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ENTERTAINMENT FACTUAL COMEDY FILM DRAMA 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 DRAMA distribution.channel4.com 5 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’ DRAMA distribution.channel4.com 7 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). COMEDY distribution.channel4.com 9 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). COMEDY distribution.channel4.com 11 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. ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE distribution.channel4.com 13 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? ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE distribution.channel4.com 15 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? PEOPLE AND STORIES distribution.channel4.com 17 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. PEOPLE AND STORIES distribution.channel4.com 19 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. PEOPLE AND STORIES distribution.channel4.com 21 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. FOOD distribution.channel4.com 23 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.