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TROUBLED FAMILIES SEASON

The formative years of some young people can be tougher than most as, for many different reasons, they spend time in the care system or with foster families.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Two's Troubled Families Season explores the subject of caring for children and families who have been through tough times. These very personal stories reveal that "family" can mean many things.

Actor Neil Morrissey was just 10-years-old when he was sent into care. His brother Stephen was sent to another children's home and they rarely saw each other during the rest of their childhood. In Neil Morrissey – Care Home Kid, he hopes to discover why he was taken away from his family and to understand the impact that living in care had on him and his friends.

Emma Loach's Families In Care follows the families who arrive at Save The Family's purpose-built village near Chester. Homeless and desperate, they're on the verge of losing their children to social services. Instead, they put their whole family into care in the hope that this unique programme can help them turn their lives around.

Further programming for the Troubled Families Season will be announced later in the year.

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Neil Morrissey – Care Home Kid, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Productions

Families In Care, A CTVC production

The Truth About The Generation Gap

A group of young people take over a care home for the elderly at the start of an inspirational, amusing and emotional journey of discovery that hopes to change the way the young and the old think about each other.

A series of three films, The Truth About The Generation Gap represents a "fish out of water experience" for both groups, where young people, acting as care assistants, get to experience what life is like for the residents of a care home. The residents in return visit the middle-class semis and high-rise flats of the young to explore a life very different to the routines and quiet of the care home.

Following the two groups embarking on a journey of a lifetime, this series is filled with surprising challenges, road trips and unexpected friendships, as each group learns about the challenges and joys of each other's lives.

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A Love West production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Current Affairs

The Brands That Feed Us

How come most British households have a packet of Kellogg's in their kitchen cupboard? How did the UK transform from a country content to drink water straight from the tap to one that buys two billion litres of bottled water every year? And how did Britons end up eating five times more yoghurt now than they did 30 years ago?

The Brands That Feed Us is a new three part series that tells the story of how three basic commodities - water, yoghurt and cereal - evolved to become some of the richest and most successful industries in the world. It also explains how brands such as Jordan's, Yakult and Perrier have entered our cultural heritage and national lexicon.

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Productions

Wonderland

Observational documentary series Wonderland returns with more films seeking out people and places that offer a glimpse of modern Britain usually hidden from view.

On a south Leeds estate in the heart of rugby league territory, a group of nine young boys are preparing for competition – but they are not preparing to play for Bradford Bulls or Hull Kingston Rovers, they are Cheerleaders. This film about Britain's leading all-boys cheerleading team, follows them as they fluff up their pompoms and prepare for the National Championships hoping to become the first boys' team ever to lift the trophy.

Also included in the new season of films for Wonderland are: The City Of A Million Cats, a film about the people trying to deal with London's rapidly exploding population of feral felines, and Girls In Pearls, a film that meets many of the "girls" who have graced the famous photo page of Country Life over the last 50 years.

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Cheerleaders, A Quark Films production

The City Of A Million Cats, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Productions

Girls In Pearls, A KEO films production

Island Parish

With the arrival of young Father John Paul MacKinnon to his new post as parish priest on the picturesque island of Barra, Island Parish tracks a year in the life of three Roman Catholic priests who look after the two most remote and southerly parishes of the Outer Hebrides.

As father John Paul adapts to island life, the series watches how the often larger than life islanders take to him.

Meanwhile, on the next door island, Father Roddy, an experienced priest in his mid-forties, keeps a careful eye on his rookie neighbour, along with his colleague, 82-year old Father Calum.

Island Parish delves into the spiritual life of communities where 95 per cent of the population is practising Catholic. Alongside the priests many other colourful characters and stories interweave with the religious elements.

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Tiger Aspect Productions, Scotland