DON'T TELL THE BRIDE
BBC3
Series 1-6 x 60mins
PREVIEW
In each show a young, loved up couple are given the wedding of their dreams. But there is one big catch – the groom has to organise every single aspect of the big day. Will he reduce his bride to be to tears of happiness or sadness?
PICTURE THIS
Channel 4
3 x 60mins
PREVIEW
In a TV first internationally renowned photographer Martin Parr and gallerists Brett Rogers and Alex Proud go in search of Britain’s best and brightest new photographic talent. At stake a life changing publishing deal and a solo exhibition at one of the UK’s leading galleries.
THE BOYS FROM BAGHDAD HIGH
This World BBC2, Arte, HBO Documentaries
1 x 90mins
This compelling and moving documentary tells the story of four classmates coming of age in arguably the most dangerous city on Earth – Baghdad. One is Kurdish, one Christian, one Shia and one from a mixed Sunni/Shia background - in a city torn apart by sectarian violence, can their friendship survive? (co-produced by StoryLab TV)
PLANET MECHANICS
National Geographic international
8 x 60mins
Can the Planet Mechanics Dick Strawbridge and Jem Stansfield use their eco-enginering smarts to fix the world? Across the series they build Britain’s first street legal, air driven motorbike, a wood fuelled truck and power a farm using cow poo.
HOW DIRTY CAN I GET?
BBC3
1 x 60mins
PREVIEW
Nicky Taylor is worried – are the 200+ chemicals she normally applies to herself every day really necessary, or possibly even harmful, as has been claimed. To find out, she and comedian Tim Fitzhigham embark on a unique and smelly experiment – the go chemical free and stop washing for over a month.
HOW YOUNG CAN I GET?
BBC3
1 x 60mins
PREVIEW
Nicky Taylor doesn’t like being 41. But after undergoing a succession of outlandish therapies, being injected with Botox, having collagen implants and even flying off to Malaya for major surgery just how young can she get?
THE SHOCK DOCTRINE
Penguin Books
1 x 7mins
In just 7 minutes of forceful and immediate filmmaking renowned director Alfonso Cuaron distills the arguments laid out in Naomi Klein's new book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. The film is already a viral phenomena, to date it has been viewed two million times.
VEGAS COMES TO CHINA
National Geographic International
4 x 60mins
American billionaire Sheldon Adelson is a man with a dream. He wants to build the biggest casino resort in the world in Macau, China. But bringing the razzle dazzle and slick capitalism of Vegas to China is no easy task, as East meets West head on. This is the story of the struggle to win the hearts and minds of both the 20 million-plus tourists who will visit Macau this year and the workforce.
NIGHT COPS
Sky
6 x 60mins
This hard-edged, dynamic series takes us out onto Britain's streets with the Night Cops as they go about their nightly duties. From drunken brawls to CS gas attacks, drugs busts and car crime, this series shows what it's really like to police the night time streets in town and city centres across the country.
KICK ASS IN A CRISIS
BBC3
1 x 30mins
PREVIEW
Martial arts guru, Chris Crudelli is back to show you how to survive in a bar room brawl, escape from a marauding gang and how to deflect a knife attack. Using his impressive arsenal of martial arts and mind tricks Chris takes a group of self-confessed wimps and in just five days transforms them into urban warriors.
BEING MAXINE CARR
Channel 4
1 x 30mins
In 2004 Maxine Carr, girlfriend of Soham murderer Ian Huntley, was released from jail and disappeared. Since then at least 15 women around Britain have been mistaken for her and had their lives turned into a living hell. This film is the story of 3 of these women.
THE GREAT BRITISH BOOZE AWARDS
BBC3
1 x 60mins
Matt Allwright takes a tongue-in-cheek look at both the light and the dark side of Britain's binge drinking culture with an awards show that recognises those individuals and institutions which have done most to make our high streets such places of excess and havoc on Friday and Saturday nights.