Welcome to BBC First, the home of premium, original British drama and . A new global BBC brand, BBC First celebrates humanity in all its fascinating complexity, connecting audiences around the world who are hungry for stories to challenge, immerse and entertain them – with our unique British perspective. Launching to Australian audiences first, fast and uninterrupted on Foxtel this August. INTRODUCING BBC WORLDWIDE AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND AN INSIGHT INTO BBC FIRST JON PENN, MANAGING DIRECTOR NATALIE EDGAR, DIRECTOR OF TELEVISION

The BBC has always been a pioneer. From the introduction entertainment formats in this country. FMA will also be With the launch of this exciting new premium channel Saunders, , and Richard E of television in the UK to the innovative catch up platform producing our most enduring local format, Dancing With the BBC will be bringing you the very best original British Grant – those are just some of the great actors appearing iPlayer, from the first global live broadcast to our The Stars, in this its tenth anniversary year. drama and scripted comedy, first and uninterrupted with in our programmes. revolutionary natural history programming, we have new programmes brought to Australian audiences faster Other BBC Worldwide formats confirmed for this year are We have shows from writers like , Jimmy always been at the forefront of technological and than ever before. Coast Australia series 2 produced by Great Southern TV McGovern and Paula Milne who are renowned for creating programming advances. for Foxtel’s History Channel and Living With the Enemy Fuelled by original ideas and a belief that our audiences truly groundbreaking series, and there is a fantastic array The launch of BBC First is a significant move for BBC produced by Shine for SBS. will appreciate shows that are intelligent and witty, that of directors and production talent who have delivered Worldwide in Australia. Not only are we the first country take chances and offer something different, that make programmes that are visually stunning with the highest Alongside our channels business, we also have a strong to launch this global multi-platform brand, but it will be them laugh, think and feel, BBC First will offer a huge production values. TV sales arm and a growing commercial enterprises the only place in Australia where you can see all the very breadth of programmes. division. We’ve just completed a Symphonic Our first local commission for BBC First exemplifies our best of British drama and comedy premiere programming Spectacular tour attended by 33,000 fans and the Top From crime to period dramas; romance, action and desire to work with the very best talent, Jimmy McGovern’s in the one place. Gear Festival at Sydney Motorsport Park with UK hosts adventure to dark psychological thrillers and from features epic seven part series is loosely inspired by events in the BBC First sits alongside our existing portfolio of channels Jeremy Clarkson and . to sweeping series and every configuration in between. 18th century when Britain established a penal colony on on Foxtel – BBC UKTV, BBC Knowledge, CBeebies and BBC Exciting new programmes will sit alongside big returning the other side of the world and will be co-produced by In Australia, we work with partners to bring DVDs, World News – offering a breadth of quality programming series, which will move to the channel as they become award-winning RSJ Films and See-Saw Films. magazines, digital apps and consumer products to the and making Foxtel the new home of BBC TV in Australia. available. We will be able to bring audiences many brilliant local market, as well as offering advertising opportunities I am enormously proud of BBC First and I can’t wait until British single dramas that would never usually be seen Through our industry-leading TV sales team, our for the BBC’s world renowned .com news site. bbc.com audiences get the chance to see it when it comes to Foxtel by Australian viewers and we’ll be giving audiences the programmes are available on most Australian platforms. We is the eighth biggest news site in Australia and the largest in August. chance to binge with stacking throughout the day. have a second window deal with the ABC, Dancing With The international news site, with plans to become the home of Stars on Seven, natural history on Ten, Da Vinci’s Demons everything we do online. British drama production has always been a rich source of on FX, Orphan Black on SBS, Doctor Who Classics on SYFY, world-renowned, award-winning talent both in front of and Our mission is to take BBC content and British creativity to titles on iTunes, Quickflix and Fetch, and many more. behind the camera. the rest of the world. This year we will be finding new ways We recently agreed a production partnership with to delight audiences, break new ground and in our proud Emma Thompson, Daniel Radcliffe, Helena Bonham FremantleMedia Australia to produce BBC Worldwide tradition, to be the very first to do something new. Carter, Cillian Murphy, , , Jennifer ACTION, ADVENTURE, ROMANCE

