BBC Northern Ireland has revealed up coming factual commissions, with productions from Strident, Below the Radar, Alleycats TV, Stellify Media, Waddell Media, Lindsay Entertainment and Yolk Films
Farm 999 is a new BBC Daytime and BBC Northern Ireland co-commission, which looks at dangers in rural life. The 15-part series is presented by Steph McGovern and made by Stellify Media with support from Northern Ireland Screen.
Girl Fight is a three-part observational documentary series by Below The Radar. It follows female fighters based at a mixed martial arts gym in Ballymena.
Surgery In The Sun (WT) is made by Alleycats TV and features journalist Aoife Moore who goes behind the TikTok posts and newspaper headlines to try to understand why more and more people are travelling to Turkey for cosmetic surgery.
The Rise Of Hip Hop In Northern Ireland (WT), produced by Lindsay Entertainment and Yolk Films, is a new documentary for BBC Northern Ireland that tells the untold story of a genre.
Greatest Gardens is a new series which features garden designer Diarmuid Gavin and plant expert Carol Klein, who will be joined each week by celebrity guests including Penny Lancaster, Dame Prue Leith, Patrick Grant, Fred Sirieix and Katie Piper. The series is produced by Waddell Media.
Set in the borderlands between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, The Disappearance Of Captain Nairac is a feature-length documentary which explores how the young officer’s life and death echoes the sometimes complex and violent history of the UK and Ireland. The film is made by Alison Millar and journalist Darragh Macintyre with support Northern Ireland Screen.
Following Hunting The Catfish Crime Gang and Hunting The Cybersex Crime Gang, BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Three have commissioned a new documentary film Hunting The Manosphere (WT) in which James Blake goes beneath the surface of the so-called Manosphere to understand how ordinary boys and men are being impacted and affected by online communities. It will be made by Northern Ireland production company Strident with support from Northern Ireland Screen.
Kegworth: Flight To Disaster (w/t) is a compelling and emotional retelling of a disaster that reshaped aviation safety in the UK — and left lasting scars on those who survived.
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