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Winter 2018/19 Welcome to the latest edition of the 4 Distribution brochure – featuring highlights from the many thousands of programmes which we have available to license in the UK and Ireland.
What you see here just scratches the surface. We have a huge portfolio of content stretching back to the early days of Channel CONTENTS 4 – including drama and comedy classics, well known formatted series, and a portfolio of the best of British film from Film4. DRAMA 4 Each year we are adding to this catalogue with a host of COMEDY 8 brand new scripted and non-scripted gems, so whatever you’re looking for there should be something to suit your ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE 12 schedule, and we’re happy to work together to curate a PEOPLE AND STORIES 16 package of content tailored to your needs. FOOD 22 As well as the highlights here, you’ll find a searchable PROPERTY 26 database with many more titles at distribution.channel4.com – which we regularly update with the latest available shows. HISTORY 30 Our focus on C4’s home markets means the team has great NATURAL WORLD 32 expertise – so whether you’re searching for great shows, or looking to discuss opportunities for your programmes FILM 34 please get in touch via the details below. CATALOGUE CLASSICS 38
Karla Berry Senior Manager, 4 Distribution [email protected] 020 7306 6941
Email: [email protected] Web: distribution.channel4.com
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The Aliens Clerkenwell Films 6 x 60’ A wry and riotous adventure into a world that is at once entirely familiar and absolutely strange. Starring Michael Socha (Misfits), Michaela Coel (Chewing Gum), Jim Howick, Michael Smiley (Kill List) and Ashley Walters (Bullet Proof, Top Boy).
When five young outsiders on Community Service get caught Misfits in a strange storm, they discover that they have developed Clerkenwell Films superpowers. The series received massive critical acclaim Series 1: 6 x 60’ and has won a host of awards, including RTS and BAFTA® Series 2: 7 x 60’ (Best Drama Series). Starring Antonia Thomas (The Good Doctor), Series 3: 8 x 60’ Iwan Rheon (Game of Thrones), Lauren Socha (Catastrophe), Series 4: 8 x 60’ Nathan Stewart-Jarrett (Utopia) and Robert Sheehan (Fortitude). Series 5: 8 x 60’
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Set in the mid-90s at the height of Cool Britannia, My Mad Fat My Mad Diary takes a hilarious and honest look at teenage life from the Fat Diary perspective of Rae Earl - a funny, music-mad 16-year-old who, despite an eccentric mother and her own body image and Tiger Aspect mental health issues, has a huge lust for life, love and trying to Longford A Golden Globe® and BAFTA® winning feature-length drama Series 1: 6 x 60’ get laid. A crtically acclaimed series that has won Mind Media set in the last three decades of Lord Longford’s life, during Series 2: 7 x 60’ Awards and British Academy Scotland Awards. Starring Sharon Granada Television which time he waged a controversial campaign to win parole Series 3: 3 x 60’ Rooney (Brief Encounters), Claire Rushbrook (No Offence) and 1 x 120’ for Moors murderess Myra Hindley. Featuring Jim Broadbent, Nico Mirallegro (Murdered for Being Different). Samantha Morton and Lindsay Duncan.
This comedy drama series is about British lads Dylan and Sean, Gap Year childhood friends, who initially set out to backpack through Eleven Film China, but end up taking on the whole continent. The drama 8 x 45’ takes in ancient rainforests, full-moon beach parties, futuristic Asian mega-cities and remote monasteries in the foothills of the Himalayas. Written by Tom Basden (Fresh Meat and Plebs) and starring Ade Oyefeso (Youngers) and Tim Key (Detectorists).
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BAFTA® and RTS award-winning comedy series Chewing following religious, Beyoncé-obsessed, 24-year-old Gum Tracey Gordon who is fast finding out that the more she learns about the world, the less she understands. Retort Created, written and starring Michaela Coel and Series 1: 6 x 30’ starring Susie Wokoma (Crazyhead). Series 2: 6 x 30’
The Windsors Noho Film and Television Series 1: 6 x 30’ Series 2: 6 x 30’ Xmas Special 1 x 60’ Drifters Royal Wedding Special 1 x 60’ Bwark Comedy soap opera, from the writers Series 1: 6 x 30’ of Star Stories, that imagines the royal Series 2: 6 x 30’ family as you’ve never seen them before. Series 3: 6 x 30’ Series 4: 6 x 30’ The Royal Wedding Special features Harry and Meghan who are excited Comedy series about three friends struggling to find jobs that about their impending marriage, but don’t suck, a half-decent place to live and boyfriends they before their big day, must take Charles actually like. Created, co-written and starring Jessica Knappett to America to meet Meghan’s mum Doria. (The Inbetweeners Movie) and also starring Lydia Rose Bewley Starring Richard Goulding (Fresh Meat) and Lauren O’Rourke (The Inbetweeners Movie). and Kathryn Drysdale (Plebs).
