Documentary Unit: The 5 Shot Rule

Here is a article from Digital Filmmaker Magazine's Definitive guide to filming about the 5 shot rule that i have found useful for learning about filming as part of my documentary research.

This will be really useful when we are filming people doing things and will definitely help with the edit. 

Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Roy Confirmation

Danny sent Roy a further email so we could check with him when it would be possible for us to arrange our interview with him. We felt that asking roy for filming opportunities with the dogs would be good for cutaways during the interview.

Here is the email:

We will now wait for his response.

Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Skydive Confirmation

Today i managed to hear back from the skydive team who are more than happy for us to film everywhere except on the actual landing strip due to health and safety. The Team were really helpful and our phone call went well. They have agreed for us to attach a camera to the tandem partner of Christina rather than her incase she is worried about it affecting her in anyway. We will be able to film the landing and her boarding the plane which are some of the important shots we need.
Excited to go and film it now.

Stay Safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: GoSkydive Research

I did some research on the skydive company and found that they are based in Wiltshire. 

This is what their website says about them:

"GoSkydive is the newest dropzone in the UK located at Old Sarum Airfield in the beautiful town of Salisbury offering fantastic views over the Salisbury Plains, the New Forest and the South coast. Old Sarum Airfield is the 2nd oldest active airfield in the UK dating back to 1916 and many of the buildings that originate from WW1 and WW2 are still in use. Visitors can enjoy delicious meals and refreshments in ‘skies’ restaurant while overlooking the exciting airfield activities.

GoSkydive specialises in tandem parachuting and is therefore able to provide a superior tandem experience. Our state of the art equipment is meticulously maintained to the high standards required by the BPA.

Jumping with us is a unique experience." - GoSkydive

Their website also offers a Professional Cameraman package where you can pay to have your skydive filmed. This may prove to be a stumbling block when negotiating access but as it for non profit and for charity i will try and speak with the manager about this.

Here is a clip from their site of some skydive filming they have done in the past:

I will now phone them and see what we can arrange.

Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Script Draft 1

Here is the 1st draft of the script for the documentary:

Script for Dogumentary - Draft 1

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Helen

Documentary Unit: Further emails

I asked carol for some the name of the skydiving company so we could clear access with them for filming.

Hear are the emails:

I will now contact the sky dive company and see if we are able to clear access for the day of the jump and what filming opportunities we could get.

Stay Safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Interview Research

I found an interesting article about interviewing in the magazine Digital Filmmaker. I thought it would be a really good piece of research for my documentary so i am posting it hear to look back ion when needed.

As i have never interviewed anyone before and will be asking the questions it is important to know exactly how to set up the interview. Danny is the director and i will need to know what exactly he wants to do in terms of shots and setting up but this will be useful as i now have a basic idea of how it all works and we can work from this if needed. 

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Helen

Documentary unit: Ability dog Correspondence

I exchanged a few emails today with Carol about filming plans and also the working title of the film. Here are the emails:

After speaking with Danny and Chris, they thought he title Mighty Mutts was their favourite but as Carol likes Puppy Power we have decided to use this as our working tittle and see what crops us during editing and filming as a potential title. We did not want a title that would distract from the Ability dogs Charity as part of our filming is to help raise awareness of them and as Carol has expressed a wish to use the film for the Charity's website. 

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Helen

Documentary Unit: Ability Dogs Email

I emailed Carol today to run through the filming opportunities we had discussed on the phone and to discuss with her the outline for our film.

Here is the email:

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Helen 

Documentary Unit: Music

As i have worked with a composer before, i mentioned to Chris and Danny whether they would like me to ask Geoff Alexander if he is available to compose music for this documentary. Geoff is fantastic to work with and although he is incredibly busy with his paid composing work he has said he will send a couple of tracks over once he's seen the footage.
Chris and Danny both liked the music Geoff has done in the past and his CV speaks for itself.


Here is Geoff's Website:

http://www.geoffreyalexandermusic.com

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Helen

Documentary Unit: Christina & Georgie Video

Here is a video Sport Relief made showing Christina and Georgie.

