Watching Margolyes twerking was the most joyful moment of the year.

- THE TELEGRAPH:

Nuanced, funny and blisteringly forthright this documentary burns with Miriam Margolyes’s fury: “If you’re mean about fat people, I hate you.”

- THE OBSERVER

There’s extreme surgery, the body positive movement and most importantly there’s Miriam who we’d watch making a film about cement drying…

- SUNDAY MIRROR

I’m not just 78, I’m 78 and fucked basically says Miriam in this really engaging, warm hearted examination.

- THE TIMES:

Miriam’s Big Fat Adventure

2 X 60'

UK Premier 9pm Monday 9th and Tuesday 10th March 2020 on BBC 2

After a lifetime of worrying about her weight Miriam Margolyes embarks on a provocative and entertaining new journey to work out whey the nation’s getting fatter.

She finds herself in a world of extremes – meeting people fighting the fat or trying to achieve bodily perfection by any means possible including irreversible gastric surgery which means they’re only able to eat tiny amounts of food at a time.  She meets people whose weight has meant  amputation and others who unapologetically embrace, enjoy and flaunt their size.

 

Presented by: Miriam Margolyes

Composer: Wayne Roberts

Producer: Selina Tso

Series Produced and Directed by: Simon Draper

Editor: Gwyn Jones

Executive Producers: Alicia Kerr and Paul Hamann

 

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Helena Bonham Carter’s My Grandparents’ War was inspiring, moving, humbling and arguably her most important performance to date.

- The Times

This series focuses on spellbinding stories from the Second World War – tonights final episode is no exception. An understated gem. Number 4 in the best TV programmes of 2019

- The Telegraph

My Grandparents’ War has been impeccable – you wonder how the producers landed such four big British stars with such fascinating family tales of the Second World War.

- Independent

“Mark Rylance’s determination to see both sides made for an extraordinary film”

- Daily Telegraph

Carey Mulligan completes this excellent series – the episodes have had a quality running through them as true as ‘Blackpool’ in a stick of rock. Each of their celebrity subjects has a fascinating , inspiring, emotionally devastating story to tell.

- The Times

“Mark Rylance. A deeply moving and shocking tale, brilliantly told”

- Guardian

A wonderful series that brims with staggering stories of bravery and resilience

- The Sun

My Grandparents’ War

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UK Premier 9pm Wednesday 27th November ’19

Four of Britain’s biggest stars Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas and Carey Mulligan explore their grandparents’ extraordinary stories from World War Two in My Grandparents’ War for Channel 4.

As the world commemorates 80 years since the outbreak of World War Two, this new series sees leading Hollywood actors undertake fascinating journeys into their family’s past as they re-trace their grandparents’ footsteps.

All of the actors have unanswered questions about the scars war left on their grandparents. In each authored film, the actors travel the globe to meet the last survivors, speak to descendants with a shared history and talk to people from all sides of the conflict.  Confronting the terrors their families faced and the threats they encountered, they uncover the sacrifices all our grandparents made.

My Grandparents’ War delivers a compelling biographical insight into some of the Britain’s leading actors and is a moving reminder of how bravery, love and self-sacrifice prevailed in the face of tragedy.

Presented by: Helena Bonham Carter, Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas and Carey Mulligan

Produced and Directed by: Chris Walker, Francis Hanly and Laura Nash

Series Produced by: Leo Burley

Editors: Gordon Mason, Guy Crossman, Julian Caidan, Sally Yeadon and Fredrik Limi

Executive Producers: Tom Anstiss and Paul Hamann

 

Distributed by: DRG https://www.drg.tv/

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An excellent two-part film in which Miriam Margolyes embarks on a mission to confront her fear of ageing and death.

 

“It’s not the length of the life that matters, it’s the quality of every second.”

- The Observer

In this thought-provoking and entertaining new two part documentary, Miriam, who admits to being terrified of dying, travels the world to take an unflinching look at an often taboo subject.

- The Daily Mail

Comic gold as Miriam’s “cynical English gorge” rose at the embracing of fads such as cryogenic treatments, “organismic chanting” to maintain positive energy.

- The Independent

MIRIAM’S DEAD GOOD ADVENTURE

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UK Premiere 9pm Sundays 21st and 28th April 2019 on BBC2

Miriam is back. And this time it’s serious.

