David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Welsh capital which sees Former Shadow Welsh Secretary Peter Hain; Minister for Disabled People, Maria Miller; Leanne Wood, Leader of Plaid Cymru; Daily Mail columnist and former editor of The Sun, Kelvin MacKenzie, and author and comedy scriptwriter John O'Farrell, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Mentorn Media has produced Question Time since 1998 and the new contract will run for three years from September with David Dimbleby continuing to chair the programme from venues around the country. Production transferred to Mentorn Scotland last year.

Chief Executive, Mentorn Media, John Willis, said: "We're absolutely delighted to secure the contract for a further three years. It's well deserved recognition of the brilliant work of David Dimbleby and the Question Time team led by Editor Nicolai Gentchev and Executive Producer Steve Anderson."

BBC Scotland's Head of News, John Boothman, said the tender process had been competitive and rigorous, with all companies having sound proposals for the future of Question Time.

"We awarded the contract to Mentorn as they were able to demonstrate strong editorial leadership from Nicolai Gentchev and Steve Anderson and technical and editorial expertise to deliver this high-profile political debate programme," he said.

Executive Producer, Steve Anderson, said: "Mentorn has helped to make Question Time one of the most important programmes on British television. In the lifetime of the current contract, we produced the memorable editions on the MPs' expenses row, Hugh Grant appearing on the night of the closure of the News of the World plus, of course, the appearance of BNP leader Nick Griffin, watched by almost 10 million people.

"But politics has never been more fascinating and with a terrific new team in place, we are excited about how Question Time can enhance its reputation as the place where the public hold the decision makers to account."

Nicolai Gentchev continues as Editor with Hayley Valentine as Executive Editor for BBC Scotland.

The announcement signals a period of expansion for Mentorn Scotland which recently celebrated its tenth year and is also currently responsible for BBC One series The Big Questions and Cowboy Trap. Production of BBC One series Motorway Cops and Traffic Cops, both made by Mentorn Media sister company, Folio, is also made from Mentorn Scotland.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

White Heat screenwriter Paula Milne will write three part series, The Politician's Husband, to be produced by Mentorn Media's drama arm Daybreak Pictures. The hour-long episodes are for transmission next year.

Lucy Richer will executive produce for the BBC.  David Aukin is Executive Producer for Daybreak Pictures and Hal Vogel is producer.

The series was commissioned by BBC Two controller Janice Hadlow and drama head Ben Stephenson.

Hadlow said the series would be a "contemporary drama about the relationship between power, men, love, marriage, all those things."

"It is quite fantastic," she added.

Mentorn International will be distributing the drama.

For further information please contact Plank PR on 020 8995 3936 or email lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Greater Manchester town which sees Environment Secretary and Conservative MP for Meriden Caroline Spelman; Labour MP for Rhondda and Shadow Immigration Minister Chris Bryant; Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott; Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge Mary Beard, and the Daily Telegraph columnist Peter Oborne, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the capital which sees Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith MP; Labour's Deputy Leader Harriet Harman MP; former leader of the Liberal Democrats Ming Campbell MP; leader of the PCS union Mark Serwotka, and the businessman and star of Dragons' Den Theo Paphitis, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The first series, which consisted of four hour-long programmes entitled World's Scariest Plane Landings, World's Scariest Near Misses, World's Greatest Heroes and World's Greatest Daredevils transmitted earlier this year in the 8pm slot. The first in the series, World's Scariest Plane Landings consolidated at 2.1 million and a 7.6% share.

The second series was ordered by Michelle Chappell, Commissioning Editor for News, Current Affairs and Documentaries at Channel 5, following the success of the first.

Series two will see four further one-hour programmes entitled World's Scariest Flights, World's Scariest Animal Attacks, World's Scariest Drivers and World's Scariest Weather. The series will air in May on Channel 5.

Channel 5's Commissioning Editor for News, Current Affairs and Documentaries, Michelle Chappell said, "These programmes are made with incredible user generated content and contributors from all over the world. It's real-life, but at its most extreme, all captured on camera."

Mentorn Media's Executive Producer for Popular Factual, Matt Holden said, "We're delighted a second series of World's Scariest has been commissioned so soon after the first which drew some incredible audience numbers and we hope to replicate this success again."

World's Scariest is a Mentorn Media production and the series producer is Amy Walker. Mentorn International will be distributing the programme.

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The Brazilian format is due to debut on 28^th April under the title 'Ruim de Roda', (which is loosely translated as Bad at the Wheel). It is hosted by Luciano Huck as part of his high profile, long-running show Caldeirão do Huck.  Alongside Huck is Brazil's famous Stock Car Champion Cacá Bueno who introduces the Worst Driver challenges and the series is being shot on Brazil's former Formula One racetrack in Rio de Janeiro. Further episodes are scheduled for production.

Mentorn International's Managing Director, David Leach, said: "We're delighted to partner with TV Globo to bring our format to Brazil. They have put a huge amount of production value into this version of Worst Driver - in an iconic venue with the sporting hero Cacá in the driving seat alongside the host of one of their most popular shows."

"We're particularly pleased to have made this first license of our format in Latin America and we very much hope it will encourage channels in other Latin countries to come on board with their own versions."

In addition to Brazil, production companies in Canada, Netherlands, Belgium and Finland have all gone into production in recent weeks with further series of the hit format.

Proper Television Inc is producing Worst Driver series eight for Discovery Channel Canada, nine 60 minute programmes which will transmit in October. Skyhigh Television is producing a third series of eight hour-long episodes of Worst Driver for BNN Netherlands, and six hour-long episodes second series for VTM Belgium; while Nordisk Film TV has begun production of the first series of Worst Driver for MTV3 Finland.

Mentorn International's Managing Director, David Leach, said: "Worst Driver is one of our most successful formats and there seems to be no limit to the number of bad drivers we can find around the world. We're delighted to have made breakthroughs in new territories in addition to returning series in many existing territories, it really is a juggernaut of a format."

Worst Driver which was originally commissioned by Channel 5 in the UK is the ultimate entertainment format where family and friends nominate dodgy drivers desperate to improve their driving skills.

Notes to Editors:

Mentorn International is a long-established international distributor of TV programmes and formats for British and American companies including Mentorn Media, BBC, Pioneer Productions, Daybreak Pictures, Quicksilver, Fiction Factory, Folio, Ludus, A Smith & Co, Base Productions and Mentorn USA. Mentorn International distributes formats and programmes in the genres of reality, entertainment, comedy, factual entertainment, documentary, drama, science, history, lifestyle and popular factual.