We used this video as part of our pitch:



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Helen

Documentary Unit: Medical Assistance Dog response

I received an email today from the medical assistance dog charity and they are unable to commit to the project. Here is the email:

Here is my email response:

In terms of our filming this is no problem as we have already found our characters and a back up option if need be.

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Helen

Documentary Unit: The Pitch

Here is our Powerpoint Presentation & Pitch Document for 'Hero Hounds' - our documentary.




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Helen

Documentary Unit: Ability Dogs Response

Today i received a phone call from Carol Court, Founder of Ability Dogs for Young People. The conversation was really positive and she has said that her charity would love to be involved in the documentary which is great. She discussed with me some filming opportunities on the phone and i noted these down and told her i would email her with an outline of our intentions for filming after discussing with the team.

Some of the ideas that she put forward to me were:

Christina & Georgie in training

On the week of the 7th of April, the Charities first sponsor dog - Georgie will be going to live with Christina, a young girl who suffers from Cerebral Palsy. We could film this and learn more about Christina and Georgie.

Puppy Training classes - The Charities Puppies are trained once a week on a Wednesday and we would have full access to filming opportunities here. We could also film some of the puppies performing their newly learnt tricks such as taking washing out of the machine.

There are 2 young guys who will receive their dogs in November she will speak to them about potential interviews. We could also film the dogs that will be going to them.

After talking with the Danny & Chris, the only issue is making sure we are able to travel to the Isle of Wight on a budget. I will be looking into this in more detail but we are all committed to this idea should all the filming opportunities be granted as it is looking at being a great story for our documentary so are willing to spend some money on travel & accommodation.

Stay safe,

Helen Welsh

Documentary Unit: Dog research

I decided to do some research so as to answer the question why this story?

Part of that answer relates to why have you chosen your hero to be a dog?

When discussing idea's we ket coming back to the topic of something a bit different. We thought the majority of people would choose a Male hero and thought having a female hero could possibly work as a USP but then Danny mentioned Top Dog and the stories we heard of dogs who worked to rescue people from avalanches and dogs who carried insulin to their owners to prevent a diabetic attack. This would be something different.
We also thought dogs are fairly popular in the UK and would appeal to a mass market - people of all ages and genders would enjoy this.

I decided to look at some statistics about dogs in the UK.

Below is a  list of the Top Ten Pets for 2013 (based on running totals over two years) 

1. Fish kept in tanks: 20 - 25 million (9% of households) 
2. Fish kept in ponds: 20 - 25 million (6% of households) 
3. Dogs: 8.5 million (25% of households) 
4. Cats: 8.5 million (19% of households) 
5. Rabbits: 1 million (3% of households)
6. Caged birds: 1 million (1.9% of households) 
7. Domestic fowl: 1 million (0.9% of households) 
8. Guinea Pigs: Half a million (0.6% of households) 
9. Hamsters: Half a million (1.5% of households) 
10. Horses and ponies: 400,000 (1.1% of households)
 - See more at: http://www.pfma.org.uk/pet-population/#sthash.e7FUgqc4.dpuf

Top Dog breeds among Men & Women:

Top Dog Breeds among Women

1. Labrador

2. German Shepherd 

3. Golden Retriever

4. Pit bull Terrier

5. Chihuahua

Top Dog Breeds among Men

1. German Shepherd
2. Pit Bull Terrier.
3. Labrador Retriever.
4. Rottweiler.
5. Great Dane.

http://shibashake.com/dog/top-men-and-top-women-dog-breeds

I also read an interesting article about 'Man's Best Friend' - Women Twice as Likely to have a dog than men. 

Here is the link:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/pets/9700894/Britains-dogs-twice-as-likely-to-have-a-woman-owner-than-a-male-one.html

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Helen

Documentary Unit: Roy Dyer Email Response

Roy has emailed back confirming that he is available for us to interview. He also mentioned about us using his Cynophobia Dogs as a possible angle for filming which will give us a good back up plan if things with the isle of wight don't work out or prove to be to expensive. 

Here is his response:

This was Danny's Reply:

Now to wait for his response.

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Helen

Documentary Unit: It's Me or the Dog Research

It's Me or the Dog is a popular tv show in the UK and America about badly behaved dogs.

