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DIRECTOR (SERIES 1) SEAN COUSINS, MALCOLM MCDONALD; (SERIES 2) SEAN COUSINS, KAY PAVLOU; PRODUCER (SERIES 1) TONY WRIGHT; PRODUCERS (SERIES 2) TARNI JAMES, TONY WRIGHT; ASSOCIATE PRODUCER (SERIES 1) SOPHIE MEYRICK; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER STEPHEN AMEZDROZ; DECEMBER FILMS PTY LTD 2 Program Sales Worldwide T 61 2 8333 3314 E [email protected] The Snakebuster WILDLIFE / ADVENTURE 26 x 27’ Bruce George is a man on a mission. Dressed in black, covered in tattoos, and riding a Harley Davidson, Bruce is The Snakebuster. When Bruce gets the call this rough tough Aussie bloke hits the road and races to the scene. It’s his job to remove highly venomous snakes from domestic situations. But for the Snakebuster, it’s often a question of saving the snake from the people rather than the people from the snake. While he may look tough Bruce has a soft spot for snakes – the deadlier the better! This is adventure television with serious bite! Narrator/Presenter Bruce George; Writers/Directors Duncan Chard, Sam Smith, Rhian Skirving, Julia Redwood; Line Producer Andrea Quesnelle; Series Producer Sam Smith; Executive Producer for DiscoverY NetworKS Europe Leonie Hutchinson; Executive Producers ED Punchard, Julia Redwood; Prospero Productions WORLD RIGHTS EXCLUDING GERMAN SPEAKING TERRITORIES, SAARC, CHINA AND TaIwaN 4 Program Sales Worldwide T 61 2 8333 3314 E [email protected] SOCIETY / All Points of the Compass HISTORY 1 x 55’ While the Vietnam War raged, senior political leader Charles Tran Van Lam recorded his family’s domestic life on his Super 8 camera. As his sons dressed up in cowboy suits and his daughters pirouetted through ballet lessons, he held meetings with the most powerful political players in the world. But when Saigon fell in 1975, Tran Van Lam left his country with nothing – not even his citizenship. 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This elite force demands complete physical and mental strength as they endure the navy’s hardest and most extreme training program. Compelling adventure television, Navy Divers is fascinating look of life at the front line of national defence. Creators Ingrid Longley, John MCCourt; Directors Steve Westh, Russell Vines; Producers ED Punchard, Julia Redwood; Prospero Productions 7 Catalyst SCIENCE 34 x 30’ ongoing magazine series A multi-award winning magazine series that makes sense of our world. From medicine to the environment, the outer reaches of the universe to the innermost secrets of our own extraordinary bodies, the Catalyst team of science journalists investigate the “real world” implications, ethics and politics behind the “hot button” issues of today: climate change; nuclear-solar-wind-tidal-geothermal power; DNA and genome technology, medical miracles and the ongoing “mind- expanding discoveries” into the workings of the human brain. Every episode tells us something we didn’t know, takes us somewhere we’ve never been and introduces us to concepts that are beyond belief. PRODUCERS BELINDA GIBBON, PAUL SCHNELLER, INGRID ARNOTT; PRODUCTION MANAGER ROBERT REYNOLDS; INTERNATIONAL PRODUCER ROBERT BRENNAN; SUPERVISING EP FACTUAL PETER MCEVOY; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER NICK LEE; SERIES PRODUCER GREG SWANBOROUGH; ABC TV PREVIOUS CATALYST SERIES (8 X 30’) ALSO AVAILabLE 8 Program Sales Worldwide T 61 2 8333 3314 E [email protected] Catalyst Specials The Science of Dating: The Times of Our Lives (Part 1) 1 x 26’ “How to Catch a Mate” 1 x 26’ In our youth-obsessed world, we put considerable effort Everybody wants it, but not all of us get it. So how do we go into hiding the ravages of time by wearing make-up, about becoming a sex magnet? In this episode, three human dyeing our hair, or even lying about our age, but the guinea pigs are put through their paces in the “lab of love”. reality is we are all getting older. Catalyst explores what We find out if pheromones (the smells of desire) can really turn happens inside our bodies as we age and discovers that on the partner of your dreams; whether fear is the ultimate it’s a mysterious process; even though the signs of age aphrodisiac; and whether the body often says what the lips are familiar, the jury is still out on why we age. Is it our would never dare to mention. There’s a lot of fun and a few livers, our genes or even too much oxygen that makes us anxious moments as we pull out all the stops in getting our old? Catalyst exposes the enigma of age, as some of the subjects the dates they so desperately desire. world’s cutting-edge scientists compete to explain it. 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We also ask than overall intelligence. Mapping arguments, defining whether the human brain and its ability to extend our life goals and being a rebel with a very good cause are all traits expectancy could achieve more than is good for us. Catalyst explores in the search for the secrets of success. REPORTER PAUL WILLIS; PRODUCER ILI BARÉ; REPORTER DR PAUL WILLIS; PRODUCER JULIE MILLER; ABC TV EXECUTIVE PRODUCER NICK LEE; ABC TV 10 To Catch a Liar 1 x 27’ Human Sub 1 x 25’ How good are you at spotting a lie? Sébastien Murat – “The Human Sub” – attempts to break the world record We’re told lies up to 100 times a day, for extreme human breath-holding diving. He can hold his breath for over yet research shows fewer than one in eight minutes and swim four laps of an Olympic swimming pool underwater 1,000 people can reliably detect lies. on a single breath. For the challenge Sébastien has developed a unique But science has declared war on strategy that he believes will circumvent the medical dangers. He will mimic deception, and To Catch a Liar crosses deep diving marine mammals by emptying his lungs of air before descending the world to put the latest lie detection to the extreme depths. His biggest obstacles are the life-threatening technology to the test. Witness an actual conditions such as shallow-water blackout and decompression illness. lie forming in the brain, visit the US REPORTER RICHARD SMITH; PRODUCER ANDREW HOLLAND; Department of Defence’s “Booth of Truth”, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER SONYA PEMBERTON; ABC TV find out when lying is good for you and why we’re all so susceptible to liars. Dirty Little Secrets 1 x 26’ WRITERS LOUISE HEYWOOD, JONICA NEWBY; Is the air in our cities safe to breathe? New science about fine particle PRODUCER LOUISE HEYWOOD; EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ANDREW HOLLAND; ABC TV pollution has a dire warning for public health. A storm of toxic dust and poison gases swirls through our streets and suburbs every day from Hypnosis 1 x 27’ our vehicle exhausts. The global epidemic of fine particle pollution is estimated to kill nearly a billion people each year.