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Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy is a psychedelic The multi award-winning comedian barely stops for breath as Noel Fielding’s fusion of live action and animation, with music by Rhod he sets out on an emotional and hilarious journey in each of his Luxury Comedy Sergio Pizzorno (Kasabian). The show is like biting Gilbert sell-out tours: Rhod Gilbert & The Award-Winning Mince Pie; into an aurora borealis sandwich, warm and strange Rhod Gilbert & The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst Secret Peter and packed with jokes. Starring Richard Ayoade Stand-up and Rhod Gilbert The Man With The Flaming Battenberg Tattoo. Series 1: 7 x 30’ (The IT Crowd). These live shows take you on a comedic roller-coaster ride with Series 2: 5 x 30’ 4 Ventures 3 x 60’ or 3 x 90’ his unique style of observational humour and fantastical rants from the Mr. Angry of Comedy.
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People secretly pinch cars belonging to friends and Carjackers family to surprise them with a shock makeover from the Electric Ray Carjackers team. 20 x 30’
Streetmate Tiger Aspect 15 x 30’ Scarlett Moffatt hits the Five Star streets to help people find dates, face-to-face, without Hotel any social media or dating apps in sight. Two Four Wales 15 x 60’ A luxury Greek hotel has been taken over by a bunch of celebrities including Spencer Matthews, Joey Essex and Lydia Bright. Can they make it a five star location?
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The World’s Most Expensive Cars Waddell Media 10 x 60’ Sensational cars with mind-blowing price tags - Ant Anstead follows the car hunters of RM Sotheby’s as they bring motor classics to auction.
A unique travel guide to Europe featuring Coach 14 tourists who are brought together for Trip an epic coach trip across the continent. But not all of these travelling companions 12 Yard Productions get on with each other... Multiple series available
My Hotter Half Naked Entertainment 20 x 30’ It’s partner versus partner, as couples compete to make the most smoking Dropped in the middle of hostile terrain, selfie in this explosive, Escape five people have only one way to survive nerve-jangling Battle of Maverick Television - build a machine from wreckage and get Hotness. 5 x 60’ out of there. Will they do it in time?
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This documentary series meets the junior doctors Confessions operating on the front line of the NHS in unprecedented of a Junior times, as they work hard to deal with rising patient Doctor numbers, under growing pressure. Two Four Wales 4 x 60’
Bride and Prejudice 7 Wonder Productions 5 x 60’
Across Britain, many couples preparing to marry encounter strong objections from relatives. In this series, six couples approach the big day determined to get all of their family onside.
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World of Weird Lion Television 6 x 60’ A team of intrepid reporters - including Joel Dommett, Ayo Akinwolere, Vicky Pattison and Brent Zillwood from The Undateables - present outlandish, extraordinary and unbelievable people, situations and phenomena from around the world.
My Online Nightmare Blast! Films 4 x 60’ Narrated by Rafe Spall, this series explores remarkable tales of extraordinary scammers and fraudsters who used the internet to lure and con their victims with terrifying, and sometimes deadly, results. Told by the victims, and those caught up in the horror.
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How To Get Fit Fast Richard Wilson’s betty Highland Fling Series 1: 1 x 60’ Series 2: 3 x 60’ STV Productions 1 x 60’ Anna Richardson and Amar Latif help viewers find the perfect fitness After almost 60 years of London regime to suit their lifestyle including life, Richard Wilson, one of Britain’s yoga, lunch break callisthenics and most loved actors, fulfils a lifelong the new exercise trend LISS - ambition to explore the Highlands Low Intensity Steady State. and Islands of Scotland - first taking to the sea on the Queen’s favourite cruise ship, the Hebridean Princess before boarding the ultimate in train travel, The Royal Scotsman.