In this thought provoking new series the irrepressible Miriam Margolyes is on a mission to confront her fear of ageing and death as she tackles our greatest taboo – our own mortality.

With trademark humour and humanity, along the way she meets people with competing perspectives – from those who believe they can cure ageing and even cheat death, to those facing the inevitable head on.

Presented by: Miriam Margolyes

Produced and Directed by: Simon Draper

Editor: Gwyn Jones

Executive Producers: Alicia Kerr and Paul Hamann

 

Distributed by: Passion Distribution

Distribution Title: Miriam’s Deathly Adventure

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This was the sort of documentary that, was mesmerising because it affects everyone. We are all potential victims at this very moment; hundreds of attacks are made on the banking system every second…

- The Times

Detectives hunt crooks behind hundreds of credit card thefts, find corrupt bank staff and pursue a gang who have stolen £3 million from cash machines. Scary stuff.

- MIRROR

Fraud: How They Steal Your Bank Account is a tense account of how sets of criminals were spotted, surveilled and eventually detained by assiduous teamwork…

- FT Weekend

Fraud: How They Steal Your Bank Account

1 x 60’

UK Premiere 9 pm Thursday 21st March 2019 on ITV1

Organised crime steals £2 million from our accounts every day. With exclusive access to a specialist police unit, Fraud: How They Steal Your Bank Account trails detectives on high stakes surveillance and arrest operations. In this dramatic film, they hunt down the gangs behind Britain’s fastest growing crime, fraud. Detectives uncover the corrupt bank insiders selling our account details, secretly track a gang stealing hundreds of credit cards and tackle an international crime syndicate who’ve stolen over £3 million from Britain’s cash machines.

Executive Producers: Tom Anstiss and Paul Hamann
Produced and Directed by: Jonathan Low
Narrated by: Shaun Dooley

 

Distribution title: Fraud: How They Steal Your Bank Account

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If anything will have you pining for your summer holiday, this documentary on board the Majestic Princess will be it.

- The Sun

Cameras follow the almost 5000 passengers and crew as they visit the exotic and familiar, from Asian megacities to stunning scenery and fjords.

- Total TV Guide

THE CRUISE: SHANGHAI TO SYDNEY

6 x 30’

UK Premiere 8.30pm Thursdays 3rd, 10th, 17th, 24th, 31st and 7th February 2019 on ITV1

The Cruise is back and setting sail with the newest and most luxurious ship in the fleet. Majestic Princess is on her maiden voyage from Shanghai to Sydney visiting Asia’s megacities and stunning scenery in New Zealand and Australia. But it won’t be plain sailing. It’s typhoon season and with tense navigational challenges and three and a half thousand cruisers expecting the very best, the crew will be working around the clock to try to feed and entertain their guests and deliver the holiday of a lifetime.

Executive Producers: Alicia Kerr and Paul Hamann
Series Producer: Colin Rothbart
Producer/Director: Sam Barnes
Edit Producers: Sara Woodford, Sarah Knight
Editors: Drew Hill, David Atkinson, Jamal Frederick
Narrated by: Anthony Head

 

Distribution title: The Cruise: Shanghai to Sydney

Distributed by: TCB Media Rights as 60’ durations
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THE HUNT FOR THE BIRMINGHAM BOMBERS

1 x 60'

UK Premiere 10:45pm Monday 1st October 2018 on ITV1

The Birmingham Pub Bombings is one of the biggest unsolved terrorism cases in British history. The IRA murdered 21 people when two bombs exploded in 1974.

Now, John Ware uncovers fresh evidence about the prime suspects, culminating in a dramatic confrontation with a man who has never been linked to the plot before.

Ware starts his hunt by reviewing some of the groundbreaking work done by ex-MP-turned-author Chris Mullin and ITV’s World In Action to expose the flaws in the police’s case against the Birmingham 6.

They concluded that an IRA gang of some four men was responsible for the bombings. Some of them have since been named but mystery surrounds the identity of the two men who planted the bombs which killed 21 people.

Ware focuses his investigation on a key figure, known cryptically as the “The Young Planter.” After interviewing an old associate and a detective who once arrested him, the net appears to be closing.

