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Meat*
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For those who have ever wondered about the meat they're eating, Meat brings together
two moments that the public often separates: the death of the animal and the
consumption of its meat.
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Each programme follows the life and death of one animal as it makes the journey from
farm to fork. Filmed at a small working abattoir, an invited group of interested people
witness the slaughter of a different species each night.
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Once the carcass has been prepared, a butcher breaks it down and explains the different
cuts of meat, while a chef demonstrates what to do with them. Once the meal is ready, the
audience is invited to taste the meat. But now that they've seen the entire process, how
will they feel?
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* Meat is a working title
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CD2
Panic Room
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Imagine your worst fear is spiders. Now imagine being in a room
full of them, they're crawling all over you and you're unable to
escape. In this new six-part series, people living with a range of
phobias, from spiders to balloons and cockroaches to clowns,
confront their worst fears in the Panic Room.
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Anything could lie behind the doors of the Panic Room – a
roomful of cobwebs or a crowded auditorium of people staring at
you. By confronting their phobias in a controlled environment, the
phobics aim to finally beat their fears in four days.
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The Panic Room is the ultimate exposure therapy. It is a
self-contained and enclosed space which uses 360-degree
projected images, plus custom-designed infrastructure and
state-of-the-art light and sound techniques to create a whole new
world for each phobic – one in which their darkest fears come to
life, before their eyes.
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Two psychologists with expertise in treating phobias use various
techniques from cognitive behavioural therapy to hypnotism to
guide the phobics through their treatment.
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Their exposure in the
first Panic Room is followed by treatment from the leading phobia
experts who prepare them for the next Panic Room, which is
bigger and even more challenging. Their intensive treatment is put
to the ultimate test in the final Panic Room, the biggest and
scariest of them all.
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JW5/JC
The Bulls**t Detective
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Alasdair Jeffrey is on a personal quest to eradicate bullshit from all
areas of our lives. In this series of pranks and stunts, he debunks
bullshit of all kinds, from pseudoscience and phoney products to New
Age nonsense.
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Alasdair worked the corporate consultancy circuit with great success
for over 10 years. He appeared in the award-winning ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two series
Trouble At The Top and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three's The Ferocious Mr Fixit.
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In The Bulls**t
Detective, the straight-talking Glaswegian tackles the purveyors of
nonsense head on, challenging their claims.
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The series investigates get-rich-quick schemes and their promises to
make people millionaires. Alasdair confronts the organisers of a
pyramid scheme with the mathematical reality their members face. He
also reveals sneaky supermarket sales tricks and the self-promoting
gurus who promise to reveal the secrets of success in exchange for a
large fee.
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Front Desk
Sex Talk With Mum And Dad
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For the British family, sex is never an easy discussion topic. So
imagine having a full-on, no-holds-barred conversation with your
mum and dad about exactly what you did last night.
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Worse still,
imagine your parents giving you a blow-by-blow account of the kind
of things they get up to when you go out...
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Parents worry about the sexual activity and attitudes of their
teenagers, but some feel unable to even raise the subject of sex.
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This radical programme employs the techniques of a top Dutch
sexologist and family therapist who believes that, by shaking off
embarrassment and talking openly about sex, the family unit can be
strengthened. Each week, she meets two famiies experiencing
problems with trust and communication.
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Our expert believes that if families can be open with one another
about sex then they'll be able to trust each other about anything
and everything else. But that doesn't mean it's going to be any less
awkward to hear about dad's first time or mum's stash of sex toys.
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Front Desk
Last Man Standing
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Last Man Standing takes six athletic, Western adventurers and sends
them to the most remote areas of the globe to live with indigenous
peoples, train with them and take part in their ancient sporting
festivals. These are real tribes and the adventurers face real dangers.
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They encounter wrestling, endurance running, stick fighting, and even
bullock racing – and they're going to be playing by local rules. Over
eight weeks, each programme begins with a journey.
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Last Man
Standing charts the adventurers' intense experiences as they have
to assimilate alien cultures – whether Amazonian, African or
Mongolian. These are ordinary young people, thrown into an
extraordinary world.
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The six will take part in all the rites and rituals which lie at the heart
of each event, experiences that include shamans, black magic,
indigenous drugs and blood-letting.
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Each experience is utterly transformational – for the mind, the body
and the soul – but there can be only one winner... the Last
Man Standing.
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CW
Help! My Dog's As Fat As Me
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Proving that they are, indeed, man's best friend, some hefty hounds
and their obese owners are given a lifestyle change with a
difference in Help! My Dog's As Fat As Me.
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Presenter Julian Bennett takes eight podgy pooches and their
overweight owners and puts them on a three-month diet and
fitness regime to shed the pounds together.
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Every fortnight, the fat fidos and their owners come to the Fat
Dogs Fitness Centre. Here, Julian and the Fat Dogs Team –
celebrity dog trainer Amy Hatcher and vet Paul Manktelow –
challenge the pairs to a range of activities, from doggie line-dancing
to orienteering.