"Dog behaviour expert Victoria Stilwell calls upon all her canine training skills to bring the country's most mischievous mutts and headstrong hounds to heel" - from Channel Website

Format:

Most episodes begin with a brief interview with the dog owners on when they first met their dog(s) and how their ordeals began. Victoria observes the dog and owners in their home and in a range of situations. Once there's sufficient evidence of the bad behavior, she then spends two or more days teaching the owners how to create a better atmosphere for both dog and owner, and how to train specific behaviors. On occasion owners are taken to shelters or training centers to provide them with additional information. Victoria then leaves them to implement her training regimen on their own. After some time (usually several weeks), Victoria returns to evaluate how the dog and owner are progressing, and, when necessary, dispenses more training advice. This format mirrors the format of Super Nanny.

US Season 3, filmed in New York, took a looser documentary format. Stilwell sometimes implements a technique as soon as she sees a behavior rather than waiting until after the Confrontation.

Here is an episode from the show that also includes go pro type shots and has a similar opening to what we are thinking of for our documentary with the sound effect.



This research has been interesting to see how dog shows work at the moment and has given us some good ideas for shots.

Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Contacting Charities

I initially contacted Ability Dogs through email as their was no phone numbers on their website. Here is the email:

I contacted Medical Detection Dogs by phone and was told that they will get back to me on Monday if they can commit to the project.

I will now wait for their responses.

Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Pitch Research

Today we had a group meeting to contact our potential characters, come up with a pitch and a title.
We decided the best way to do this was to look at relevant programs & ones that were on at the moment and see what their TV guide pitch was.

Sport Relief's Top Dog -

Paul O'Grady: For the Love of Dogs -

Catfish: The Tv Show -

Life and Death Row -

Looking at these synopsis's really helped and we decided to make a list of relevant and important words to help come up with out pitch. They included:

Life-threatening conditions
talents
dogs
special
heartwarming
puppies
trained
ability dogs
medical dogs
life savers
debilitating
Charity
dog loads washing machine

These key words helped us to come up with our 25 word pitch:

A documentary about Ability Dogs and their incredible talents.  We follow people with debilitating conditions as they tell their heartwarming stories about their special dogs.

We then decided to try and come up with a working title for our documentary. Danny was the best at this and easily came up with plenty for us to choose from including:

Hero Hounds

Puppy Power

Mighty Mutts

Courageous Canines

My Hero: Doggie Style

We wanted something punchy and that would appeal to a wide audience. The last title is definitely more tongue in cheek and although it would suit the BBC3 market, it could put people off by thinking it is about something else.

We all agreed that Hero Hounds is the best working title for the moment and will see if anything else comes up during filming that could work.

We decided to split our pitch presentation into 3 key parts so we each could go away and research our own parts before bringing it together to edit and apply the finishing touches.

• Danny will talk in more detail about our title and the work of Roy Dyer, his training centre and his Cynophobia dogs.
• Chris will talk about how the dogs are trained and how they help individuals.
• I will talk about the charities and the bbc3 timeslot research. 

We felt doing this would not only work well for our pitch and help us to deliver something that would flow better. The aim is to not have to have notes so that we can speak directly to the panel as if it was a chat with friends and hopefully at the same time deliver a professional pitch.

Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Contacting Roy Dyer

As Danny worked with Roy Dyer on Top Dog we decided to ask him if he would like to be a part of our documentary as our Expert.

Here is some information about Roy:

Essex Dog Display Team Director Roy Dyer has received an International Lifetime Achievement Award for his work within the canine world and in 2008 was invited by Her Majesty the Queen to Buckingham Palace for recognition of his charity and community work.

Here is a link to an interview with him:

http://passionforfreshideas.com/audio/fe-30208-roy-dyre-rescue-dogs/

Roy is a Expert in dog training and also runs a free class for people with Cynophobia - The fear of dogs. The class is thought to be the only one of its kind in Europe and boasts a success rate of 98 per cent in helping children feel more comfortable around dogs. 

After leaving him a voicemail, he rang back later in the day saying he is more than happy for us to interview him and to email him over all the details and we can arrange a day that suits us all.