Now the investigation takes off to Dublin and the home of an old IRA operator. He knows the “Young Planter” but does he know the secrets of the Birmingham plot?

Executive Producer: Paul Hamann
Reporter: John Ware
Filmed, Produced & Directed by: Tom Stone
Editor: Agnieszka Liggett

 

Distributed by: Orange Smarty

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Anne Robinson queries whether women in the era of Me Too and Times Up are becoming their own worst enemies in the fight for gender equality…she presents a willfully proactive thesis, but Robinson isn’t adverse to having her opinions challenged. Her visits to a primary school, to Brands Hatch ‘grid girls’ and to a mother of five who works full time while her husband does the childcare prove enlightening’.

- The Times

‘Thought-provoking and un-pretentious, this one-off show had something worth saying’.

- The Daily Mail

The Trouble with Women with Anne Robinson

1 x 60'

UK Premiere 9pm Thursday 14th June 2018 on BBC1

When Anne Robinson and women of her generation broke the glass ceiling 50 years ago she imagined that we’d be much further along the road to equality by now. In the light of MeToo, Times Up and recent revelations about the gender pay gap, Anne can’t help wondering whether women today have become too fragile..?

To explore this provocative view, she meets women right across the UK to find out – 100 years on from suffrage – what’s still preventing them from achieving equality and what women are doing to fight back…

Executive Producers: Dominique Walker and Paul Hamann
Produced & Directed by: Clare Richards
Editor: Tom Herington

 

Distributed by: Passion Distribution

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Distribution Title: The Trouble With Women

 

 

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THE CRUISE: SAILING THE CARIBBEAN

3x 30’

UK Premiere 8.30pm Thursdays 5th, 12th, 19th April 2018 on ITV1

In this brand new series one of the world’s largest luxury cruise ships, the Royal Princess, is in the Caribbean trying to give its 3500 passengers their own slice of paradise.
But with rapidly changeable weather, stuck mooring lines, a group of high rollers in the casino and the mother of all beach parties to organise – the crew have their work cut out. And Timothy’s having a hard time marrying up ‘Caribbean time’ with the ship’s strict schedule.

Executive Producers: Alicia Kerr and Paul Hamann
Series Producer: Mark Jones
Series Director: Stephen O'Leary
Editors: Ben Burgess and Noel Delton
Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville

 

Distribution title: The Cruise: Sailing the Caribbean and Alaska

Distributed by: TCB Media Rights as 60’ durations
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Instructive, edifying and forensic.  An unflinching, expertly assembled film that features previously unheard testimony.  A grim masterpiece.

- THE OBSERVER

Documentary of the week is Engle’s balanced look back at two Belfast funerals 30 years ago this month – Immaculately put together.

- THE TIMES

Engle’s powerful documentary chronicles one of the darkest chapters in the history of the conflict in Northern Ireland.

- DAILY MAIL

A masterful and careful handling of an ever-combustible narrative.

- THE GUARDIAN

This brilliant film is in its own terms a document of historic importance.

- DAILY EXPRESS

Vanessa Engle returns with this terrifying survey of a particularly bleak fortnight in chequered history of Northern Ireland.

- THE TELEGRAPH

One of the most insightful and dispassionate documentaries about the conflict in recent times.

- THE IRISH TIMES

THE FUNERAL MURDERS

1 x 60’

UK Premiere 9pm Monday 19th March 2018 on BBC2

A documentary by Vanessa Engle, marking the 30th anniversary of a dramatic and deadly series of events that took place at two funerals in Belfast in March 1988. The story is told from all perspectives – by Republicans, Loyalists and the security forces, as well as by family members of those who died, who tell their moving and shocking stories for the very first time.

Grierson Awards Nominated
Best Historical Documentary 2018

Executive Producer: Paul Hamann
Produced & Directed by: Vanessa Engle
Editor: Judith Robson

 

Distributed by: Orange Smarty
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THE CRUISE: VOYAGE TO ALASKA

3 x 30'

UK Premiere 8:30pm Thursdays 1st, 8th & 15th March 2018 on ITV1

In this brand new series the crew of Star Princess voyage to one of the world’s last frontiers: Alaska, where staff have the tough job of trying to bring 5 star luxury to the remote Alaskan seas.

