your twenties or early thirties is unexpected and devastating. as they struggle to overcome their anger and fear and stay focused on It takes over and quickly consumes every aspect of a woman’s life. But the needs of their children. Research says separating parents who co- what happens when you’ve got so many other things to do – dating, operate can raise children who are as emotionally healthy as kids from marriage, career, pregnancy and children? We follow five courageous intact families. How To Divorce & Not Wreck The Kids takes viewers women who will not let breast cancer get in the way of their lives – they directly into the heart of one of the most emotionally devastating life simply don’t have time for it! I Don’t Have Time For This is the universal transitions, as three couples are determined to keep the needs of their story of young women building their lives despite the challenges thrown children front and centre. their way.
PRODUCED BY: Bountiful Films PRODUCED BY: Big Coat Productions COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada COMMISSIONED BY: W Network Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 198 199 People & Society People & Society
KINDNESS OF STRANGERS, THE | 1 x 60’ HD Set against a backdrop of incredible devastation, we follow the personal journeys of three remarkable volunteers who, when the Asian tsunami hit, dropped everything to fly to Sri Lanka to help. Both observational and character-driven, this documentary also canvases the opinions of leading scientists to provide a unique insight into the mysteries of altruism and the true nature of humankind.
Winner (2007): Science Journalism, Australian Museum Eureka Science Prize Winner (2006): Best Documentary Human Story, ATOM Awards
PRODUCED BY: Prospero Productions COMMISSIONED BY: ABC Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 LOST ADVENTURES OF CHILDHOOD 1 x 60’ HD How high is the price of hyper-parenting? Children once played freely in the streets, creating their own games and going home when it got dark. Today we have supervised play dates, GPS child tracking systems and year round organised sports. Lost Adventures Of Childhood looks at how we got here and to what end. A combination of fear of abduction, school shootings, litigation and falling behind, combined with the epic rise in computer games, has conspired to keep today’s children indoors. Compelling and universally relevant, this programme uses case study and expert analysis to explore the impact of this incredible sea change in the way children play and grow.
WINNER (2010): Best Documentary Science/Medicine, Golden Sheaf Award
PRODUCED BY: Sunday Night Entertainment COMMISSIONED BY: CTV Canada NEW YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009 LOVE IN A TIME OF HIV | 5 x 30’ or 1 x 60’ HD Inside Story | 9 x 60’ + 11 x 30’ HD As the headlines have disappeared, young people’s understanding This prime time current affairs series investigates major crime stories of HIV has become confused. Through a series of direct and often and events that hit the headlines in Australia and beyond. Inside Story emotional interviews, encounters and experiences, a new generation exposes the facts behind murders by family members and lovers, brutal of young people reveals how they contracted HIV, how they cope slayings by teenage killers, tales of cheats, con-artists and fraudsters, and the impact it’s had on their close relationships. At the heart of violent and fatal obsessions, cases of outrageous negligence – all those each episode is a love story. The family trying for a baby, the Indian news items where audiences want to know what really happened. Top widow looking for love, the South African singer’s HIV revelation to features include the inside story of Australia’s biggest con artist, a her boyfriend and the American mother and daughter who are both timid accountant who stole more than $45 million from one of the HIV positive. The series travels to St. Petersburg, London, New York, country’s largest corporations, and went on a wild spending spree. Johannesburg and Mumbai. Love In A Time Of HIV avoids the tired old Then there is the case of the jealous obsessed stalker who not only tales of woe and instead paints a portrait of a generation of HIV positive kidnapped and murdered her pretty and popular neighbour after five people leading their lives and finding love. These are stories of triumph years of secret plotting, but then set about stealing her victim’s identity in the face of the utmost adversity. in order to become her. Not to mention the 16 year old American horror movie fans whose slasher video captured everything, from planning the WINNER (2009): Best Creative Feature – Television for ‘I Love NY’, Association for murder in the school library to their adrenaline-fuelled get-away after International Broadcast (AIB) the killing. PRODUCED BY: Rockhopper TV COMMISSIONED BY: BBC World Format Rights Available YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2009 PRODUCED BY: Nine Network Australia COMMISSIONED BY: Nine Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2016 200 201 People & Society People & Society
MULTIPLE MIRACLES | 1 x 60’ For Dale and Darren Chalk life is anything but conventional. With five children under the age of three, life is about to get even more hectic – because Dale is pregnant with their second set of quadruplets. It’s a situation that would frighten most parents but Dale and Darren look forward to the challenge. In Multiple Miracles we follow this extraordinary family as they face the joys of multiple new births, the heartache of an unexpected death and the many life changes that transpire when a family is blessed with multiple miracles.
PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Health USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006
OOPS, WRONG PLANET | 1 x 60’ PRISON SONGS | 1 x 60’ HD Oops, Wrong Planet is a remarkable insight into the world of Asperger In Australia’s tropical Northern Territory over 800 inmates squeeze Syndrome, a condition at the mild end of the autism spectrum. into the overcrowded Berrimah Prison. Berrimah is filled mainly with Stubborn, inflexible, anti-social, with bad fashion sense, poor table Aboriginal inmates, who battle the dirt, rats, mosquitoes and unbearable manners and given to temper tantrums, ‘Aspies’ are frequently heat. Many come from remote communities where English isn’t their first dismissed as nerdish geeks. However, Asperger traits can be identified language and their traditional lore is in conflict with European rule of in many historical geniuses from Isaac Newton to Andy Warhol, with law. This thoughtful documentary musical gives a voice to these normally Hans Christian Anderson’s fairy tales such as The Ugly Duckling being overlooked Australian citizens, tapping into their culture that uses song classic allegories of life with Asperger’s. Are whistle-blowers more likely and dance to communicate. Working with award-winning songwriters to be Aspies, just like the little boy in The Emperor’s New Clothes? Casey Bennetto and Shellie Morris, inmates have their stories interpreted
PRODUCED BY: Ramsey Films into songs. Their personal tales mesh together to create a portrait of life YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2008 in a society with one of the highest incarceration rates in the world.
WINNER (2015): Best Direction in a Documentary, Australian Director’s Guild Awards HD OUTBACK KIDS | 3 x 60’ WINNER (2015): Humanitarian and Investigation Category, Rockie Award, Banff World Outback Kids follows the work of the Brahminy Group as it attempts to Media Congress WINNER (2015): Best TV Production – Factual, WA Screen Awards rehabilitate seven profoundly troubled young kids deep in the isolated WINNER (2015): Best Direction – Long Form Factual, WA Screen Awards Australian bush. It’s a place of last resort for chronic drug abusers, WINNER (2015): Best Sound – Long Form Factual, WA Screen Awards juvenile offenders, petrol sniffers, gang members, child prostitutes and WINNER (2015): Best Editing – Long Form Factual, WA Screen Awards the sexually abused. Aged between twelve and sixteen, the kids are NOMINATED (2015): Best Cinematography – Long Form Factual, WA Screen Awards a mixture of boys and girls, black and white, rich and poor. But what unites these kids is the severity of their problems; they are at the end PRODUCED BY: Beyond West and Spear Point Productions with assistance from ScreenWest, Lotterywest, Screen Australia and SBS Australia of the line and this place, far from the toxic temptations and traumas COMMISSIONED BY: SBS Australia of their usual lives, represents the kids’ last chance of salvation. YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014
NOMINATED (2012): Best Documentary Series, AACTA Awards 10 x 30’ HD FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE REAL LIVES LESS ORDINARY | PRODUCED BY: Beyond Screen Production Real Lives Less Ordinary is an intimate series featuring everyday people COMMISSIONED BY: ABC Australia who have an extraordinary story to tell. These stories are of astonishing YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 achievements, triumph over adversity, kindness to others, a life transformation and more. These are compelling and inspirational tales that range from a young woman diagnosed with terminal breast cancer determined to remain relentlessly upbeat; to the student who rallied an army of volunteers when his city was left devastated by an earthquake; to the first woman to summit Everest without oxygen; and the hip hop dancer who broke onto the world stage from humble beginnings on YouTube. You only live once, so make it count!
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Jam TV COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 202 203 People & Society People & Society
SEXT UP KIDS | 1 x 60’ HD STRANGER IN MY HOME, A | 26 x 60’ HD Sext Up Kids reveals how our hyper-sexualised culture has hijacked If there is one thing you don’t expect to find in your own home, it is childhood and tallies the cost of the pressure to be sexy too soon. From danger lurking around every corner. This may be the place where we tiny tots strutting bikini-clad bodies in beauty pageants to companies feel most comfortable, but there’s no better way to get inside our lives marketing itty-bitty thongs and padded bras to nine-year olds, images than to get inside our homes. Each episode traces the path where a of ever-younger sexualised girls have become commonplace. trusting victim has invited a stranger across the threshold into their Increasingly, younger boys have 24-7 access to hard-core Internet home, and paid the ultimate price. Anyone invited under your roof, be porn. By the time they’re eighteen, 80% of boys are watching porn it a neighbour, guest, hired help, boarder or a new partner, can cross online. Toss social media into the mix and kids can produce, as well as the line into deceit and be the ultimate threat within. A Stranger In consume, X-rated images now. ‘Sexting’ has become a Grade 7 rite of My Home is the perfect blend of mystery and suspense, telling the passage. Sext Up Kids exposes how growing up in a hyper-sexualised true stories of how strangers can turn against you. Let the wrong culture hurts our kids. For every parent who thinks, “That’s not my son person in and it could be the last mistake you ever make! or daughter,” Sext Up Kids is your wake up call. Series 1: 10 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 3: 10 x 60’ HD 2015 HD PRODUCED BY: Dream Street Pictures Series 2: 6 x 60’ 2014 COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: CMJ Productions II Inc COMMISSIONED BY: ID. Investigation Discovery USA, Canal D Canada and Investigation Quebec Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 – 2015
SLEEPY LIFE, A | 1 x 60’ For most of us sleep is a welcome visitor at the end of a long day. But for people with narcolepsy, sleep is a thief robbing them of years of their lives. Documenting the experiences of three women who suffer from narcolepsy as they go about their daily lives, A Sleepy Life shows how everyday activities such as driving, bathing and eating can become life-threatening events and how these women and their families cope with the battle to stay awake.
