Made outside London programme titles register 2018 Publication Date: 5 August 2019 Revised: 14 May 2021 Contents Section 1. Overview 3 2. Regional production requirements 4 3. Made outside London programme titles register: 2018 5 4. Made outside London programme titles register: H2 2018 23 1. Overview This document sets out the titles of programmes that the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 reported as ‘Made outside London’ productions broadcast during 2018. The nation or region outside of the M25 that the production qualified as being made in, the criteria which the production met to qualify as a regional production, and the number of episodes of each production are included alongside the title. Where the production was made by an external production company, the name of the company is indicated. Where this column is blank, the content was made by the broadcaster. In addition, for titles broadcast from 1 July 2018, the nation or region in which each criterion was met in is also specified for each title. The made outside London programme titles register, and further information about the public service broadcasters’ delivery against their regional production quotas, are available as interactive data in our PSB compliance report, published on the Ofcom website at: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/information-for-industry/public-service- broadcasting/annual-report-2020. More information about regional production and programming is available on the Ofcom website here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/information-for-industry/tv/regional- production-programming Revisions as of 2021 The 2018 register has been updated to reflect the findings from Ofcom’s increased monitoring of broadcaster Made Outside London returns, as follows: • 24 Hours in Police Custody II 999: What’s Your Emergency (Channel 4) has been removed from the register as the production was found not to have met the criteria necessary to count towards Channel 4’s Regional Production hours quota. • Six BBC titles were found to have contained reporting errors. These are denoted with an * and the details have been corrected here. These programmes continue to qualify as Made Outside London productions and count towards the BBC’s quota. Both Channel 4 and the BBC continue to meet their 2018 Regional Production quota obligations in full. Made outside London programme title register 2018 2. Regional production requirements 2.1 The Communications Act 2003 (Sections 286 and 288) and the BBC Agreement require that a suitable proportion of programmes are made outside the M25. Each public service broadcaster (“PSB”) must meet the quotas for regional productions specified in its licence. Ofcom’s guidance explains that only first-run programmes that qualify as regional productions may count towards these quotas. 2.2 To qualify as a regional production, at least two of the following three criteria must be met: a) The production company must have a substantive business and production base in the UK outside the M251; b) At least 70% of the production budget (excluding some specific costs2) must be spent in the UK outside the M25; and c) At least 50% of the production talent by cost must have their usual place of employment in the UK outside the M25. 2.3 Each regional production must be assigned to either Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, one of three English macro-regions, or be labelled as ‘Other’ if the substantive base criteria is not met, and the production budget and production talent criteria were achieved, but were not met in a single macro-region. 2.4 Further detail on the current regional production definitions is available on the Ofcom website: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/information-for- industry/tv/regional-production-programming 2.5 Ofcom has reviewed the regional production and regional programming guidance for broadcasters. In June 2019, Ofcom published updated guidance for the PSBs, which will come into effect for programmes broadcast from January 2021. The updated guidance, and the accompanying statement concluding Ofcom’s review of the guidance, is available on the Ofcom website here: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/consultations-and- statements/category-1/review-regional-tv-production-programming-guidance 1 A base will be taken to be substantive if it is the usual place of employment of executives managing the regional business, of senior personnel involved in the production in question, and of senior personnel involved in seeking programme commissions. 2 On-screen talent, archive material, sports rights, competition prize-money and copyright costs. 4 3. Made outside London programme titles register: 2018 talent? Number Overall nation or ve base? Programme title Broadcaster Production company of region allocation episodes screen - Off Substanti Production spend? 