±«Óãtv Two Winter/Spring 2008
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Mary Queen Of Shops
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Earlier this year, fashion guru Mary Portas galvanised some of the saddest shop floors in Britain into adopting a radical new approach to turn around their fortunes.
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Now Mary returns to the High Streets of Britain to revitalise five more fashion shops that have lost their way.
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Mary famously reinvented Harvey Nichols, but her passion is re-energising independent stores which can bring a new flavour and excitement to the High Street – and she's got her work cut out reinvigorating drippy sales staff, banishing dodgy clothes and turning dowdy shops into fashion Meccas.
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This time around, Mary is pulling in help from the High Street giants to put struggling suburban shopkeepers through their paces. Rails of bad-taste disasters are banished to make way for fashion must-haves, giving owners and viewers alike the inside track on the latest trends hitting the High Street and how to get the most out of that popular hobby – shopping.
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Never Better
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Stephen Mangan stars as Keith, the wrong person trying to do the right thing, in a brand-new comedy series. A recovering alcoholic in his mid-thirties, Keith doesn't realise that alcohol was the least of his problems. Indeed, while he manages to stay on the wagon, his sobriety brings crisis and
destruction to those around him.
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At his Alcoholics Anonymous meetings he creates chaos, endangering the recovery of his fellow 12-steppers. At home, his wife and two children have to cope with Keith's new extreme attentiveness and misfiring determination to be a good dad and husband.
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Never Better is about a recovery that never progresses and family time that never fails to go wrong. The cast also includes Kate Ashfield as Keith's wife, Anita, and Tom Goodman-Hill as his best friend, Richard.
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Paradise Or Bust
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Paradise Or Bust follows the dream of two 26-year-olds, Ben Keene and Mark Bowness. With no experience and little money, they've leased a paradise island in Fiji, started a website and hope that up to 5,000 strangers from around the world will join their website community, or "tribe", and help them build an eco-tourist village. It is the biggest challenge of their lives.
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The reality of their dream, however, is no toilet, no water, no shelter, no broadband connection, financial crises and relationships that are tested to the limit.
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This remarkable series follows the first year in the life of Tribewanted.com and tells the personal journeys, business challenges and logistical complexities of creating an eco-village on a deserted island.
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After battling fires, insect infestations, severe water shortages and living through a coup d'état, the boys face their greatest test – to not destroy the very beauty they went there to find. A year on, have they found paradise – or hell on Earth?
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Ski Sunday
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A revamped Ski Sunday celebrates its 30th season as it returns to ±«Óãtv Two in a new, high-profile, early evening slot, with presenters Ed Leigh and Graham Bell bringing their unique blend of fun, daring and exploration to ski slopes across the world.
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In Graham's Great Adventure, Graham takes in the historical, geographical and sporting insights of a summer trek across the Alps and Dolomites. Meanwhile, Ed locates some of the more unusual places in the world in which to snowboard, capturing the colour and culture of these countries along the way.
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But it's not only Ed and Graham who will be taking to the slopes and mountainsides: a series of celebrities are put to the test over two slalom runs to see just how much they can improve on their skills following a day of intense training.
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