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Jamie Oliver Fresh One/Jamie Oliver Multiple series available
In Jamie & Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast lifelong friends Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty show us easy to cook food for real people with guests including Simon Pegg, Sarah Millican and Craig David. Other series include Jamie’s Money Saving Meals, Jamie’s Quick & Easy Food and Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals. This series looks at some of our favourite meals Tricks Of The out and biggest brands selling pizzas, fried Restaurant Trade chicken and burgers, and asks: do consumers always get the best deal? betty Series 1: 4 x 30’ Series 2: 4 x 30’ Series 3: 6 x 30’ Series 4: 6 x 30’
Hidden Restaurants with Michel Roux Jr Boomerang Plus 4 x 60’ Chef Michel Roux Jr takes to the road around the country, in search of secret eateries and food mavericks as he seeks inspiration for a three course menu at his own Hidden Restaurant, The Oast House.
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The Food Chain Keo Films 6 x 30’
This food series follows the journeys made by Britain’s best-loved foods; from field, farm and sea, all the way into delicious dishes in our supermarket aisles, kitchens, cafes and some of the country’s top restaurants. The series reveals the inner workings and secrets of the UK’s food distribution web, exploring where Rufus Hound takes an irreverent look at the world of our food comes from and how what Extreme Cake extreme cake making, where sugar craft specialists we eat connects us all. Makers up and down the country dream up ever more elaborate ways to satisfy our sweet tooth. From a Boom Cymru TV solar system made of sponge, to edible steel statues Series 1: 15 x 30’ and life sized fondant swans, this is the cutting edge Series 2: 30 x 30’ of cake. Series 3: 30 x 30’
A Year on the Farm Keo Films 4 x 60’ Farms occupy two-thirds of Britain but most of our urban population know little about the farming way of life. A Year on the Farm has exclusive access to four family farms that provide a rare insight on the significant financial risks farmers are taking to rear high quality produce, using some of the best practice available.
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Behind the ornate front doors of some Obsessive of the most spectacular homes in the Compulsive Country British Isles lies years of neglect, hoarding and grime. Could a group of obsessive House Cleaners cleaners rescue these grand mansions from housekeeping hell and add some betty 6 x 60’ polish to their faded grandeur?
Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners: USA betty 4 x 60’
Home to 14 million hoarders, the USA is going through a hoarding epidemic - and if your home is a health hazard it risks repossession. Keeping it clean is critical, Hoarder Experts Curtis Dowling, Joanna Riley and Marianne and luckily there’s help from Britain. Cammack help households drowning in clutter to clear Some of our most obsessive cleaners SOS out and make some money from mountains of clothes have tackled some of the UK’s dirtiest and decades of records. Lion Television properties and now they’re heading 15 x 60’ stateside to clean America’s mess.
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Kirstie and Phil help couples who have fallen out Kirstie and Phil’s of love… with their houses. Kirstie is in charge of Love It or List It the sledgehammer and sets about transforming the couples’ own homes by knocking down walls Raise the Roof Productions The show that helps house hunters find dream and revamping the property. Meanwhile, Phil A Place in the Sun Series 1: 6 x 60’ uses his little black book of contacts to search holiday homes all over the world with advice Series 2: 8 x 60’ high and low for properties the couples will fall in Freeform Productions from international property experts. Series 3: 7 x 60’ Multiple series available love with. But will they decide to love it or list it?
Flat Pack Mansions Boomerang Plus 1 x 60’ A look at the new prefab luxury mansions being built in super-quick time.
Landlord Marco Robinson - who owns a £25 million Get a House property empire - is giving away a three-bed flat For Free worth £120,000. First he has to find the right person or people who will benefit the most. Boom Cymru TV 1 x 60’
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Monarchy by Seven Ages David Starkey of Britain Granada Bristol Wildfire Television Series 1: 6 x 60’ 7 x 60’ Series 2: 5 x 60’ Series 3: 5 x 60’ Bettany Hughes moves the spotlight Series 4: 1 x 90’ from the ruling elite to the everyday lives of ordinary people: to give us the Dr David Starkey’s complete history unofficial history of Britain. This series of the British Monarchy, revealing the explores the day-to-day life of the silent epic and bloody stories of our Kings majority from the Stone Age to the and Queens and charting the course Industrial Revolution. of Europe’s oldest surviving political institution.
In this popular and (literally) groundbreaking series, The untold story of the 51st Highland Division, who Time Team Tony Robinson and a team of experts travel the country Dunkirk The were left in France when Dunkirk was evacuated, Videotext Communications to investigate a wide range of archaeological sites of Lost Regiment and ordered to fight on against Hitler’s war Multiple series available historical importance. machine, in the face of overwhelming odds. North One Television 1 x 60’
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Jimmy and the Whale Whisperer ITV Studios 4 x 60’ In this one-off programme, Jimmy Doherty travels to the Caribbean island of Dominica to meet Andrew Armour who claims to be able to speak to Dominican Sperm Whales.
