TV Recordings:
Title: The Hotel
Episode: Damson in Distress
Description: Documentary revealing life behind-the-scenes at the Damson
Dene, a typical three-star British holiday hotel. Manager
Wayne clashes with his assistant Marta and hotel owner
Jonathan is forced to intervene. Jonathan brings in a boar
to sire the hotel’s resident herd of sows.
Singer/songwriter couple Marie and Philip check in with
16-year-old son Andrew
Broadcast: 5 Jun 2011, 20:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Episode: The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
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 episode looks at why we humans find this machine vision
so beguiling. The film argues it is because all political
dreams of changing the world for the better seem to have
failed - so we have retreated into machine-fantasies that
say we have no control over our actions because they excuse
our failure
Broadcast: 6 Jun 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. The Hotel Inspector struggles to stay the
course when confronted by a Suffolk coaching inn in danger
of ending up in the knacker’s yard
Broadcast: 6 Jun 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
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Title: The Restaurant Inspector
Description: Restaurateur Fernando Peire comes to the aid of struggling
eateries across Britain. Fernando lends his expertise to
Alexandra’s, an outdated Italian establishment in Ramsgate
suffering from a severe lack of customers. The decor is
incongruous, the service is poor and the food is bad - but
Fernando finds his biggest challenge is the restaurant’s
stubborn matriarch Maria
Broadcast: 6 Jun 2011, 22:00 (60 mins)
Channels: Five
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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. At West Adams High School,
Jamie introduces the students to older people who suffer
from obesity and diabetes to show what could happen if they
don’t change their eating habits
Broadcast: 7 Jun 2011, 22:00 (65 mins)
Channels: Channel 4
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Title: The Apprentice
Episode: Rubbish
Description: Business-based reality show. It’s back to basics as Lord
Sugar calls the teams to a rubbish dump. He explains the
hidden value in the things we throw away and instructs the
teams to build junk collection businesses. After the teams
are re-balanced, they are off to hunt for scrap. Sporting
flourescent jackets, boots and gloves the teams split in two
- half in a truck to pick up rubbish, half pulling in
business and quoting on some big clearances set up by Lord
Sugar. The task turns out to be physically and mentally
exhausting, reducing one project manager to tears. Tough
scrap dealers and quick-witted builders give the teams a run
for their money and profits prove hard to find among the
bags of rubble and the grisly junk in back alleys. Lord
Sugar loves this type of task and in the boardroom he picks
over the results with relish. The numbers prove almost too
close to call, but one team stumbles and there is nothing
for it but to find someone to carry the can
Broadcast: 8 Jun 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC1
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Title: Tourism and the Truth: Stacey Dooley Investigates Kenya
Description: Stacey Dooley visits Kenya to investigate the side of
tourism that the average holidaymaker doesn’t see. She
begins in Mombasa where she stays in one of the many luxury
all-inclusives that line Kenya’s east coast and discovers
that little of tourist money is filtering down to the
workers. Stacey leaves the all-inclusives behind to see what
life is like for workers away from the palm-fringed beaches
and discovers a world of squalid living conditions, terrible
pay and extreme lack of rights. She joins a group of workers
as they hit the streets to protest and goes head to head
with the Kenyan Minister for Tourism. Inland, she meets a
community who are struggling to find fresh water as a result
of a large scale tourist development. The final leg of her
journey sees Stacey travel to the Maasai Mara, famous for
its world-class safaris. Here, she goes undercover to find
out where our tourists’ pounds are really ending up
Broadcast: 9 Jun 2011, 21:00 (60 mins)
Channels: BBC3
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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 1st June 2011 at: http://www.trilt.ac.uk/
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