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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland Autumn 2007

TV programmes D-J

Dè a-nis? (What Now?)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Alba

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Live studio, children's magazine style show, Dè a-nis? returns for a new series.

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With its fun and bonkers mix of music, games, features and interactive online chat, Dè a-nis? is a firm favourite with children around Scotland with the talented young viewers contributing to, and generating, some of the programme's weekly content.

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Presented by Sarah Cruickshank, Eilidh MacLennan and Calum "Caxy"' MacAuley, series 15 of Dè a-nis? kicks off in October 2007, Thursday evenings on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Alba.

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Tha e math agus tha e math dhut! (It's good and it's good for you!).

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Gaelic with English subtitles.

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JW4

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Dear Green Place
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One Scotland

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Bafta Scotland award-winning Dear Green Place is back with a new, six-part series set amongst the green, green grass of Glasgow.

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Taking a hilarious snapshot of life amongst the parkies, Dear Green Place shows the comical reality behind an innocent stroll in the park. From a bone-idle horse to unrequited love – with illicit sex, condoms, boring lectures, divorce, necrophilia, gingies and scants in the graveyard along the way.

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The two parkies featured in Dear Green Place – Riordin and McAllister – are played by Paul Riley and Paul Blair; and Mr Henderson, the park keeper by Ford Kiernan.

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Wallace and Woody, the two junior parkies, by Martin Docherty and Johnny Austin; stable girl Michelle, and cafe assistant Tina, by River City stars Jenny Ryan and Carmen Pieraccini respectively. The park lecturer Martin Toner is played by Michael MacKenzie.

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SV

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Donaldson's (working title)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Scotland

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This documentary opens up the deaf world to hearing viewers. Donaldson's College in Edinburgh is Scotland's only dedicated school for deaf or hearing impaired children. Next year it is moving from its historic home to a new purpose built building in Linlithgow.

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This observational documentary follows the move for the college, its staff and pupils – a move not without controversy or mixed feelings as the deaf community see Donaldson's as part of their culture and heritage.

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It is a time of challenges for teachers, pupils and families as they all move from their emotional home to a new world filled with cutting edge technology and state of the art facilities.

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HM

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Ealtainn
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Alba

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Amongst a myriad of arts subjects, the new series of Ealtainn profiles writer Allan Campbell MacLean and revisits a seminal album for Hebridean 40-somethings.

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Acclaimed album, Sad Day We Left The Croft fused together various musical styles as well as punk and Hebridean culture and Ealtainn goes in search of the people who helped make it happen.

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As part of this year's Ealtainn series, there's another chance to watch the hour-long documentary Bliadhna Julie (Julie's Year) which followed award-winning traditional musician Julie Fowlis as she tries to bring traditional Gaelic song to a much wider audience. Ealtainn is a Mac TV Production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland. Gaelic with English subtitles.

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JW4

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Edwyn Collins: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Again
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Scotland

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Edwyn Collins, former lead singer of Orange Juice and a successful solo artist in his own right, suffered a brain haemorrhage in February 2005 and almost died.

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Miraculously he pulled through, despite contracting MRSA after undergoing a risky operation, only to face a lengthy and arduous rehabilitation programme to learn how to walk, speak and play the guitar again.

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ArtWorks Scotland has had exclusive access to Edwyn on the road to recovery, following him from home, through therapy and back into the recording studio as he completed the solo album he had begun before falling ill.

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HM

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The End Of The World Show With Frankie Boyle
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One Scotland

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Filmed before a live studio audience, comedian Frankie Boyle offers a take on the week's events ... and a little bit more.

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Each week, Frankie – with a little help from his guests – picks his way through the stories that have made the headlines. Everything is in play and absolutely nothing is off limits.

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The pilot show saw Frankie cover the leading stories of the day from around the world; take a trip to the Dragon's Den with some highly unconventional pitches; deliver Columbian showbiz news; set the record straight on the 2012 Olympics; introduce viewers to a unflinchingly honest spin doctor; unveil the first of his alternative city tours; and perform an interview in a hot tub for entirely legitimate reasons.

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Biting satire, A list guests (or failing that B list, or C... there'll certainly be guests), top drawer comedy and completely unnecessary nudity. Welcome to The End Of The World Show With Frankie Boyle.

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SV

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·¡Ã²°ù±è²¹
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Alba

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Award-winning European current affairs programme, ·¡Ã²°ù±è²¹, returns providing a weekly insight into politics, culture and people.

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Reporting on some of the most interesting and important stories from Scotland and around Europe, amongst the topics which will be covered in this series, ·¡Ã²°ù±è²¹ will examine the impact of economic migration on Romania. Around 60,000 children have been left behind by parents who have gone to western Europe in search of jobs, leaving their children in the care of elderly relatives.

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The current affairs series will also report from Germany, focusing on the city of Freiburg's attempts to lead Europe in its approach to renewable energy. Gaelic with English subtitles.

