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This evening, I’ve hosted a special event to celebrate the best of 成人论坛 Two and announce a a range of new commissions on the channel, from edgy dramas to distinctive comedy and compelling factual.

It has been a huge honour to be running 成人论坛 Two for the last year and I’m thrilled that the channel is in such great shape.

From the critical and ratings success of Wolf Hall, 成人论坛 Two’s biggest drama series in at least 13 years and Banished, which was our 4th highest drama series launch, to stand out seasons on food, the super rich, Taking Liberties and our Holocaust Memorial programming, we’ve got people talking and watching the channel in significant numbers.

At the event I wanted us to celebrate the unique contribution 成人论坛 Two makes to creative and civic life in the UK, showing the broadest range of content and commissioning more new programmes than any other channel - grown up, opinionated, smart content that is distinctively 成人论坛 Two.

成人论坛 Two - Signature Drama

The channel plays a key role in supporting creative brilliance in the UK. British drama simply wouldn’t be the same without 成人论坛 Two. Over the last 50 years the channel has made a huge contribution to nurturing talent and enabling creatives to do their best work.

It’s a tribute to the great talent that want to work with 成人论坛 Two, a channel that has won more RTS awards than any other and has just been nominated for twenty Baftas, many of them recognising our distinctive, high quality drama and comedy, from Marvellous and the Honourable Woman to Inside No 9 and Harry and Paul’s Story of the Twos.

I want the best creative talent in Britain to come to 成人论坛 Two to do their best most authorial work. The audacity of asking creative individuals like director Peter Kosminsky and writer Jimmy McGovern – both known for their contemporary drama – to take on the challenge of period drama. The brilliance of names like, Jed Mercurio, Stephen Knight and Peter Bowker’s doing their most personal, signature work on 成人论坛 Two.

I’m also thrilled to announce that following the RTS award-winning success of The Honourable Woman, Hugo Blick is developing a new project for 成人论坛 Two.

And we’re attracting great performing talent to 成人论坛 Two as well – like Natalie Dormer in our upcoming the Scandalous Lady W, telling the true story of Lady Seymour Worsley, who defied convention in 18th Century high society, or Charlotte Rampling, Ben Whishaw and Jim Broadbent in the new London Spy, or Anna Friel in the gripping thriller Odyssey and Peter Mullan, Gary Lewis and Sharon Small in Ian Banks’s Stonemouth, a rite-of-passage tale delving into love, loyalty and vengeance from new writing talent David Kane.

So, I’m delighted to announce that Daniel is taking the lead role in our factual drama Game Changer – the story of the controversy surrounding the computer game Grand Theft Auto - arguably the greatest British coding success story since Bletchley Park.

Also coming up we have Life in Squares, an intimate drama about London’s Bloomsbury group with a fantastic cast including Phoebe Fox, Lydia Leonard and James Norton; and an epic adaptation of Bernard Cornwell’s best-selling book, Last Kingdom by award-winning writer Stephen Butchard.

These new dramas cover a wide range of subject matter but what unites them all is the strong sense of authorship that runs through them.

成人论坛 Two - Inspiring Passions

Factual programming is the life blood of 成人论坛 Two. We want 成人论坛 Two to actively enrich people’s lives - inspiring them to pursue a personal interest, expand their knowledge or find out more about the world around them. We want to tackle contemporary issues in lively, intelligent ways or encourage viewers to take their passions further.

From cookery and gardening to stargazing and sewing, 成人论坛 Two viewers are an active bunch and, inspired by the strength of our factual content, love nothing more than getting out there to take their passions and interests further.

There are reported spikes in telescopes sales whenever Stargazing Live is on air and astronomy is now a GCSE subject; sewing machine sales soar whenever the Great British Sewing Bee is on-air and sewing classes have been enrolling record numbers; and Gareth Malone has helped drive a massive uptake in singing with choir organisations reporting a doubling in participants over the last 5 years.

I’m particularly excited by a new series that I hope will take viewers passions and interests in a new direction. The Great British Pottery Throw Down, presented by Sara Cox, will introduce us to the world of pottery - soon we’ll know the meaning of blunging’, ‘flocculating’ and we’ll be hoping to avoid the dreaded ‘fat bottom’!

成人论坛 Two - Part of the national conversation

But it’s not just personal passions that 成人论坛 Two helps to fuel. I want the channel to broaden horizons by engaging in the national conversation and tackling contemporary issues in lively, intelligent and hard-hitting ways.

We have series coming up looking at the low wage economy in Britain’s Hardest Worker and the education system in Chinese School.

I’m also very pleased to announce a new series, Old School, with the Hairy Bikers taking on an ambitious experiment to see if they can improve the lives of both the elderly and school age children. 成人论坛 Two opens up the world up to viewers with our distinctive, thought-provoking coverage of UK and international stories.

No other channel shows such a broad range of coverage, and I’m proud we have nearly 60 hours of prime time specials such as tomorrow night’s Peter Taylor’s film, with an exclusive interview of a high level Islamic State member, tracing the money trail that has made IS the World’s Richest Terror Army.

There’s also the upcoming Children of Gaza - with Lyse Doucet following the lives of children on both sides of the conflict. And, the unbelievably powerful documentary series, The Detectives, with exclusive access inside a serious sexual crime unit in Manchester, revealing the real difficulties in tracking and prosecuting sex offenders.

These are all hard-hitting, important films which sit at the heart of what I believe 成人论坛 Two’s purpose should be.

成人论坛 Two - Making you smile and laugh

But let’s not forget that 成人论坛 Two is also here to make you laugh.

Comedy is part of 成人论坛 Two’s DNA. I’m really excited by the great new range of shows we have coming up this year, from the welcome return of W1A and our transgender comedy, Boy Meets Girl to Javone Prince’s first sketch show for a mainstream channel and Cradle to Grave, an adaptation of Danny Baker’s brilliant autobiography with Peter Kay in the lead role.

I’m delighted that Stefan Golaszewski and the incredibly talented team behind the BAFTA award-winning Him & Her are back with a new series, Mum - a family sitcom about new beginnings as the central character, Cathy (played by Lesley Manville), rebuilds her life following the death of her husband. Vivid, poignant and truthful and yet laced with excellently crafted comedy.

Also coming up, we have darkly comic thriller, Stag, from Wrong Mans creator Jim Field Smith and staring Jim Howick and Stephen Campbell Moore. A meek schoolteacher struggles to survive the Stag weekend from hell on a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish highlands. It quickly gets messier than anyone expected, as the hunters become the hunted, sordid secrets emerge, and old friendships are tested to the limit.

And I’m thrilled to announce that Family Guy is coming to 成人论坛 Two for its next series.

These are just some of the many treats we have in store this year on 成人论坛 Two – .

成人论坛 Two may not be the biggest channel but it will always be the most important on British TV in terms of the sheer range and quality of its content and its commitment to the creative community.

From enabling British writing, presenting and directing talent to do their most distinctive, signature work to Factual with real purpose that tackles contemporary issues in lively, intelligent ways or encourages viewers to take their passions further, I want 成人论坛 Two to be the place to come for widest range of grown up, opinionated and entertaining content on British television. There should be no more exciting place to be in television than 成人论坛 Two!

Kim Shillinglaw is Controller, 成人论坛 Two and 成人论坛 Four