Sky One Unveils New Fall Schedule

LONDON, August 16: Sky One has revealed its programming
schedule for the fall, which will be headlined by Are You Smarter Than A
10-Year Old?, the British version of the popular U.S. prime-time
quiz show from Mark Burnett Productions.

Hosted by Noel Edmonds, Are You Smarter Than A 10-Year
Old? sees adults competing for a potential
cash prize of £250,000 in a quiz based on the National Curriculum’s Key Stages
One and Two. If the adults fail, they’ll be forced to turn to the camera and
confess: “I am not smarter than a 10-year-old.” Richard McCourt and Dominic
Wood (aka Dick and Dom) will host the daytime series, which will launch on Sky
One later in the year. The original U.S. version of the show, airing on FOX,
became the most-watched new series launch in eight years.

Noel Edmonds will also be featured in Noel’s Christmas
Presents, a 90-minute Christmas Day special
produced by TwoFour. The special sees Edmonds arrange to make people’s wishes
come true, with a nationwide search now under way to find those people who
could do with a little magic in their life over the holidays.

A variety of U.S. dramas have also made it onto Sky One’s
fall slate, including the FOX series Prison Break. The third season of the series sees Michael Scofield, played by
Wentworth Miller, imprisoned in a lawless Panamanian jail and forced to
reconcile with his former enemies in order to survive and escape. Additionally,
Journeyman, the new series from
the creative team behind The West Wing, makes its debut on the network’s schedule. Journeyman stars Kevin McKidd (Rome, Trainspotting) as Dan Vassar, a man who discovers he can travel into his past to
change the lives of others. Meanwhile, the crime drama Bones, starring David Boreanz and Emily Deschanel, returns
for a third season in November and The Simpsons return for a new 19th record-breaking
season.

Sky One’s fall schedule also highlights Premier League
All Stars, in which all 20 Premier League
teams will be fielding footballing legends, celebrities and club fans, as they
battle it out in an eight-day tournament. Ian Wright and Helen Chamberlain will
serve as guides to the alternative Premier League.

The network’s fall slate will also include the game show Nothing
But The Truth, hosted by Jerry Springer.
The show will see contestants aim to win a big cash prize for telling the
truth. However, there are no easy questions and the contestants’ closest
friends, family and partners are in the audience listening to every confession.
The circus-themed series Cirque de Celebrité returns for a second season on the network. Hosted
by Jenni Falconer, the series sees 12 celebrities put through their paces on a
physically demanding and emotionally draining journey as they hope to learn
skills that take the most accomplished circus performer years to master in a
matter of weeks.

Other returning series include the BAFTA-winning Ross
Kemp on Gangs. Airing in October, the
series sees Kemp on the trail of gangs in East Timor, the Jamaican yardies,
Columbian hit squads and Neo-Nazi football hooligans in Poland. In Ross
Kemp In Afghanistan, Ross shadows the 1st
Battalion Royal Anglians, which offers insight into life on the front line with
unprecedented access granted by the Ministry of Defense. A third season of the
Emmy-nominated U.S. reality fashion design series Project Runway, hosted by Heidi Klum, returns this September. A
third season of Project Catwalk,
hosted by Kelly Osbourne, will return early next year.

Sky One will also air the sequel to the BAFTA-winning drama
series Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather,
which aired on Sky One in December 2006 and attracted an audience of 2.8
million viewers—the largest for a U.K. commission on multichannel
television. The Colour Of Magic,
a multi-million pound adaptation of the first Discworld novel, will be broadcast in Spring 2008. The drama
is currently filming at Pinewood Studios and features a cast that includes Sir
David Jason, Tim Curry, Sean Astin and Christopher Lee.

Richard Woolfe, the director of programs at Sky One, Two and
Three, commented: “This autumn offers a tantalizing smorgasbord of delights to
whet people’s appetites until the festive season. From TV’s most embarrassing
catchphrase in Are You Smarter Than A-10-Year Old? to TV’s toughest assignment in Ross Kemp
In Afghanistan; from the cells of Panama’s
lawless jail in Prison Break to
TV’s most controversial new game show in Nothing But The Truth; from the big top of Cirque de Celebrité to the time-traveling adventures of Journeyman, Sky One’s autumn schedule promises our strongest
line-up of programming ever. We have never invested so much in our content at
any time in the channel’s history and all of our new shows will be broadcast in
glorious high definition. No other channel—terrestrial or
digital—showcases as much of their programming in such high quality.”