Thursday 29 September 2011

Friday 16 September 2011

Generic Research



Jamelia: shame about Single Mums - The singer Jamelia, a single mum, explores the stories of single mums from the past
Jamelia sets out to explore the source of her shame through the experiences of other single mums in the past. She begins in the Victorian workhouse, where unmarried mothers were deemed unfit to raise their own children. She discovers that even in the swinging sixties the stigma was still so great that many young women felt they had no choice but to give their babies up for adoption.
Single parenting - life stories
9pm BBC Three
One off
60 minutes

The World's Strictest Parents
9pm - part of a series
Factual - families and relationships - adolescence/ reality 





Unruly British teenagers are sent abroad to live with strict families in an experiment to find out the right way to bring up a child
57 minutes

Sex, Lies and Gagging Orders
60 minutes
Factual - gagging orders, tabloid, telephone tapping - subjects covered
After a summer dominated by shocking revelations about phone hacking and celebrity superinjunctions, former Heat editor Sam Delaney investigates how much we're entitled to know about the private lives of the famous - and how much they have a right to keep hidden. Do celebs deserve to have their sex lives exposed just because they are famous? And could the rest of us really be jailed for passing on their secrets? As he meets victims of phone hacking and tabloid exposés, and goes out with the paps hunting the latest juicy shots, Sam asks how the gossip he has always considered harmless has suddenly become so serious - and even dangerous.
9pm - bbc three

Who do you think you are?
Celebrities trace their family tree
BBC Two - 9pm
Series  - 10 one hour long programmes
Life stories

Beautiful Lives: Stories from a Children's Hospice
Powerful and emotional four-part series following the lives of the children, families and staff of Ty Hafan, the only children's hospice in South Wales
Life stories
BBC one at 22.35
Series

Katie: My Beautiful Face
Channel 4 9pm
Katie was young and beautiful, but a vicious acid attack destroyed her face. Cutting Edge follows Katie as she tries to re-build her life.
One-off
Reality
Including CCTV footage of the attack, this remarkable Cutting Edge film follows Katie as she undergoes pioneering treatment and attempts to re-build her life, while two men stand trial for the horrific assault.
A model and budding TV presenter

Seven dwarfs
observational documentary series 
9pmfollows the lives of seven dwarf actors as they live together and perform in a production of Snow White