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These new programmes emphasize 主播大秀 Three’s commitment to working with new talent and providing a platform to tell stories that resonate with young people

Damian Kavanagh, Controller 主播大秀 Three, says: “This is an exciting creative moment for the channel and the production community as we are broadening the scope of our commissioning. We have received extra investment in recognition of the great work we have been doing since moving online and we have ambitious plans for the next stage of our journey.

"Our aim is to bring a new spirit to our content which celebrates young people and their passions by commissioning new, innovative, contemporary takes on Fact-Ent, Formats and Entertainment which will unite and inspire our young audience.”

Under the new pillar, 主播大秀 Three will extend its focus and will be on the look-out for ideas with feel-good, entertaining propositions at their heart that celebrate and unite young people and get them talking.

When 主播大秀 Three moved online in 2016, it successfully organised its commissioning activity around two editorial pillars - Make Me Laugh and Make Me Think - which have seen 主播大秀 Three achieve great success with a raft of award-winning shows such as Fleabag, Murdered By My Father, People Just Do Nothing, Murder In Successville, American High School and Sex, Drugs And Murder: Life In The Red Light Zone.

The new pillar will inject a different tone to 主播大秀 Three and provide more creative opportunities for programme makers to connect with young audiences in addition to the original pillars.

Charlotte Moore, Director 主播大秀 Content, says: "We are reinventing the 主播大秀 for a new generation and 主播大秀 Three's role in that is more important than ever. I'm really proud of what Damian and the team have achieved over the last two years and this extra investment is a clear signal of our commitment to entertaining young audiences into the future."

New programmes
Kavanagh also announced a host of new programmes that will be seen on 主播大秀 Three in the coming months. They include Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s new writing project ; new films from Stacey Dooley that look at 'punishment' attacks in Northern Ireland in Stacey Dooley Investigates: ‘Punishment’ attacks - Shot By My neighbours (w/t); and the people preparing for the end of the world (Stacey Dooley Investigates: Preparing For The End Of The World) and a film from Annie Price, () presenting her personal story of becoming a mum for the first time.

In documentaries, The Voices In My Head (wt), commissioned at Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Northern Filmmakers pitching session, takes viewers into the world of people who hear voices as a result of mental illness, while Different Like Me is a three-part series that brings three young people living with vitiligo, Tourette’s or scarring from burns together to meet strangers living with the same condition, to explore how they might help each other overcome their fears and anxieties.

There is new comedy in the shape of Kayode Ewumi’s Enterprice, which has been developed from a pilot into a full series, whilst Eating With My Ex will become a long-form proposition following its success as a shortform series on 主播大秀 Three.

Damian Kavanagh adds: “These new programmes emphasize 主播大秀 Three’s commitment to working with new talent and providing a platform to tell stories that resonate with young people. There is a great mix of programmes here that tackle a wide-range of topics and we’re looking forward to bringing them to our audience in the coming months.”

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Killing Eve

主播大秀 has acquired Killing Eve, a new high-stakes thriller from multi-award winning writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) that will premiere on 主播大秀 One and 主播大秀 Three later this year. 

Sandra Oh (Grey’s Anatomy) is Eve, a bored MI5 security officer whose desk job does not fulfil her fantasies of being a spy. Jodie Comer (Doctor Foster) is Villanelle, a fearsome assassin clinging to the luxuries her violent job affords her. When Eve is tasked with tracking down Villanelle before she can strike again, the two women are thrown into a cat-and-mouse game that turns the traditional spy-thriller on its head.

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Eating With My Ex

One Meal. Two Exes. Some Awkward Questions. 主播大秀 Three serves up full portion of Eating With My Ex.

Eating With My Ex, the 主播大秀 Three show which invites former couples to meet up for dinner, dissect old passions and answer brutally honest questions about where their relationship went wrong, is returning to the channel.

Originally available on 主播大秀 Three in bite-sized chunks as seven-minute episodes, the long-form version will be extended to 30 minutes, allowing audiences to enjoy even more from the past partners discussing and digesting where it all went wrong.

Some want an apology, some want a reunion, others just want closure. Exciting new ingredients will ensure that this second helping of Eating With My Ex promises to deliver plenty of delicious insights into why the estranged exes were unable to go the distance.

Eating With My Ex, which was originally created by Shotglass Media, will be a co-production with Thames, with James Cooper and Kat Hebden (Shotglass Media) and Phil Harris (Thames) as Executive Producers and Paddy Hughes as Producer and Director.

Kalpna Patel-Knight, Entertainment Commissioner at the 主播大秀 says: “I’m really excited for the long form version of Eating With My Ex. It worked as bite sized chunks but you really wanted to hear a bit more. So the long form will give you more insight into the relationship and what their family and friends think. It promises to be heartwarming, explosive and fun. And comedian Jayde Adams will be giving her witty take on the dates too."

Kat Hebden, Managing Director of Shotglass Media and Executive Producer says: “We are delighted to be taking this format into a long form version. It’s a fantastically revealing format, and offers viewers the perfect way to eavesdrop on the juicier conversations going on at the next table in the restaurant!”

Eating With My Ex is a Shotglass Media/Thames (part of FremantleMedia UK) co-production for 主播大秀 Three and will air later this Spring.

• 1x30' (pilot)
• 主播大秀 Commissioning Executive: Kalpna Patel-Knight
• Executive Producers are James Cooper and Kat Hebden (Shotglass Media) and Phil Harris (Thames)

Enterprice

is written by and starring Kayode Ewumi (co-creator of internet breaking comedy #HoodDocumentary and Bafta Breakthrough Brit).

The show follows lovable but unpredictable Kazim and his more serious-minded business partner Jeremiah, as they try and make a hit of their home delivery service Speedi-Kazz. Along the way, they’ll meet chaotic lawyers, dodgy financiers, easily offended gang members and a weird guy in a military cap who may or may not have magic powers.