PRODUCED BY: The TV Set COMMISSIONED BY: TV3 New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2004 204 205 People & Society People & Society
SUICIDE TOURIST, THE | 1 x 60’ or 1 x 90’ HD The controversy over a person’s right to die at a time and place of their own choosing has become focused on the Swiss organization Dignitas. Dignitas in Zurich is the only place where a person seeking an assisted suicide can legally be helped to die, no matter where they are from – or what their state of health. Craig Ewert, a 59-year-old American with motor-neurone disease, is determined not to live through his steady deterioration until what he fears may be a horrific ‘natural’ death. Should George and Betty Coumbias be allowed to die together at a time of their choosing? For a year, Oscar-winning director John Zaritsky had exclusive access to Dignitas and its clients. The Suicide Tourist will take the audience on a journey they could only have imagined, and won’t forget.
WINNER (2009): Audience Award, Best Documentary, Sedona Film Festival WINNER (2008): Best Writing in a Documentary Program or Series, Gemini Awards WINNER (2008): Best Cinematography, Leo Awards WINNER (2008): Best Direction, Leo Awards WINNER (2008): Best Documentary Program, Leo Awards WINNER (2008): Best Musical Score, Leo Awards WINNER (2008): Best Overall Sound, Leo Awards WINNER (2008): Best Picture Editing, Leo Awards NOMINATED (2008): Official Selection, Reykjavik International Film Festival NOMINATED (2008): Official Selection, Cinemambiente – International Environmental Film Festival NOMINATED (2008): Best Direction in a Documentary Program, Gemini Awards WINNER (2007): Audience Pick, Top Ten Films, Hot Docs, Toronto WINNER (2007): Special Mention, NFB Best Canadian Documentary Feature Award, Vancouver International Film Festival THOROUGHLY MODERN MARRIAGE PRODUCED BY: Point Grey Pictures HD COMMISSIONED BY: CTV Canada 1 x 60’ YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007 This is a provocative exploration of the current state of our most fascinating social institution. For the first time in Canadian history, TABOO | 34 x 60’ HD there are more unmarried people than married – a controversial tipping point and a dangerous one according to some. It’s prompted Taboo explores some of the most confronting behaviours, rituals and beliefs from around the world. The range and diversity of human proponents of marital hearth and home to step up their support of the behaviour almost defies the imagination. With stories ranging from beleaguered institution. By using the stories of married and hoping- prostitution to obesity, death to drugs and polygamy to child weddings, to-be-married couples, interwoven with expert voices on both sides of the campaign to rebuild marriage’s tarnished image, the documentary Taboo gives you a front row view of some of the most bizarre and controversial aspects of human behaviour. Travelling to places including builds a provocative analysis of marriage in the early 21st century. Australia, West Africa, Central Asia, Europe and the Americas to PRODUCED BY: Dreamfilm Productions uncover the truth behind the taboos, the series takes you on a journey COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada into the forbidden and asks the question “What is taboo for you?” YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011
Series 4: 13 x 60’ HD 2007 Series 6: 6 x 60’ HD 2009 Series 5: 15 x 60’ HD 2008 TOUCH WOOD | 1 x 60’
PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions Touch Wood takes us on an intimate journey into the strange world COMMISSIONED BY: National Geographic Channel USA of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Fuelled by a desire to YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2007 – 2009 understand his own behaviour, director Cosmo Kentish-Barnes meets other people with OCD to discover how it affects their lives. Innovatively crafted using candid portraits and creative animations, Touch Wood creates a contemporary view of this extraordinary mind disorder, making for compulsive viewing!
NOMINATED (2007): Best Documentary, Air New Zealand Screen Awards
PRODUCED BY: Production Line COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 206 207 People & Society People & Society
TRANSFORMING GENDER | 1 x 60’ HD Transforming Gender explores what it’s like to be in conflict with the gender assigned to you. The battle over the rights and freedoms of transgender individuals is the first great civil rights struggle of the 21st century. In the last five years mainstream society has woken up to the vivid presence of transgender people in its midst. From a generation of gender variant children and pop culture celebrities, to transitioning superstar athletes and soldiers, trans people have never been more WILD & DANGEROUS: THE visible. Behind the headlines though, a darker picture emerges. Transgender people are among the most persecuted, least protected WORLD OF EXOTIC PETS | 1 x 60’ HD people in our society. More than one in three transgender people Wild & Dangerous peers into the relationships between people and attempts suicide at some point in their lives. But increasingly they their exotic pets and examines the issues that come with keeping are fighting back against the discrimination and few doubt that the undomesticated animals. Can we transform any wild creature from any era of transgender enfranchisement is upon us. environment into a companion just by bringing it home and giving it a name? Do we have the right to own wild animals as property? Can PRODUCED BY: Mad Hive Media exotic animals adapt to new environments and live enriched lives in COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 captivity? Meet Denise and her giant Tegu lizard Roscoe, Yasmin and her estranged monkey Darwin and Zuzana and Scott with their pet lion Bam-Bam. Their personal stories reveal the immediate dangers, public TRUTH ABOUT FEMALE DESIRE, THE safety concerns and the cost of keeping exotic animals. Their situations point to an illicit exotic pet trade that thrives amidst a patchwork 1 x 60’ HD of loose, conflicting laws across North America that are now under The Truth About Female Desire is a revealing look at what women really scrutiny in the wake of recent high profile cases of escaped pets. want and are willing to do to get it. Women of all ages, shapes and sizes are demanding the right to be sexual and they don’t give a damn PRODUCED BY: Dream Street Pictures what you think of them. A generation ago a woman who liked sex went COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 to great lengths to hide it. Now she brags about it. New science about female sexuality, coupled with advances in technology, makes it possible for women to pursue their desires like never before. This provocative, honest and entertaining look at female desire smashes centuries-old constructs designed to control female sexuality and reveals a generation of women who expect power in both the boardroom and the bedroom.
PRODUCED BY: Bountiful Films COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 208 209 1 SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
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Cool Stuff: How It Works | 7 x 30’ HD Engineered | 10 x 60’ HD A highly visual and immersive series that deconstructs technology and Have you ever wondered how a firework bursts into multiple colours brings it to life with spectacular results. The world is full of cool things and patterns on cue? Can you really get lead poisoning from a number we’d all love to get our hands on. From fire suits that withstand two 2 pencil? How does a tennis ball achieve its signature bounce? thousand degree flames, to robots that destroy bombs with powerful Engineered takes curious viewers on an adventure into the world of water canons, to flight simulators that you can only dream of, this is product design, manufacturing and testing. This is a behind-the-scenes the territory of Cool Stuff: How It Works. In each episode a vast range look at how people and machines create some of life’s most fascinating of imaging techniques from macro lenses, MRIs, X-rays, ultrasounds, things. Each episode of Engineered features the story behind four scanning electron microscopes to high-speed and thermal cameras familiar objects – the challenges of their design, the machines that brings the invisible world to the screen in high definition. make them and the tests that ensure they work. Go beyond the everyday nuts and bolts of an object and find out how some of Produced by: Beyond Productions the most fascinating things in life are engineered. COMMISSIONED by: Discovery Channel USA Year of Production: 2007 Produced by: Atlas Media Corp COMMISSIONED by: National Geographic Channel USA Year of Production: 2007 – 2008
Design DNA | 13 x 30’ HD These are the icons of design – we’ve seen them but we’ve never really heard the story behind them. From conception to creation, Design DNA tells the birth stories of the beautiful and essential items in our homes. A biography of sorts where the hero may be an appliance, a gadget or a chair. Each episode features three essential pieces of home design MANUFACTURED | 13 x 30’ HD – following the product from the first spark of conception, through the brilliance of the design to the final mechanics of the factory floor. From the inventors to the factory floor workers,Manufactured tells the Everyday items include the La-Z-Boy recliner, Miele washing machine, story of great products. Each episode follows the conception, history Umbra Garbino bin, Tupperware, Eames lounge chair, Toto toilet, and manufacture of three objects. These include the Stetson hat, Playmobil, Vaughan hammer, Jacuzzi, Pyrex, Maglite flashlight, Toro lawn signature profile of the Wild West; Toto Drake II toilet, the best thing to mower and the Swiss Army knife. Audiences will appreciate the ultimate happen to bathroom visits; Zippo lighter, a flick of fire guaranteed for access inside some of the world’s top manufacturing plants, whilst life; Vitamix blender, the power tool for your meals, and Jack Daniel’s admiring the artistic and practical design elements employed to make Old No. 7 Tennessee Whiskey, the highest selling American whiskey to the cherished items an integral part of everyday life in a family home. date. Through original filming, historical stock footage and interviews, Manufactured tells the stories of thirty-nine iconic products from Nominated (2011): Best Lifestyle/Practical Information Series, Gemini Awards prototype through to the production line.
Produced by: Castlewood Productions Produced by: Castlewood Productions COMMISSIONED by: HGTV Canada COMMISSIONED by: Discovery Canada Year of Production: 2011 Year of Production: 2014 212 213 Science & Technology Science & Technology
Mythbusters | 259 x 60’ + 4 x 120’ Adam and Jamie are at the helm as they tackle myths bigger and better than ever before. It’s no wonder we’ve just been nominated for our eighth Emmy Award in a row! MythBusters use their explosive mixture of science, engineering, ingenuity and luck to not only retell the myths but also put them to the test for your entertainment. MythBusters 2.0 has been reinvented with a whole new look and style. It’s bigger, it’s faster and quite frankly, it’s better than ever! The latest series is all about fan favourites Adam and Jamie as they tackle the most intriguing and spectacular myths yet. There’s also a whole episode devoted to a behind-the-scenes look at how we make MythBusters plus an episode focused solely on the biggest stories we’ve ever tackled. And for us, that’s saying something!
Series 1: 16 x 60’ 2003 Series 6: 30 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD 2009 Series 2: 26 x 60’ + 7 x 60’ 2005 Series 7: 30 x 60’ + 6 x 60’ HD 2011 Series 3: 29 x 60’ + 1 x 60’ 2005 Series 8: 30 x 60’ HD 2012 Series 4: 30 x 60’ + 1 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD 2005 Series 9: 13 x 60’ HD 2013 Series 5: 30 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD 2008 Series 10: 10 x 60’ + 1 x 120’ HD 2015
Nominated (2016): Outstanding Structured Reality Program, Emmy Award Nominated (2015): Outstanding Structured Reality Program, Emmy Award Nominated (2014): Outstanding Structured Reality Program, Emmy Award Nominated (2013): Outstanding Reality Program, Emmy Award Nominated (2012): Outstanding Reality Program, Emmy Award Nominated (2011): Outstanding Reality Program, Emmy Award Nominated (2010): Outstanding Reality Program, Emmy Award Nominated (2009): Outstanding Reality Program, Emmy Award Winner (2007): Most Popular Lifestyle Program, TV Week Logie Awards Winner (2005): Silver Award in Science Magazine Category, Beijing International Science Film Festival
Format rights available Produced by: Beyond Productions and Discovery Channel USA COMMISSIONED by: Discovery Channel USA Year of Production: 2003 – 2015 NEW MYTH OR SCIENCE: | 5 x 60’ HD Putting science to the test. She’s divined the weather, gone on a quest for perfection, and discovered the untapped potential of our food, even ventured into the mysterious realm of sleep. Now in her latest series, Dr Jennifer Gardy heads for new worlds: the kingdoms of taste, touch, smell, hearing and sight. This intrepid and curious scientist puts her brain and body on the line to continue her mission to put science and health claims to the test and discover, once and for all, whether they’re myth or science.
