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The Restaurant

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Raymond Blanc – flamboyant Frenchman, king of cookery and Michelin-starred restaurateur – turns the heat up on nine hopeful couples as he challenges them to run their own restaurant, in a brand-new television event.

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Married couples, siblings or best friends, the twosomes face the toughest of all business challenges – managing a successful restaurant. Every decision, every mistake and every argument they have is caught on camera.

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They must work and live together 24 hours a day. Each week, one of the restaurants is eliminated from the competition by Raymond Blanc and his panel of "inspectors" – Lee Cash, Sarah Willingham and John Lederer.

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Only one couple can win the dream prize – their own restaurant financially backed and personally supported by Raymond with a six-figure sum of his own money.

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The series is an uncompromising, but entertaining, insight into the business of restaurant management, bringing with it the incredible pressure of living and working with a partner, learning how to cook, managing staff and a reminder that the customer is always right!

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SaxondaleÌý

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Saxondale

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Steve Coogan returns for a new series as Tommy Saxondale, the world-travelled ex-roadie with anger-management issues and his own pest control business in Stevenage.

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Still living with his girlfriend Magz (Ruth Jones), proprietress of an anarchic T-shirt shop, and still with his naïve assistant Raymond (Rasmus Hardiker), Tommy continues to wage war on pests large and small.

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But, more importantly, Tommy is more determined than ever to carry on his one-man mission to smash the "system", confront "The Man" and bring him to his knees.

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Throughout the series, Tommy continues to be antagonised by Vicky (Morwenna Banks); defends the rights of squatters on his housing estate; takes care of a suicidal man; represents himself in court over an unpaid fine; and gets his bottom stuck to a chair in a private school.

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Stephen Fry – HIV & MeÌý

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Stephen Fry – HIV & Me

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Following on from his widely acclaimed series, the secret life of the manic depressive, Stephen Fry tackles the largely forgotten world of HIV and Aids.

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In the early Eighties, little was known about Aids or how to treat it. The focus was restricted to certain groups, including gay men, and Stephen watched as friends became infected and died.

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On a personal journey, Stephen explores the situation today and finds that, although effective medication is now available, a third of those infected don't know they are positive. He also finds new infections are rising.

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To illustrate the changing face of the virus, Stephen meets up with an HIV-positive grandmother, a 16-year-old schoolgirl who has had HIV since birth and HIV-positive couples who have given birth to HIV-negative children.

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He also meets celebrities Andy Bell, George Michael and Scissor Sister Ana Matronic to hear their personal stories about HIV.

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