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David Dimbleby chairs the programme from East London which sees Employment Minister and MP for Epsom and Ewell Chris Grayling; Shadow Health Minister and Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington Diane Abbott; MP for Bermondsey and Old Southwark and Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Simon Hughes; MEP and UK Independence Party Leader Nigel Farage, and Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Jake Humphrey chairs the programme from the South Yorkshire town which sees award-winning Hip Hop artist Sway; model and TV personality Nicola McLean; author, activist and Independent columnist Owen Jones, and author, journalist, and Associate Director of the Henry Jackson Society Douglas Murray, face questions from the audience and viewers at home.

Stand-up comedian Michelle de Swarte will be in the studio speaking up for the web responses and online comments.

Free Speech involves viewers from beginning to end: proposing stories they want on the agenda and showing whether they "like" or "dislike" the panellists and their opinions via the Power Bar. Responses and updates from the viewers will be displayed throughout the show and viewers can use hashtags to show their like or dislike of panellists as they speak in real time.

The programme will be focusing on crime and prisons, as part of BBC Three's Criminal Britain Season, as well as looking into the use of the word 'chav'.

It's your show, get involved via bbc.co.uk/freespeech; facebook.com/bbcfreespeech; @bbcfreespeech; #freespeech

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Notes to Editors

Criminal Britain is a stimulating and hard-hitting season of programmes on BBC Three which looks at how crime affects the lives of young people today and brings to life the human stories behind the startling stats, from the perspectives of both the perpetrators and the victims.

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the waterfront city which sees comedian Alexei Sayle; Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander MP; Liberal Democrat MP and Children's Minister Sarah Teather; Conservative MP Anna Soubry, and columnist and chair of the National Trust Sir Simon Jenkins face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the seaport town which sees Liberal Democrat MP and Business Secretary Vince Cable; former Shadow Home Secretary and leadership candidate David Davis MP; Labour MP and Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna; Spectator columnist Melissa Kite, and novelist Marina Lewycka face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Scottish University town which sees former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles Kennedy MP; Member of the Scottish Parliament and leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson; broadcaster and journalist Janet Street-Porter; Labour MP for Birkenhead Frank Field, and SNP Member of Scottish Parliament for Glasgow Humza Yousaf face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

An Idiot Abroad 2 which stars Karl Pilkington with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, has followed the success of the first series and has already sold in 62 territories.

Following its huge ratings on Sky 1HD, Mentorn International has sold the series to countries including: Network Ten in Australia, SVT in Sweden, Discovery in USA, NRK in Norway, TV3 in Denmark, ICT in Iceland, and Turner in Latin America, Planète (Canal +) in France, Sogecable in Spain, and Discovery in CEEMEA (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa), as well as channels in Canada, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, New Zealand and Asia. Discussions with broadcasters in Finland and Germany are also in advanced stages of negotiation.

Life's Too Short, Ricky Gervais' and Stephen Merchant's latest sitcom follow up to The Office and Extras, is also an international hit with Mentorn International securing sales in 35 territories to date.

These include: Paramount Comedy in  Spain, TVNZ in New Zealand, ABC in Australia, DBS in Israel, TV Norge in Norway, SVT in Sweden, TV2 in Denmark, as well as a number of in-flight deals. Mentorn International is also in advanced negotiations with HBO in Asia.

The seven-part observational comedy follows the day-to-day life of actor, Warwick Davis, who runs an agency for actors of a similar height. It also features cameo appearances from a host of Hollywood stars, such as Johnny Depp, Steve Carell, Liam Neeson and Helena Bonham Carter. Written, directed and executive produced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who also co-star, the series was a hit both on BBC 2 in the UK and HBO in the USA.

Mentorn International's Managing Director, David Leach, said: "We're delighted that both An Idiot Abroad 2 and Life's Too Short have done such excellent business around the world. It's proof that great comedy has worldwide appeal."

"We launched our Comedy Division last year and it's proving a great success with these new series following the global sales of An Idiot Abroad 1 and Sirens as well as our Worst Driver series."

Visit Mentorn International at MIP 2012 - stand 11.29

Notes to Editors:

An Idiot Abroad 2 is produced by Risk Productions while Mentorn Media produced An Idiot Abroad.

BBC Television and United Agents appointed Mentorn International to distribute Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's comedy series Life's Too Short. The series is a BBC/HBO co-production in association with Backlash Productions, launching on BBC 2 in Autumn 2011 and on HBO in the U.S. in February 2012.

Mentorn International is a long-established international distributor of TV programmes and formats for British and American companies including Mentorn Media, BBC, Pioneer Productions, Daybreak Pictures, Quicksilver, Fiction Factory, Folio, Ludus, A Smith & Co, Base Productions and Mentorn USA. Mentorn International distributes formats and programmes in the genres of reality, entertainment, comedy, factual entertainment, documentary, drama, science, history, lifestyle and popular factual.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Surrey town which sees Conservative MP Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles; Labour's Shadow Energy and Climate Change Secretary Caroline Flint; singer Will Young; Daily Mail columnist Janice Atkinson-Small, and novelist Will Self, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Jake Humphrey chairs the programme from East London which sees BAFTA winning Kidulthood actor Adam Deacon; BBC Radio 1 DJ Gemma Cairney; British Entrepreneur Dominic McVey and Conservative MP for Wirral West Esther McVey, face questions from the audience and viewers at home.

Michelle de Swarte will be in the audience speaking up for the web responses and online comments.

Free Speech will involve viewers from beginning to end: proposing stories they want on the agenda and showing whether they like or dislike the panellists and their opinions via The Control Panel. Responses and updates from the viewers will be displayed throughout the show and for the first time, viewers can use hashtags to show their like or dislike of panellists as they speak in real time.

It's your show, get involved via bbc.co.uk/freespeech; facebook.com/bbcfreespeech; @bbcfreespeech; #freespeech

The promo video for the show can be seen here: http://bit.ly/xdvEJ1

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the West Yorkshire town which sees Conservative MP John Redwood; Labour's Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves; Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson; Historian David Starkey, and the chair of the Professional Footballers Association Clarke Carlisle, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Produced by Mentorn Media the 12 x 60' series is the evolved format which was formerly Young Voters' Question Time, and will run monthly throughout 2012, with first transmission on March 7, live at 10pm from Bethnal Green, East London.