Here is the email Danny sent: 

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Helen

Documentary Unit: Final idea

We have decided to continue with the dog hero idea. This is because of scheduling conflicts with our hero for the football story and without a clear possibility of filming it is better we continue to out our time and effort into our other equally strong idea.

This will also mean that we can utilise the contacts made from our work experience on Top Dog and hopefully create a documentary that will help these charities bring in some money to help other young people.

Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Charities

After googling some of the UK ability dog charities the ones that stood out to us as being slightly different were:

Ability Dogs for Young People - Ability Dogs 4 Young People is a newly formed Isle of Wight charity (started April 2012). We are training assistance dogs to enhance the independence of disabled young people living on the Isle of Wight. We are training assistance dogs to help people with physical or mental disabilities (or both), including cerebral palsy, autism and epilepsy. We are unique in our aims; we are the only assistance dog charity focused on providing assistance dogs for disabled young people on the Isle of Wight.

Medical Detection Dogs - 3 types of dogs:

• Medical Alert Assistance Dogs - With their amazing sense of smell our Medical Alert Assistance Dogs support individuals who live with dangerous health conditions
• Cancer Detection Dogs - Dogs can be trained to identify the odour of cancer. This allows the potential to develop a method of diagnosing cancer which would be simple and non-invasive
• Bio-Detection Dogs - Used to detect bedbugs to help people with allergies and also to help create a revenue for the charity

We decided to contact both these charities in the hope that one would like to be involved in our film.


Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Hero Documentaries

I wanted to look at the types of hero documentaries there have been in the past.

I already knew of one show which was a Mockumentary  called We Can Be Heroes by Chris Lilley. It is one of my favourite shows and is an interesting take on heroes in the community and very funny.

Another documentary is a typical documentary approach that i found on youtube called 9/11: Heroes of the 88th floor. It is about the rescue attempts in the north tower.

Another documentary i found was called My Boyfriend the War Hero. This tells the story of a 16 year old girl who got engaged to her 18 year old boyfriend during a rest and recuperation period after his first tour of Afghanistan. 3 weeks later he was hit by a wire detonated bomb and lost both his legs and an arm.

Another look at hero's is to take a person and have them tell the story if their own hero. In this documentary Miranda Hart tells us about her Hero, Eric Morecambe.

Stay Safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Brighton Research

Danny mentioned an article that he had read about Brighton & Hove Albion FC who regularly receive a lot of homophobic abuse. We managed to find the article and have a read of it again.

Here is the link:

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/football-league/brighton-fans-call-for-action-after-releasing-details-of-alleged-homophobic-abuse-8558621.html

Here is some of the important information from the article:

'Fans of the club have historically been the target of disparaging remarks and slurs that refer to the city's gay population, and now the Brighton and Hove Albion Supporters' Association are attempting to raise awareness in hope of putting an end to this sustained abuse. 
The report offers several examples of the alleged chants Seagulls fans have been subjected to on a regular basis throughout the 2012/13 season so far, as well as documenting obscene gestures made by opposition players and threats aimed at supporters. 
"It wouldn't be described as "banter" if the taunts and chants were about skin colour and something would have been done by now to stop it. Brighton & Hove Albion Supporters' Club has spent over 15 years trying to get the authorities to take this regular abuse of one club's fans seriously.' 

Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: Footballers Coming Out Research

Here is a few articles i found that are to do with footballers coming out:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2535832/Former-Premier-League-footballer-Thomas-Hitzlsperger-announces-gay.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/25735717

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/01/09/sport/football/robbie-rogers-gay-sport/

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2013/mar/29/robbie-rogers-coming-out-gay

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/8524387/Homosexuality-in-football-Justin-Fashanu.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26084748

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/england-captain-casey-stoney-reveals-she-was-concerned-by-social-media-reaction-but-has-been-overwhelmed-by-positive-response-after-speaking-openly-about-being-gay-9118506.html

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/mar/29/anton-hysen-afraid-coming-out

http://lesbianlife.about.com/od/lesbiansinsports/p/Jessica-Landstr-Om-Lesbian-Soccer-Player.htm

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/06/22/nigerian-womens-football-team-eradicates-lesbianism/

http://www.afterellen.com/the-wonderful-and-out-players-of-the-womens-world-cup/07/2011/

All really interesting to read and will be really useful when looking back for facts and information.