THE MUSKETEERS

A THRILLING WORLD OF ACTION, unto death and committed to upholding justice. Together, face a continuing struggle to maintain order and protect values this cinematic blockbuster has already been ADVENTURE AND ROMANCE INSPIRED BY this crack team of highly trained soldiers fight for honour, the King and Queen, while outwitting the machinations of commissioned for a second series. for valour, for love, and just for the pure thrill of it. When the shadowy Cardinal Richelieu as he ruthlessly strives to DUMAS’ LEGENDARY CHARACTERS. STARRING Luke Pasqualino, Tom Burke, Santiago Cabrera, d’Artagnan arrives in Paris to avenge his father’s death achieve his vision of a modern France along with his hired Howard Charles and Peter Capaldi. On the streets of 17th century Paris, law and order is he soon impresses the three Musketeers with his bravery assassin, the beautiful but mysterious Milady de Winter. more a fledgling idea than reality, and the Musketeers, and skill, and quickly discovers kindred spirits in these The Musketeers was the highest rating drama launch on Athos, Aramis and Porthos, are far more than merely royal boisterous soldiers. In a series all about passion, loyalty, the BBC since Call the Midwife. With witty, action-packed bodyguards for King Louis XIII; they are inseparable, loyal heroism and brotherhood, d’Artagnan and the Musketeers stories, breathtaking adventure and stunning production EPIC GANGSTER

PEAKY BLINDERS

PEAKY BLINDERS IS AN EPIC GANGSTER revolutionaries and criminal gangs all fight for survival in the streets, and when a crate of guns goes missing from an With a soundtrack featuring music from Nick Cave and FAMILY SAGA SET IN THE LAWLESS an industrial landscape gripped by economic upheaval. arms factory, he recognises an opportunity to move up in The White Stripes, Peaky Blinders is a vibrant evocation of the world. Crime pays, but business pays better. a hedonistic age. A second series is currently being filmed. STREETS OF POST-WAR BIRMINGHAM ON Thomas Shelby and his family run the most feared and THE CUSP OF THE 1920s. powerful local gang, the Peaky Blinders. Named for their As rival gangs, Communist revolutionaries and IRA Fenians STARRING Cillian Murphy, Sam Neill, Helen McCrory and practice of sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, descend on Small Heath in pursuit of the weapons, Annabelle Wallis. Britain in 1919 is a tumultuous mix of despair and they make money from illegal betting, protection and the dispatches a ruthless police chief from hedonism, a nation cleaned out by the extravagances black market. But Tommy’s ambitions go beyond running Belfast to impose order on an increasingly lawless city and of the Great War. Returning soldiers, newly minted recover the guns. CAPTIVATING DRAMA

ALAN PARTRIDGE: WELCOME TO THE PLACES OF MY LIFE BURTON AND TAYLOR THE ALAN BEHIND THE EGO In this special one-off documentary, Alan treats viewers to a guided tour of his beloved . From the offices of North Norfolk Digital, City Hall and his local THE LOVE THAT NEVER DIED… Hollywood’s most glamorous couple as they acted together newsagent to the luscious expanse of Thetford Forest, for the last in Noel Coward’s play, Private Lives, in This captivating drama tells the tale of Hollywood’s original Alan explores the key landmarks and natural beauty spots 1983. During the tour public speculation grew about the ‘it’ couple in the twilight of their star-crossed relationship. that have shaped the man he is today. Made by Alan’s own possibility of another marriage, but in private old frictions When and Richard Burton met on the set production company, Pear Tree Productions, this is Alan’s played out once again. Beyond the alcohol, pills and the of Cleopatra, the attraction was immediate. The public take on the whole celebrity travelogue genre. But it also trappings of fame, was love the ultimate crutch that allowed was enthralled by their illicit romance, two tempestuous inadvertently pulls back the curtain and gives us a glimpse them to escape the realities of their extraordinary lives? marriages, frequent break-ups and extravagant reunions. into the life of Norwich’s finest broadcaster. Burton and Taylor tells the nostalgic, bittersweet tale of STARRING and Dominic West. STARRING Steve Coogan. POWER AND POLITICS

