Breaking into Prison (3 x 60′) – Investigative documentary series in which filmmaker Livvy Haydock investigates the rise of contraband inside UK prisons, and uncovers the links in the chain on both sides of the law. She spends time with criminals who are making 10 times a drug’s street value by selling to prisoners behind […]
Trump’s Youngest Superfans (1 x 40′) – Donald Trump has divided and astonished America with his own brand of politics; once seen as the outside contender he is one step away from the Whitehouse as the Presidential Republican nominee. He is accused of being a ‘racist’, ‘sexist’ and a ‘liar’ by some in his own […]
Reggie Yates: Life And Death In Chicago (1 x 60′) – Against the backdrop of unprecedented gun violence, Reggie Yates travels to Chicago to investigate gun crime in President Obama’s adopted hometown. Chicago’s murder rate has soared by 72 percent in 2016 with shootings up more than 88 percent. There were 468 murders in 2015, […]
American High School (6 x 40′) – Shows young people in the UK what it’s like to grow up as an African-American teenager in American High School, a landmark, six-part documentary from Swan Films. Graduating High School is a fork in the road for Americans, but even more so if you are African-American. For this […]
Obesity: The Post Mortem (1 x 60′) – Documentary that investigates the devastating impact obesity has on the human body, in a UK autopsy first. Leading pathologist Dr. Mike Osborn, a consultant for the Royal College of Pathologists, and Assistant Pathology Technician Carla Valentine will perform a televised autopsy on a female donor who weighed […]
Night Tube: The First Weekend – A fast-turnaround film that documents the first journeys on London’s new 24 hour underground service. Platform: BBC3 Producer: TX: 28th August 2016 Source: C21 Media
Mission Selfie (5 x 15′) – Travelogue cum photography series fronted by social media stars Ben Brown and Steve Booker. The series explodes the shallowness of the selfie craze, encouraging the audience to turn the camera around and capture the world surrounding them. Each episode features social talent both in front of and behind the […]
Love And Hate Crime 3 x 60′) – At a time when accusations of race prejudice are dominating the US political debate, and the LGBT community is facing new state legislation aimed against it, this series looks at the dangers facing those who are singled out as ‘different’ in the US. These crimes polarise opinion, […]
United States of Hate: Muslims Under Attack (1 x 60′) – Examines America’s recent upsurge in Islamophobia; meeting both Texan anti-Islam groups and American Muslims as tensions rise at some of America’s mosques. This documentary asks how did America get here, and if the fears between these different groups are justified. In Irving, Texas, the […]
Our Drugs War (3 x 60′) – Takes an in-depth look at both the consumption and prohibition of illegal drugs in one British city: Bristol. We will meet the drug users, abusers, dealers, and those who tackle the growing problem on a day-by-day basis, including professionals from Avon and Somerset Police, the Bristol Drugs Project, […]
Sounds Random (15 x ) – A brand new music show hosted by comedian James Acaster. Part-chat show, part-music video, the series of shorts sees James Acaster invite guests including Mystery Jets, Raleigh Ritchie, Scroobius Pip, Izzy Bizu, Oh Wonder, Wolf Alice, Big Narstie, Shura, Tom from The Wanted, Billy Bragg and Vanessa from the Saturdays to discuss […]
Reggie Yates: Worst Weeks (2 x 60′) – Reggie Yates spends intense periods of time asking questions from the inside – spending a week in jail and another in the Mexican army. Entering Bexar County Jail in Texas for one brutal week, where around a quarter of the inmates have a diagnosed mental illness, we will […]
Brainwashing Stacey Dooley w/t (3×60) – What happens when Stacey Dooley lives and trains with alternative groups whose extreme ideologies feel at odds with her own? Can she ever think like they think? In a daring new series, Stacey steps away from her traditional investigative role and immerses herself fully in worlds with extreme views. To enter the […]
Anthony Joshua (4 x 8′) – Follows the training regime of heavyweight British boxer Anthony Joshua ahead of a world title fight. Channel: BBC3 Producer: Goalhanger Films TX: 6th April 2016 Source: Broadcast
Chasing Dad (1 x 60′) – After years of acrimony and estrangement, Phillip Wood seeks out his father, a heroin addict, to try and understand what’s happened to him since they were separated. Phillip’s father is seriously ill and, over months of filming, Phillip’s visits force father and son to confront some uncomfortable truths about […]
Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared – Serial-style investigation in which Alys Harte and Bronagh Munro try to unravel the mystery of a 20-year-old missing person case. Channel: BBC3 Producer: BBC TX: TBC Source: Broadcast
Troll Hunters (1 x 60′) – Em Ford, a successful beauty vlogger takes on the trolls by helping people who have been targeted by abusive trolls. Channel: BBC3 Producer: Chalkboard TV TX: Jan 2016 Source: press release