With Captain Tuvo and his crew battling fog and ice to try and deliver passengers the promise of a glacier filled wilderness like nowhere else on earth, Timothy trekking on a glacier and new hotel manager Pieter being put to the test – cameras capture all the challenges of life on board.

Executive Producers: Alicia Kerr and Paul Hamann
Series Producer: Mark Jones
Series Director: Stephen O'Leary
Editors: Drew Hill and Ben Burgess
Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville

 

Distribution title: The Cruise: Sailing the Caribbean and Alaska

Distributed by: TCB Media Rights as 60’ durations

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The refreshing thing about this series has been that Margolyes hasn’t always kept her head in the name of “balance”; but these are emotional times and this has been an emotional journey…

- The Guardian

Miriam Margolyes makes a fearless TV reporter driven by a compassion and a curiosity that puts many so called professional reporters to shame…

- The Observer

Miriam Margolyes makes for TV gold on this US road trip

- The Sun

It’s as if everyone’s favourite grandmother has swallowed Louis Theroux

- Sunday Times

Her inability to give a stuff has made Margolyes a national treasure

- Daily Star

*****

- FT Weekend

CHOICE

- Daily Mirror

****

- Daily Mail

****

- Daily Express

MIRIAM’S BIG AMERICAN ADVENTURE

3 x 60'

UK Premiere 9pm Wednesdays 3rd, 10th & 24th January 2018 on BBC1

In this brand new series the inimitable Miriam Margolyes embarks on an epic road trip through the heartlands of Middle America.

Articulate, funny and refreshingly honest, Miriam’s adventure takes her almost a thousand miles from Chicago to New Orleans as she meets the people whose voices and votes are reshaping the nation. From summer camps to county jails and all-girl motorbike gangs to a mass citizenship ceremony, she embeds in communities whose visions of their country challenge everything she thought she knew about America.

Executive Producers: Alicia Kerr and Paul Hamann
Produced & Directed by:  Will Yapp and Ian Denyer
Series Producer/Director: Simon Draper
Editor: Gwyn Jones
Narrated by: Julian Barratt

 

Distributed by: FremantleMedia Limited

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THE CRUISE: RETURN TO THE MEDITERRANEAN

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UK Premiere 8:30pm Thursdays 11th, 18th & 25th January & 1st, 8th & 15th February 2018 on ITV1

The Cruise returns with exclusive access to one of the world’s largest luxury cruise ships, with unique insight into life aboard for passengers and the 1400 staff who live and work on the Royal Princess. From serving up 20,000 meals a day in the galley to tense navigation challenges, with the ship missing port due to bad weather, breakdowns in the laundry, a health inspection in the galleys and two weddings on the same day bringing double trouble for the crew – Wild Pictures captures all the daily dramas as the ship cruises the Mediterranean.

Executive Producers: Alicia Kerr and Paul Hamann
Series Producer: Mark Jones
Editor: Ben Burgess
Narrated by: Hugh Bonneville

 

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A shocking film which follows the work of Paladin- A charity founded to protect the victims of stalking

- Observer

There is a stalking epidemic in Britain but the government is doing nothing to stop it according to this disturbing documentary

- Daily telegraph

‘Picks of the Day’

- The Observer

****

- The Mail on Sunday

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- TV Times

Stalkers

1 x 60'

UK Premiere 10.45pm Monday 20th November 2017 on BBC1

Over 1 million people are stalked in Britain every year. Yet only 1% of cases end in a criminal conviction.

‘Stalkers’ goes inside Paladin, a national charity, who are fighting to protect victims of stalking and reveals the failures in the criminal justice system which currently leaves many victims exposed and vulnerable to attack.

Filmed over 12 months ‘Stalkers’ follows 3 victims who are at high risk of harm and chillingly reveals what it is like to be hunted, face death threats and live in fear of your life every single day…

Executive Producers: Tom Anstiss and Paul Hamann
Producer:  Laura McCutcheon
Filmed, Produced & Directed by: Katharine English
Editor: Jennifer Hampson
Narrated by: Julian Barratt

 

Distributed by: TCB Media Rights
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A chilling profile by Emmy winning Jonathan Jones.

