CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ & CBeebies - Winter highlights
2005
CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
Serious
Arctic
Following the success of the RTS award-winning Serious
Jungle and the 2004 Bafta award-winning series Serious Desert, CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
presents Serious Arctic, a new six part documentary series that promises
to be the most challenging Serious expedition to date.
Serious Arctic follows eight intrepid teenage volunteers
as they spend three weeks in the Canadian High Arctic where their
mission is to help scientists by collecting crucial data linked to
global warming.
They will measure - for the first time - one of Canada's
most southerly glaciers - the Grinnell glacier - and help the endangered
polar bear.
Four girls and four boys were selected from nearly
10,000 eager volunteers.
Serious Arctic follows their adventures as they get
the chance to experience this once in a life time opportunity.
Their tough journey sees the keen youngsters tolerating
the most basic and harsh conditions including travelling over 100
miles by dog sled and surviving temperatures of 50 degrees below zero
with wind storms of up to 70 miles per hour.
A CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Production.
KH
Blue Peter
It's a busy winter on Blue Peter as new addition
to the team Zoe Salmon is thrown in at the deep end with some
daring assignments.
Go behind the scenes on her first day in the Blue
Peter studio, and join her on one of her first challenges - to become
a primary school teacher.
She also joins the team for a New Year Nightmares
Special, as they all undergo tough winter survival tests.
Matt Baker visits Cambodia, as well as going
to the United States for a series of special reports on top American
sports.
As part of the Blue Peter Welcome Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Appeal, Konnie
Huq returns to Angola to see how money raised is already helping
to reunite families separated by the years of conflict in the region.
Blue Peter gets interactive in two special programmes
in February, and as part of Comic Relief in March Konnie goes to Uganda
to report for the programme.
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Newsround
- Islam Week
Join the Newsround team for a special week of
programmes looking at what life is like for young Muslims here in the
UK and around the world.
Muslims have found themselves in the headlines regularly
since the events of September 11 2001, and many feel they are portrayed
unfairly.
How much do children generally understand about the
Muslim faith?
The week will start with a Newsround Extra, which
will feature the findings of research commissioned by the Newsround
team to discover children's attitudes towards Muslims in the UK -
thought to be the first national survey amongst British Muslim children.
The programme will also feature press pack reports from
children, will look at stories such as the growth of Islamic hip hop
and hear from young people in the Arab world about what they think of
the UK and the United States.
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Kidnapped
CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ brings an all-star cast to the screen next year
with an adaptation of Kidnapped, Robert Louis Stevenson's classic
tale.
Iain Glen stars as Alan Breck and James
Pearson as Davie Balfour in Stevenson's tale of treachery, romance
and rebellion, along with Paul McGann as Colonel McNabb, Adrian
Dunbar as Uncle Ebenezer, Gregor Fisher as James of the
Glens and Kirsten Smith as Catriona.
Kidnapped chronicles the adventures of Breck and Balfour
as they escape murder and shipwreck on a quest for justice, all set
against the fierce social and political backdrop of 1760s Scotland.
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is working with South Pacific Productions
(makers of the Oscar nominated film Whale Rider) on location in New
Zealand.
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The Crust
Set in London's shabbiest and busiest pizza take-away,
The Crust is a brand new comedy series for CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.
It stars CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Reggie Yates (Smile) and DJ
Devstar (Smile) joined by characters Angel, Gran'ma, Tom and the
Crust Crew.
Gran'ma, who owns The Crust and lives in the tower
block below it, employs her two teenage grandchildren, Archie (Reggie
Yates) and Angel, to run the business, with Archie making the pizzas
and Angel serving customers.
Archie's oldest and best mate, Ellis (Devin Griffin),
is the take-away delivery boy.
With these three in charge, things regularly get out
of hand.
A Darrall MacQueen Production for CΒι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ.
KH
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