Myth or Science 1 x 60’ HD 2012 Myth or Science: The quest for perfection 1 x 60’ HD 2014 Myth or Science: Eye of the storm 1 x 60’ HD 2015 Myth or Science: You are what you eat 1 x 60’ HD 2015 Myth or Science: Come to your senses 1 x 60’ HD 2016
Nominated (2012): Best Documentary Writing, Canadian Screenwriting Awards
Produced by: Infield Fly Productions Inc COMMISSIONED by: CBC Canada Year of Production: 2012 – 2016 214 215 Science & Technology Science & Technology
PROGRAMMED TO BE FAT? | 1 x 60’ HD Sport Star Insider | 2 x 60’ HD Man-made chemicals may be programming us to be fat – before we’re Former professional sportsman Andrew ‘ET’ Ettingshausen immerses even born! Over the past three decades, the developed world has himself in sports that are extending the boundaries of human ability, become increasingly overweight, even after years of struggling to eat in the air and in the water. In the air it’s gliding to paragliding to less and exercise more. Programmed To Be Fat? explores controversial aerobatics; in the water it’s surfing to free-diving to speed sailing. new science that suggests exposure to man-made chemicals starting Through the eyes of champion ‘insiders’, ET explores the unique in the womb may be triggering changes to our metabolism that result combination of advanced technology and athletics required to master in life-long weight gain. Endocrine disruptors are all around us – in sports. We meet the athletes who have powered their way to the plastic, in cans, in the water we drink, in the food we eat. They’re not winner’s circle, revealing the techniques, secrets and technology supposed to enter our bodies, but they do. If they’re proven to cause keeping them at the top of their game. weight gain, the implications for human health are profound. Scientists are going beyond animal research to human population studies, testing Produced by: Beyond Productions the theory that foetal exposure to man-made chemicals is a key reason COMMISSIONED by: Discovery Asia Pacific Year of Production: 2009 for our global obesity epidemic.
Winner (2013): Best Health/Medical Information, New York Festivals International Television & Film Awards
Produced by: Dreamfilm Productions COMMISSIONED by: CBC Canada Year of Production: 2011
Stop. Rewind | 13 x 30’ Explore the ideas, discoveries, dead ends and eureka moments that shaped the 21st century. Stop. Rewind plots the most innovative 25 years in human history; the giant leap forward in technology from the mid 1980s to the beginning of the 21st century. The world was a very different place 25 years ago – no digital, no dot-com, no cell phones, no blogs or tweets, nor many of the technological innovations that we now take for granted. Using images shot over the past quarter century, Stop. Rewind showcases the hilarious and often hapless ideas that fell by the wayside, as well as those innovations that Science Impossible | 6 x 60’ HD really were a preview into the future. Themed episodes include fast cars, robots, weapons, space, planes, housing, medical technology, computers, What lets a man lift up to 70lbs using only his nipples? What keeps a gadgets, boats and submarines, sport, entertainment and energy. glass eater’s entire digestive system from being ripped to shreds when
swallowing shards of glass? How can a woman survive one million Format rights available volts of electricity passing through her body? How can a woman shove Produced by: Beyond Productions metal skewers through her arms without feeling pain? We’ve witnessed Year of Production: 2010 uncanny talents, mysterious feats and abnormal physical attributes and yet we are never given the answer to our most burning question: how is this possible? Science Impossible captures feats that are unbelievable, Wild Tech | 7 x 60’ inexplicable and seemingly impossible and then investigates Wild Tech is the series that meshes two disparate environments scientifically how they are possible. With the aid of leading doctors – nature and man-made – to produce a whole new perspective on and physicists, groundbreaking imaging techniques and observable technology. This programme compares human achievements in areas experiments we dissect, analyse and decode the mysteries behind such as defence, communications and aeronautics, with similar these unique phenomena. phenomena that occur in the animal world.
Produced by: Atlas Media Corp Produced by: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED by: National Geographic Channel USA COMMISSIONED by: Science Channel USA Year of Production: 2009 – 2011 Year of Production: 2003 216 217 2 WILDLIFE & NAT UR AL HISTORY
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CHASING MONSTERS | 12 x 60’ HD Chasing Monsters takes us on a mission to seek out colossal and dangerous underwater creatures in the most remote corners of the planet. From the shark-infested waters of Florida to the rugged Amazon in Brazil, monster fish adventurer Cyril Chauquet tests the ferociousness of the alligator gar, fights huge catfish with his bare hands and battles with giant Mexican sailfish. He uses himself as bait in shark-infested waters, swabs razor-sharp shark teeth to help develop life saving antibiotics and comes face to face with the barracuda. This series explores the fascinating stories behind the elusive monster fish living in the hidden depths of the planet’s oceans, lakes and rivers and the adrenaline-packed journeys to get up close and personal with them!
PRODUCED BY: Untamed Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Evasion Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015
ANIMAL 999 | 55 x 30’ HD Animal 999 returns, giving viewers a fascinating insight into the work carried out by the SSPCA, who protect and care for thousands of animals throughout Scotland every year. Go behind the scenes with inspectors, rescue officers and rehoming teams as they save and care for abused pets and injured animals. In this new season, the staff have to deal with a media storm around the rehoming of Atlas the giant rabbit, and Jack the Jack Russell terrier gets a new lease of life when he gets his eyesight back after a cataract operation. As well as rescuing a crow trapped up a chimney and an otter hit by a car, it’s all in a day’s work for the rescue team!
Series 1: 8 x 30’ HD 2012 Series 4: 10 x 30’ HD 2015 Series 2: 12 x 30’ HD 2012 Series 5: 15 x 30’ HD 2016 Series 3: 10 x 30’ HD 2014
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Demus Productions COMMISSIONED BY: STV Scotland YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2012 – 2016 220 221 wildlife & Natural History Wildlife & Natural History
EQUUS | 1 x 60’ Originally made for IMAX cinema release, Equus follows the story of three foals born on the same night and their different destinies. The chestnut filly becomes a successful racehorse, the bay colt is a failed eventer sold to a film stunt horse trainer and the black colt escapes from his owners to join a wild herd in the high country.
PRODUCED BY: Equus Film Productions YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2001
MONSTER BUG WARS! | 13 x 60’ HD This is ringside access to bug-eat-bug gladiatorial contests! Witness some of nature’s deadliest encounters where stings, spikes and deadly venom are wielded with cold-blooded precision. Enter the no-holds- barred, real life world of spiders, scorpions, centipedes and killer ants fighting to the death. Can the lethal stinger of a Bull Ant overcome the suffocating silk of the Redback Spider? Filmed in extreme close-up high definition and illustrated with state-of-the-art CGI,Monster Bug Wars! brings to life nature’s ultimate fight club. The five encounters per episode are accompanied with expert commentary from Dr Linda Rayor, Cornell University’s eminent entomologist and Dr Bryan Grieg Fry, “Professor Poison” from The University of Queensland.
An accompanying special recaps the Top Ten Bug Battles.
Series 1: 6 x 60’ HD 2011 FORECAST FOR DISASTER Series 2: 6 x 60’ + 1 x 60’ HD 2012 FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE – LA NIÑA STRIKES | 2 x 60’ PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions and Discovery Science Channel USA After 14 years of drought and below average rainfall, the Pacific COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Science USA Ocean weather phenomenon known as El Niño reversed and became YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 – 2012 its terrible sister La Niña. In just two years, Australia was scarred by devastating bushfires, record rain, tragic floods and ferocious cyclones. 20 x 30’ This series of natural catastrophes left Australians reeling and confused REMARKABLE VETS | as they counted the cost. But from disaster can come understanding. Set against the backdrop of one of the most beautiful landscapes in These two episodes reveal the confluence of global weather patterns the world, the Remarkables mountain range on New Zealand’s South and how they set the stage for an unprecedented run of weather events Island, this series focuses on the fast-paced activities of new rural that left the country worn. Combining eyewitness accounts, numbing vet, Geoff Woodhouse. Having made the big move from the city to the images of destruction and insightful expert commentary, Forecast For country, Geoff faces the many challenges of building a new business Disaster – La Niña Strikes reveals the science behind the calamity. It’s a from scratch and being the ‘new kid on the block’. Set in and around clear-eyed explanation of the weather maelstrom that tested Australia... the rural vet practice, we follow Geoff and his team as they undertake and will do so again. their assignments and challenges – from run-over dogs and sick horses to downright pretty pigs. Forecast for disaster – The weather behind black saturday 1 x 60’ 2009 Series 1: 10 x 30’ 2006 Winner (2010): Most Outstanding Documentary, ASTRA Award Series 2: 10 x 30’ 2006
PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions and The Weather Channel Australia PRODUCED BY: Great Southern Television COMMISSIONED BY: The Weather Channel Australia COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 222 223 wildlife & Natural History Wildlife & Natural History
VENOM ONE | 1 x 60’ In the next 24 hours, twenty people will be bitten by venomous snakes somewhere in the United States. The odds are twelve will not survive. Venom One is a unique insight into the only paramedic unit in the United States purpose-trained and equipped to respond to snake bites. Based at Miami Dade Fire Station, the Venom One team has saved dozens of lives since it came into operation.
PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Channel USA YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2001
ROOKIE VETS | 10 x 30’ From tending to sick cats and dogs to collecting the semen of prize bulls, it’s all in a day’s work for these trainee vets! Rookie Vets follows the lives of seven students in their final year of study. These students are juggling huge workloads along with the stress of making life and death decisions about an animal’s wellbeing on a daily basis.