Kayode Ewumi says: “I think this is crazy! To get given a series at the age of 23 will always be a blessing. I can’t wait to show the world this new baby of mine.”

Funny, slightly surreal, and totally unpredictable - Enterprice is packed with performances from new talent, with a style all of its own. Elephant and Castle has never looked so cinematic.

• 4x25'
• 主播大秀 Commissioning Editor: Gregor Sharp
• Fudge Park Executive Producer: Simon Wilson

The Voices In My Head (wt)

The Voices In My Head takes viewers in to the world of people who hear voices as a result of mental illness, following the lives of three voice hearers through a hybrid of observational documentary and audio reconstruction.

Kyle started hearing a voice in his head less than a year ago and is trying to control and comes to terms with it. Emmalina began hearing voices in childhood and has found that by welcoming them in, they all live relatively peacefully. And after four years, Chaz is still fighting her voice ‘Victor’, who has taken her close to death twice.

During filming the production team worked closely with each contributor, making detailed notes of voices they were hearing in order to add them in during the editing process, guided at every step by the contributors.

This film was commissioned at the Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Northern Filmmakers pitching session, to help northern talent yet to break in to network filmmaking. Winner Ryan Lee Gregory, 25, has worked with experienced Producer-Director Matt Drury and Assistant Producer Candace Davies to realise his idea.

• 1 x 60
• Commissioner for 主播大秀 Documentaries: Danny Horan
• Executive Producers for Blakeway North are Fran Baker and Sarah Murch

Different Like Me

Life can be difficult when you’re different, and being different has left many young people feeling lonely and isolated. Sure, there are support groups online but it’s not quite the same as meeting people in person. So what would happen if people with the same condition, who were exactly like them turned up at their door and spent the next few days together? Could being one of the crowd for just a few days help them change the way the live their lives forever?

In each episode one young person struggling with their condition - vitiligo, Tourette’s or scarring from burns - will be joined by a group of total strangers living with the same condition who share a bond of understanding that even their own families may struggle to share with them. With the help of their new found friends they will explore how they might help each other overcome their fears and anxieties.

Even your closest friends have never seen you without make up, so what happens when someone turns up who’s out and proud and whose vitiligo has made them an online sensation? You’re so afraid of your Tourette’s Syndrome that you’ve become a virtual prisoner in your own home - will meeting others just like you encourage you to step outside? If you think people look at you and only see your burns, will other survivors help you see there’s more to you?

Perspectives are altered and lives transformed in this series that helps us learn to look at ‘different’ a little differently.

• 3 x 40
• 主播大秀 Commissioning Editors: Jamie Balment and Beejal Patel
• Hello Halo Executive Producers: Wendy Rattray, Natalie Hill and Amanda Murray

The threats these people are preparing for range from the man-made - such as nuclear or biological war - to environmental, such as hurricanes or earthquakes and global pandemics, with an increase in environmental disasters (recent earthquakes and hurricanes), political unrest, and the looming threat of war with North Korea pointed to as the reason for the upswing in the prepping trend.

People are taking personal safety into their own hands and investing a great deal of time and money in doing so. This trend is particularly prevalent in the USA, where large companies who have been building ‘fall out’ bunkers & shelters for years, are now reporting a spike in sales.

The ‘new generation’ of prepper don’t like being described as preppers. Many of them are high net worth, well-educated individuals who regard this as completely rational. Stacey’s aim is to find out what is driving them to take these measures. She will investigate whether people are being scared into parting with their hard-earned cash.

Ultimately, she’ll be questioning what motivates people to join this movement - and if it is time that she personally becomes ‘prepared’?

• 1 x 60
• 主播大秀 Commissioning Editor Gian Quaglieni
• Rumpus Media Executive Producer: Iain Wimbush

Stacey Dooley Investigates: ‘Punishment’ attacks - shot by my neighbours (w/t)

In Northern Ireland, so-called ‘Punishment’ attacks are on the rise. They happen where communities take crime and justice into their own hands.

Reporter Stacey Dooley follows those trying to combat a rising tide of punishment attacks as it takes viewers to this frontline of everyday terror, as it unfolds.

The attacks are directed mostly at men under 30, and increasingly children under the age of 16, as paramilitary gangs target those responsible for “antisocial behaviour” like drug dealing, car theft, vandalism, ‘disobedience’ and ‘disrespect.’ They might expect to be shot in the legs or be beaten with baseball bats for committing them. Local communities tend to defend the armed gangs even when their targets are vulnerable young people whose lives are defined by poverty and neglect.

• 1 x 30
• 主播大秀 Commissioning Editor Joanna Carr (TV Current Affairs)
• 主播大秀 Northern Ireland Executive Producer: Fiona Blair

Annie Price shares her experience of becoming a mum for the first time in . Annie’s journey is charted from her final scan before birth through the first six weeks of her son’s life.

The baby is the first blood relative she has ever known. Annie was born into a gypsy family, and was adopted after suffering severe burns at four weeks old.

The documentary sees Annie and her partner Sam attend a number of classes and courses which help them prepare for parenthood. They attend a hypnobirthing class to help alleviate their fears that labour is going to be a traumatic experience and Annie is visited by a breastfeeding expert to help her adjust to feeding her baby.

Annie also takes part in a baby first aid course and visits a centre funded by Sport Relief which provides a support network for mums experiencing post-natal illness. Annie’s biological mum died in 2009, and suffered from post-natal depression. Annie is keen to discover what kind of support is available for mums if they find themselves struggling.

• 1 x 60mins
• 主播大秀 Commissioning Editor: Joanna Carr (TV Current Affairs)
• Executive Producer: Sarah Waldren