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JW4

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Film 2007
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One

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Jonathan Ross hosts the long-running movie review show, where his opinions on the latest releases are complemented by features on the contemporary film industry, set reports and star interviews.

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Highlights of the first programme in the new season include a set report on Kenneth Branagh's latest new Shakespeare adaptation As You Like It and an interview with Daniel Radcliffe about his forthcoming film, The December Boys.

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Front Desk

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The Flying Scotsman (film)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One Scotland

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The remarkable true story about the turbulent life of Scottish cyclist Graeme Obree, who built his own bike out of washing machine parts and rode it to gold at the world championships.

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From a humble background, Obree always had to fight for survival. As a grown man, nothing had changed and when his beloved bicycle shop went bust, Obree had neither the money nor the sponsorship necessary to realise his dream – to compete at the highest level of world cycling.

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But it was always clear from his passion for the sport that he was destined for greatness. Obree faced years of gruelling preparations, problems with funding, injuries and scandals but with the unwavering support of his wife Anne and the help of his close friend, and newly-appointed manager, Malky, he never gave up.

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Starring Johnny Lee Miller as Graeme Obree, Laura Fraser as Anne and Billy Boyd as Malky, The Flying Scotsman was part-funded by Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland.

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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland Press Office

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Football CIS Cup
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One Scotland

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On the football front, Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland once again offers exclusive coverage of the CIS Cup. Sportscene will show four matches from the later stages of this year's competition as Hibernian seek to defend their trophy.

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JG

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Girls Behind Bars
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One Scotland

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This two-part series follows several of the 350 women in Scotland's only female jail.

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What is it like to face being separated from your child in prison? Why are so many of the women on suicide watch? How do the first timers cope with the regime? What can the prison do to help those with serious addictions and why have so many women ended up behind bars?

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This series follows many of the women in Cornton Vale for six months as they struggle to cope and follows them home to get a glimpse of the root causes of why and how Scottish women end up behind bars.

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Girls Behind Bars is a Friel Kean Films production for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland.

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HM

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Hedz
CÂ鶹ԼÅÄ

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Injecting a unique brand of nonsense into Saturday morning kids' TV, Hedz is a comedy sketch show featuring celebrities as you've never seen them before. Actors with extremely wobbly bodies, silly walks and daft mannerisms wear giant 2-D masks of famous people well known to the viewers.

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The celebrities are either exaggerated versions of themselves, eccentric opposites of their personalities or just bizarre characters. For instance, Beyonce is a super-heroine who saves the day by shaking her booty and Jamie Oliver argues with the vegetables held captive in his fridge in between making very weird dishes.

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Elsewhere, Girls Aloud can't help making very loud noises even when doing quiet things and TV presenters Ant and Dec are a sinister showbiz duo who feel threatened by other celebrity duos. Hedz features a variety of styles and comedy writing talent.

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Front Desk

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Hiort
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two Alba

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Capturing the unique cross European collaboration of the European Opera – Echo Of The Birds (Mac Talla nan Eun), this programme tells the emotive story of the remote lives of the last inhabitants of St Kilda or Hiort.

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Featuring the Gaelic performance as experienced and filmed live at Studio Alba in Stornoway, Hiort showcases the Scottish interpretation of this ambitious theatrical European collaboration which included both contemporary music and traditional song.

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Hiort also includes filmed sequences of cliff dancing and live satellite footage, interspersed with the stage performance creating an unmissable event and a programme that portrays the universal humbling story of the vulnerability of indigenous cultures and the final evacuation. Gaelic with English subtitles.

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JW

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Hogmanay Live
Â鶹ԼÅÄ One Scotland

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We'll bring the entertainment. You bring yourself. Hogmanay Live – the only show you need to kick off 2008.

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To top Scotland's Music 07 – a year long celebration of music on TV, radio and online – Hogmanay Live will once more showcase some of the nation's best musical talent. From newcomers to master musicians, quality and atmosphere is guaranteed on this most special night of the year.

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Broadcast live from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland's new digital studios on the banks of the Clyde at Pacific Quay, expect pipes and drums, fireworks and fiddles, the countdown to the bells and some exclusive surprises. Let Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland first foot you this New Year.

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Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scotland Press Office

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Jonathan Meades: Abroad In The North (working title)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Two

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Jonathan Meades embarks on a quest in search of the essences of Northerness, from the social, architectural, artistic, gastronomic and political, in a European context.

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In the series, Jonathan discovers that, for much of the last hundred years, Britain looked South. Generations of writers fomented this longing, generations of holiday makers followed.

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We know little of German culture, still less of Polish. Sweden is Abba and suicide, Denmark is bacon, Russia gangsterism. And where is Estonia? Where is Latvia? Jonathan Meades: Abroad In The North, is a journey on sea, canal and land exploring the themes of food, art and architecture, of folklore fairies, trolls and the climate.

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Front Desk

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