AT CHANNEL 5


Dan Louw Commissioning Editor Factual, Factual Entertainment & Specialist Factual


Denise Seneviratne Commissioning Editor Factual & Factual Entertainment


Guy Davies Commissioning Editor Factual


Kit Morey Commissioning Editor Factual


Sebastian Cardwell Deputy Director of Programming


SHOWS THE AUDIENCE LOVED


DOCUMENTARIES Our Yorkshire Farm


Ben Fogle: Return to the Wild UK Susan Calman’s Grand Days Out


FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT Rich House, Poor House


The Hotel Inspector Celebs on the Farm


HOBBIES AND LEISURE Motorhoming with Merton & Webster


Nick Knowles Big House Clearout Gardening with Carol Klein


HISTORY Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle


Hampton Court Zara & Anne: Like Mother, Like Daughter


NATURAL HISTORY/SCIENCE Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly


Why do I Put on Weight? Critical Condition


CURRENT AFFAIRS Jeremy Vine


Secret of Your Supermarket Food Panic at the Pumps!


ARTS AND MUSIC We Love Only Fools and Horses


Bronte’s Britain with Gyles Brandreth Dad’s Army: Secret Lives & Scandal


Shows from November 2020 to October 2021


The channel is co-producing on Fremantle-backed indie Wild Blue Media’s documentary Stonehenge: The Hidden Truth which details research that has identified a new monument at Stonehenge. It’s also on board Wildflame’s discovery+ feature documentary Yellowstone: Super Volcanoes.


FORWARD WITH PARAMOUNT +


Channel 5 is now open for Paramount + business. The UK is one of the only territories to have a factual budget for the ViacomCBS-owned streamer, which adds nicely to the possibilities for UK producers pitching to the channel. Channel 5 Factual and current affairs commissioning editor Daniel Pearl will be heading up UK originated unscripted for Paramount +. It is looking to commission right across the traditional SVOD factual arena, which will be anthologies, premium factual, box sets and feature documentaries. Stories need to resonant for a UK audience (not necessarily set in Britain), and they need to be broad. They won’t have quite the large budgets that Netflix is famous for, but they will fund for scale.


WHAT’S NEXT AT CHANNEL 5


There’s a foundation of popular travelogues on C5, including new show Robson Green: Coastal Fishing, from Firecracker Films. Coming up, Jane McDonald is visiting home and abroad, with four-parter Jane McDonald’s Caribbean, alongside six-parter Jane McDonald’s Yorkshire, both made by VIS UK, ViacomCBS’s in-house production arm.


Jane McDonald’s Yorkshire VIS UK


Holidaying has paid dividends for Channel 5. Observational docuseries Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun from Red Sauce has been recommissioned. While the original series charts the lives of Brits who have swapped the UK for life in Spain, it’s extending the franchise with six-parter Bargain Loving Brits by the Sea and a bumper 40-part order of Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun – Costa Living.


Bargain Loving Brits Red Sauce


Susan Calman is also returning after the success of her Grand Days Out series, with a second series, plus Big Seaside Holiday, both from IWC.


See the Televisual Factual Films at televisual.com 13


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