Free Speech will involve viewers from beginning to end: proposing stories they want on the agenda and showing whether they like or dislike the panellists and their opinions. Responses and updates from the viewers will be displayed throughout the show using innovative technology.

Aiming to be the most interactive, live debate show on TV, each programme features four different panellists and travels to locations across the UK: sports halls, shopping malls or festival marquees.

Jake Humphrey said: "I'm really chuffed to be hosting a show that I feel will bring viewers closer to the decision makers and opinion formers of our country than ever before. And the viewers at home really are going to be integral to the show; it will be down to them to let us know what the hot debate issues should be, we'll use social networking sites throughout the transmission of the show, using cutting edge technology as you've never seen it integrated into a live show before.

"I studied politics at A-Level and I've always taken a keen interest in how our society runs, who runs it, and what can we 'normal folk' do to have more of a say or get our opinions heard. This show isn't afraid to ask the big questions and tackle the vital issues that are directly affecting your lives now, and just as importantly, your future."

BBC Three Controller, Zai Bennett, said: "Jake is the perfect presenter for Free Speech and we're delighted that he'll be bringing his wealth of experience in live presenting to engage with so many people watching and contributing online."

Mentorn Media will partner with Social TV production company, Telegraph Hill, who will deliver a ground-breaking, cross-platform strategy including exclusive online video, social media management and an ambitious new live messaging platform.

Mentorn Media's Creative Director, Steve Anderson, said: "This is a really exciting series. It's current affairs with a difference: building the programme from the bottom up, with viewers having their say about what they want to see and comment on.

"All of the reliable research shows that most of the people classed as the target group for BBC Three watch TV while using a second screen, and most comment on a show they are viewing.

"Free Speech will capitalise on these changing patterns of viewing. It'll be fully interactive and multi-platform and Mentorn is delighted to be making the series. It continues our strong relationship with BBC News, BBC Learning and BBC Three."

One pioneering feature of the show is The Control Panel. For the first time, viewers can use hashtags to show their like or dislike of panellists as they speak in real time. Their interactions control a big screen studio graphic that Jake can use to influence the live debate.

The series is commissioned for BBC Three by Fiona Campbell. The Series Producer is Susan Crook and the Executive Producer is Steve Anderson.

Notes to Editors

Mentorn Media produced Young Voters' Question Time for BBC Three, the Riots edition of which was the channel's highest rating pre-watershed programme ever. Commissioned and transmitted in the space of just three days it was watched by a combined total of 1.7 million viewers.

Mentorn Media made Dermot Meets... for BBC three which saw Dermot O'Leary take on the party leaders during the 2010 election campaign.  They also made two editions of First Time Voters' Question Time, presented by O'Leary. This was succeeded by Young Voters Question Time, hosted by Richard Bacon.

Mentorn produced the award-winning Tulisa: My Mum and Me for BBC Three and is currently finishing production on a hard-hitting series on teenage gangs with Reggie Yates.

Mentorn Media is also the producer of Question Time and The Big Questions for BBC One.

For further information please contact Louise Plank lou@plankpr.com on

0208 995 3936 or Matt Hall matthew.hall@bbc.co.uk at the BBC on 0208 576 8928.

The discussion following the screening will cover the struggle of the Lawrence family, institutionalized racism and the power of investigative TV to affect change. It will be chaired by TV correspondent, Rageh Omaar. Tickets are priced at £10, with the opportunity to make additional donations.

Rageh Omaar said: "This is a very special screening and I'm proud to be chairing an event that can continue to support the important work of the Stephen Lawrence Trust, to help make a difference to young people in communities all over the UK."

Please book by visiting www.stephenlawrence.eventbrite.co.uk

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"The whole point about all of these stories, it's about: is the story justified? Is the story in the public interest?

"If the story is in the public interest I'm in favour of good journalism that investigates in terms of the public interest. That's important. It should be protected.

"In fact I even go as far as to say if you were doing a story in the public interest exposing great corruption of a company you'd even be justified in hacking if that story was in the public interest. But time again it's not. It's about who is sleeping with who and this is used as a smokescreen by much of the press to justify what their true interest is which is satisfying their shareholders by selling newspapers.

"I think that they (the press) should be allowed to put their house in order but I think there has to back up system of some form of statutory regulation."

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

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David Dimbleby chairs the programme as Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond MP; Baroness Shirley Williams; Alastair Campbell, Labour, former Director of Communications at 10 Downing St; Steve Coogan, Actor and Comedian and Dame Ann Leslie, Daily Mail writer, face questions from the audience.

The programme transmits at 10.35pm on BBC One and is available after transmission in BBC iPlayer.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Katie has spent the past three-and-half-years living with the impacts of an acid attack which included leaving her blind in her left eye. In Katie: The Science of Seeing Again which transmits on February 7th at 9pm on Channel 4, Katie discovers the existence of pioneering surgery that could potentially restore her sight using the extraordinary power of stem cells.

She tracks down the doctor responsible and puts herself forward to be among some of the first people to undergo the treatment - which entails transplanting stem cells directly into her eye.

In this authored film, Katie discovers the science behind stem cell technology, investigating the long-term effects, the chance of success and moral considerations as she prepares to undergo this ground-breaking optical surgery.

Commissioned by David Glover this is the first documentary as part of Katie's exclusive deal with Channel 4. He said: "This film was Katie's idea and she approached me asking to make it. What's amazing about it is that we explore a cutting-edge science story from the point of view of the person undergoing the operation. Katie is an extraordinary natural communicator and puts it all in human terms, it's been a huge pleasure working with her."

Mentorn Media Executive Producer, Hannah Wyatt, said: "Katie is an incredible young woman and in this film we see her bravery, positivity and humour take her down a different path to previous programmes. She intelligently explores the science behind such pioneering surgery, considering carefully the moral and ethical questions of such a life-changing decision."

Katie Piper said: "This has been an extraordinary exploration for me and one that has resulted in the decision to make my 110^th operation one to help restore my sight. It has been at times emotional but fascinating - as I continue my medical journey I am constantly in awe of the human body and the skills of the amazing surgeons I come into contact with."

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Merseyside town which sees International Development Minister and Conservative MP for Rutland and Melton, Alan Duncan MP; Labour's Shadow Justice Secretary Sadiq Khan MP;  former head of the CBI Lord Digby Jones; creator of Grange Hill & Brookside Phil Redmond, and Emma Boon from the Taxpayers Alliance, face questions from the audience

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

"I think there's a question of honour even if there is a contractual opportunity for him to have it, it doesn't mean he has to accept it. He's already being paid more than £1million a year. He gets paid in three days what a soldier serving in Afghanistan gets in a whole year and he should reflect on that." 