THE POLITICIAN’S HUSBAND

A GRIPPING DRAMA ABOUT THE own career ambitions on hold for the sake of Aiden’s encourages her to take it and together they work out a plan career at the expense of Freya and their marriage. career and their family. A rising star in Parliament, Aiden to return him to power. However their pact backfires - once SHIFTING BALANCE OF POWER IN A From acclaimed writer Paula Milne, the drama is a hatches a plot with his close friend and Cabinet colleague Freya has tasted power she is reluctant to relinquish it. POLITICAL MARRIAGE AND THE ENSUING companion piece to her BAFTA and Emmy award winning Bruce to trigger a leadership coup. However his support Within a few weeks he has become yesterday’s man and The Politician’s Wife. CONSEQUENCES WHEN A WIFE BECOMES mysteriously dissipates and it becomes clear that Bruce the power balance in his marriage has irrevocably shifted. MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN HER HUSBAND. has betrayed him in order to bid for leadership himself. STARRING David Tennant and Emily Watson. Aiden’s growing distrust over her closeness to Bruce and Aiden is banished to the back benches. Senior Cabinet Minister Aiden Hoynes is happily married his corrosive envy over her political ascendancy only spur to Freya, a junior minister who has consistently put her At the same time Freya is offered a cabinet post. Aiden him on to ever more desperate attempts to rescue his own LOVE, AMBITION, SEX

BREATHLESS

BREATHLESS FOLLOWS THE LIVES OF A Breathless opens in 1961, a time when Britain was on the apart. Angela and Jean are secret sisters, poles apart STARRING Jack Davenport, Natasha Little, Joanna Page, GROUP OF DOCTORS AND NURSES brink of the ’60s revolution – abortion is illegal and the in personality but deeply bonded. They struggle to keep Sarah Parish and Shaun Dingwall. WORKING IN A HOSPITAL, A contraceptive pill is only just available to married women. up appearances, concealing the shameful truth about Set in and around a busy gynaecology unit, medicine their ailing father and the mystery of Angela’s missing WORLD IN WHICH EVERYTHING AND becomes the perfect stage to play out the shifting and husband. Meanwhile Richard is forced by convention to EVERYONE HAS THEIR PLACE. complex moral codes of early 1960s society. marry the ravishing Jean, who has no idea what she has let herself in for, and Lily and Charlie are trying for the But underneath this veneer simmers a cauldron of lies Otto and Elisabeth preside over the group, hiding a baby that will make their world complete. and guilty secrets, driven by love, ambition and sex. secret about their marriage that could blow their lives PG WODEHOUSE COMEDY CRIME DRAMA

THE FEAR

A BOLD, EDGY DRAMA, FOLLOWING A FORMER CRIME BOSS AS HIS EMPIRE IS BROUGHT TO ITS KNEES BY THE DISINTEGRATION OF HIS CRIMINAL . Richie Beckett is a respected, if feared, member of the BLANDINGS Brighton community. But his hard-won legacy is under threat when the family firm, now run by his two sons Matty and Cal, faces ruthless new rivals and Richie succumbs to an aggressive form of early onset dementia. A NEW COMEDY SERIES BASED ON THE servants and spongers including his indomitable sister With his short-term memory fading, Richie’s dark past CELEBRATED STORIES BY PG WODEHOUSE. Connie, his hapless, unlucky-in-love son Freddy and his bleeds into his present, revealing unresolved traumas that loyal and long- suffering butler Beach. echo the chaos now surrounding him. What emerges is a Set in 1929 in the fictional , the amiable spiralling battle to resist an implacable enemy, acted out but befuddled Lord Emsworth (Clarence to his ) STARRING Timothy Spall, , Jack Farthing on the streets of Brighton and inside Richie’s head. Can struggles to keep his dysfunctional family in order and and Mark Williams. Richie and his family survive when his mind and world usually adds to the chaos himself. All Clarence wants is to start imploding? be left at peace with his beloved pig The Empress but his plans are often thwarted by an array of friends, visitors, STARRING Peter Mullan. WRY COMEDY DRAMA

