BBC Licenses Factual Programming to Seven Network

LONDON, August 13: BBC Worldwide
has licensed a raft of factual programming to Seven Network in Australia,
including the 6×50-minute series Fight for Life, produced by the BBC, Discovery Channel and DCTP.

Fight for Life, which celebrates the human body’s capacity to
counter serious illness, will air on the Seven Network this month. Focusing on
a series of patients in the emergency room, the series uses nanotechnology,
electron microscopes and CGI to allow audiences to see the internal landscape
of the human body under threat. This can range from the trauma of birth to the
recklessness of young adulthood and the fragility of old age.

Additionally, BBC Worldwide has sold three hour-long
programs from award-winning British documentary-maker Louis Theroux, who will
be seen by Australian free-to-air audiences for the first time. His
investigations into American fringe society see him get liposuction in Under
the Knife, spend a weekend at the casino in
Gambling in Las Vegas and get to
know the Phelps family in The Most Hated Family in America, who picket the funerals of U.S. soldiers, arguing
that the Iraq war is God’s punishment for tolerating homosexuality.

Seven has also picked up the one-hour Everest ER, an Indus Films production that follows two doctors
and their teams as they battle against the varying conditions to which Everest
climbers can fall prey to. The Australian broadcaster has also secured the
40-minute program The Woman Who Can’t Stop Lying, about three men who confront their former lover and
wife on her release from prison. The three men join forces to discover how and
why she was able to defraud them of their money and their homes.