Commissions

Greenlit: Tomorrow’s Food, BBC1

Tomorrow’s Food (3 x 60′) – We show viewers the fascinating future of their food – from field, through the aisles of the supermarket, to our dining tables.

Led by Dara O Briain, this series will reveal the cutting-edge technologies and produce appearing in farms, supermarkets, kitchens and restaurants around the world, transforming how we grow, buy and eat our food. The world’s population may be growing, but we’re coming up with ingenious solutions to ensure the future of our breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

Dara will anchor the series in a different food location each week and the series will be packed with films from our food experts reporting about cutting-edge innovations in food across the globe.

Michelin-starred chef Angela Hartnett finds out how 3D printing is exploding into the food industry; whether the future of our burgers is more likely to be in a lab or on an insect farm than a field; and she goes on manoeuvres with the US Army to discover if they hold the secret to the end of sell-by dates.

Greengrocer Chris Bavin will take viewers inside future-facing farms with jaw-dropping solutions to producing more and better – from farms which can flourish in the desert, and those whose crops never see daylight, to automated farms using robots like ‘The Shrimp’ – Australia’s first robot sheep-dog, which herds cows!

Technology expert Dr Shini Somara finds out what the kitchen, supermarket and restaurant of the future promise and how ‘health by stealth’ will become a growing trend – from healthy chocolate to technology that can persuade us to feel full faster.

Channel: BBC1

Producer: BBC

TX: TBC

Source: BBC press release