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2005
TRENT’S WILDCAT ADVENTURES | 10 x 30’ Trent Barclay is a dedicated zoo keeper with a passion for wild cats. Trent travels to the wilds of South Africa where he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime – encountering his beloved wild cats up close and personal in their natural habitat. This is a fact-finding mission like no other; discovering all there is to know about these amazing animals WILD BUT TRUE WITH and meeting other people who are just as crazy about cats. ROBERT IRWIN | 13 x 30’ HD PRODUCED BY: Greenstone Come on a mind-blowing journey filled with unreal science and wild COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand adventures! Wild But True is a fun and exciting biomimicry series that YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 explores how nature and wildlife have influenced our modern day lives. Find out how billions of years of nature’s solutions are dramatically VANISHING ANTARCTIC, THE | 1 x 60’ HD changing human lives. Our hosts, ten-year-old naturalist Robert Irwin and science geek Isabel Yamazaki, combine their passion for nature The West Antarctic Ice Shelf is melting right under the feet of scientists. with fascinating science facts. The kids discover what ants can teach Richard Wilson travels to the West Antarctic to see the work of the British us about traffic control; what submarine designers have learnt from scientists investigating changes to the shape of the ice and the possible birds; how the humble butterfly can help us make better iPads; and consequences for our world. Until recently the area was considered safe how ‘swarm-intelligence’ is guiding a new generation of cooperative from rapid melting. Now something has made the experts change their robots. Together Robert and Isabel set off on an adventure-filled minds – it is melting more than 100 times faster than expected! It is journey across the globe, showing how nature’s blueprints make now believed that the melting of the Pine Island Glacier and the West our world greener, safer and all round more fun! Antarctic Ice Shelf may be the biggest factor in global sea level rise this
century. The great coastal cities of the world could be swamped by five NOMINATED (2015): Best Children’s Programme, Asian TV Awards metres of water if the West Antarctic Ice Shelf goes. “It’s beginning to look like the greatest vanishing act on earth” – presenter Richard Wilson. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Screen Production for Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific with the PRODUCED BY: Rockhopper TV assistance of Screen Queensland COMMISSIONED BY: BBC World News COMMISSIONED BY: Discovery Networks Asia-Pacific YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2011 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 224 225 wildlife & Natural History Wildlife & Natural History
WILD TECH | 7 x 60’ Wild Tech is the series that meshes two disparate environments – nature and man-made – to produce a whole new perspective on technology. This programme compares human achievements in areas such as defence, communications and aeronautics, with similar phenomena that occur in the animal world.
WILD & DANGEROUS: THE PRODUCED BY: Beyond Productions COMMISSIONED BY: Science Channel USA WORLD OF EXOTIC PETS | 1 x 60’ HD YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2003 Wild & Dangerous peers into the relationships between people and their exotic pets and examines the issues that come with keeping WILDLIFE MAN, THE | 21 x 60’ + 1 x 30’ undomesticated animals. Can we transform any wild creature from any environment into a companion just by bringing it home and giving it Encounters with dangerous creatures are part of David Ireland’s day a name? Do we have the right to own wild animals as property? Can job – he is The Wildlife Man. He encounters some of the world’s wildest exotic animals adapt to new environments and live enriched lives in and most fascinating creatures: wrestling crocodiles and wild boars, captivity? Meet Denise and her giant Tegu lizard Roscoe, Yasmin and swimming with whales, catching deadly snakes and getting up close her estranged monkey Darwin and Zuzana and Scott with their pet lion and personal with sharks, rhinos and elephants. From tropical jungles Bam-Bam. Their personal stories reveal the immediate dangers, public to rugged mountains, deep-sea shipwrecks to harsh deserts, The safety concerns and the cost of keeping exotic animals. Their situations Wildlife Man takes you on a thrilling ride into the wilderness.
point to an illicit exotic pet trade that thrives amidst a patchwork Series 1: 7 x 60’ 2006 Series 3: 6 x 60’ HD 2009 of loose, conflicting laws across North America that are now under Series 2: 6 x 60’ HD 2006 Series 4: 2 x 60’ + 1 x 30’ HD 2013 scrutiny in the wake of recent high profile cases of escaped pets. FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Dream Street Pictures PRODUCED BY: Wildlife Man Family Trust COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada COMMISSIONED BY: Nine Network Australia YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2015 YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2006 – 2013 226 227 wildlife & Natural History Wildlife & Natural History
ZOO REVOLUTION | 1 x 60’ HD Zoo Revolution takes the viewer deep inside the increasingly controversial debate about the value of zoos in the 21st century. Love them or hate them, zoos are big business, attracting 700 million visitors a year worldwide. Are zoos an outmoded way of displaying animals for entertainment? Or are zoos more important than ever before, at the frontline of species survival and public education? Zoo Revolution presents experts and animal lovers on both sides of the argument in Canada, the UK, USA, Germany and Australia. Many animal welfare advocates argue that zoos are a colossal waste of resources that would be better spent in the wild where habitat loss, poaching and climate change are taking a terrible toll on the earth’s species. Zoo supporters maintain that zoos are critically important in 117 x 30’ ZOO, THE | helping humans re-establish our connection with animals and raise Camera crews based full-time at Auckland Zoo deliver stories from the public awareness. So are zoos part of the solution or the problem? very beginning with exclusive access. The Zoo is there as the tigers rip into a fresh deer piñata, Burma the elephant swims in a fresh lagoon, PRODUCED BY: Dream Street Pictures giraffe Rukiya gives birth to a leggy baby and some pungent Kunekune COMMISSIONED BY: CBC Canada YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2013 pigs enter the lions’ den – literally. As well as catching-up with the animals and their day-to-day routines, the keepers take us into the field as they release endangered birds and assist with the Rena Oil Disaster Rescue Operation. From a rescued fur seal pup to baby meerkats, joeys and squirrel monkeys, all your favourites are still at The Zoo.
Series 1: 7 x 30’ 1999 Series 7: 13 x 30’ 2005 Series 2: 8 x 30’ 2000 Series 8: 14 x 30’ 2006 Series 3: 8 x 30’ 2001 Series 9: 13 x 30’ 2007 Series 4: 7 x 30’ 2003 Series 10: 10 x 30’ 2008 Series 5: 7 x 30’ 2003 Series 11: 10 x 30’ 2009 Series 6: 10 x 30’ 2005 Series 12: 10 x 30’ HD 2012
RUNNER UP (2013): Favourite Documentary Series, TV Guide ‘Best On The Box’ People’s Choice Awards WINNER (2007): Favourite Documentary Series, TV Guide ‘Best On The Box’ People’s Choice Awards WINNER (2006): Favourite Documentary Series, TV Guide ‘Best On The Box’ People’s Choice Awards WINNER (2005): Favourite Documentary Series, TV Guide ‘Best On The Box’ People’s Choice Awards Nominated (2005): Best NZ Popular/Factual Unscripted Programme, Qantas Television Awards WINNER (2004): Favourite Documentary Series, TV Guide ‘Best On The Box’ People’s Choice Awards WINNER (2004): Best Information Programme, Qantas Media Awards WINNER (2003): Favourite Documentary Series, TV Guide ‘Best On The Box’ People’s Choice Awards WINNER (2002): Favourite Documentary Series, TV Guide ‘Best On The Box’ People’s Choice Awards WINNER (2001): Most Popular Family Programme, NZ TV Awards WINNER (2001): Finalist, Qantas Media Awards WINNER (2001): Favourite Documentary Series, TV Guide ‘Best On The Box’ People’s Choice Awards WINNER (2000): Finalist, Qantas Media Awards
Zoo Babies 1 x 60’ 2002 Zoo Babies Special: Raising Baby iwani 1 x 60’ 2005 Zoo special: Two by two at the zoo 10 x 30’ 2005 Zoo, The: This is your life 5 x 30’ 2008
FORMAT RIGHTS AVAILABLE PRODUCED BY: Greenstone COMMISSIONED BY: TVNZ New Zealand YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 1999 – 2012 228 229 3 Short- form content
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NEW Flashback | 250 x 2’ Flashback is a unique library of two minute programmes that will move, shock, inspire and entertain your audience. From the command module of Apollo 13 to the streets of revolutionary Iran, every episode catapults the viewer back to a special specific moment in time. Created from rare and mostly previously unseen stunning archive film, the ‘flashbacks’ are beautifully crafted, meticulously researched, and can be used to keep audiences engaged between long-form shows, or to celebrate landmark anniversaries. With hundreds of stories from all over the world, and new ones being produced every day, Flashback is an ever-expanding catalogue telling some of the greatest stories of the NEW last 100 years. Quarx | 26 x 11’ or 26 x 5’ PRODUCED BY: History Television International YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2014 – 2016 What happens if you make someone as heavy as a neutron star? Or use a tornado to make ice cream? From world-renowned producer Jasper James (founder of Wide-Eyed Entertainment and Impossible Pictures) P.B Bear and Friends | 30 x 5’ or 6 x 30’ the answers to these fascinating questions and more are explored Join P.B Bear and Friends in this animated fantasy world packed with in new children’s series Quarx. Filmed as a series of short films (in wonderful adventures and exciting make-believe games. This is a place 11 and 5 minute versions), each episode features a trio of teenagers where anything can happen and once P.B Bear and his crazy cuddly who like to do mad experiments and post them online. However toy chums get together, there’s no limit to the fun they can have! Their these are no ordinary kids – they have super-powers so they can days may start and end up all cosy and safe but in-between it’s all alter the fundamental laws of physics. So their experiments tend surprises, fun and learning. to go completely over the top!
Produced by: Penguin Television Produced by: Screen Glue Ltd commissioned by: Channel 5 UK COMMISSIONED by: Curiosity Stream & Discovery Asia Year of Production: 1997 – 1998 Year of Production: 2015 232 233 4 FEATURE FILMS
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all the way | 85’ Cold & Dark | 94’ When given the choice of coming up with $30,000 in one month or John Dark is a good policeman and his long time mentor, Detective losing his family’s home, Steve turns to his friends for help. Together Inspector Mortimer Shade (Mort), has taught him everything he knows. they devise the perfect money-making plan; to produce a porno film! When Mort is killed by an unknown assailant whilst on a job, Dark is so But before they can reel in the profits, goody-goody Steve and his devastated that he gives chase and attempts to knock the killer down equally inexperienced friends must learn the ins and outs of the with his car. However, when he returns to the scene, he is astonished pornography business. With only 30 days to write, cast, direct, shoot to find Mort alive and well. What follows is a series of bizarre killings in and possibly star in the film, the boys have no other choice but to put which the duo’s gravest adversaries are murdered in a series of bestial their insecurities aside and head full-throttle into a series of hilariously attacks. Cold & Dark is a gripping story that fuses the horror/detective misguided adventures in the erotic film industry. genres in the most spine-chilling way.
director: Marque Owen director: Andrew Goth producer: Marque Owen producer: Joanne Reay starring: Andre Eikemier, Bronwyn Jones, Samantha Murray starring: Luke Goss, Matt Lucas writer: Marque Owen Writer: Joanne Reay Year of production: 1998 Year of production: 2004
Boy Meets Girl | 98’ In this modern-day fairy tale set in a fictitious Little Italy, a passionate love poem casts a spell on a beautiful Italian waitress, causing her to fall for a cynical American writer whom she mistakenly believes to be the author. The problem is that Mike is no poet and Angelina is betrothed to another.