Stay safe,

Helen

Documentary Unit: BBC Three Relevant TV Show Research

Danny and Mike both mentioned to me about a documentary that BBC Three had made in the past called Britain's Gay Footballers. The Documentary follows Amal Fashanu, Niece of Justin Fashanu who tragically took his own life after becoming Britain's first openly gay professional footballer.

Here is how BBC 3 describes the show:

'There are currently around 5,000 professional footballers in Britain, but incredibly not one of them has come out publicly as gay. Amal Fashanu, niece of Justin Fashanu, the only ever openly gay British professional, goes on a mission to discover why no gay player has followed in her uncle's boots in over twenty years.

Witnessing the typical chants from opposing fans on the terraces at Brighton, Amal can immediately see why gay players will not put their heads above the parapet. But one of Britain's most famous gay football fans, Matt Lucas, tells her that the problem extends beyond the fans.

Max Clifford, who reveals he has helped several Premiership stars keep their homosexuality secret in order to preserve their careers, goes further by insisting that the mentality of most people in and around the game remains in the Dark Ages. When Amal finally negotiates some access to straight premiership stars - from the Millwall dressing room - she learns that attitudes amongst many footballers may not be as bad as feared.

The Premiership's most controversial and outspoken player, Joey Barton, who like Amal has a gay uncle, expresses 'pity' for his fellow professionals who lack the courage to speak out on the subject, but blames the game's homophobia on some of the 'archaic figures' who run the game. Amal also gains access to a professional game official prepared to come forward and meet her to discuss life as a gay man inside the game, but the politics of the game prevent him.

Amidst these fascinating revelations about football's last taboo, Amal becomes embroiled in a deeply personal journey. For the first time she is exposed to the full truth about her family's darkest secrets.'

Here are the links to the show on youtube:

This was really interesting and although it is 1 hour long i feel will be really good research for us when thinking about a script and shots for our own documentary.

Another BBC Three program that relates to this topic is the Coming Out Diaries. 

Here is BBC Three's own description of the documentary series:

'Coming Out Diaries follows the conflicts and dilemmas faced by three young people as they navigate their way through telling their family and friends that they are gay or transgender.

17-year-old Natalie was born a boy, but now wants to dress and live fully as a girl. Her mum Arlene is reeling from the shock of the news and is finding it very difficult to accept that her 'son' is now her 'daughter'. Arlene will not allow Natalie to dress as a girl at home and still calls her Kieran, Natalie's birth name. Natalie can only wear female clothes away from home so she gets changed in public toilets when she is out in town. The film follows Natalie's battle for acceptance and her mum's attempt to understand.

17-year-old Tori feels she was bullied at school for being a lesbian. She wants to come out to her new friends at beauty college so she can become closer to them, but she is terrified after her previous experiences. This is compounded by the fact that at beauty school all the treatments are intimate and she is worried that the other girls will not want her to practice beauty treatments on them in class.

19-year-old Jamie has not told his uni course-mates that he was born a girl. He loves being accepted as one of the lads and is thrilled that for the first time no-one has guessed his secret. But on the flip side, Jamie worries all the time that he is deceiving his course-mates and is thinking about coming out so he can stop feeling like he is living a lie.'

Looking at dog hero's in television there is Sport Relief's Top Dog although this is on BBC2. This show takes 2 teams consisting of a celebrity and their dog, a Specially trained dog & their owner and a talent family pet dog and their owner and pits them against one another. The specially trained dogs are often dogs that work in rescue situations or are trained to help their owner who suffers from a medical condition or disability such as dogs for the deaf or hard of hearing and Dogs for diabetics. 

This is a game show formate and doesn't really go into a lot of detail with the owners about their dogs so it would be good to go into more detail in our documentary. 

An online documentary shows the impact one dog has had on a young boy's life. 

I found the story at this link: 

http://metro.co.uk/2014/02/15/a-boy-and-his-dog-documentary-schwartz-jampel-syndrome-sufferer-owen-howkins-amazing-bond-with-pet-4305353/

Here is the video:

It is perfect for our theme and will give us a good starting point for what to do with our own film.