A YOUNG DOCTOR’S NOTEBOOK

WHEN PRACTICE DOESN’T MAKE PERFECT practice, narrated by his older, more experienced self. medical responsibility. Realistic and sharply humorous, A fascinating and original pitch black comedy which will the doctor soon realises that everything he’s learnt at surprise and entertain viewers. A wry comedy drama about a young doctor’s fledgling Recounting from his notebooks, the Young Doctor medical school can’t help him now. career as he begins his new life in a small, backwards considers his life and career as he tries to treat the STARRING Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe. Russian village. Based on the semi- autobiographical patients of a village that is struggling to enter the modern The Young Doctor’s older self appears in the room during short stories by Bulgakov, set on the eve of the Russian age. Dealing not only with the superstitious and poorly heated moments or late at night in his weakest moments. Revolution, it tells the story of the young medical educated patients but also with his own inner demons, Times have changed in medicine and the Older Doctor graduate’s turbulent and brutal introduction to his the Young Doctor reveals doubts about his own watches his younger self with humour and pathos. competence and struggles with the immense burden of SLICK COMEDY

DEAD BOSS

HELEN FIGHTS TO PROVE HER INNOCENCE it’s only a matter of time before this horrible mistake is his weekly prison visits are the only guaranteed way to just wants a hug. Dead Boss is a sweetly funny, slick, AFTER BEING FALSELY IMPRISONED FOR sorted and she is back to her old life. However, everyone spend time with her. original comedy. else around Helen seems to be conspiring to keep her on MURDERING HER BOSS. Against a backdrop of life in Broadmarsh Prison, Helen STARRING and Jennifer Saunders. the inside for one reason or another… fights to prove her innocence by finding her boss’s real Helen Stephens has never done anything wrong in her life. Her younger sister has moved into her flat and taken her killer. All she has to cope with now is a prison governor Apart from that time she was stopped for drink driving (she job, her fiancé prefers Helen being in prison because he who believes that appeals are bad for morale, a lawyer thought sangria was spanish for Fanta). So when she is just can’t face dumping her and Henry, the weirdo from who thinks shouting “You can’t handle the truth” amounts falsely imprisoned for the murder of her boss, she knows work who is more than a little obsessed with her, realises to a convincing defence, and an arsonist cellmate who STAR-STUDDED FEATURES FUNNY AND HEARTWARMING

FRANKIE

A HEROINE FOR THE MODERN AGE, DISTRICT NURSE FRANKIE MADDOX LOOKS LIFE AND PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS DEATH IN THE EYE ON A DAILY BASIS - HER MISSION IS TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE. Frankie is an infectious character. She’s energetic, A STAR-STUDDED COLLECTION OF City Hall, about a wife and mother unexpectedly becoming quirky, absolutely wonderful at her job and adapts to CONTEMPORARY SHORT DRAMAS, the voice of the people; King of the Teds, where a past love every situation life and work can throw at her as she tries SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED FOR THIS triangle resurfaces; and The Man, dealing with shadowy to live in the fast lane and juggle her work at the same figures in global politics. STRAND AND FEATURING LEADING TALENT time. This heartwarming and funny series follows Frankie BOTH ON AND OFF SCREEN. STARRING Emma Thompson, Olivia Williams, Alison and her eclectic team as they visit their patients at home Steadman, Brenda Blethyn, Stellan Skarsgard, Stephen and takes a look at ordinary lives, which are often in huge The cast includes international stars in thought-provoking Fry, Richard E Grant, , Hayley Atwell, Zoe domestic crises. and touching works by acclaimed writers. Stories include Wanamaker, Martin Shaw and Geraldine James. STARRING Eve Myles. STYLISH SPY THRILLER