Asked by David Dimbleby if he thought Hester should forego his bonus, Mr Browne replied: "He could struggle on with a £1.2million in salary. He is working for a company that is five-sixths owned by us. He has a moral obligation which he has failed to discharge."

Labour MP David Lammy attacked the Prime Minister for "doing nothing" about Hester's bonus. Speaking on Question Time, Mr Lammy said: of Mr Hester: "This is a man that already has a salary of £1.2m and then gets a nice top up that takes it over £2m and we own the bank. Shareholders made this decision and the government is the biggest shareholder around the table.

"David Cameron has talked a good talk but he has done absolutely nothing...Why do you need £900,000 on top of your salary? It's embarrassing, it's a disgrace and David Cameron should do something about it."

BBC One's Question Time broadcasts at 10.35pm and is available after transmission on BBC iPlayer.

For further information please contact Louise Plank or Steve Anderson on sanderson@mentorn.tv or lou@plankpr.com 

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Devon city which sees Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton and Foreign Office minister Jeremy Browne; Labour MP for Tottenham David Lammy; Conservative MP for South West Norfolk Liz Truss; comedian Mark Steel and Daily Mail columnist Melanie Phillips, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme which will transmit at 10.35pm and available after transmission on BBC iPlayer.

Question Time offers a unique opportunity for British voters to question the panel on topical events of the week. The panel is drawn from significant political figures, heads of industry, media and entertainment.

Editor, Nicolai Gentchev, said: "Question Time prides itself on visiting new areas to hear from as wide an audience as possible. We're looking forward to hearing what questions the people of Southport will pose to our panel."

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from Shropshire's historic market town which sees co-chairman of the Conservative Party Baroness, Sayeeda Warsi; Stephen Twigg MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary; Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, Caroline Lucas; Germaine Greer, feminist writer and academic, and columnist and former editor at the Telegraph and the Spectator, Charles Moore, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Panorama - Stephen Lawrence: Time for Justice,  BBC One 8pm tonight

As Gary Dobson and David Norris are finally convicted of the murder of Stephen Lawrence, Panorama tells the private story of the tenacity of his mother Doreen Lawrence and her 18 year wait for justice.

For the past 12 months Panorama reporter Mark Daly has been granted exclusive access to Doreen Lawrence and her family. In 2006, Daly made a documentary for the BBC revealing fresh evidence about the suspects alibis, which helped put the case back on the political agenda. The case had been dormant, but a fresh forensic review was launched, resulting in the dramatic discovery of new scientific evidence.

Daly follows Doreen from legal meetings to the crucial double jeopardy hearing at the High Court in April this year which sanctioned the murder re-trial and throughout the recent trial itself.

In the programme, Daly travels with Doreen as she works to keep her son's memory alive through her work as a director of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, through memorial services and her visits to his graveside in Jamaica.

In Jamaica Doreen explains: "The fact that somebody's been held to account and they've gone to prison for him, that will be the closure I'm looking for."

But it won't give her complete closure: "There will never be a closure, I think where I'm concerned. (The fact) that he's no longer here, that will always be there for me."

"Been divorced now for the past what 11 years. I think things were probably going wrong before Stephen's death. I think would I still be married? I dunno, probably not. I've got nobody in my life since then. You know you can be out with loads of people but you're still on your own. Which is what I find many a time. But it's still just me on my own."

Doreen wanted Stephen's resting place to be in Jamaica, believing that Britain would never have been a respectful of him: "I'm really pleased I've buried him here because if he was buried in the UK his grave would have been desecrated so many times. Nobody knows where he is and it's a peaceful place for him and the country didn't deserve to have him because they took his life so I think they didn't deserve him."

"I still think it's the best thing we did that we brought him here next to his great grandmother so she can look after him. I try and talk to him in my head, talk to him about how we are, how we are doing. I like to have that time I can talk to him."

She remembers him growing up: "Stephen was the first born. I remember when I was pregnant I wanted to have a son so I was more than over the moon when Stephen was born.

"As a baby he had a temperament. That hasn't change whilst he was growing up, you know, he was a determined, he knew exactly what he wanted. He was very creative, he loved drawing. He took part in all the sports that happened in school. He took part in the mini-marathon back in 1988. He came 100 and something but the mere fact he finished the course was quite good!"

"It's hard to believe that he would have 37. I think about him practically all the time. Would he have a family? Where would he be in his career? I still have him as being a young man."

Doreen also shares how Stephen's murder made her question her faith: "In the early days I did question why wasn't god there to protect Stephen and I had real difficulty in that in the early days. People say to me well how strong you are. I don't think I'm strong. I don't think I'm strong at all, you know I just think there is something there carrying me and helping me through so I'm not doing it on my own. If there is one thing I must say, I don't forgive the boys that killed Stephen. They took away Stephen's life and there is the pain it has caused us as a family."

Doreen recalls the night Stephen died on April 22nd, 1993: "We all talk about the knock on the door, and that's one knock on the door that happened. We drove to the hospital. I remember as I walked in I saw a young man in front of me. Neville's coming in so he recognised Duwayne straight away. And so I rushed up to him asking him what had happened but he wasn't able to answer me and straight away I think it was a nurse ushered us into a room and asked us to wait there and then we were told that Stephen had died and it's just like watching a drama, it's like 'died' no he's not you know he can't be."

Just days after the funeral the family were told that the murder charges were being dropped and for the Lawrences, this signalled the beginning of their long battle against the police and the judiciary.

Despite 26 tip offs within 48 hours after the attack naming most of the boys, no arrests were made not even when a police surveillance team watched Jamie Acourt leave his house carrying a bin liner potentially full of evidence, get into a car and drive away.

Doreen says: "The police weren't interested in Stephen. They weren't interested in catching his killers at all...They found a glove on Stephen as if to say that he was into crime. They assumed that Stephen must know his killers, that we must be into crime and so was Stephen and one of the things they said was 'We have never met a black family like us before'. They are assuming that all black families are criminals."

Determined to bring her son's killers to justice, Doreen began a long and complex process full of hurdles and it was the Lawrence family's relentless search for answers which eventually forced a full public inquiry in 1998.