Nominated (2000): Best Achievement in Art Direction/Production Design, Genie Awards
director: Jerry Ciccoritti producer: Stavros Stavrides starring: Sean Astin, Emily Hampshire, Joe Mantegna, Kate Nelligan Writers: Doug Bagot, Timothy Lee Year of production: 1998
Crackerjack | 92’ When dwindling membership and increasing overheads make a local lawn bowls club a prime candidate for takeover, it’s all hands on deck to save the club. The usually peaceful greens of the club become a battlefield where young meets old, greed meets good and people rise to the occasion in extraordinary circumstances.
winner (2003): Box Office Achievement, IF Award winner (2003): Outstanding Comic Screenplay, Australian Comedy Award winner (2003): Outstanding Film Comedy, Australian Comedy Award winner (2003): Australian Movie of the Year, Australian Box Office Achievement Award Nominated (2003): Best Direction, AFI Award Nominated (2003): Best Screenplay – Original, AFI Award Nominated (2003): Official Selection, US Comedy Arts Festival
director: Paul Maloney producers: Stephen Luby, Mick Molloy starring: John Clarke, Bill Hunter, Samuel Johnson, Judith Lucy, Mick Molloy, Monica Maughan, Frank Wilson Writers: Mick Molloy, Richard Molloy Year of production: 2002 236 237 Feature films Feature Films
CraCKERS | 92’ Erskineville Kings | 90’ Larceny, adultery, sabotage and treachery. Yes, just your average Barky, a lost soul of twenty-five, returns from the Australian cane fields Christmas with the Dredge family! Hilary and her son Joey are going to to his hometown of Erskineville. Barky left two years ago to escape his visit her parents in the suburbs. Not only are they confronted with the drunken and abusive father, leaving behind everything in the world that problems between Joey and Hilary’s boyfriend and his son, but they was important to him. Now that his father’s dead, he thinks it’s safe to also face issues with other members of this Australian extended family. come home, but Barky soon discovers that if staying home was hard, coming home is harder. With everything on the line will Barky choose director: David Swann producer: Chris Warner again to leave it all behind? starring: Daniel Kelly, Susan Lyons, Warren Mitchell, Peter Rowsthorn winner (2000): Best Actor – Hugh Jackman, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Award Writer: David Swann Nominated (2000): Best Cinematography, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Award Year of production: 1998 Nominated (1999): Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Hugh Jackman, AFI Award
director: Alan White 92’ Dear Claudia | starring: Hugh Jackman Dear Claudia is a romantic comedy about a lonely postman, a desperate writer: Marty Denniss hitchhiker, a gifted sculptor, an infatuated pilot, a misplaced cop, a Year of production: 1999 street kid, a mistress, a miner, two thieves and a dead man. Walter and Claudia crash into the story by plane. The others arrive in a bag of mail. Finder, The | 89’ Winner (1999): Grand Award, Worldfest Flagstaff, USA Les Kearney is an ex-cop who specialises in one thing – finding missing persons. It should have been a typical day at the office for Les but, in director: Chris Cudlipp the space of twenty-four hours, his life is to be tipped upside down. producer: Jim McElroy starring: Bryan Brown, Aleksandra Vujcic When the daughter of construction tycoon Bob Castaldi is kidnapped, writer: Chris Cudlipp Kearney takes on the case and encounters a trail of murder suspects Year of production: 1999 as the kidnapper’s deadline edges nearer.
director: Frank Shields producer: Phil Avalon starring: Simon Westaway, Paul Mercurio, Anja Coleby writer: Phillip Avalon Year of production: 2001 238 239 Feature films Feature Films
Fresh Air | 91’ A couple move into a house with another artist in inner-city Sydney. They talk, think and try to grapple with their uncertain futures. They are three very different people yet share a house with a modicum of respect for each other. They all want something out of life, but they don’t know exactly what, so they help each other out, protest about things they don’t truly believe in, join bands, paint and just live from day to day.
nominated (1999): Best Achievement in Editing, AFI Award nominated (1998): Official Selection, Rotterdam International Film Festival
director: Neil Mansfield producer: Rosemary Blight starring: Bridie Carter, Nadine Garner, Marin Mimica writer: Neil Mansfield Year of production: 1999
Hard Word, The | 102’ Three bank-robbing brothers have found a uniquely profitable way to spend their jail time. The brothers are out on bail only long enough to do one job, a really big job if it is to be their last. Crime does pay, and no one gets hurt – until they discover the catch. When sex and greed come between bad cops and good criminals, the consequences can be fatal.
Winner (2002): Best Sound, IF Award Winner (2002): Best Achievement in Sound for a Feature Film, Soundtrack of the Year, Australian Screen Sound Guild Good Woman, A | 94’ HD Nominated (2002): Best Editing, IF Award Nominated (2002): Best Original Soundtrack Album, ARIA Music Award Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future. Set in the 1930s Nominated (2002): Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Best Actress in a Leading Role, on the beautiful shores of the Italian Riviera, A Good Woman stars AFI Award Helen Hunt (Bobby), Scarlett Johansson (Lost In Translation) and Tom Nominated (2002): Best Actor, Best Editing, Best Music Score, Best Supporting Actor, Wilkinson (Separate Lies) in an elegant and witty romantic comedy FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Award Nominated (2002): Official Selection, Hamburg International Film Festival based on Oscar Wilde’s classic play, . Brimming Lady Windermere’s Fan Nominated (2002): Official Selection, Jerusalem International Film Festival with sumptuous locales and sweeping romance, the sparkling dialogue shines through in this tale of high society scandal and revenge. director: Scott Roberts producer: Al Clark director: Mike Barker starring: Kate Atkinson, Vince Colosimo, Joel Edgerton, Rhondda Findleton, Rachel producers: Alan Greenspan, Jonathan English, Steven Siebert, Howard Himelstein Griffiths, Kim Gyngell, Dorian Nkono, Guy Pearce, Damien Richardson, Paul Sonkkila, starring: Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson, Tom Wilkinson Robert Taylor Writers: Oscar Wilde, Howard Himelstein Writer: Scott Roberts Year of production: 2004 Year of production: 2002 240 241 Feature films Feature Films
Horseplay | 93’ Oyster Farmer | 91’ A small time horse trainer has successfully screwed up his life. His A delightful award-winning comedy, Oyster Farmer is the story of Jack wife hates him, his mistress loathes him and his father-in-law wants to Flange, an enterprising young man who robs a fish market and mails the kill him. With nothing to lose, he enlists the help of his best friend and cash to a secluded close-knit community of oyster farmers. When the concocts a plan to rig the biggest horse race in Australia. parcel goes missing, and the police start coming around, he suspects the precious package was found by one of his neighbours, a local beauty director: Stavros Kazantzidis named Pearl, to whom he becomes irresistibly attracted. Filmed along producer: Allanah Zitserman Australia’s breathtakingly beautiful Hawkesbury River, starring: Tushka Bergan, Jason Donovan, Marcus Graham Oyster Farmer Writers: Stavros Kazantzidis, Allanah Zitserman is a comedy about love, community and freshly shucked oysters. Year of production: 2003 nominated (2005): Best Film, Best Cinematography, AFI Award nominated (2005): Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, IF Awards nominated (2005): Best Cinematography, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Award nominated (2005): Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Kerry Armstrong, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Award
director: Anna Reeves producers: Anthony Buckley, Piers Tempest starring: Alex O’Loughlin, Diana Glenn, Jack Thompson, Kerry Armstrong Writer: Anna Reeves Year of production: 2004
In A Savage Land | 114’ Two anthropologists travel to a remote island in the South Pacific in the 1930s to study its culture. Evelyn is an adventurous free thinker, while her husband Phillip is a rigid scholar bound to convention and propriety. Tension develops between the couple when Phillip fails to acknowledge what Evelyn sees as obvious: that women run this lusty culture. Tensions are upped another notch when Evelyn falls for Mick, a macho American pearl merchant. As Evelyn’s life begins to crash in around her, the Japanese army invades her island paradise and tragedy strikes her priggish husband. Paperback Hero | 96’ winner (2000): Best Cinematography, Best Music Score, FCCA (Films Critics Circle of Jack Willis is a handsome road train driver with a secret – he has just Australia) Award become a top-selling romance novelist. Being a ‘man’s man’ in the winner (2000): Best Original Soundtrack Album, ARIA Music Awards Australian outback, to avoid embarrassment he needs a woman’s pen winner (1999): Audience Award – Best Feature, Hawaii International Film Festival winner (1999): Best Achievement in Sound, Best Original Music Score, AFI Awards name and he chooses that of his best friend, Ruby Vale. He must do some winner (1999): Best Achievement in Foley in a Feature Film, ASSG Award, Australian fancy footwork to continue the charade when the glamorous city publisher, Screen Sound Guild Ziggy, arrives in the dusty outback to sign ‘Ruby Vale’ to a major book deal. NOMINATED (1999): Best Achievement in Cinematography, AFI Awards NOMINATED (1999): Best Achievement in Costume Design, AFI Awards nominated (2000): Best Supporting Actor – Andrew S. Gilbert, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of NOMINATED (1999): Best Achievement in Direction, AFI Awards Australia) Award NOMINATED (1999): Best Achievement in Production Design, AFI Awards Winner (1999): Best Australian Film Soundtrack, Australian Screen Sound Guild Award NOMINATED (1999): Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – Maya Stange, nominated (1999): Best Supporting Actor – Andrew S. Gilbert, AFI Awards AFI Awards nominated (1999): Official Selection, Milan International Film Festival
director: Bill Bennett director: Antony Bowman producers: Bill Bennett, Jennifer Bennett producers: Lance W. Reynolds, John Winter starring: Martin Donovan, Rufus Sewell, Maya Stange starring: Hugh Jackman, Claudia Karvan, Angie Milliken, Andrew S. Gilbert Writers: Bill Bennett, Jennifer Bennett writer: Antony Bowman Year of production: 1999 Year of production: 1999 242 243 Feature films Feature Films
Passion | 102’ Passion explores the tortured genius of Percy Grainger, the celebrated pianist-composer who had to choose between the women in his life: his best friend’s fiancé, his lover and his mother. A story of intense relationships and disturbing ideas, Passion embraces an unconventional life to the full, exploring the pleasures and the pain of the dark side.
nominated (2000): Best Supporting Actor – Female – Claudia Karvan, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Awards Winner (1999): Feature Productions Cinema, Award of Distinction, Australian Cinematographers Society Winner (1999): Best Achievement in Cinematography, AFI Awards Winner (1999): Best Achievement in Production Design, AFI Awards Winner (1999): Best Achievement in Costume Design, AFI Awards nominated (1999): Golden St. George, Moscow International Film Festival nominated (1999): Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Richard Roxburgh, AFI Awards nominated (1999): Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Emily Woof, AFI Awards nominated (1999): Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Claudia Karvan, AFI Awards nominated (1999): Best Achievement in Sound, AFI Awards nominated (1999): Official Selection, Seattle International Film Festival
director: Peter Duncan producer: Matt Carroll starring: Barbara Hershey, Richard Roxburgh, Emily Woof, Claudia Karvan WRITER: George Goldsworthy, Peter Goldsworthy, Jon Watson Year of production: 1999
SLC Punk! | 97’ A subversive comedy about youthful rebellion, SLC Punk! follows the story of Stevo and his best friend Bob, the only two dedicated punk rockers in God-fearing Salt Lake City, Utah. Stevo’s world is falling apart and his beloved ‘scene’ begins to crumble around him, so he must face a decision between Anarchy and Harvard Law.