Delete Delete Delete (6 x 30′) – Patrick Kielty visits famous people in Belfast to search their web browsing history to find the weird, wonderful and potentially embarrassing. Channel: BBC1 Northern Ireland Producer: Roughcut TV TX: Spring 2016 Source: Broadcast
Unsolved: The Boy Who Disappeared w/t – Sees reporters Alys Harte and Bronagh Munro launch a forensic serialised investigation into the real-life disappearance of a teenage boy who vanished after a night out with friends. Rumours in the local community abound that he was murdered, but nearly two decades later, no trace of a body has […]
Stacey Dooley: Cologne w/t – In Cologne, Germany, large numbers of women have reported being sexually assaulted and robbed on News Year Eve by groups of men described as of North African or Arab in appearance. Stacey Dooley travels to the city to investigate the fall-out of these attacks. She gets to the heart of […]
Stacey Dooley: Sex In The Strangest Places w/t – Stacey Dooley travels to Turkey, Russia and Brazil to uncover surprising and shocking stories about these countries’ attitudes towards sex and prostitution. Turkey is one of the only countries in the world that has legal brothels, but now conservativism is on the rise, sex workers fear […]
Black Power w/t – Last year, film-maker Dan Murdoch met members of the Black Panthers when they and the Ku Klux Klan organised rival protests in South Carolina. Now, in a follow up to KKK: The Fight For White Supremacy, Dan returns to America to take a closer look at the Black Liberation Movement. He […]
Life Hacks w/t (20 x 3′) – Magician Ben Hart, star of award-winning series Killer Magic, take on a host of seemingly simple tips and hints to help simplify everyday life. In 20×3-minute episodes Hart will persuade a range of unwitting members of the public he’s showing them ways to be more efficient with a […]
Adam Pearson: Freak Show w/t (1 x 60′) – Adam Pearson explores whether he would ever consider joining a freak show after meeting people who use their disabilities and medical conditions to make money. Channel: BBC3 Producer: Betty TX: January 2016 Source: TBI Vision
Dangerous Dogs w/t – Stephen immerses himself in the dark underbelly of British life, exploring the truth about dangerous dogs in youth culture. Channel: BBC3 Producer: Antidote Productions TX: 2016 Source: BBC press release
Professor Green: Sleeping Rough w/t – Stephen immerses himself in the dark underbelly of British life, experiencing what it’s like to be homeless. With youth homelessness reaching epidemic levels, Stephen will highlight the hard realities that lie beneath this problem and raise awareness around an issue that affect an increasing number of young people in […]
Stupid Man, Smart Phone – Russell Kane is joined by a different online star every week. Each is convinced that – even though they have no survival skills or knowledge of the local language or customs – they can be dropped anywhere in the world and survive with only their mobile phone for help. From […]
Rise Of The Superstar Vloggers w/t (1 x 60′) – Told for the first time from the perspective of vloggers themselves, this documentary sees Jim Chapman meet the biggest and best vloggers from across the globe, including Tyler Oakley, Joe Sugg, Alfie Deyes and Ingrid Nilsen, to hear first-hand how this 21st century phenomenon has […]
Rent A Cop (8 x 30′) – A warm and often funny observational documentary series following a Darlington-based private security firm and the local people that the company aims to protect. Francis Jones, born again Christian and former professional boxer, is a man with a big personality and even bigger dreams. He is on a […]
Reggie Yates’ Extreme UK (1 x 60′) – Following his hugely successful series, Extreme South Africa and Extreme Russia, Reggie Yates turns his attention on the UK. We Brits pride ourselves on our tolerance, laid-back attitudes and sense of fair play. But behind the easy-going façade, strong opinions and extreme lifestyles are there if you […]
Transgender Love Story w/t (1 x 60′) – Most teens struggle to navigate the dating world. But imagine the questions transgender teens must ask themselves: should they reveal the truth to a date? Will their big crush appreciate them for who they truly are? Our documentary follows in close detail the love lives of several […]
Stoked Up In Stoke w/t (1 x 60′) – Follows three cage fighters and their coach as they prepare for a Cage Fighting contest, Night Of The Gladiators, in Stoke-on-Trent. All relative newcomers to the sport, the three fighters will be fighting in the ‘white collar’ category, designed to open up the sport to young […]
Britain’s Biggest Sexists w/t (1 x 60′) – From City bankers to football fans, from toy manufacturers to universities, accusations of sexism in British life come thick and fast. Now, journalist and prankster Leah Green is joining with a team of comedians to decide just who Britain’s Biggest Sexists are. Using comedy clips, viral videos […]