The Macpherson Inquiry would become the watershed moment in British race relations history. It exposed the Met and in particular its first investigation into Stephen's murder, as institutionally racist. Amongst the 70 recommendations made by the inquiry, Macpherson called for a complete overhaul of police training, and crucially, a reversal of the double jeopardy law - which eventually led to the current prosecution.

Deputy Commissioner Cressida Dick said: "This case is an extraordinary case which has had more impact on policing than any other single case I can think of in modern times and possibly in the history of the met. The way we approach homicide investigations, the way we approach working with families and with communities has completely changed. The face of the Met has changed."

Doreen said: "Things have changed yes because I have stood up and said no I am not accepting what justice, the police, whoever had to say, that I didn't accept what they were saying at that time...

"I was just asking for what was right that is all that I was asking for. And so legacy OK Stephen is then going to go down in history for all sorts of things and I just think OK that's positive, but I would rather have my son here than have his name attached to a legacy."

The programme was made by Mentorn Media. It was produced and directed by Ken Kirby and Neil Grant was the Executive Producer.

For more information, clips or interviews with Mark Daly please contact Louise Plank at Plank PR on behalf of Mentorn Media on 020 8995 3936 or 07801 321 965 lou@plankpr.com or Paul Rasmussen at the BBC on paul.rasmussen@bbc.co.uk

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Mentorn Media's Executive Producer, Neil Grant, collected the award for Best Regional/National Portrayal Award at the ceremony held at the Media City in Salford on Tuesday, 6th December.

He said:" It is a real achievement by the 36 person production team led by Series Producer Jim Funnell and a tribute to the people of Brixham who so warmly welcomed us into their lives. It is an honour for Mentorn to have been given this award and to recognize a community so rarely seen and reflected on British television".

Fish Town was Sky Atlantic's first UK documentary commission. Made over six months, this ten by one hour series celebrated the daily lives of the people living and working in the historic Devon fishing town of Brixham. The series was transmitted on Sky Atlantic this summer to wide acclaim and high viewing figures. The series also stood out as a result of its stunning photography, use of poetry and tremendously engaging characters.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The four hour-long programmes entitled World's Scariest Landings; World's Scariest Near Misses; World's Greatest Heroic Moments, and World's Scariest Daredevils were ordered by Michelle Chappell, Commissioning Editor for News, Current Affairs and Documentaries at Channel 5 and will transmit in the New Year.

Each programme will include footage from events with expert analysis and comment, and testimony from the people at the heart of the stories.

Mentorn Media's Executive Producer Popular Factual, Matt Holden, said: "User generated content is no longer peripheral to television production, this series will use incredible UGC material, combined with brilliant storytelling, to bring something bold, new and exciting to Channel 5."

Channel 5 Commissioning Editor for News, Current Affairs and Documentaries, Michelle Chappell, said: "We hope to uncover some of the most extreme uncut footage ever caught on camera. From terrifying plane landings to runaway trains you'll want to buckle up after watching this series."

The series Producer is Amy Walker.

Mentorn International will be distributing the programmes.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Staffordshire city which sees Claire Perry, Conservative MP for Devizes; Historian and Labour MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central Tristram Hunt; Recorder and Barrister Constance Briscoe; Lord Simon Wolfson, Businessman and Conservative Peer, and New Statesman Senior Editor Mehdi Hasan, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The awards which celebrate the best portrayals and reporting of mental health in the media saw N-Dubz star and X-Factor judge Tulisa honoured by winning the Documentary award for the BBC Three documentary which originally aired in August 2010. Away from the glare of the media spotlight Tulisa is a carer for her Mum who has schizoaffective disorder. In this moving, highly personal account she lifted the lid on what life is like for some of the 80,000 other young people in Britain caring for a parent with mental health problems.

Drawing on her own experiences, Tulisa met other young carers to explore the day-to-day realities of living with a mentally ill parent. The effects of looking after a parent with mental health problems can be overwhelming and often endured with little outside support but Tulisa discovered there is help available, notably young carers groups.

Tulisa said: "It's such a great pleasure to have won this award - it's something very close to my heart. Being able to create awareness for such a condition will help those it effects on a daily basis and the people who help them in their lives. This award is dictated to all the young careers and their mothers in the UK today."

Mind Chief Executive Paul Farmer said: "This year's Mind Media Awards winners illustrate the fantastic programmes that can be made when mental health issues are tackled sensitively. Whether it is someone talking about their life in a documentary, article or YouTube video, or helping to inform the plot of a drama, personal stories can shine a spotlight on what life is really like with a mental health problem."

Mentorn's Head of Factual Entertainment and Features, Hannah Wyatt said: "We are delighted to have won this prestigious award. Tulisa and all our contributors were so open about sharing their stories. It's an honour to pay tribute to such strong, young and resilient carers and to bring to light just how hard they work to make day to day life more bearable for those they look after."

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David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the London borough which sees Justice Secretary Ken Clarke; Chuka Umunna, Shadow Business Secretary; Head of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers Mary Bousted; Former Speechwriter for President George W. Bush David Frum and Business woman Deborah Meaden, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Plank PR on 0208 995 3936.

The Ability Media International (AMI) award was presented on Monday 21st November at a glittering ceremony at the world famous London Studios. The packed event was attended by some of the UK Arts industry's most influential and well respected players - including Downton Abbey actor Dame Maggie Smith, childrens' TV pioneer Anna Home and filmmaker Mike Leigh.

The AMI awards, created by Leonard Cheshire Disability in 2009, identify outstanding creative projects that encourage a more inclusive world for disabled and disadvantaged people.

Heralded by the international panel of judges as a "highly engaging and moving series", Katie, My Beautiful Friends won the 'Features Award 2011'. The Channel 4 series followed Katie Piper, a model who was disfigured by an acid attack, as she set out to help rebuild the confidence of people like her who are fighting for normality while living with a potentially devastating disfigurement.

Renowned theatre, film and TV actress, currently performing in Caryl Churchill's hit revival 'Top Girls', Stella Gonet, presented the award to Katie Piper. Katie commented:

"I want to thank the Ability Media International judges for this tremendous recognition and for their kind comments.

"It's huge testament to Mentorn Media and Channel 4 that we made this series. Their support, belief and dedication to ensuring that people with disabilities and disfigurements are represented in British broadcasting is central to the series' success.

"But above all I want to thank the eight friends that I met during the making of the series, for their honesty, inspiration and for helping me understand further issues that people can face.