THE GAME

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING as Daddy, assembles a secret committee of intelligence interception; Jim Fenchurch, a stoic and sceptical Special UK and giving them all a task. Each name is a new traitor officers to investigate. Are they the best? Or are they Branch police detective; and Wendy Straw, the naïve and to investigate, a mission into the unknown and a step A stylish, edgy spy thriller set in the Cold War, where the only ones he trusts in a world where double agents, impressionable secretary. Finally, there’s operative Joe closer to understanding Operation Glass. enemies and allies can’t always be separated, and secrets and lies are normality? Lambe, a troubled but genius interrogator who is able to espionage means getting your hands dirty. STARRING Brian Cox, Jonathan Aris, Shaun Dooley, read every tic and giveaway of human nature, but is hiding They are Bobby Waterhouse, the louche and ambitious Victoria Hamilton, Tom Hughes, Judy Parfitt, Chloe Pirrie When a defecting KGB officer reveals the existence of dark secrets of his own. head of counter-espionage; Sarah Montag, his dry-witted and Paul Ritter. a devastating Soviet plot, codenamed Operation Glass, and fiercely clever deputy; her husband Alan Montag, The exact nature of the threat is unclear. All they know is the charismatic but paranoid head of MI5, known simply their cheerful and guileless expert in bugging and that the Soviets are reactivating sleeper agents across the PIECE TOGETHER THE TRUTH

THE ICE CREAM GIRLS

A WOMAN IS RELEASED FROM PRISON was convicted. Now Poppy is released from a seventeen- to Serena’s family, Serena struggles to keep the past Based on the best-selling novel The Ice Cream Girls by AND SETS OUT TO DISCOVER WHO year prison sentence for the crime she still insists she hidden from her husband and daughter. Meanwhile Dorothy Koomson. didn’t commit and she knows the only way to get her life Poppy strikes up a relationship with lifeguard Al with COMMITTED THE MURDER FOR WHICH STARRING Jodhi May and Lorraine Burroughs. back is to find Serena and make her admit the truth about disastrous results. SHE WAS JAILED. what happened that night. When everything threatens to fall apart for both women, In the summer of 1995, sixteen year old Serena Gorringe With both women back in their hometown, Poppy’s they have no choice but to come face to face and finally and eighteen year old Poppy Carlisle were accused of release forces Serena to confront memories she has long piece together the truth. murdering teacher Marcus Halnsley. Only one of them since buried. As Poppy edges dangerously closer TURBULENT DRAMA DOMESTIC COMEDY

ROGER AND VAL HAVE JUST GOT IN

THE VILLAGE THE KEY TURNS IN THE LOCK AND... Spend a real-time half hour with Roger and Val as they come through the door after a day at work. Successfully AN EPIC DRAMA SERIES CHARTING THE upheavals in national identity, ways of working, rules kept married for over 20 years, this couple is beautifully in tune LIFE AND TURBULENT TIMES OF ONE and rebellions made, sex, religion, class, the shaping of with each other. They rely on one another for distraction ENGLISH VILLAGE ACROSS THE modern memory – are all refracted through the lives of from any woes and - because they have no children - the villagers and the village. TWENTIETH CENTURY. they are, it has to be said, somewhat lazy. Exposing STARRING and . the comedic minutiae of everyday domestic life, it will Written by BAFTA winning writer Peter Moffat, the series resonate with everyone who shares their home with a uses events in one village to explore the recent past. ‘significant other’. Births, deaths, love and betrayal, great political events, STARRING Dawn French and . COMPELLING AND EMOTIONAL

THE CRIMSON FIELD

MARKING 100 YEARS SINCE THE START OF between the battlefield and home front, but also between a traumatic past. For Rosalie, having failed to become a experience: the horror, the danger, the adrenalin, the joys THE FIRST WORLD WAR the old rules, hierarchies, class distinctions and a new way wife or mother this new opportunity means everything and and most of all the death-defying intoxication of simply of thinking. Flora may look too young for the job but she makes up for being alive in the face of mortal danger. This compelling and emotional drama presents one of the it with enthusiasm. However, it’s a new nurse Joan Livesey, When Kitty Trevelyan, Rosalie Berwick and Flora Marshall STARRING Oona Chaplin, Hermione Norris, , Great War’s untold stories. In a tented field hospital on disarming and spirited, who appears to be concealing the arrive as the hospital’s first volunteer nurses they struggle Kevin Doyle, Kerry Fox and Marianne Oldham. the coast of France, a team of doctors, nurses and women deepest darkest secret. volunteers work together to heal the bodies and souls of to be accepted by the established medical team. The men wounded in the trenches. The hospital is a frontier: girls are flung headlong into a world for which nothing Above any enmities or rivalries, they share a bond. No-one and nobody could have prepared them. Kitty is escaping else, not even closest family will ever comprehend this MYSTERY AND INTRIGUE

