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Spring & Summer highlights 2004
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near you for an eventful spring summer season with 主播大秀 ONE
主播大秀 ONE will be at the heart of a summer of live events as sporting
passion, athletic achievement and national pride combine in a 拢272
million season.
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Lorraine Heggessey, Controller, 主播大秀 ONE, said: "Bringing
the nation together to celebrate and commemorate big events is key to
the channel's role in society.
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"It's important that people know they can switch
to 主播大秀 ONE when we cover those moments of great joy or deep reflection:
from D-Day veterans reunited on the Normandy beaches, or the tension
from the stadium as the athletes warm up for a gold medal win or to
those 'hands over the eyes' moments as David Beckham steps up to take
that crucial penalty."
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This summer the Olympic Games return to their country
of birth and the 主播大秀 has exclusive coverage of the event featuring 10,000
athletes competing in 37 disciplines.
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Over 2,500 years after the first Games, the 主播大秀 brings
Athens 2004 Olympic Games into the digital age, delivering more
choice for sport enthusiasts.
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As a world first, the 主播大秀 delivers the Olympic Games
not only on television and interactive TV but also live over broadband
straight to your PC.
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主播大秀 sport experts including Michael Johnson and Colin
Jackson join Sue Barker in Athens to guide viewers though this global
celebration of sporting drama.
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To complement the Olympic Games, 主播大秀 ONE sails back
in time to revisit the Gods and Goddesses of ancient Greece.
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Gold medal winner and Songs of Praise presenter Jonathan
Edwards takes this opportunity to explore the meaning of these myths,
what they reveal about ancient Greek religion and their resonances in
contemporary life.
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The Animal Games fuses science and entertainment
to discover who would be the champions if the natural world held their
own Olympics.
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主播大秀 ONE is sure to be a showcase for some of the world's
most exciting football this season as Euro 2004 begins in June.
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The 主播大秀 Match of the Day team will be making the trip
to Portugal for live coverage of the Championships, including England's
final group game against Croatia and a potential quarter-final clash
with Portugal or Spain.
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Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona will be celebrating
the national game with their own brand of humour in a Big Impression
Euro 2004 Special.
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August heralds the start of the new football season
and the most popular theme tune in the business will be back on Saturday
nights as Premiership highlights return home to Match of the Day.
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Each week Gary Lineker and Alan Hansen will be joined
by a range of top guests to review all the action from the Premier League.
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On 6 June 1944, the largest flotilla of troops in history
set sail for Normandy. The assault on the Normandy beaches was so huge,
so daring and so crucial, that even to this day D-Day is synonymous
with a 'make or break' situation.
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As Britain prepares to celebrate the 60th anniversary
of D-Day, 6 June 2004 offers what is perhaps a final chance to share
and preserve the memories of all those who lived through those momentous
events of 1944.
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主播大秀 ONE leads a unique series
of initiatives across the 主播大秀 with live coverage of the D-Day Memorial
Event and the veterans' march past on the D-Day anniversary itself,
complemented by a new drama to mark the occasion.
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The drama, D-Day, not only unravels the jigsaw
of events surrounding the planning and the execution of the invasion
of Normandy, but also tells the story of the ordinary men and women
who played an extraordinary part in creating history.
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Destination D-Day: Raw Recruits takes 19 young
men and puts them through the preparations and training exercises that
their grandfathers might have experienced 60 years ago.
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D-Day veterans accompany them on their journey, offering
advice and support and providing a unique insight into how the men of
Britain got ready for their part in war.
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Other programming highlights
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Drama
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Andrew Davies brings a surprising, new perspective
to Anthony Trollope's novel He Knew He Was Right, where an apparently
ideal marriage goes disastrously wrong. Starring Bill Nighy, Anna Massey
and featuring Oliver Dimsdale and Laura Fraser.
James Nesbitt stars in Tony Marchant's dark drama Passer By,
where one man has to learn to live with the consequences of not taking
action. Directed by David Morrissey.
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Don Gilet and Dervla Kirwan join forces in a new drama
series 55 Degrees North set among the hustle and bustle of the
streets of Newcastle.
Following a successful single drama, Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Amanda
Redman and Dennis Waterman star as an unlikely team of crack detectives
in New Tricks. Brought back to the Met, they use their experience
聳 and some unconventional methods 聳 to investigate some unsolved
crimes.
Kevin Whately leads the cast of an enchanting comedy drama loosely based
on the real-life adventures of Butch and Sundance, two pigs that escaped
from a Wiltshire abattoir and had Fleet Street on the run. Computer-generated
animation from Tim Haines (Walking with Dinosaurs) brings the pigs to
life in The Legend Of The Tamworth Two.
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May 33rd is Guy Hibbert's (No Child of Mine)
exploration of the consequences of repeated ritual, satanic abuse, seen
through the eyes of a young woman (Lia Williams) suffering from Dissociative
Identity Disorder.
Arts
In a new series for 主播大秀 ONE, Antiques Roadshow presenter Hilary Kay
focuses on three of Britain's early design gurus whose work has had
a lasting impact on this country. Brilliantly British traces
the enduring legacy of Thomas Chippendale, Josiah Wedgwood and William
Morris.
Michael Buerk presents Wren 聳 The Man Who Built Britain,
a landmark documentary looking at the extraordinary story of Sir Christopher
Wren, best known as the architect of St Paul聮s Cathedral. Hugh
Bonneville features as Wren - the man who had the grandest plans to
make London the most modern city in Europe.
To accompany Andrew Davies' new adaptation of He Knew He Was Right,
主播大秀 ONE screens The Two Lives of Anthony Trollope, a documentary
narrated by Stephen Fry looking at the author and his work.
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Nick Knowles takes a peculiar view of history as he
leads family viewers on a riotous romp through the mists of time in
Historyonics. Along with history professor Ronald Hutton, Knowles
presents colourful characters such as King Richard III, Dick Turpin
and Julius Caesar.
Stress has become a modern day epidemic and the Stress Test follows
a different person each week to observe how stress affects their lives.
Experts examine what stress is, how it comes about and how to combat
it.
主播大秀 ONE ensures that the voices of the nation's disgruntled consumers
are heard loud and clear this season as Brassed Off Britain launches
a unique interactive quest to undercover the worst customer care in
Britain.
Personality comes under the spotlight in What Am I Like? The Personality
Test as 100 members of the public are put through a series of tests
by psychologists to reveal how our personalities effect how we live
our lives with advice on how we can all make the most of our psychological
make-up.
Entertainment
Presented by Bruce Forsyth and live from 主播大秀 Television Centre, Strictly
Come Dancing pairs celebrities with leading professional dancers
as they bid to prove they have got what it takes to become top at the
tango and fantastic at the foxtrot.
In Pushed to the Limit: Britain's Toughest Family, ex-SAS soldier
Chris Ryan guides 10 British families on a journey of sometimes gruelling
and spectacular endurance, as he sets out to create heroes out of ordinary
people.
Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen are back together with a show full
of the trademark banter that made this duo one of the nation's most
memorable pairings - anything could happen to viewers who spend Saturday
Night with Johnny and Denise.
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Back for a second year, Sport Relief, a joint
project between Comic Relief and 主播大秀 Sport, aims to harness the power,
passion and goodness of sport to help change the world.
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