"Together, I believe, we can change perceptions in society in the long term and make people with disabilities and disfigurements feel accepted and included wherever they are."

Jane Jutsum, Leonard Cheshire Disability Innovative Projects Director and co-organiser of the AMI awards, commented: "My Beautiful Friends is a highly engaging and moving series. Its sensitive investigation into its subjects struggle for normality ultimately contributes to creating a more inclusive and diverse society."

The AMIs support the Ability Media Centre. Set up by Leonard Cheshire Disability, the centre gives disabled and disadvantaged young people the training and skills they need to meet the demands of the media industries.

John Steinbeck - Voice of America follows Melvyn Bragg as he travels from Oklahoma to California to examine the enduring legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author, John Steinbeck.

In novels such as The Grapes Of Wrath, Of Mice And Men, and Cannery Row, Steinbeck gave voices to ordinary people who were battling poverty, drought and homelessness. Melvyn Bragg assesses why the work of one his favourite authors remains relevant in today's America, taking a fresh approach to John Steinbeck, his work and in particular Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes Of Wrath, one of the epic American novels of the twentieth century.

Bragg visits the site of the 1930s dust bowl in Oklahoma; the California orchards where bloody political battles were fought between migrant labourers and growers; and the Monterey coastline where Steinbeck developed his ideas on ecology, and makes a case for Steinbeck as one of the great voices of American literature.

Mentorn Media's Executive Producer, said Steve Anderson said: "Melvyn will be exploring why Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath rattled the sensitivities of America, and more than 70 years on, what parallels can be drawn with today's USA as it struggles with a new economic downturn and wrestles with the excesses of the banks. It's a celebration of one of America's most heralded authors and the most famous of his works."

Melvyn Bragg has written an exclusive article on Steinbeck's legacy for the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/nov/21/melvyn-bragg-on-john-steinbeck

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the University Town which sees Housing and Local Government Minister and Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield Grant Shapps; Shadow Immigration Minister and Labour MP for Rhondda Chris Bryant; Plaid Cymru Welsh Assembly Member for Ceredigion Elin Jones; Guardian Columnist Will Hutton, and Political Economist and Commentator Sir Simon Jenkins, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby will chair a panel of guests during the debate in Westminster Hall as part of Parliament Week, a new initiative aiming to build greater awareness, understanding of and engagement with parliamentary democracy in the UK. Amongst the panel facing questions from the audience will be Conservative MP for Maidenhead, Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities Theresa May; Shadow Chancellor and Labour MP for Morley and Outwood Ed Balls; Politician, Academic and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party Baroness Shirley Williams; journalist and author Peter Hitchens, and writer and poet Benjamin Zephaniah.

Question Time Editor, Nicolai Gentchev, said: "This will be the first time Question Time comes from Parliament, and we are very excited about filming the programme in Westminster Hall. It is an iconic location in which President Obama, the Pope, Nelson Mandela and De Gaulle have addressed both Houses of Parliament and I hope this magnificent venue inspires the debate among our panel and audience."

Question Time is produced for BBC One by Mentorn Media and BBC Scotland.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

John Steinbeck - Voice of America follows Melvyn Bragg as he travels from Oklahoma to California to examine the enduring legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author, John Steinbeck.

In novels such as The Grapes Of Wrath, Of Mice And Men, and Cannery Row, Steinbeck gave voices to ordinary people who were battling poverty, drought and homelessness. Melvyn Bragg assesses why the work of one his favourite authors remains relevant in today's America, taking a fresh approach to John Steinbeck, his work and in particular Pulitzer Prize-winning The Grapes Of Wrath, one of the epic American novels of the twentieth century.

Bragg visits the site of the 1930s dust bowl in Oklahoma; the California orchards where bloody political battles were fought between migrant labourers and growers; and the Monterey coastline where Steinbeck developed his ideas on ecology, and makes a case for Steinbeck as one of the great voices of American literature.

Mentorn Media's Executive Producer, said Steve Anderson said: "Melvyn will be exploring why Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath rattled the sensitivities of America, and more than 70 years on, what parallels can be drawn with today's USA as it struggles with a new economic downturn and wrestles with the excesses of the banks. It's a celebration of one of America's most heralded authors and the most famous of his works."

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Cathedral City of Winchester which sees Downtown Abbey writer and creator Julian Fellowes; the Secretary for work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith; Shadow Home Office Minister Gloria De Piero; Liberal Democrat MP for Dunbartonshire Jo Swinson and leader of UKIP Nigel Farage face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Suchet, whose love affair with the Music Hall has shaped his personal and professional life, presents this hour long programme exploring the life and work of the Music Hall legend Sid Field.

Tracing the history of Field's life and career, Suchet discovers what made the pioneer of both camp and sketch comedy into such an enigmatic character and influential figure throughout the world of comedy.

Sid Field born in Birmingham in 1904 spent over 25 years working the Music Hall and Variety circuit, displaying a huge array of mesmerising characters. However it was not until 1943 that he got his big break, alongside his straight man Jerry Desmonde, in the west end hit Strike a New Note. The show made Sid an overnight success and his characters such as Slasher Green, the Cockney 'spiv', became audience favourites. His camp photographer character has had a legacy of its own and has seen the like of Frankie Howerd, Kenneth Williams and Julian Clary all pay homage to the great man himself.

David Suchet says: "Sid Field is my hero and one of my proudest moments was performing as Sid in William Humble's musical What a Performance! at the Queens Theatre in 1994. To be asked to present this programme is an absolute honour."

There is very little solid evidence remaining of Sid Field's genius and up until recently the only film of his work thought to still be in existence was the 1946 J Arthur Rank film London Town which was deemed a massive flop in its day. However during the making of David Suchet on Sid Field a rare, and thought to be lost, film was discovered. Seen for the first time on screen in the programme, Show me the Ticket was made in 1940 and unlike London Town shows Field at his best; filmed in black and white and against a simple set as opposed to the techni-colour grandeur of the subsequent Rank film.

Throughout the programme, David meets some of Sid's most fervent fans - amongst them Eric Sykes, Nicolas Parsons and Leslie Philips -  all of whom have their own unique memory of seeing or meeting Field himself. Paul Merton, who features in the programme and watches Show me the Ticket with David Suchet, says "He was such a supreme live performer. The people I've spoken to who had seen him, 60 years later, it's as if they saw it yesterday."