Nothing like this has been made for BBC 3 before so i think its a fairly original concept that will work well.

Stay safe,

Helen 

Documentary Unit: BBC Three Research

I thought it would be a good idea to find more about BBC Three and how it goes about commissioning shows and what its target Audience is.

The controlled for BBC Three is Zai Bennett.

Below is a Commissioning Brief from this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/commissioning/briefs/tv/browse-by-channel/bbc-three/

Our Priorities

BBC Three is a mixed genre channel for young audiences.

We have three key priorities:

• The channel needs to be disciplined about focusing on the young - its centre of gravity will be 16-34 year-olds: people who are young in spirit and mindset.
• BBC Three is ‘Never Afraid to Try New Things’ and that’s why we will continue to innovate with breakthrough comedy, stand-out entertainment, brave documentary and intelligent factual formats. Our content needs to have potential to innovate across platforms.
• BBC Three should provide an environment for the development of new ideas and talent and for existing talent to take risks, becoming a genuine laboratory for BBC One and BBC Two

I then wanted to look more specifically at Documentaries on BBC Three and from the same link found this:

Documentary and Current Affairs

Whether its matters of body or mind, bringing programming together around a single season or theme works well on BBC Three. The Criminal Britain and The Body Beautiful seasons were great successes and more recently we aired It's a Mad World, an agenda setting season of thought-provoking and often uplifting programmes dedicated to debunking the myths and taboos around mental health issues. We are always seeking ideas for new seasons that will engage with our audience.  And this engagement can also be more light- hearted.   Our documentary series The Call Centre, achieved high ratings with our audiences when, thanks to boss Nev, we got involved with the lives and loves of the very entertaining employees of a Swansea call centre.

We are also looking for ideas for single documentaries like the hard-hitting India: A Dangerous Place To Be A Woman and Petrol Bombs and Peace: Welcome to Belfast, as well as series that can shine a light on domestic and international issues such as Stacey Dooley’s three part investigation into drug trafficking.  And we’ve had  great success with fast turnaround documentaries reflecting big news stories eg Oscar Pistorius: What Really Happened?  Horsemeat Banquet and The Cleveland Captives: What Really Happened? 
 

I think both of the ideas we have will fit into the BBC Three Channel well. 

Looking at scheduling i think that the Casey Stoney Story would work well on a Monday at 9pm. 

Currently on in this time slot is a documentary called Reggie Yates's Extreme South Africa and looking at the next few weeks the other show that is coming into the time slot is another documentary called EDL Girls: Don't Call Me Racist. The Reggie Yates Programme is part of a 3 episode series where as the EDL programme is a stand alone show. It also has a strong lead in show for that time called Junior Paramedics which is a spin off based on the success of the show Junior Doctors. As these shows are popular is would help to increase the audience for the 9pm time slot with our one off documentary. 

On rival channels at this time currently are: 

ITV2 - 8:30pm - Dinner Date

            9:30pm - Real Housewives of Atlanta

MTV - 8:05pm - Catfish: The TV Show

            9:00pm - The Real World: Ex-plosion

E4 - 8:30pm - 2 Broke Girls

        9:00pm - Revenge

E! Entertainment - 8:00pm - Miley Cyrus (Documentary)

                               9:00pm - RichKids of Beverley Hills

There is nothing similar on at this time on any of these channels and i think that with BBC Three already having this time slot for documentaries our shows would stand up well against these primarily American imports.

On the main Channels are:

BBC One - 8:30pm - Panorama

                   9:00pm - Silk

BBC Two - 8:00pm - The Hairy Bikers' Asian Adventure

                   9:00pm - 37 Days

ITV -  8:30pm - Coronation Street

           9:00pm - DCI Banks

Channel 4 - 8:00pm - Food Unwrapped

                   9:00pm - One Born Every Minute

Despite other channels having documentaries in this time slot i feel our target audience (16-34 year olds) are more likely to watch our documentaries as they are more age appropriate and will be specifically made for that age group rather than a wider audience. One Born Every Minute will particularly be popular among women and especially mothers or soon to be mothers. This may cut into a portion of our audience but i feel that our ideas are strong enough and original enough to still work. 

Stay safe,

Helen