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At the end of each weekend, the contestants face the dreaded
Weigh Off. The chubbiest couple will be eliminated.
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The remaining three contestants battle it out in a tense finale for
the title of Fat Dog Champion 2007.
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RL
Mischief
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Hilarious, intelligent, brave and, well, downright mischievous, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three's award-winning documentary strand returns with a vengeance, promising to tackle some of the most serious issues in Britain with its unique blend of wit, irreverence and strong journalism.
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On behalf of the great British public, the presenters have been primed to get to the heart of some of the most controversial issues being talked about today – often by some of the most unconventional means.
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This time around, the Mischief treatment is dished out to everyone from members of the fashion industry to the high priests of political correctness.
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SB
Road Kill Café
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Pioneering forager and road-kill chef Fergus Drennan wants to change Britain's eating habits and wake people up to the bland rubbish he believes they shovel into their mouths.
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Fergus goes to the sleepy Kent town of Sandwich to persuade locals to go foraging for the first time and discover the delights of road kill.
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At the end of a three-week stay, he plans to hold a feast of wild food and wild meat, sourcing his ingredients from the wild, of course, from beaches and forest undergrowths to the gutters of the roadside.
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Fergus may seem extreme but, to him, a road-kill badger burger or a wild squirrel stew is healthier and more authentic than a battery chicken that has never seen the light of day.
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Why eat frozen peas, he argues, when you can have fresh seaweed instead?
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But will he find anywhere to serve his food to the public? Will anyone want to sample it, and can Fergus really alter the way people think about what they eat?
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Front Desk
Conning The Conmen
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´óÏó´«Ã½ Three is launching a new generation of undercover investigations – the secret love child of Jackass, Trigger Happy and MacIntyre.
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It's a series which combines daring undercover stings with wicked comedy.
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It's a world where no conman is safe – from low lifes to hi-tech scammers, any one of them
could be tricked by a sharp sting or outrageous stunt. But when? And by who? Conmen of Britain beware. A maverick undercover team is ready to cheat, trick and sting you right back. Ouch.
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Front Desk
Comic Relief Does Fame Academy 2007 On ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three
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Following the huge success of Comic Relief Does Fame Academy in 2005 – over a million pounds was raised for the charity – the Academy once more opens its doors for a new batch of celebrity students.
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Thirteen stars will sing live for survival every night from the Academy's Circle of Fear to raise money for Red Nose Day 2007.
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The celebrity students will live and work together and be put through their paces by the Fame Academy staff – led by tough Head Teacher Richard Park.
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The singing wannabes must deliver the performance of their lives as they sing for survival in order to win the viewers' votes.
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No one wants to be in the bottom two and have their fate decided by their fellow celebrities in the dreaded student vote, ending their dreams of winning the competition.
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Viewers can switch over to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three straight after the nightly ´óÏó´«Ã½ One shows to get all the gossip and the best of the stories from within the Academy, plus an exclusive first interview with the latest
expelled student.
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Broadcast live from inside the Academy, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three has an access-all-areas pass, interviews with the judges and teachers, expert assessment of students' singing talent and exclusive live performances from the cream of the music industry.
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RL
Castaway
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Seven years on from the Taransay original, Castaway returns for a new series.
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Throughout the week, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three brings viewers exclusive, daily updates as the castaways settle into their new life in New Zealand, revealing just what's been happening during the previous 24 hours.
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The network features unseen footage and discussion about the latest goings-on in this studio-based show and viewers can also offer their thoughts on the action by phone, email and text.
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In addition, there is a live ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three show which follows the weekly ´óÏó´«Ã½ One programme that takes a closer look at events, with analysis on the group dynamics and the latest gossip from the island.
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It features the Castaways' family and friends, who give their own opinions on what their loved ones are getting up to on the island, how they feel they're integrating into the group, and how they're being treated by their fellow islanders.
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GM/KA
The Verdict
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The Verdict is an exciting, multi-media event for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two that sees 12 high-profile people sit in judgement on a complete trial.
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The celebrity jury, just like a real jury, will be made up of a wide range of individuals with a variety of backgrounds. They will try a controversial and high-profile case improvised by actors and contested by real barristers and a real judge.
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The switchover show on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Three gives viewers exclusive access to what happens once the celebrity jurors leave the courtroom, and follows them back to the hotel where they are sequestered for the duration of the trial. It also takes viewers behind the scenes to give them a fascinating insight into how the jurors reach their final verdict.
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As they have dinner together each night, the jurors hotly debate the events of the day. The programme captures all their discussions, arguments, secret alliances and splits.
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Each day of the trial throws up new, and often contradictory, evidence in what is a highly emotive case. Tempers will undoubtedly flare and prejudices will be exposed.
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