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Autumn

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Digging Deep

³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO Autumn 2006



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Digging Deep

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Garden designers Andre Smith and Amanda Brooks offer a unique service. They make gardens for the soul – horticultural therapists, if you will. Their stunning garden designs aim to have a transformative effect upon the owner, improving their emotional well-being.

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Each episode focuses on the hidden psychological reasons behind the neglected hedges and entangled borders of a garden which is then transformed into the owner's personal Eden.

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Having worked together for eight years, Andre and Amanda have very clear ideas about their designs and aim to produce a beautiful, flourishing garden that reflects the character and needs of its owner. Their philosophy is to get the owner involved, reacquainting them with nature and the sensual pleasure of gardening.

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GM

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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO

Autumn

2006Ìý

Dragons' Den

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Dragons' Den

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Two new dragons join the fire-breathing millionaire investors in the third series of the award-winning Dragons' Den, presented by ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Economics Editor Evan Davis.

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The series offers budding entrepreneurs the opportunity to pitch their idea or product to the dragons in the hope of persuading the millionaires to part with their own cash and invest.

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New dragons Richard Farleigh and Deborah Meaden line up alongside Peter Jones, Duncan Bannatyne and Theo Paphitis for an extended run.

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In addition, two new hour-long specials track the fortunes of the entrepreneurs from the previous series.

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Australian multi-millionaire Richard Farleigh made his fortune trading the world's financial markets and is now a full-time business angel.

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British multi-millionairess Deborah Meaden launched her own export company straight out of business college and later became managing director of her family's holiday-park business. She recently sold the company in a deal worth £33m, whilst retaining a 23 per cent stake.

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KC2

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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO

Autumn

2006Ìý

Equator

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Equator

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For most people the equator is just an imaginary line around the globe but, in this series, author and broadcaster Simon Reeve comes face to face with reality. He takes viewers on a 25,000-mile journey that reveals the equator as a unique region of the planet, home to both the world's greatest concentration of human poverty and natural biodiversity.

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Beneath the sweltering heat of the equatorial sun lie paradise beaches, strange foods and exotic wildlife, along with some of the world's most extreme terrain: dense rainforests, towering volcanoes and perilous rapids.

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Simon encounters conflict, environmental damage, dictators, poverty, tourism, pollution, unemployment and desperation – in a spectacular travelogue.

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PR

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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO

Autumn

2006Ìý

Extras

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Extras

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Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's award-winning comedy returns for a new series as Andy Millman (Gervais) begins filming his sitcom and moves from background artist to TV face.

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Despite his burgeoning success, Andy is still surrounded by the usual cast of idiots: his hapless best friend Maggie (Ashley Jensen), his incompetent agent Darren Lamb (Stephen Merchant) and Barry "off EastEnders".

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This new series includes appearances from Orlando Bloom, David Bowie, Daniel Radcliffe, Chris Martin, Ronnie Corbett and Sir Ian McKellen.

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HT

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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO

Autumn

2006Ìý

Fear, Stress and Anger

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Fear, Stress And Anger

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Peter Davison (Doctor Who) and Pippa Haywood (Green Wing) star in this new sitcom from Michael Aitkens (Waiting For God). For years the baby boomers have ruled the world. But now, much to their bewilderment, they find they are past their sell-by dates and being shunted aside by the next generation.

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Their 20-something children won't leave home and their ancient parents won't shuffle off the stage.

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They're stuck in the middle, the sandwich generation. They had it all and spent it all and now they're screaming as they become the new poor, with the added joys of bad backs, hormone imbalances and fading libidos.

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Still very much in love, Martin Chadwick and his wife, Julie, are panicking as the wheels come off their lives. They try drugs, therapy and new jobs, but Martin's unerring ability to screw up absolutely everything, combined with Julie's rampant neuroses, just add to the fear, the stress and the anger.

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AN

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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO

Autumn

2006Ìý

Galapagos

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Galapagos

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High-definition cameras and aerial photography techniques, pioneered in Planet Earth, present the most complete portrait ever of these fascinating islands made famous by Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species.

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The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ crew spent 18 months on the remote Galapagos Islands, which lie in the Pacific. There they witnessed a rare eruption of the Sierra Negra volcano and captured on film incredible animal behaviour – including short-eared owls hunting storm petrels, unique night plankton and deep-ocean fish.

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The three-part series explores the islands from the deep, from space, by night and through time – from their volcanic beginnings to the visit by Darwin in 1835, which shaped his theory of evolution, to the islands as they are now.

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BR/LS2

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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO

Autumn

2006Ìý

Heston Blumenthal –
In Search of
 Perfection

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Heston Blumenthal – In Search Of Perfection

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Famed for his snail porridge and bacon-and-egg ice cream, culinary alchemist Heston Blumenthal turns his attention to the UK's staple dishes in a new series for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO.

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From sausage and mash to treacle tart and custard, Heston is on a mission to unlock the nation's collective memory of these traditional favourites.

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Applying his unique expertise and passion for food research, he tries to create the ultimate taste sensation in his continuing search for perfection.

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Focusing on one recipe per programme, Heston cooks up the dishes in a purpose-built laboratory-style kitchen.

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And, in a bid to source the ultimate ingredients, viewers are introduced to foodgrowers and providers from Europe to the United States, as well as like-minded passionate researchers, chefs and members of Heston's team.

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KA

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³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ TWO

Autumn

2006Ìý

HG Wells - War with the World

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HG Wells – War With The World

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HG Wells – War With The World stars Michael Sheen and tells the fascinating story of the father of science fiction.

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By the time he was in his early thirties, Wells (who was born in 1866) had earned fame from his pioneering novels The Time Machine, The Invisible Man and The War Of The Worlds.

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His reputation increased further with the eerily prophetic non-fiction writing which followed. His many uncanny predictions included the internet, tanks and nuclear warfare.

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Every word spoken by HG Wells in the film is his own, taken from his autobiography and other writings. The film mixes futuristic animation with drama to tell the story of this visionary writer.

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