- THE TIMES

A compelling insight into Britain’s biggest-ever murder investigation.

- THE MIRROR

HAROLD SHIPMAN: DOCTOR DEATH

1 x 60'

UK Premiere 9pm Thursday 26th April 2018 on ITV1

Harold Shipman is Britain’s most prolific serial killer. A well-respected doctor, he abused his position of trust poisoning over 250 patients. With new witness testimony, this film tells the shocking inside story of how he got away with murder for over 25 years. For the first time, detectives at the heart of the case, explain the tactics they used to bring the man they called ‘Doctor Death’ to justice and the emotional toll it had on them.

A serial killer hiding in plain sight, Dr. Shipman groomed a community. 20 years after he was first arrested, this film uses police interview tapes, prison records and new eyewitnesses to expose the missed opportunities that could have stopped Shipman in his tracks. ‘Harold Shipman: Doctor Death‘ reveals the scale of Shipman’s drug addiction that nearly saw him struck off the medical register and a nurse, in her first interview, talks about how his killing spree began in the early 1970’s as a junior doctor on the hospital wards.

Executive Producers: Tom Anstiss and Paul Hamann
Producers:  Harriet Bird and Jonathan Low
Produced & Directed by: Jonathan Jones
Editor: Richard Fretwell
Narrated by: Gina Mckee

 

Distributed by: ITV Studios Global Entertainment
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Distribution Title: Dr Death

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Riveting three-part documentary series takes us to the heart of the Army to see the challenges it faces

- Daily Mail

Eye-opening new three-part series takes us to the heart of the British Army… revealing the unique challenges involved in fighting wars when Britain is not at war

- The Times

This insightful series taking us to the heart of the Army

- The Daily Telegraph

‘Pick of the day’ ****

- Daily Mail

****

- TV Times

‘Pick of the Day’ ****

- The Mail on Sunday

ARMY: BEHIND THE NEW FRONTLINES

3 x 60'

UK Premiere 9pm Wednesdays 18th, 25th October & 1st November 2017 on BBC2

This landmark series for BBC 2 filmed over 18 months, travels into the heart of the British Army at a crucial time in their history. Following controversial campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan there’s been a political reluctance to put boots on the ground and widespread opposition to military intervention. The Army’s budgets are under increasing pressure and they have the smallest number of troops since the days of Cromwell. Now, with the rise of ISIS, the threat of a new cold war in Eastern Europe and famine and conflict in Africa, the British Army has a new role to play a in a deeply unstable world…

With exclusive access to the rank and file and the generals, Army: Behind the New Frontlines follows the British Army on their most dangerous operations in Iraq, Estonia and South Sudan. Can the Army face off their enemies and avoid being drawn into a costly new wars?

Executive Producers: Tom Anstiss and Paul Hamann
Produced & Directed by:
Richard Wylie and Jonathan Low

Series Producer/Director: Matthew Haan

Editors: Simon Battersby, James Calderwood, Reva Childs and Martin Thompson

Narrated by: David Harewood

 

Distributed by: Orange Smarty

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Ebay Scammers

1 x 60'

UK Premiere 9pm, Thursday 31st of August 2017 on ITV1

Every day in Britain, 100 people become a victim of fraud shopping online. With exclusive access to the London Regional Fraud Team, ‘The eBay Scammers‘ trails detectives as they investigate a new multi-million pound fraud targeting thousands of eBay customers.

Detectives place a Romanian gang under surveillance. The gang led by a man known as ‘The General’ is making millions of pounds. Detectives discover that ‘The General’ controls a sophisticated international money laundering operation. They watch as his gang lieutenants fly Romanian money mules into Britain every week to open up bank accounts using fake identities. ‘The eBay Scammers‘ follows 150 officers as they raid dozens of properties across London and discover the money from the fraud is funding a luxury lifestyle and fuelling other crimes including drugs and prostitution.

Executive Producers: Tom Anstiss and Paul Hamann
Directors: Matt Haan and Selina Lewis
Produced & Directed by: Jonathan Low
Editor: James Calderwood
Narrated by: Shaun Dooley

 

Distributed by: TCB Media Rights
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Distribution Title: Cyber Scammers

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