Dan McGolpin, Controller of BBC Daytime and Early-Peak, announces raft of new commissions for BBC One
Mornings on BBC One welcome two new event series – one to celebrate 70 Years of the NHS, and the other, Food: Truth or Scare, offers revelatory food advice, presented by Gloria Hunniford and Chris Bavin (pictured).
Published: 22 February 2016
On BBC One, viewers enjoy a wider range of programming than anywhere else on Daytime television and I’m really excited to bring these new shows to sit alongside our existing audience favourites.
During the afternoons, BBC Daytime welcomes the return of Charlie Dimmock to our screens in new series Garden Rescue, which she will co-present with The Rich Brothers. Matt Allwright will host new quiz show The Code and Sheree Murphy will host brand new cooking series Yes Chef!, where top professional chefs mentor amateur home cooks to do battle in the kitchen.
For What It’s Worth, Money For Nothing and TV That Made Me have also all been recommissioned for a second series. All programmes will air in 2016 and these announcements follow the recent recommissioning announcement of original Daytime dramas The Coroner, Father Brown and Doctors.
Dan McGolpin says: “On BBC One, viewers enjoy a wider range of programming than anywhere else on Daytime television and I’m really excited to bring these new shows to sit alongside our existing audience favourites. In the mornings, we offer many hours of original quality factual and documentary programming each week.
"70 Years of the NHS will see five well-known faces explore what this great institution means to the people who use it, and Food: Truth Or Scare will help viewers understand the ever-more-complicated advice that they receive on what to eat. In the afternoons, we add to recent drama commissions with three brand new factual formats and three second series of shows that have recently become popular with viewers. Across these series, we utilise a mix of familiar and less familiar presenters who engage and entertain you with their charm and expertise.”
Mornings on BBC One
70 Years of the NHS
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BBC Commissioning Editor Lindsay Bradbury, BBC Executive Producer Paul Connolly
To mark 70 years since the 1946 NHS Act, five famous faces with a very personal reason for saying ‘thank you’ go on a journey to meet the doctors, nurses, porters, cleaning staff and carers who have kept the service going against all the odds, and the patients whose lives have been saved by them.
Food: Truth or Scare
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BBC Commissioning Editor Carla-Maria Lawson, BBC Executive Producer Rob Unsworth
Every day there is a new scare story about the things we eat, warning us away from some of our favourite foods, and pointing us towards others. All of us will have read or heard something that’s changed our eating habits, because we believe that will have a positive impact on our health. But are we being hoodwinked into eating things that aren’t as good for us as we’re told? And are we being persuaded to give up things that won’t actually do us any harm at all?
In this revelatory and entertaining new series, Chris Bavin and Gloria Hunniford will cut through the headlines and pseudo-science to make sense of the confusing food advice we’re being fed each day. Each has their own personal reasons for wanting to uncover the truth of how food affects our health, and myth-bust the misinformation we’re bombarded with every time we open a paper.
The series starts Monday 22 January at 9:15am.
Afternoons on BBC One
Charlie Dimmock And The Rich Brothers - Garden Rescue (w/t)
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BBC Commissioning Editor Alex McLeod, Spun Gold Executive Producer Matt Young
Charlie Dimmock, one of Britain’s best-loved gardeners, and Chelsea Gold Medal Winners The Rich Brothers are joining forces to transform gardens across the country.
When pouring our hard-earned cash into renovating our gardens, how do we ensure that our money is well spent and we’re making the right, green-fingered choices for our outdoor space, and ourselves? Charlie and the boys are here to show us how.
In each programme, they will descend on one garden around the country badly in need of a makeover. But the homeowners will have their own real-world budget that the gardeners must stick to. So whether its £500 or £5,000, Charlie and the Rich Brothers will try to create a garden that fulfils their needs.
In an added twist, Charlie will create one design and the boys will create another. The owner will then choose one garden to be built. Egos will then have to be put aside as Charlie, Harry and David work together to bring the vision to life.
Yes Chef! (w/t)
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BBC Commissioning Editor Alex McLeod, ITV Studios Executive Producer Sumi Connock
In this brand new series hosted by Sheree Murphy, top professional chefs mentor amateur home cooks to do battle in the kitchen. For the amateurs, it’s a chance to work alongside the best in the business. For the pros, it’s an opportunity to train their partner and lead them to victory in an industry where ego is king.
Airing Monday to Friday, each day sees four amateur cooks compete in a series of challenges set by a Michelin-starred chef. The chef can select just ONE to become their partner in the Friday final where all four teams will go head-to-head in the ultimate Pro-Am cooking challenge. But only one duo will reign supreme and win the title of Yes Chef! champions.
The Code
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BBC Commissioning Editor Alex McLeod, Gogglebox Entertainment Executive Producer Adam Wood
Matt Allwright will host BBC One’s newest quiz, The Code, produced for BBC Daytime by Gogglebox Entertainment. Faced with a locked safe full of money, contestants must answer questions to crack a three-digit code that will open the safe and win them the jackpot.
The jackpot starts at £3,000. But each time a contestant fails – and that could be after just one wrong answer – they have to leave immediately. Once eliminated, another £500 goes into the safe, ready for a new player to enter and try to crack The Code.
The longer the safe remains unopened, the higher the jackpot…
Money For Nothing
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BBC Executive Producer Jo Street, Friel Kean Films Executive Producer Michelle Friel
Sarah Moore returns to present Money For Nothing and save things from people who are dumping them at the tip. With the help of some of Britain’s most exciting designers, craft people and artisans, she transforms them into bespoke and valuable pieces.
The series inspires us all to take another look at the potential gold in our trips to the tip, to work with artisans to give once-loved items another chance and to try and make ‘Money For Nothing’.
TV That Made Me
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BBC Executive Producer Jo Street, Raise the Roof Productions Executive Producer Sarah Walmsley
TV That Made Me, produced by Raise the Roof Productions, has been recommissioned for a second series. Presenter Brian Conley journeys through the fantastic world of television with celebrities as they choose the TV moments that have shaped their lives.
Celebrities starring in the second series include John Prescot, Mariella Frostrup, Nina Wadia, Joe Swash, Kirsty Wark, Kate Garraway, Anita Dobson, John Thomson, John Hannah and Alex Jones.
For What It’s Worth
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BBC Executive Producer Jo Street, Tuesday’s Child Executive Producer Karen Smith
For What It’s Worth has been recommissioned with host Fern Britton. The series produced by Tuesday’s Child is a strategic quiz with simple game-play, plus the tantalising play-along of guessing the value of really interesting antiques.
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