7 Wonder Productions Advent Films/Soul Searching Midlands & East y y y BBC (Birmingham) Limited 4 Back to The Land with Kate 7 Wonder Productions Humble Midlands & East y y y BBC (Birmingham) Limited 1 7 Wonder Productions Billy Connolly Midlands & East y y y BBC Limited 1 7 Wonder Productions Do You Know? Midlands & East y y y BBC (Birmingham) Limited 25 Doctors Midlands & East y y y BBC 196 Father Brown Midlands & East y y y BBC 9 7 Wonder Productions Kate Humble - Back to The Land Midlands & East y y y BBC (Birmingham) Limited 11 My World Kitchen Midlands & East y y y BBC Terrific Television Limited 15 Shakespeare & Hathaway Midlands & East y y y BBC 10 Dunkirk The Lost Regiment Midlands & East y y y Channel 4 North One Television 1 Guy Martin's F1 Resurrection Midlands & East y y y Channel 4 North One Television 1 Hayfisher 2018 Motorsport Hay Fisher Productions Output Midlands & East y y y Channel 4 Limited 32 Joe Wicks: The Body Coach Midlands & East y y y Channel 4 Full Fat Television Ltd 1 Joe Wicks: The Body Coach 2017 Midlands & East y y y Channel 4 Full Fat Television Ltd 2 Lego Masters 2 Midlands & East y n y Channel 4 Tuesdays Child 6 Our Guy In Russia Midlands & East y y n Channel 4 North One Television 3 Speed: Worlds Fastest Van Midlands & East y y y Channel 4 North One Television 1 Travel Man Series 6 (Inc Xmas Special) Midlands & East y y n Channel 4 North One Television 4 Travel Man Series 7 Midlands & East y y n Channel 4 North One Television 4 Travel Man Xmas Special Midlands & East y y y Channel 4 North One Television 1 The Gadget Show Midlands & East y n y Channel 5 North One Television 12 The Gadget Show Midlands & East y y y Channel 5 North One Television 11 The Nation's Favourite George Michael Song Midlands & East y n y Channel 5 North One Television 1 ITV Nightscreen Midlands & East y y y ITV Gower Limited 361 ITV Nightscreen Midlands & East y y y ITV 1 4 O'Clock Club Northern England y y y BBC 17 A Question Of Sport Northern England y y y BBC 42 True North Productions A1: Britain's Longest Road Northern England y y y BBC Limited 20 Age Before Beauty Northern England n y y BBC Mainstreet Pictures 6 Athletics: Birmingham Grand Prix Northern England y y y BBC 1 Athletics: British Championships Northern England y y y BBC 1 Athletics: Commonwealth Games Northern England y y y BBC 38 Athletics: Diamond League Northern England y y y BBC 21 Made outside London programme title register 2018 talent? Number Overall nation or ve base? Programme title Broadcaster Production company of region allocation episodes screen - Off Substanti Production spend? Athletics: European Cross Country* Northern England y n y BBC 1 Athletics: European Games Northern England y y y BBC 9 Athletics: Glasgow Indoor Championships Northern England y y y BBC 1 Athletics: Great Manchester Run/Games Northern England y y y BBC Filmnova Productions 2 Athletics: Great North Run/ Great City Games Northern England y y y BBC Filmnova Productions 3 Athletics: London Anniversary Games Northern England y y y BBC 2 Athletics: World Cup Northern England y y y BBC 1 Barry Davies Documentary Northern England y y y BBC 1 Beyond Bionic Northern England y y y BBC 13 Biggleton Northern England y y y BBC 30 Bitz & Bob Northern England y n y BBC 43 Bitz & Bob Northern England y y y BBC 43 Blue Peter Northern England y y y BBC 53 Britain's Secret Charity Cheats Northern England y y y BBC Nine Lives Media Limited 5 Burghley Horse Trials Northern England y y y BBC 1 Canoeing: Slalom World Championships Northern England y y y BBC 1 Care Northern England y y y BBC LA Productions 1 Carols from King's Northern England y y n BBC 1 Catie's Amazing Machines Northern England y y y BBC 20 CBBC Summer Social Northern England y y y BBC 6 CBeebies Bedtime Stories Northern England y y y BBC 19 CBeebies Christmas Show - Thumbelina Northern England y y y BBC 1 CBeebies Shakespeare Special - The Tempest Northern England y y y BBC 1 Celebrity Mastermind Northern England y y y BBC 9 Christmas Cathedral Service Live Northern England y y y BBC 1 Christmas University Challenge Northern England y y y BBC ITV Studios Ltd 5 Commonwealth Games Extra Northern England y y y BBC 8 Countdown to the Full Motty Northern England y y y BBC 1 Creeped Out Northern England y y y BBC 7 Dengineers Northern England y y y BBC 21 Diddy TV Northern England y y y BBC 20 Dragons' Den Northern England y y y BBC 16 Dragons' Den Pitches to Riches Northern England y y y BBC 1 Easter Day from Sheffield Cathedral Northern England y y y BBC 1 Easter from Kings Northern England y y y BBC 1 Elise Christie: In From The Cold Northern England y y y BBC 1 Equestrian: Olympia Northern England y n y BBC 1 European Championships Northern England