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Off By Heart Shakespeare

Join Jeremy Paxman and Samuel West and watch a BBC/Silver River production in the making
On Sunday 29 January at 3pm cheer on the finalists at the BBC’s first ever national Shakespeare recital contest Off by Heart.
Jeremy Paxman presents as nine teenage finalists from schools across the UK go up against each other…
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Elizabeth Taylor: The Auction (title tbc)

Some of Elizabeth Taylor’s most precious possessions are to feature in landmark auctions in New York and London. With exclusive access to Christie’s, this feature-length documentary, coming soon to Channel 4, explores the Hollywood legend’s extraordinary life story through some of these possessions.

Silver River puts retired people to work for BBC1

8 December, 2011 | By Catherine Neilan The BBC is to explore the effects of the country’s ageing workforce in a constructed experiment documentary that follows 2010’s The Day The Immigrants Left and this year’s The Street That Cut Everything. In the 2 x 60-minute The Town That Never Retired, an entire town will be populated… [Continue Reading]

A Question of Taste

A QUESTION OF TASTE is an exciting new food quiz for BBC2 presented by Kirsty Wark. Each week two teams of keen foodies take each other on over a series of rounds designed to test the length and breadth of their gastronomic knowledge in everything from food history to kitchen equipment and ingredients to cooking techniques.

THE SCIENCE OF ART

THE SCIENCE OF ART is a ground-breaking three–part series that will explore how science is using art to understand the human brain, and, in so doing, throwing up surprising theories about how art works. Where the Romantic view of art is that it is God-given and unexplainable, science is now ‘unweaving the rainbow’.

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Sergeant on Spike: Father of British Comedy

This year marks the 10th anniversary since Spike Milligan’s death. In this authored documentary for ITV1’s Perspectives, John Sergeant, who has been obsessed with Milligan since childhood, will tell the story of how Spike not only created ‘alternative comedy’ in Britain, but defined the modern British sense of humour.

BBC Two to host brand new gastronomy quiz format

Date: 21.09.2011 BBC Press Office

Alison Kirkham, Commissioning Editor for Formats & Features on BBC Two, announced today A Question Of Taste a new quiz show for “foodies” presented by Kirsty Wark, who is currently appearing on Celebrity Masterchef. Kirsty Wark says: “This is going to be a real joy for me as I am crazy about cooking, and pitting enthusiastic cooks against each other and the audience at home with questions about ingredients, foodie facts, famous chefs and using archive from some kitchen greats – will I hope, be a very tasty dish.”

The King’s Meal

A popularizing historian cooks up the past.
NEW YORKER 21,November 21, 2011 by Lauren Collins
If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home” (it comes out in the U.S. next year), accompanied a four-part BBC television series of the same name. In a land of ponderous dons, Dr. Lucy, a thirty-seven-year-old bluestocking with a barrette, has caused a sensation. For one episode, Worsley, who seemed to be wearing nothing but a marcel wave, reenacted an Art Deco-era bubble bath.

SILVER RIVER TO BRING AFP TO C4 PRIMETIME

BROADCAST 7 July, 2011 | by Balihar Khalsa

Silver River is producing Channel 4’s first primetime AFP series – an ambitious multiplatform project that will attempt to tap into the British public’s latent talents. The 6 x 60-min HIDDEN TALENT will be presented by Radio 5 Live’s Richard Bacon. C4 commissioning editor Tanya Shaw said: “This cross-platform commission presents an exciting opportunity not only for the individuals featured in the series but also for the audience at home, who can take part in a series of specially designed interactive tests on the show’s website to uncover their own hidden potential.” Silver River chief executive and executive producer Daisy Goodwin said: “We are finding people with amazing aptitudes they knew nothing about – one person said it was like discovering a superpower”.

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