Nominated (2000): Best Screenplay, Independent Spirit Award Strange Fits Of Passion | 90’ winner (1999): Opening Night Film, Sundance Film Festival winner (1999): Best Actor – Matthew Lillard, Mar del Plata Film Festival Strange Fits Of Passion is a fable about a young woman’s desperate winner (1999): FIPRESCI Prize – Special Mention, Best Film, Mar del Plata Film Festival crusade to lose her virginity. Obsessed with notions of love, desire and sex, she grapples with the difference between her poetic idealism and director: James Merendino the very physical messy reality of sex in the nineties. A comedy for producers: Sam Maydew, Peter Ward starring: Annabeth Gish, Michael Goorjian, Matthew Lillard, Devon Sawa, Til Schweiger anyone who has ever had sex... or ever tried to. writer: James Merendino Nominated (2000): Year of production: 1998 Feature Film – Original, AWGIE Award Nominated (1999): Best Original Screenplay, AFI Awards Nominated (1999): Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – Michela Noonan, AFI Awards Nominated (1999): Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Mitchell Butel, AFI Awards Nominated (1999): Bronze Horse Award, Stockholm International Film Festival Nominated (1999): Official Selection – Critics Weeks, Cannes International Film Festival Nominated (1999): Best Original Music for a Feature Film, Australian Screen Music Award, Australian Guild of Screen Composers
director: Elise McCredie producer: Lucy Maclaren starring: Mitchell Butel, Michela Noonan Writer: Elise McCredie Year of production: 1999
244 245 Feature films Feature Films
Strictly Ballroom | 94’ HD Take Away | 88’ Scott Hastings is a champion ballroom dancer but, much to the Tony and Trev have a lot in common; they both own takeaway fish and chagrin of the Australian ballroom dance community, Scott believes chip shops that they both live behind. The only problem is they’re three in dancing ‘his own steps’. Fran is a beginning dancer and a bit of an doors away from each other in the same suburban street! All is relatively ugly duckling who has the audacity to ask to be Scott’s partner after well until the announcement of the opening of a multinational ‘Burgies’ his unorthodox style causes his regular partner to dance out of his fast food outlet across the road. Tony and Trev are forced into an uneasy life. Together, these two misfits try to win the Australian Pan Pacific partnership and with the help of the community they take on ‘Burgies’. Championships and show the Ballroom Confederation that they are director: Marc Gracie wrong when they say there are no new steps! producer: Marc Gracie, David Redman starring: Rose Byrne, Vince Colosimo, Stephen Curry winner (1993): Best Costume Design, Best Original Film Score, Best Production Design, Writers: Dave O’Neil, Mark O’Toole BAFTA Film Award Year of production: 2002 winner (1993): Newcomer of the Year – Baz Luhrmann, London Critics Circle Film Awards winner (1993): Golden Aphrodite Award, Love is Folly International Film Festival, Bulgaria winner (1993): Best Foreign Film, Robert Festival, Denmark Nominated (1993): Best Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical, Golden Globe Thank God He Met Lizzie | 90’ Nominated (1993): Best Actress, BAFTA Film Award This romantic comedy starring Oscar-winning Cate Blanchett and Nominated (1993): Best Screenplay – Adapted, BAFTA Film Award Richard Roxburgh poses the question: is the one you marry the love of Nominated (1993): Best Editing, BAFTA Film Award your life? A man plans to marry the woman of his dreams, but suffers Nominated (1993): Best Film, BAFTA Film Award Nominated (1993): Best Sound, BAFTA Film Award a last-minute attack of pre-wedding jitters as he muses over whether winner (1992): Truly Moving Feature Film, Heartland Film Festival she’s really the right one for him. winner (1992): Best Director, Best Film, Best Screenplay – Original or Adapted, AFI Award winner (1992): Best Achievement in Costume Design, Best Achievement in Production winner (1998): Best Supporting Actress – Cate Blanchett, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Design, Best Achievement in Editing, AFI Award Australia) Award winner (1992): Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Barry Otto, AFI Award winner (1997): Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role – Cate Blanchett, winner (1992): Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Pat Thomson, AFI Award AFI Award winner (1992): Prix de Jeunesse, Cannes International Film Festival winner (1997): Best Actor – Richard Roxburgh, Verona Love Screen Film Festival winner (1992): Most Popular Film, Vancouver International Film Festival NOMINATED (1997): Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, AFI Award winner (1992): People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival NOMINATED (1997): Best Achievement in Production Design, AFI Award winner (1992): Silver Hugo Award – Best First Feature Film, Chicago International NOMINATED (1997): Best Achievement in Costume Design, AFI Award Film Festival NOMINATED (1997): Best Achievement in Editing, AFI Award
director: Baz Luhrmann director: Cherie Nowlan producer: Tristram Miall producer: Jonathan Shteinman starring: Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice starring: Cate Blanchett, Frances O’Connor, Richard Roxburgh Writer: Baz Luhrmann Writer: Alexandra Long Year of production: 1992 Year of production: 1997 246 247 Feature films Feature Films
Visitors | 100’ Feisty twenty-something Georgia Perry is set to depart on a momentous journey. She’s determined to join the very exclusive fraternity of mariners who have sailed around the world unassisted, single-handedly steering her 30ft yacht some 24,000 miles around the globe. An epic adventure that charts one woman’s journey into unknown territory, Visitors showcases an array of extraordinary visuals and an astounding female lead performance from Radha Mitchell.
Nominated (2004): Best Supporting Actress – Susannah York, Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Nominated (2004): Best Actress – Radha Mitchell, Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Nominated (2004): Best Actor Female – Radha Mitchell, FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Awards Nominated (2003): Best Film, SITGES – International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia
director: Richard Franklin Producers: Richard Franklin, Jennifer Hadden starring: Radha Mitchell, Susannah York, Ray Barrett writer: Everett De Roche Year of production: 2002 Things To Do Before You’re 30 | 90’ Things To Do Before You’re 30 is a hilarious, smart, sexy comedy following a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting Wiggles Movie, The | 84’ the inevitable – adulthood and responsibility. A funny, life-affirming This is the first feature film from the hit sensation children’s group and moving tale of people trying to live their complicated adult lives in The Wiggles. In this enchanting musical adventure The Wiggles must London, while hoping to hang on to their youth. This is a film about how race against time to find their much-loved friend Dorothy The Dinosaur life is messy and confusing, and the realisation that the only thing that in order to celebrate her birthday, for which they’ve planned a huge makes it worth living is that rarest of things – unconditional friendship. surprise party.
