TV Recordings:
Title: The Hotel
Description: Documentary revealing life behind-the-scenes at the Damson
Dene, a typical three-star British holiday hotel. Here,
relationships come under the spotlight. Nadine and Christian
are at the tail end of a two-month trial separation.
They’ve come to the Damson Dene with their teenage
children Beth and Luke and cocker spaniel Cassie in a
last-ditch attempt to save their marriage and re-bond as a
family
Broadcast: 29 May 2011, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Episode: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
Description: A series of films exploring the idea that we have been
colonised by the machines that we have built, seeing
everything in the world today through the eyes of computers.
This is the story of how our modern scientific idea of
nature, the self-regulating ecosystem, is actually a machine
fantasy. It has little to do with the real complexity of
nature. It is based on cybernetic ideas that were projected
on to nature in the 1950s by ambitious scientists. A static
machine theory of order that sees humans, and everything
else on the planet, as components - cogs - in a system. But
in an age disillusioned with politics, the self-regulating
ecosystem has become the model for utopian ideas of human
’self-organizing networks’ - dreams of new ways of
organising societies without leaders, as in the Facebook and
Twitter revolutions, and in global visions of connectivity
like the Gaia theory
Broadcast: 30 May 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC2
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Title: The Hotel Inspector
Description: Straight-talking, award-winning hotelier Alex Polizzi
strives to transform the fortunes of struggling guesthouses
across Britain. Alex intervenes as a hotel in the market
town of Rugby with an owner who has tried to go upmarket
struggles with a downturn in bookings
Broadcast: 30 May 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
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Title: Secrets of the Superbrands: Food
Description: Alex Riley is on the trail of the global food and drink
giants. What’s so special about them? How have they
penetrated our brains so we recognise them like members of
our own families? Alex travels the globe to find where
they’ve come from and how they make us keep on buying them
Broadcast: 31 May 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
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Title: True Stories: Google Baby
Description: Globalisation and the internet have made it
easier to have a baby, but this new age of reproductive
medicine raises ethical and moral complications. Israeli
entrepreneur Doron is able to produce pregnancies to order.
His customers can select sperm and eggs online, with
surrogacy outsourced to India. After nine months, the
customers can collect their babies. Technology has turned
conception into an act independent of sex, and globalisation
has made it affordable for people with internet access and a
credit card
Broadcast: 31 May 2011, 22:00 (105 mins)
Channels: More4
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Title: Jamie’s Food Revolution Hits Hollywood
Description: Chef Jamie Oliver attempts to kick-start a revolution in
eating habits in Los Angeles. The increasingly hostile
school board shuts down Jamie’s sample lunches at West
Adams Preparatory School. Driven to frustration, he makes a
tearful plea to some parents in the school. Driven over the
edge by regular foe Dino, Jamie asks one of his students to
help in an attempt to make Dino look beyond the bottom line
Broadcast: 31 May 2011, 22:00 (65 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: The Apprentice
Episode: Create, Brand and Launch a Pet Food
Description: Business-based reality show. Lord Sugar sets the candidates
their next task: to create, brand and pitch a new pet food.
One team chooses dogs, the other cats. Both teams split -
one half to to create the food, the other half naming and
branding the product. Supported by Britain’s biggest pet
food manufacturer it looks like a breeze, but soon the teams
are making some fateful decisions, sweeping aside advice
from focus groups and inventing leftfield product names.
Professional packaging for their products restores
confidence, but the next job - to make commercials - plunges
the teams into more confusion as they try to get creative.
Animal auditions prove tricky and casting a male voice for a
sexy female cat puts an actor on the spot. As the results
are pitched to experts and ad-men, optimism turns to cold
reality. Analysis is fed back to Lord Sugar and the
boardroom battle begins. No amount of barking or begging can
save the doomed when it comes to the master’s command -
’You’re fired’
Broadcast: 1 Jun 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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All recordings will be made available to borrow from Adsetts in DVD / CD format, as well as being viewable on campus using the VOD (Video On Demand) service. To use the VOD service just search for the individual programme title on the SHU Library Catalogue, then click on the VOD link.
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Source: British Universities Film & Video Council (2011). Information from TRILT database, last accessed 24th May 2011 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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