ITV1 Presents New Factual Strand

LONDON: ITV1 is set to launch a new documentary strand, Perspectives, which will encompass factual films from a variety of filmmakers and presenters, who offer their take on subjects ranging from life in modern Britain to the arts.

Perspective kicks off in 2011 with a run of five documentaries. These include Mugged (working title), which looks at street crime in Britain. The Fisherman’s Friends (working title) tells the story of a group of Cornish fishermen and childhood friends who became a pop sensation. Robson Green and the Pitmen Painters (working title) watches as Green, himself a son of a Northumberland miner, returns to his roots to tell the true story of a band of miners known as the Ashington Group. Children of Britain (working title), watches as children express their viewpoint of modern Britain and tell their own stories. Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Pre-Raphaelites (working title) is an ITV Studios production that follows Webber as he showcases his passion for the Pre-Raphaelites art.

Perspectives was commissioned by Jo Clinton-Davis, ITV’s controller of popular factual, with Alison Sharman, ITV’s director of factual and daytime, and Peter Fincham, ITV’s director of television.

Fincham said: “Perspectives will bring to ITV1’s schedule documentaries defined by distinctive and unique views, vantage points and voices, whether they be those of film-makers or people from a range of fields and backgrounds, addressing their subjects in a way that will enrich and refresh our own way of looking at the world around us. Each of the five films we have commissioned promises in its individual way to do just that.”