Programmes
Star Portraits sees Rolf Harris and three very different artists get a unique, revealing and often no-holds-barred insight into the lives and personalities of some of Britain’s biggest stars.
Featuring celebrities as diverse as Barbara Windsor, Bill Oddie, Richard Wilson and Meera Syal, Star Portraits is an iconic series that brings a fresh twist to celebrity interviews, and also showcases some of the country’s best little-known artists.
Star Portraits ran on BBC1 in the UK, and is distributed internationally by iD (Digital Rights Group).
The series is highly successful around the world, with versions broadcast in Australia, Israel and most successfully, Holland, where series four is currently in production.
Do you have a good intuition about people?
Can you tell whether someone is a high or low earner simply by looking at them?You could win their annual salary if you were right?
Win My Wage capitalises on the fascination we all have with what other people earn. It’s a game of intuition, deduction and chance.
Each show sees one contestant attempting to guess which of the nine wage earners in front of them is the highest earner. Get it right and they go home with that wage as prize money...but get it wrong as a result of our confounding rounds of eliminations, and the earners split the prize money themselves.
Win My Wage ran on Channel Four in the UK and is distributed internationally by Eyeworks. The format has been sold around the world, most recently to Canada.
WIn My Wage
20x45 for Channel Four
Star Portraits With Rolf Harris
3 series for BBC One
In this special programme Saira Khan (The Apprentice, Beat The Boss) explores Birmingham's changing architectural landscape with reference to three very different places of worship in the city.
Building Birmingham
1x30 for BBC One
The Exhibitionists
1x30 for BBC One
Birmingham's NEC is the largest exhibition centre in Europe, staging more than 180 exhibitions each year, from world-famous public shows such as Crufts Dog Show and Clothes Show Live to international trade exhibitions and live concerts by some of the world's biggest stars. As the NEC celebrates its 30th birthday, we go behind the scenes.
Build, Buy or Restore Abroad
20x30 for Discovery Real Time
The Day I Got the Sack
5x30 for Channel Four Education
Want to live abroad and can’t decide whether to buy an existing property, renovate a wreck or take the plunge and self-build? Help is at hand with Build, Buy or Restore Abroad - a property series that examines your alternatives in Spain, France and Cyprus and reveals the amazing value for money to be found outside the UK. With budgets ranging from £150,000 to £500,000, there’s something to tempt every pocket. What would YOU do? Presented by Michael Holmes.
Sacked, fired, shown the door, dismissed, let go - whatever you call it, being sacked is something that will happen to most of us at some stage. It's one of the most personally traumatic experiences you can have and when you’re young – just starting out and trying to make your way in the world - it can be a potentially devastating setback…. Each programme juxtaposes the story of one young person as they seek to recover from the body blow of being sacked and get back on the career ladder...
Power to the People
5x30 for Channel Four Education
Solution Street
4x45 for ITV1
Can protesting make a difference?
With compelling archive footage, eye-witness accounts and contributors from a cast of punks, powder bombers, culture jammers and eco-warriors, Power to the People: An A-Z of Protest takes to the streets to find out.
It’s amazing what you can achieve when you work together...
In Solution Street, Gaby Roslin and Ben Shepherd bring together the skills, talents and passion of one street of neighbours to solve a problem, help themselves and help the community.
Build, Buy or Restore
30x30 for Discovery Real Time
100 Worst Pop Records
1x180 for Channel Four
Want to move house but can’t decide whether to buy an existing property, renovate a wreck or take the plunge and self-build? Help is at hand with Build, Buy or Restore. With budgets ranging from £150,000 to £500,000, there’s something to tempt every pocket. What would YOU do? Presented by Michael Holmes.
Jimmy Carr counts down the 100 Worst pop records of the year, as voted for by Channel Four viewers.
Date My Daughter
20x45 for ITV1
Everything Must Go
150 episodes (5 series) for ITV1
A single guy chooses to date one of three unseen daughters based on the charms of their mothers. Presented by Vicki Butler Henderson.
Antiques and collectables cluttering up garages, lofts and living rooms across the country go under the hammer.
Pete Waterman and the Coventry Choir
1x45 for BBC One
100 Worst Britons
1x150 for Channel Four
Pop producer Pete Waterman returns to his hometown of Coventry. His mission: to put together a choir made up of 11-20 year-old pupils from local schools. With the help of his music arranger and a choirmaster from Coventry Cathedral, Pete has just three weeks to audition and train the children before putting on his concert of traditional Christmas carols at Coventry Cathedral. RTS Award Winner: Best Entertainment Programme.
The public voted in droves to nominate the 100 people who make Britain 'grate'. Presented by Jimmy Carr, this deliciously mischevious two-and-a-half hour special counts down from 100 to 1 the country's most irksome household names from the worlds of popular music, film, TV, sport, art and politics. RTS Award nominated.
Street Market Chefs travels Britain’s busiest food markets to pit two of the area’s best chefs against each other in a local food cook off. Featuring markets from Abergavenny to York, presenter Amanda Lamb and the team trekked far and wide to tell the stories of some of the UK’s most unusual food growers and farmers; and taste the amazing creations of the area’s chefs.
Funded by the Food Standards Agency, Street Market Chefs celebrates all that’s great about locally sourced, healthy food and is backed up by both Five and FSA websites featuring dedicated content, video recipes and further information about the show.
Street Market Chefs
10x30 for Five and the Food Standards Agency