Whilst General Eisenhower saluted him for his work on entertaining the troops, Winston Churchill showed his love for Field's work by using his most iconic song and war time hit, I'm Going to Get Lit Up, as a secret signal - when the song was broadcast on the radio it was a sign to the resistant fighters in Europe that D Day was imminent.

Amongst those heavily influenced by Field none was more so than Tony Hancock. It is purported that on seeing Field perform for the first time that Hancock leant to his companion in the theatre and said "That's the man for me, that's the man for me" and from that moment Field was the guiding light to Hancock's career.

Sid Field died in 1950 of a heart attack after only seven years at the top and before the rise of television, which would have suited his talent immensely. Despite his success he had only £60 pounds in his account by the time he died. A devoted father and husband a lot of his earnings had been spent as it was earned. American actor Danny Kaye, one of the many famous friends Sid had made in his lifetime, set to organising an event to celebrate Sid's life and raise money for his family. On the 25^th June 1951 a stupendous cast including Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Richard Attenborough, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, and Peter Ustinov gathered to raise the equivalent of over £350,000 for Field's wife Connie Dawkins and his daughters. David Suchet, on the hallowed stage of the London Palladium Theatre where the studded event was held, relives what is said to be the 'greatest show of its kind ever seen.'

David Suchet on Sid Field: Last of the Music Hall Heroes is a remarkable story of one of the best, and sadly almost forgotten, comedy stars of the twentieth century told by one of the best actors of the twentieth century.

For further information please call Sally Kent at Plank PR on 020 8995 3936 or sally@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the University City of Glasgow which sees Deputy Chief Whip and Liberal Democrat MP for Orkney and Shetland Alistair Carmichael; Labour MP for Glasgow East and Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland Margaret Curran; Scottish Education Secretary Mike Russell MSP; Daily Telegraph columnist Cristina Odone; Conservative MP for North East Somerset Jacob Rees-Mogg and actor Brian Cox, join the panel to face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the capital which sees Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and GP and comedian Dr Phil Hammond amongst the panel to face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

To debate chaired by David Dimbleby is on BBC One tonight at 10.35pm or on BBC iPlayer.

For more information please contact Louise Plank on 07801 321 965.

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from Salford tonight which transmits on BBC One at 10.35pm or is available after transmission on BBC iPlayer.

For more information please contact Louise Plank on 07801 321 965.

David Dimbleby chairs the programme which sees Cabinet Minister and Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi; Labour MP for Leigh Andy Burnham; Liberal Democrat MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber Charles Kennedy; journalist and TV presenter Jane Moore, and singer songwriter and activist Billy Bragg face questions from the audience.

Question Time transmits on BBC One at 10.35pm tonight or on iPlayer.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936

David Dimbleby chairs the programme which sees Cabinet Minister and Conservative Party Chairman Baroness Warsi; Labour MP for Leigh Andy Burnham; Liberal Democrat MP for Ross, Skye and Lochaber Charles Kennedy; journalist and TV presenter Jane Moore, and singer songwriter and activist Billy Bragg face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Question Time comes from Birmingham tonight and is on BBC One at 10.35pm or available on BBC iPlayer.

The series is the third in the trilogy of sitcoms from the pair following their hugely successful series The Office and Extras and is an observational comedy on the day-to-day life of actor, Warwick Davis, who runs an agency for actors of a similar height. It also features cameo appearances from a host of Hollywood stars, such as Johnny Depp, Steve Carell, Liam Neeson and Helena Bonham Carter.

The seven half-hour programmes are written, directed and executive produced by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, who also co-star. The series is a BBC/HBO co-production in association with Backlash Productions, launching on BBC Two in the autumn and subsequently on HBO in the USA.

Mentorn International's Managing Director, David Leach, said: "We're delighted to be continuing our relationship with Ricky and Stephen. Life's Too Short is another example of their incredible comedic talent and there is no doubt that this will be a global hit, following The Office and Extras.

"Mentorn International has had enormous worldwide success with An Idiot Abroad, Ricky and Stephen's series with Karl Pilkington, and we're very excited to be launching their latest series on an expectant World."

Ricky Gervais said: "Third in our trilogy of TV sitcoms, Life's Too Short is another naturalist observational comedy dealing with everyday problems, human foibles, and social faux pas…but with a dwarf."

BBC Head of In-House Comedy, Mark Freeland, said: "Life's Too Short is all about a man facing everyday problems very, very badly indeed. Because the themes are universal, because Gervais and Merchant have of course written them so brilliantly, because Warwick Davis is such a star, I'm sure this is a show that will be loved by audiences in many territories."

Life's Too Short is a BBC/HBO Production in association with Backlash Productions.

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Notes to Editors:

Mentorn International is a long-established international distributor of programmes and formats for TV companies including Mentorn Media, BBC World, Pioneer Productions, Daybreak Pictures, Quicksilver, Fiction Factory, Folio, Ludus, A Smith & Co, Base Productions and Mentorn USA. Mentorn International distributes formats and programmes in the genres of reality, entertainment, comedy, factual entertainment, documentary, drama, science, history, lifestyle and popular factual.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Mentorn International will be distributing the US companies' programmes and formats internationally and Crash Course and Full Throttle Saloon are the first two shows to be brought to market under the new arrangement.

Crash Course is an action competition format and completed series, produced by A Smith & Co for ABC Network in the USA, pitting five teams of drivers against spectacular and surprising obstacles that test their driving skills in unique ways. The six-part series challenges the best drivers to attempt the most unbelievable and hilarious stunts.

In addition, Mentorn International are offering three series of the long running US hit Full Throttle Saloon for sale. Produced by A. Smith & Co, the popular factual series follows the big characters and craziness at "the Mecca for Motorcycles". For one week each year more than half a million motorcyclists cruise into the sleepy little town of Sturgis, South Dakota for the largest, most legendary bike rally and music festival in the world. In the middle of this two-wheeled insanity is the craziest place of all: The Full Throttle Saloon, the world's biggest action-packed biker bar.

Twenty five episodes are available: the first series of six hour long programmes with a 60 minute special; second series of nine hour long programmes and a brand new third series of ten hour long episodes.

David Leach, Managing Director of Mentorn International, said: "We're delighted to be commencing our relationship with our new US partners and representing their great programmes and formats internationally. They are a perfect fit for our catalogue: Crash Course, featuring the best drivers attempting outrageous stunts, is the ideal companion to our Worst Driver format, and Full Throttle Saloon is a terrific hit series full of compelling characters, dramas and action, which will entertain viewers around the world."