director: Simon Shore director: Dean Covell producers: Marc Samuelson, Peter Samuelson producer: Hilton Fatt starring: Billie Piper, Dougray Scott, Emilia Fox, Shawn Parkes starring: Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Greg Page Writer: Patrick Wilde Writer: Greg Truman Year of production: 2004 Year of production: 1997 248 249 5 GENRE INDEX
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Adventure & Travel 3 Dengineers, The 28 3 Chefs, 1 City 4 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild! 29 Acopan Tepui: Mountain Of Gods 4 Dig And Dug With Daisy 29 Anh Does Brazil 5 Eyewitness 29 Anh Does Britain 5 Fanshaw & Crudnut 30 Anh Does Italy 5 Get Squiggling! 31 Anh Does Scandinavia & Iceland 5 Get Squiggling Letters 31 Anh Does Vietnam 5 Henry’s Amazing Animals 32 Best Job In The World, The 6 Hero Squad 32 Best Of Australia, The 6 History Hunters 32 Beyond Sahara – Riding From Cairo To Cape Town 7 Ice Stars 33 Beyond Siberia – Riding The Road Of Bones 8 Iconicles 34 Boy To Man 8 Junior Vets 35 Brent Owens – Extreme, Authentic & Unwrapped 9 Kid Detectives 36 Carnival Eats 10 Lab Rats Challenge 36 Chasing Monsters 11 Milly, Molly 36 Chilli Factor 12 New Adventures Of Ocean Girl 37 Chuck’s Week Off: Mexico 12 New MacDonald’s Farm 37 Cooking For The Crown 13 Numberjacks 37 Dying For Everest 13 Ocean Girl 38 Free 13 P.B Bear & Friends 38 Holiday Show, The 14 Pipsqueaks 38 Lonely Planet – Natural Born Traveller 14 Quarx 39 Lonely Planet – Six Degrees 14 Rush TV 40 My France With Manu: Brittany To Biarritz 15 See How They Grow 40 My France With Manu: Paris To Strasbourg 15 Snake Tales 40 My France With Manu: The Rhône Valley 15 Steam Punks 41 My Ireland With Colin 16 Tati’s Hotel 41 Pati’s Mexican Table 17 Thunderstone 42 Rod & Rucksack 18 Totally Rubbish 42 Rush TV 18 Toybox 43 Sport Star Insider 19 Twitch, The 43 Surfmag 19 Wiggles Movie, The 44 Travel Fact Or Fiction 19 Wild Animal Baby Explorers 44 Vintage Hunter 20 Wild But True With Robert Irwin 45 Vivienne Westwood’s London 20 Comedy & Entertainment 47 World’s Weirdest Restaurants 21 Bogan Hunters 48 Children & Family 23 Cho Show, The 48 Absolute Genius With Dick & Dom 24 Jack Vale: Offline 49 All Over The Workplace 25 Kinne 50 Amazing Extraordinary Friends, The 26 Manny Lewis 51 Backyard Science 27 MovieStar 52 Buzzy Bee & Friends 27 Riverdance Live From Beijing 52 252 253 Genre index Genre index
Riverdance, The Best Of 52 Factual Entertainment 81 Riverdance – The Ten Years 52 111 Emergency 82 Riverdance – Today’s Stars 52 5 Days In The Red Zone 82 Six Degrees Of TV 53 Addicted To The Life 83 Tube Tales: TV’s Real Stories 53 Airshow 83 Crime & Investigation 55 Animal 999 84 111 Emergency 56 BBQ Crawl 84 Addicted To The Life 56 Beach Cops 85 Beach Cops 57 Behind Mansion Walls 85 Behind Mansion Walls 58 Bespoke 86 Breaking The Law: Bent Coppers 58 Best Job In The World, The 87 Cause Of Death: Unknown 58 Beyond Sahara – Riding From Cairo To Cape Town 87 Crash Investigation Unit 59 Beyond Siberia – Riding The Road Of Bones 88 Dark Minds 59 Big Experiment, The 88 Dark Temptations 59 Blood + Thunder: The Sound Of Alberts 89 Deadly Women 60 Boy To Man 90 Deadly Women: Killer Countdown 60 Brent Owens – Extreme, Authentic & Unwrapped 91 Dog Patrol 61 Bronx Dream, A 92 Facing Evil 61 Bush Doctors 92 Fatal Vows 62 Car Czar 92 Fire Scene Investigation 62 Carluccio’s 6 Seasons 93 Highway Cops 63 Carnival Eats 94 Highway Patrol 63 Cause Of Death: Unknown 95 Inside Story 64 Chef School 95 Inspectors, The 65 Cho Show, The 96 Maximum Security Prisons 65 Christmas Lights Spectacular 96 Motorway Patrol 66 Comedy School 96 Natural Born Outlaws 67 Cooking For The Crown 97 Poisonous Women 68 Corvette: Rebuilding An Icon 97 Serious Crash Unit 68 Damage Control 98 Special Investigators 69 Dark Minds 98 Stranger In My Home, A 70 Dark Temptations 98 Supermax 71 Deadly Crossing 99 Will: Family Secrets Revealed, The 71 Deadly Women 99 Drama & Telemovies 73 Deadly Women: Killer Countdown 100 Adrenalin Junkies 74 Design DNA 100 Dirt Game 74 Dog Patrol 101 Fire 75 Dream RV 101 Good Guys, Bad Guys 76 Extreme Mustang: Back To The Track 101 Halifax f.p. 76 Facing Evil 101 Manny Lewis 77 Family Feuds 102 Small Claims 78 Fatal Vows 102 Stingers 78 Fink 102 Twitch, The 79 Heavy Rescue: 401 103 254 255 Genre index Genre index
Highway Cops 104 Will: Family Secrets Revealed, The 126 Highway Thru Hell 105 World’s Weirdest Restaurants 127 Hillbilly Preppers - Atlanta 106 Wrecks To Riches 127 History Under The Hammer 106 Health & Medicine 129 Hot Rod Build Off 106 200kg Kid, The 130 How Beer Saved The World 106 Abbreviated Life, An 130 Hunks, The 107 Axe Attack Survivor 130 I Could Do That! 107 Baby Charlotte 132 I Do… Let’s Eat! 107 Body Donors – Life After Death 131 Inspectors, The 108 Bush Doctors 132 Jetstream 108 Charlotte: A Life Without Limbs 132 Life Flight 109 Charlotte: My Story 132 Manhattan Matchmaker 109 Children At The Edge 133 Manufactured 110 Crumlin Children’s Hospital 134 Married To The Game 110 Damage Control 135 Medics 111 Do You Really Want To Know? 135 Mistress, The 111 Downside Of High, The 136 Monster Bug Wars! 112 I Don’t Have Time For This 136 Mother Of The Bride 112 In Surgery & Awake 137 Motorway Patrol 113 Is It Safe To Eat? 137 Mountain Rescue 114 Life Flight 138 MovieStar 115 Love In A Time Of HIV 138 Mr Friday 115 Medical Incredible 139 My Ireland With Colin 116 Medics 139 Neighbours At War 117 Mountain Rescue 140 Obsessions 117 Oops, Wrong Planet 140 Out In The Cold 117 Pets, Vets & Debts 141 Outback Kids 118 Pharma Sutra 142 Property Shop, The 118 Programmed To Be Fat? 142 Rebuilding A Race Car Legend – GT40 118 Sexchange 142 Remarkable Vets 119 Sleepy Life, A 143 Rodeo – Life On The Circuit 119 Sperm Wars 143 Rookie Vets 120 Survivor Files, The 143 SAS: The Search For Warriors 120 Touch Wood 144 Six Degrees Of TV 121 Viagra Generation, The 144 South Sydney Story 121 What’s Good For You 144 Spoiled Rotten 122 When Surgical Tools Get Left Behind 144 Stop. Rewind 122 You Should Really See A Doctor 145 Stranger In My Home, A 123 You Swallowed What? 145 Torque Show, The 123 Tube Tales: TV’s Real Stories 123 History 147 Vintage Hunter 124 5 Days In The Red Zone 148 Vivienne Westwood’s London 124 Air Combat 148 Week To My Wedding, A 125 Ancient Tracks 149 256 257 Genre index Genre index
Asia Rising 150 My France With Manu: Paris To Strasbourg 175 Flashback 150 My France With Manu: The Rhône Valley 175 Gallipoli From Above 151 My Ireland With Colin 176 History Under The Hammer 151 Pati’s Mexican Table 177 How Beer Saved The World 151 Shaynna’s World of Design 166 Hula Girls 152 Stagers, The 178 Natural Born Outlaws 152 Too Many Cooks 179 Other Prince William, The 153 Week To My Wedding, A 180 Rod Taylor – Pulling No Punches 154 What’s Good For You 181 Rome: The Lost City Of China 155 People & Society 183 Secret Files Of The Inquisition 155 200kg Kid, The 184 Secrets Of Angels, Demons & Masons 156 Abbreviated Life, An 184 Secrets Of Mary Magdalene 156 Addiction 185 Secrets Of The Occult 156 Apocalypse 2012 185 Stop. Rewind 156 Asia Rising 186 Years That Made Us, The 157 Axe Attack Survivor 186 Lifestyle 159 Baby Charlotte 190 3 Chefs, 1 City 160 Behind Mansion Walls 187 All For One With Debbie Travis 161 Big Experiment, The 187 Best Job In The World, The 160 Body Donors – Life After Death 188 Building La Dolce Vita With Debbie Travis 161 Breaking The Law: Bent Coppers 189 Burn My Mortgage 161 Cat Crazed 189 Buy Me 162 Charlotte: A Life Without Limbs 190 Carluccio’s 6 Seasons 162 Charlotte: My Story 190 Carnival Eats 163 City Limits: America On The Edge 190 Chuckmas 164 Crumlin Children’s Hospital 191 Chuck’s Day Off 164 Dark Minds 192 Chuck’s Week Off: Mexico 165 Dark Temptations 193 Completely Hammered 165 Deadly Women 193 Cooking For The Crown 165 Deadly Women: Killer Countdown 194 Deadline Design 166 Do You Really Want To Know? 194 Debbie Travis’ Painted House 161 Dog Dazed 195 From The Ground Up 167 Downside Of High, The 195 Game Of Homes 167 Facing Evil 195 Hot Property 168 Flying Solo 196 Income Property 168 Generation Boomerang 196 Love It Or List It 169 Gridlock 197 Love It Or List It: Germany 170 Hidden In America 197 Love It Or List It: UK 171 Hot Cities 198 Love It Or List It: Vacation Homes 172 How To Divorce & Not Wreck The Kids 198 Love It Or List It Vancouver 173 Hyper Parents & Coddled Kids 199 Maxed Out 174 I Don’t Have Time For This 199 My France With Manu: Brittany To Biarritz 175 Inside Story 200 258 259 Genre index Genre index