Transitioning In Selfies w/t (1 x 1′) – We follow a YouTuber as they transition from girl to boy by collating their collection of over 2,000 daily selfies into a short picture book video. Channel: BBC3 Producer: BBC TX: October 2015 Source: BBC press release
Fighting Like A Girl w/t (1 x 60′) – From girls who beat their boyfriends, to drunken brawlers to teenage girl gangs – BBC reporter Alys Harte looks at the rising number of women who are involved in violence, and hears from their victims. One in five violent crimes now involves a female perpetrator, but […]
Footballers’ Sex Secrets w/t (1 x 60′) – Money, fame and sex increasingly seem to go hand in hand with being a professional footballer. Young footballers can earn over £30,000 a week by the age of 18. Amal Fashanu lifts the lid on the culture of football, to discover whether it is leading to worrying […]
Professor Green: Suicide And Me w/t (1 x 60′) – UK rapper Professor Green, aka Stephen Manderson, takes an intensely personal journey to uncover the truth behind the suicide of his father seven years ago. His platinum hit Read All About It and songs such as Goodnight have given fans a glimpse into this tragic […]
One Of The Lads? With Thomas Gray w/t 6 x 10′) – Up and coming comedian and wannabe lad Thomas Gray explores different male cultures around the party towns of Britain, trying to ingratiate himself with the laddiest tribes in town and asking what it truly means to be a man today. Channel: BBC3 Producer: […]
Stacey Dooley: No Place To Be A Woman w/t (2 x 60′) – Stacey Dooley travels to two of the worst countries in the world to be a woman to investigate why young women there live in such dangerous, desperate and degrading conditions. In the first film, Stacey travels to the Philippines which is becoming […]
Murder Games w/t (1 x 90′) – A teenage boy is targeted by an online predator after befriending him while gaming. Murder Games tells the true story of Breck Bednar, a 14-year-old schoolboy who was lured to his death after being groomed online by Lewis Daynes. For the first time, in this gripping drama documentary, […]
The Fear (6 x 30′) – An amateur horror film competition from which we want to unearth the next big horror director. The judges in the first stage are the audience, who are seated in a special cinema so we can see every jump, scream and “oh f**k, why is she going down into the […]
Girls Run The World w/t (1 x 45′) – The charts are full of extraordinary female artists – Beyonce, Miley, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj… One of the brightest is Charli XCX – she has written tracks for the likes of Iggy Azalea and Rihanna, and is fast becoming a global pop star in her own […]
Is This Rape? Sex On Trial w/t (1 x 60′) – A major social experiment to find out what British teenagers understand about rape. Research has revealed that there is considerable confusion surrounding the existing law among this age group – one area of particular concern is what counts as consent. With presenter Will Best, […]
The Worst Things I Have Ever Been Called w/t (1 x 6′) – We explore some of the most bizarre and shocking things people have been called as a result of their race or ethnicity. Shocking and authentic but also warm and intimate, this film lifts the lid on the realities of racial stereotyping and […]
Franklyn Addo: PTSD Gangs (1 x 15′) – Upcoming singer/songwriter Franklyn Addo explores the prevalence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder among gangs of London. Channel: BBC3 Producer: BBC TX: September 2015 Source: BBC press release
Ferguson One Year On w/t (1 x 60′) – Shocking images of American police killing black people has left the world in disbelief. The shooting on 9 August 2014 of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri lit a fire that is still raging in the hearts of African […]
Is Britain Racist? w/t (1 x 60′ + digital shorts) – Three quarters of us say we have no racial prejudices whatsoever, but is this really true? Race hate crimes are on the increase and the internet is brimming with evidence of racist incidents caught on camera phones. Are we saying one thing but doing […]
KKK Town w/t (1 x 60′) – With race relations stretched to breaking point in some American cities, the notorious supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan says it’s seeing a surge in membership. They claim that white Americans – angry at what they perceive as attacks on their heritage – are joining the infamous group […]
We Want Our Country Back w/t (1 x 60′) – Britain First wants to ban Islam from the UK by closing all mosques and removing every written text from the religion from the UK. This film spends the summer with party leaders Jayda Fransen and Paul Golding as they spread their agenda on our streets […]
Secrets of China (3 x 60′) – Billie JD Porter finds out what it’s really like to grow up in the country with the highest population on Earth. She’ll discover a surprising nation of super-hard workers, romantics and millionaires, peeling back the layers of a sometimes secretive and proud society to ask “what next?” for […]