QUIRKE

BODY OF TRUTH among the cold silent slabs than the company of his of his past as he peels back the layers of his own tangled fellow men. After a woman’s body vanishes from his family history. Set against a rich and smouldering backdrop of mortuary one night, Quirke’s curiosity is piqued by a cover whiskey-soaked bars and elegant Dublin houses brimming From award winning writers Andrew Davies and Conor up surrounding her death. with sexual tension, Quirke is a bold, mesmerising drama McPherson, Quirke is adapted from the books by full of mystery, secrets and intrigue. As Quirke turns accidental detective, he delves deep into John Banville. the secrets of Dublin, and discovers his investigations are A consultant pathologist in the Dublin city morgue in STARRING Gabriel Byrne, and more closely linked to his own life than he could ever have the 1950s, Quirke is a powerful character more at ease Geraldine Somerville. imagined. Little by little he is forced to confront the sins DARK COMEDY WITTY AND SEXY

HUNDERBY DATES A WITTY, SEXY AND EMOTIONAL DRAMA SERIES ABOUT THE COMPLICATED AND HILARIOUS WAYS THAT STRANGERS A DARK AND TWISTED TALE of devious housekeeper Dorothy. While Helene battles to keep her past a secret, she must navigate Dorothy’s INTERACT ON DATES IN THEIR QUEST A dark comedy set in the 1830s from critically acclaimed scheming, her husband’s harsh critique and a potential TO FIND LOVE. writer/performer Julia Davis. Helene is the lone survivor new love interest... Featuring a cast of fiends, physicians, of a ship washed ashore near the small English village In the social minefield that is 21st century dating, hunchbacks, wastrels, maids, crones, and an adorable of . There, she is swept off her feet by widowed confessions, lies, role-playing, crises of confidence and puppy called Susan, Hunderby oozes with the dark and pastor Edmund, who believes her to be pure. But Helene sexual confusion abound. absurd humour that has become Julia Davis’s trademark. has a dark past that she cannot escape. As she moves STARRING Sheridan Smith, Ben Chaplin, Andrew Scott into Edmund’s home, Helene falls under the watchful eye STARRING Julia Davis. and Oona Chaplin. SECRETS AND LIES SATIRE

ALAN PARTRIDGE ON OPEN BOOKS WITH MARTIN BRYCE

ALAN ON WHAT MAKES ALAN, ALAN Literature buffs, get ready for a giggle as DJ, Norfolk SHETLAND personality and bestselling author Alan Partridge lays his soul bare in a no-holds-barred discussion of his astonishing memoir. The tables are turned on Alan Partridge as he’s interviewed by author Chris Beal. In front A POWERFUL MURDER-MYSTERY SET an ancient find or a contemporary mystery. And when of a live studio audience, Alan gives a unique insight into AGAINST A STUNNING SCOTTISH BACKDROP an elderly woman is shot dead on her land in mysterious his passion for books and his tips on being a writer as well circumstances, Perez and his team find themselves at as reading extracts from his autobiography – ‘I, Partridge, Detective Jimmy Perez, a native Shetlander who has the centre of two feuding families whose envy, greed We Need to Talk about Alan’. Along the way Alan takes returned home after a long spell away, leads a murder and bitterness has divided the surrounding community. questions from the studio audience and provides some investigation, uncovering secrets and lies from the past. Based on the book Red Bones by award-winning crime insights into the formative experiences that have made When a young archaeologist discovers a set of human writer Ann Cleeves. him the man he is today. remains, the island community is intrigued to know if it’s STARRING Douglas Henshall. STARRING Steve Coogan. FUNNY AND MOVING LOCAL PRODUCTION

BANISHED

FIRST LOCAL COMMISSION FOR BBC FIRST Banished is an epic seven part series from award winning writer/creator Jimmy McGovern (story producer Redfern Now). The series has been co-commissioned with BBC Two in the UK and begins filming in Sydney this April before moving to in the UK.

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