Looking at documentaries within the TV Schedule

BBC One

• Older entertainer docs on Sunday - targets baby boomers
• Same documentaries as BBC 2 but later - Rip off Britain starts at 9.15am
• Crime documentaries sometimes during the day
• Political documentaries about wide issues
• Issues with government policies/welfare state - Council House Crackdown 8-9pm 3 parts

BBC 2

• Sunday prime time 9pm Louis Theroux new doc - repeated on Tues after midnight - 3 part hour long series
• Documentaries from 6am about British issues, real life stories about issues in society until 9am - morning dominated
• Educational programmes - health, money

itv

• Thursday 9pm  Presenter led crime doc 1 off 1 hour An Hour to Catch a Killer with Trevor McDonald
• Some factual programmes like ITV 4 has Car Crash Global: Caught on Camera

Channel 4

• Play documentaries after midnight until 3am
• More Factual Entertainment in 3hr slot eg The Undateables
• Repeats of popular documentaries after midnight eg Educating Greater Manchester - 8 part weekly series
• Documentaries focusing on unusual people with exciting headlines - Quadruplets and Homeless
• Shows centred around a profession/place eg 24 hours in A and E

Channel 5

• More factual shows than documentaries
• Railway documentaries primetime - 9pm weekday
• Real life series centred around a theme eg Tattoos, but usually negative/problems had
• Some shows centred around a profession eg Doctors
• Visualization of gossip mag stories - Gypsy kids (7 parts) and Nightmare neighbours (11 Parts)

BBC4

• Horizon at 9pm
• Play documentaries after midnight until 3am
• Channel off air until 7pm
• Mainly documentaries apart from some more news based
• Repeats of Louis Theroux's documentaries from 1997 - big names get more air time
• Weekly series - sometimes double episodes on the same day eg The Vietnam War 2 eps 10-12pm
• Lot of history, music based,
• Until 3.30am

Sky1

• Docs until 4-5am - animals, border/professions

Netflix

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