Kindness Of Strangers, The 201 Trent’s Wildcat Adventures 224 Lost Adventures Of Childhood 201 Vanishing Antarctic, The 224 Love In A Time Of HIV 201 Venom One 225 Multiple Miracles 202 Wild But True With Robert Irwin 225 Oops, Wrong Planet 202 Wild & Dangerous: The World Of Exotic Pets 226 Outback Kids 202 Wild Tech 227 Prison Songs 203 Wildlife Man, The 227 Real Lives Less Ordinary 203 Zoo, The 228 Sext Up Kids 204 Zoo Babies 228 Sleepy Life, A 204 Zoo Babies Special: Raising Baby Iwani 228 Stranger In My Home, A 205 Zoo Revolution 229 Suicide Tourist, The 206 Zoo Special: Two By Two At The Zoo 228 Taboo 206 Zoo, The: This Is Your Life 228 Thoroughly Modern Marriage 207 Touch Wood 207 SHORT-FORM CONTENT 231 Transforming Gender 208 Flashback 232 Truth About Female Desire, The 208 P.B Bear And Friends 232 Wild & Dangerous: The World Of Exotic Pets 209 Quarx 233 Science & Technology 211 Feature Films 235 Cool Stuff: How It Works 212 All The Way 236 Design DNA 212 Boy Meets Girl 236 Engineered 213 Cold & Dark 237 Manufactured 213 Crackerjack 237 Myth Or Science 214 Crackers 238 Myth Or Science: Come To Your Senses 214 Dear Claudia 238 Myth Or Science: In The Eye Of The Storm 214 Erskineville Kings 239 Myth Or Science: The Quest For Perfection 214 Finder, The 239 Myth Or Science: You Are What You Eat 214 Fresh Air 240 MythBusters 215 Good Woman, A 240 Programmed To Be Fat? 216 Hard Word, The 241 Science Impossible 216 Horseplay 242 Sport Star Insider 217 In A Savage Land 242 Stop. Rewind 217 Oyster Farmer 243 Wild Tech 217 Paperback Hero 243 Wildlife & Natural History 219 Passion 244 Animal 999 220 SLC Punk! 244 Chasing Monsters 221 Strange Fits Of Passion 245 Equus 222 Strictly Ballroom 246 Forecast for Disaster – La Niña Strikes 222 Take Away 247 Forecast for Disaster – The Weather Behind Black Saturday 222 Thank God He Met Lizzie 247 Monster Bug Wars! 223 Things To Do Before You’re 30 248 Remarkable Vets 223 Visitors 249 Rookie Vets 224 Wiggles Movie, The 249 260 261 6 ALPHABETICAL INDEX
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3 Chefs, 1 City 4, 160 Bush Doctors 92, 132 111 Emergency 56, 82 Buy Me 162 200kg Kid, The 130 ,184 Buzzy Bee & Friends 27 5 Days In The Red Zone 82, 148 C A Car Czar 92 Abbreviated Life, An 130, 184 Carluccio’s 6 Seasons 93, 162 Absolute Genius With Dick & Dom 24 Carnival Eats 10, 94, 163 Acopan Tepui: Mountain Of Gods 4 Cat Crazed 189 Addicted To The Life 56, 83 Cause Of Death: Unknown 58, 95 Addiction 185 Charlotte: A Life Without Limbs 132, 190 Adrenalin Junkies 74 Charlotte: My Story 132, 190 Air Combat 148 Chasing Monsters 11, 221 Airshow 83 Chef School 95 All For One With Debbie Travis 161 Children At The Edge 133 All Over The Workplace 25 Chilli Factor 12 All The Way 236 Cho Show, The 48, 96 Amazing Extraordinary Friends, The 26 Christmas Lights Spectacular 96 Ancient Tracks 149 Chuckmas 164 Anh Does Brazil 5 Chuck’s Day Off 164 Anh Does Britain 5 Chuck’s Week Off: Mexico 12, 165 Anh Does Italy 5 City Limits: America On The Edge 190 Anh Does Scandinavia & Iceland 5 Cold & Dark 237 Anh Does Vietnam 5 Comedy School 96 Animal 999 84, 220 Completely Hammered 165 Apocalypse 2012 185 Cooking For The Crown 13, 97, 165 Asia Rising 150, 186 Cool Stuff: How It Works 212 Axe Attack Survivor 130, 186 Corvette: Rebuilding An Icon 97 Crackerjack 237 B Crackers 238 Baby Charlotte 132, 190 Crash Investigation Unit 59 Backyard Science 27 Crumlin Children’s Hospital 134, 191 BBQ Crawl 84 Beach Cops 57, 85 D Behind Mansion Walls 58, 85, 187 Bespoke 86 Damage Control 98, 135 Best Job In The World, The 6, 87, 160 Dark Minds 59, 98, 192 Best Of Australia, The 6 Dark Temptations 59, 98, 193 Beyond Sahara – Riding From Cairo To Cape Town 7, 87 Deadline Design 166 Beyond Siberia – Riding The Road Of Bones 8, 88 Deadly Crossing 99 Big Experiment, The 88, 187 Deadly Women 60, 99, 193 Blood + Thunder: The Sound Of Alberts 89 Deadly Women: Killer Countdown 60, 100, 194 Body Donors – Life After Death 131, 188 Dear Claudia 238 Bogan Hunters 48 Debbie Travis’ Painted House 161 Boy Meets Girl 236 Dengineers, The 28 Boy To Man 8, 90 Design DNA 100, 212 Breaking The Law: Bent Coopers 58, 189 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild! 29 Brent Owens – Extreme, Authentic & Unwrapped 9, 91 Dig And Dug With Daisy 29 Bronx Dream, A 92 Dirt Game 74 Building La Dolce Vita With Debbie Travis 161 Do You Really Want To Know? 135, 194 Burn My Mortgage 161 Dog Dazed 195 264 265 Alphabetical index Alphabetical index
Dog Patrol 61, 101 Hillbilly Preppers - Atlanta 106 Downside Of High, The 136, 195 History Hunters 32 Dream RV 101 History Under The Hammer 106, 151 Dying For Everest 13 Holiday Show, The 14 Horseplay 242 E Hot Cities 198 Hot Property 168 Engineered 213 Hot Rod Build Off 106 Equus 222 How Beer Saved The World 106, 151 Erskineville Kings 239 How To Divorce & Not Wreck The Kids 198 Extreme Mustang: Back To The Track 101 Hula Girls 152 Eyewitness 29 Hunks, The 107 Hyper Parents & Coddled Kids 199 F Facing Evil 61, 101, 195 I Family Feuds 102 I Could Do That! 107 Fanshaw & Crudnut 30 I Do… Let’s Eat! 107 Fatal Vows 62, 102 I Don’t Have Time For This 136, 199 Finder, The 239 Ice Stars 33 Fink 103 Iconicles 34 Fire 75 In A Savage Land 242 Fire Scene Investigation 62 In Surgery & Awake 137 Flashback 150, 232 Income Property 168 Flying Solo 196 Inside Story 64, 200 Forecast for Disaster – La Niña Strikes 222 Inspectors, The 65, 108 Forecast for Disaster – The Weather Behind Black Saturday 222 Is It Safe To Eat? 137 Free 13 Fresh Air 240 From The Ground Up 167 J Jack Vale: Offline 49 G Jetstream 108 Junior Vets 35 Gallipoli From Above 151 Game Of Homes 167 Generation Boomerang 196 K Get Squiggling! 31 Kid Detectives 36 Get Squiggling Letters 31 Kindness Of Strangers, The 201 Good Guys, Bad Guys 76 Kinne 50 Good Woman, A 240 Gridlock 197 L Lab Rats Challenge 36 H Life Flight 109, 138 Halifax f.p. 76 Lonely Planet – Natural Born Traveller 14 Hard Word, The 241 Lonely Planet – Six Degrees 14 Heavy Rescue: 401 103 Lost Adventures Of Childhood 201 Henry’s Amazing Animals 32 Love In A Time Of HIV 138, 201 Hero Squad 32 Love It Or List It 169 Hidden In America 197 Love It Or List It: Germany 170 Highway Cops 63, 104 Love It Or List It: UK 171 Highway Patrol 63 Love It Or List It: Vacation Homes 172 Highway Thru Hell 105 Love It Or List It: Vancouver 173 266 267 Alphabetical index Alphabetical index
M Pati’s Mexican Table 17, 177 Pets, Vets & Debts 141 Manhattan Matchmaker 109 Pharma Sutra 142 Manny Lewis 51, 77 Pipsqueaks 38 Manufactured 110, 213 Poisonous Women 68 Married To The Game 110 Prison Songs 203 Maxed Out 174 Programmed To Be Fat? 142, 216 Maximum Security Prisons 65 Property Shop, The 118 Medical Incredible 139 Medics 111, 139 Milly, Molly 36 Q Mistress, The 111 Quarx 39, 233 Monster Bug Wars! 112, 223 Mother Of The Bride 112 Motorway Patrol 66, 113 R Mountain Rescue 114, 140 Real Lives Less Ordinary 203 MovieStar 52, 115 Rebuilding A Race Car Legend – GT40 118 Mr Friday 115 Remarkable Vets 119, 223 Multiple Miracles 202 Riverdance Live From Beijing 52 My France With Manu: Brittany To Biarritz 15, 175 Riverdance, The Best Of 52 My France With Manu: Paris To Strasbourg 15, 175 Riverdance – The Ten Years 52 My France With Manu: The Rhône Valley 15, 175 Riverdance – Today’s Stars 52 My Ireland With Colin 16, 116, 176 Rod & Rucksack 18 Myth Or Science 214 Rod Taylor – Pulling No Punches 154 Myth Or Science: Come To Your Senses 214 Rodeo – Life On The Circuit 119 Myth Or Science: In The Eye Of The Storm 214 Rome: The Lost City Of China 155 Myth Or Science: The Quest For Perfection 214 Rookie Vets 120, 224 Myth Or Science: You Are What You Eat 214 Rush TV 18, 40 MythBusters 215 S N SAS: The Search For Warriors 120 Natural Born Outlaws 67, 152 Science Impossible 216 Neighbours At War 117 Secret Files Of The Inquisition 155 New Adventures Of Ocean Girl 37 Secrets Of Angels, Demons & Masons 156 New MacDonald’s Farm 37 Secrets Of Mary Magdalene 156 Numberjacks 37 Secrets Of The Occult 156 See How They Grow 40 O Serious Crash Unit 68 Sexchange 142 Obsessions 117 Sext Up Kids 204 Ocean Girl 38 Shaynna’s World Of Design 166 Oops, Wrong Planet 140, 202 Other Prince William, The 153 Six Degrees Of TV 53, 121 Out In The Cold 117 SLC Punk! 244 Outback Kids 118, 202 Sleepy Life, A 143, 204 Oyster Farmer 243 Small Claims 78 Snake Tales 40 South Sydney Story 121 P Special Investigators 69 P.B Bear & Friends 38, 232 Sperm Wars 143 Paperback Hero 243 Spoiled Rotten 122 Passion 244 Sport Star Insider 19, 217 268 269 Alphabetical index Alphabetical index
Stagers, The 178 Wildlife Man, The 227 Steam Punks 41 Will: Family Secrets Revealed, The 71, 126 Stingers 78 World’s Weirdest Restaurants 21, 127 Stop. Rewind 122, 156, 217 Wrecks To Riches 127 Strange Fits Of Passion 245 Stranger In My Home, A 70, 123, 205 Y Strictly Ballroom 246 Years That Made Us, The 157 Suicide Tourist, The 206 You Should Really See A Doctor 145 Supermax 71 You Swallowed What? 145 Surfmag 19 Survivor Files, The 143 Z Zoo, The 228 T Zoo Babies 228 Taboo 206 Zoo Babies Special: Raising Baby Iwani 228 Take Away 247 Zoo Revolution 229 Tati’s Hotel 41 Zoo Special: Two By Two At The Zoo 228 Zoo, The: This Is Your Life 228 Thank God He Met Lizzie 247 Things To Do Before You’re 30 248 Thoroughly Modern Marriage 207 Thunderstone 42 Too Many Cooks 179 Torque Show, The 123 Totally Rubbish 42 Touch Wood 144, 207 Toybox 43 Transforming Gender 208 Travel Fact Or Fiction 19 Trent’s Wildcat Adventures 224 Truth About Female Desire, The 208 Tube Tales: TV’s Real Stories 53, 123 Twitch, The 43, 79
V Vanishing Antarctic, The 224 Venom One 225 Viagra Generation, The 144 Vintage Hunter 20, 124 Visitors 249 Vivienne Westwood’s London 20, 124
W Week To My Wedding, A 125, 180 What’s Good For You 144, 181 When Surgical Tools Get Left Behind 144 Wiggles Movie, The 44, 249 Wild & Dangerous: The World Of Exotic Pets 209, 226 Wild Animal Baby Explorers 44 Wild But True With Robert Irwin 45, 225 Wild Tech 217, 227 270 271 The Beyond Team
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