Tree of the Year with Ardal O’Hanlon STV Productions 1 x 60’
Comedian and outdoor enthusiast Ardal O’Hanlon explores the UK’s most remarkable trees.
Britain’s Polar Bear Cub STV Productions 1 x 60’ A Year in the New Forest In December 2017, a polar bear cub was Blast! Films born at Scotland’s Highland Wildlife Park; 4 x 60’ Britain’s first for 25 years. This programme This series follows the animals and people who live in the goes behind the scenes to follow the New Forest, throughout autumn, winter, spring and summer. extraordinary breeding efforts and documents the birth of a baby polar bear.
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A day trip to Blackpool to see the lights, a harmless break Bhaji On from the routine for a mini-bus full of women from the The Beach Asian’s Women’s Centre. It all seems innocent enough but as the mini-bus trundles along to a Punjabi rendition Umbi Films of Cliff Richard’s “Summer Holiday” problems quickly 1 x 100’ become apparent. Written by Meera Syal and Starring Jimmi Harkishin (East is East).
A St. Albans bank clerk’s life is turned Birthday upside down when he orders a Russian Girl mail-order bride from the internet. When the mysterious and beautiful Nadia arrives, Portobello Pictures John is shocked to discover that she Another Country tells the story of Guy Bennett (Rupert 1 x 100’ speaks no English - but he soon falls in love Another Everett) and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), teenage friends with the sexy stranger. From the director Country at an elite English public school during the summer of Jez Butterworth, Birthday Girl is a comic 1931. Homosexuality, honesty and hypocrisy are the main thriller starring Nicole Kidman, Ben Chaplin Goldcrest Film themes in this coming-of-age film, based on the award and Television (Apple Tree Yard), Vincent Cassel (Jason winning play by Julian Mitchell. 1 x 90’ Bourne) and Matthieu Kassovitz.
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Set Fire To The Stars Mad As Birds Films 1 x 100’ Inspired by a true story… Set in 1950s New York and starring Elijah Wood as John Malcolm Brinnin, the aspiring young American poet who finds his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas, played by Celyn Jones. Directed by BAFTA® norminated director, Andy Goddard.
Looking for Eric Sixteen Films 1 x 90’
Eric, a football fanatic postman whose life is descending into crisis, receives some life coaching from the famously philosophical Eric Cantona. Directed by Ken Loach and also starring Steve Evets (Apostasy) and Gerard Kearns (Shameless).
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Black Books Shameless Spaced Assembly Film and Company Pictures London Weekend Television Television Multiple series available Series 1: 7 x 30’ Series 1: 6 x 30’ Series 2: 7 x 30’ Series 2: 6 x 30’ Series 3: 6 x 30’
Teachers Tiger Aspect Series 1: 8 x 60’ Series 2: 10 x 60’ Series 3: 3 x 60’ Series 4: 9 x 60’
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Ali G Comic Strip Talkback Productions Comic Strip HBO Multiple titles available Series 1: 6 x 30’ Series 2: 6 x 30’ Series 3: 6 x 30’
Hill Street Countdown Blues ITV Studios Multiple series available MTM International Multiple series available
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Two teams of party reps hit the strip for Club Rep Wars the Summer whilst fighting it out to win Studio Lambert over the most new recruits. 8 x 60’
Reality experiment that asks what does it The Circle really mean to be popular online and how Studio Lambert do you make it happen? 19 x 60’
The extraordinary story of three identical Three Identical triplets separated as babies as part of a Strangers psychiatric experiment in NYC. Raw TV 1 x 90’
Series featuring the most mischievous Embarrassing and naughtiest pets from across the UK. Pets The show, from the team behind Paul O’Grady: For The Love Of Dogs, features Shiver a team of qualified vets and animal 20 x 30’ behaviourists who answer questions about the furry friends’ behavioural or medical issues.
As Big Ben goes silent for a multi-million Naked Attraction Big Ben: Saving pound restoration, architectural historian Studio Lambert the World’s Most Anna Keay gains exclusive behind-the- Series 1: 5 x 60’ scenes access to the work. Series 2: 10 x 60’ Famous Clock Series 3: 10 x 60’ ITN Productions Singletons pick a date from a selection of 1 x 90’ plus 2 x 60’ naked people. They then get dressed and head off on a date, to see if there is any chemistry when the clothes come on. Web: distribution.channel4.com Email: [email protected]