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±«Óãtv Northern Ireland is launching an exciting new season of programmes for autumn 2008.
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Viewers can look forward to a diverse range of programmes exploring everything from a filmmaker's struggle to come to terms with the bullying he experienced as a child to a young apprentice's attempt to cut the mustard in the company of some of Northern Ireland's best known chefs.
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Ailsa Orr, Head of Programmes, ±«Óãtv Northern Ireland, says: "This autumn is an exciting milestone for ±«Óãtv Northern Ireland as we roll-out our brand new television schedule.
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"We've been working towards this for well over a year, commissioning and producing a wide range of programmes to sit in a number of key slots all across the week.
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"From immersive factual documentaries to a hard-hitting crime series, a light-hearted cookery series to irreverent comedy; there is really something for everyone this autumn on ±«Óãtv Northern Ireland."
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Some highlights from ±«Óãtv Northern Ireland this autumn season include:
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Monday nights on ±«Óãtv One Northern Ireland at 9.00pm
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Monday evenings on ±«Óãtv One Northern Ireland at 9.00pm will continue to showcase high-impact, factual programmes such as Bully For You, in which film-maker Eamonn Devlin turns the lens on himself as he goes on a deeply personal journey to reveal the long-lasting, emotional scars of being bullied as a child.
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A year in the making, Bully For You is a hard-hitting and at times harrowing account of Eamonn's own 25-year struggle to come to terms with the torture he experienced as a 13-year-old. He relives the disturbing memories of being bullied at school and questions whether he should come face-to-face with his childhood tormentor.
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In the documentary Eamonn meets three individuals who were also bullied at school. These three individuals tell of the mental and physical pain they experienced at the hands of their bullies and reveal how it has lead them to either self-harm, use drugs, over-eat or even contemplate suicide.
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Bully For You is an insightful, moving documentary which illustrates how, for many, schooldays are not the happiest of their lives, but instead the most horrific.
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In the eye-opening documentary Dying For A Drink, presenter William Crawley embarks on a compelling personal challenge as he looks at the nation's strange and sometimes obsessive relationship with our "drug of choice", alcohol.
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In a time when it can be cheaper to buy alcohol than bottled water, William asks if the amount of alcohol we consume is out of control and explores what role it plays in our lives, both inside and out.
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In the documentary, William goes out on the town for a night of binge drinking before starting a tough challenge of abstaining from alcohol for a month.
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During his challenge, he meets social drinkers, doctors and alcoholics to discover the extent to which drink affects our lives, whether we use it as a social lubricant, to de-stress after a hard day at the office or as an emotional crutch.
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After discovering whether or not alcohol has already taken its toll on his health, and learning some deeply personal lessons about his own relationship with alcohol, will William ever want to drink again?
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Last Man Hanging uncovers the story of a sensational chain of events which altered the course of Northern Ireland history.
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In 1961 Newry man Robert McGladdery was convicted and executed for the brutal murder of local girl Pearl Gamble.
His trial caused a media storm and proved a landmark in the debate on capital punishment in the United Kingdom.
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Now, for the first time, using never-before-seen police evidence and private court papers, ±«Óãtv Northern Ireland tells that story on television.
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The iconic images of the birth of Northern Ireland's Troubles – civil rights demonstrators being batoned and drenched with water cannon in Londonderry on 5 October 1968 – can be seen in The Day The Troubles Began.
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Hearing directly from participants on all sides, this hour-long documentary by Below the Radar unravels how that single event came to happen, how the movement behind it tied in with radical youth uprisings sweeping the rest of the world, and the crucial role played by television in catapulting it into a worldwide story.
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Contributors include leading activists in Europe and the United States in 1968, among them Rev Jesse Jackson – then a close friend of black civil rights icon Rev Martin Luther King – and Tom Hayden, one of the leaders of the demonstrations in Chicago that year, who would later marry the actress Jane Fonda.
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Melding the tumultuous images from home and abroad of 1968 with the revolutionary voices and music of the time, the film also hears local figures like Bernadette McAliskey, Eamonn McCann and Michael Farrell recall the youthful idealism with which they set forth on 5 October 1968 and why nothing would ever be the same after those dramatic few moments.
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Monday nights will also be the new home of a brand new series of Nolan Live.
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Wednesday nights on ±«Óãtv One Northern Ireland at 10.35pm
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Wednesday nights on ±«Óãtv One at 10.35pm sees the return of In Cold Blood, the compelling crime documentaries examining six successfully solved civilian murder cases from Northern Ireland using dramatic reconstruction, expert witness and archive footage.
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The programmes take a fascinating look behind the police investigation and the science, including forensics and pathology, that have helped solve some of Northern Ireland's most high-profile murder cases.
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Later in the season Wednesday nights will also be home for other one-off documentaries recounting strong stories from all over Northern Ireland.
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Friday nights on ±«Óãtv One Northern Ireland from 9.00pm
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Friday night's entertainment line-up for ±«Óãtv One Northern Ireland at 9.00pm begins with a new series where cameras follow the first Shanks Apprentice, Chris McClurg, as he learns that his life in the kitchen will never be the same again!
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Shanks Apprentice follows trainee chef Chris on the first year of his apprenticeship as he wins the competition and strives to live up to the high standards set out by his mentors: chefs Paul Rankin, Michael Deane and Bob McDonald and wine connoisseur Jim Nicholson.
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These four men, friends of the late Robbie Millar, established the apprenticeship in honour of the Michelin star chef to find young people with a burning passion in the kitchen and give them the opportunity to follow in Robbie's footsteps.
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Throughout the series Chris visits the Valrhona Chocolate School in France where he learns the art and science of chocolatiering.
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He also spends time in the spectacular vineyards of Southern France where mentor Jim Nicholson trains the young apprentice on how the correct choice of wine can make or break a meal.
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Chris also cuts his teeth in the high profile London kitchens of Irish chef Richard Corrigan and heads to Lancashire in the north of England to spend some time in the training kitchen of Great British Menu chef Nigel Hallworth.
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But the question is. can Chris survive under the gaze of his very strict taskmasters and have the judges made the right decision by choosing Chris as their Shanks Apprentice?
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Friday nights on ±«Óãtv Two Northern Ireland at 10.00pm
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This autumn also sees the launch of a new series of programmes on ±«Óãtv Two Northern Ireland at 10.00pm on Fridays, aimed at younger audiences.
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The innovation slot has been specifically created for programmes that are new, bold and experimental.
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The first series to fill it meets all of these criteria as one of Northern Ireland's most successful comic exports sets out on a hilarious road trip across the Australian outback...
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Brought up in Portstewart, comedian Jimeoin stars in Jimeoin Down Under which follows the star's antics on the road and on stage while touring across the northern-most parts of Australia, his adoptive home.
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Over the course of six weeks, viewers will enjoy this very funny warts-and-all series, part travelogue, part fishing trip and part stand-up show, which sees Jimeoin travel from Broome via Darwin to Byron Bay, finishing up in Sydney, the first time a comedian has truly gone "over the top" in Australia.
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±«Óãtv Northern Ireland will also continue to provide a strong line-up of news and current affairs programmes this autumn with ±«Óãtv Newsline; Hearts And Minds; Let's Talk; Spotlight and The Politics Show.
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