Notes to Editors:

Mentorn International is a long-established international distributor of programmes and formats for TV companies including Mentorn Media, BBC World, Pioneer Productions, Daybreak Pictures, Quicksilver, Fiction Factory, Folio, Ludus, A. Smith & Co, Base Productions and Mentorn USA. Mentorn International distributes formats and programmes in the genres of reality, entertainment, comedy, factual entertainment, documentary, drama, science, history, lifestyle and popular factual.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme as the Liberal Democrat Party Conference comes to a close and sees Business Secretary Vince Cable, Labour Deputy Leader Harriet Harman and Conservative MP Priti Patel, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Willis O'Brien gave us the legendary Kong v Rex fight that taught us to love Kong, Ray Harryhausen invented 'dinomation' and put dinosaurs and cowboys together in The Valley of Gwangi. And since the 90s - CGI has banished the man in the dino suit, and made prehistoric protagonists are more real than ever.

Contributors include film critics James King, Kim Newman, science broadcaster Adam Rutherford, comedian Susan Calman and broadcaster and film historian Matthew Sweet.

For more information please contact Plank PR on 020 8995 3936

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from Londonderry which sees Labour MP Diane Abbott; Martina Anderson MLA for Sinn Fein; Democratic Unionist Party Deputy Leader and MP Nigel Dodds; Business woman Nicola Horlick; and Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Owen Paterson, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The four-part series of one hour programmes were originally made by Mentorn Media for Channel 4, and follow Katie as she continues to rebuild her life. The series includes her work with the Katie Piper Foundation and sees her meet eight friends who have also suffered from burns or facial disfigurement.

David Leach said: "Katie is an incredible woman who's story, strength and inspiration has touched many people around the world. We're delighted that this series has been recognised by OWN and will continue to introduce Katie as well as her incredible friends to audiences across America."

Katie My Beautiful Face and the follow-up series Katie: My Beautiful Friends has sold to over 15 broadcasters including RTL2 Germany, ABC USA, TV4 Sweden, Nine Australia,TV2 Norway, Nelonen, Finland, Globosat Brazil and Katie My Beautiful Friends: XYZ Australia, TV4 Sweden, TV3 New Zealand, RTL Netherlands, Teva (M6) France.

Notes to editors:

Mentorn International is a long-established international distributor of programme content and formats for TV companies including Mentorn Media, BBC World, Pioneer Productions, Daybreak Pictures, Quicksilver, Fiction Factory, Folio, Ludus and Mentorn USA. Mentorn International distributes formats and programmes in the reality, entertainment, factual entertainment, documentary, drama, science, history and popular factual genres.

For more information please contact Plank PR on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Following the conviction of kidnapper Phillip Garrido, who received a 431-year prison sentence, Jaycee: My 18 Years in Captivity, explores how it was possible for Garrido to imprison Jaycee and remain undetected for 18 years.

The programme on 18^th August at 10pm on Channel 4 includes shocking video footage which Garrido attempted to destroy but was recovered by NASA scientists. Shot by Nancy, it shows Garrido in the local park pretending to be filmed singing whilst Nancy was secretly focusing on the children in the playground behind him.

Garrido can clearly be heard saying: "Make it look like you are pointing at me. I'll be in frame. Although you are away from me they can't tell exactly where' it's pointing."

The programme questions how it was possible for Garrido, a convicted rapist, on parole after being convicted of kidnap and rape in 1978, to evade law enforcement despite being visited on 70 occasions. The programme also shows that police now believe that Garrido attempted to carry out kidnaps on at least four occasions before he snatched Jaycee.

There is video evidence released by the District Attorney's Office of a visit by a parole officer to Garrido's home, failing to find Jaycee who is just a few feet away from him in the back garden. Once again filmed by Nancy the tape follows the parole officer as Garrido gives a tour of the house; the parole officer unaware of the tents and sheds in the back garden just a few feet away, housing Jaycee and her two little daughters.

There are exclusive interviews with the attorney for Phillip Garrido; the attorney for Nancy Garrido; the former Sherrif of Contra Costa County, Warren Rupf; and Jaycee's stepfather Carl Probyn who, for 18 years, was wrongly suspected of being responsible for Jaycee's disappearance.

Nancy's lawyer, Stephen Tapson, tries to explain how Nancy could have done precisely what Garrido said and likens his control of Nancy to that of Jaycee Lee: "She was under his thumb and she loved him and that was the way it was going to be."

In a frank interview, Garrido's lawyer, Susan Gellman, expresses the deep sadness she experienced in the story: "This is an incredible story," she says. "You would expect to find violence in a case like this, what you wouldn't necessarily expect to find, are the family pictures that she made, um the collages, which included Nancy and Phillip. I think there was one called 'Dad' which had Phillip sort of at the centre and then pictures of the children around it. Those are the things that I cried over."

Former Sherrif Rupf criticises the initial decision to release Garrido from prison after only 10 years. He says: "I believe he should have served 50 years and I don't believe that he should have been released. That was the first glaring opportunity to prevent what has happened.

"We know that there is not only a glowing report that he had been cured, if you will, but also a congratulatory letter from the Federal Parole folks: 'Congratulations you have, turned yourself around'. This is in the midst of him, we now know, committing more sinister acts than they were every even aware of."

Rupf adds that the parole service continued to fail Jaycee Lee Dugard: "The very reason they exist is to watch this man, to supervise his parole," says. "There was no other reason for their existence. There was not only failure but repeated failure, missed opportunities, time after time."

Executive Producer, Steve Anderson, said: "Despite the horrific nature of the story and the scandal of missed opportunities by law enforcement, there is a message of hope.

"Jaycee's own testimony, in her book and in her TV interview, shows that she is a person who is determined to overcome the past and look forward. As she says, Garrido may have stolen much of her life, 'but he did not get all of me'."

Nick London is Producer/Director, Toby Strutt is Assistant Producer and the Editor is Chris Scurfield.

The programme transmits on Channel 4 on 18^th August at 10pm.

For more information please contact Plank PR on 020 8995 3936. The full transcript is available.

Soho Blues, commissioned by Head of Factual and News Andrew O'Connell at Channel 5, follows the Metropolitan Police and London Ambulance Service teams in the capital's most iconic area.

Over half a million people visit Soho every day, and it's the job of the emergency services to keep the mix of shoppers, tourists and party people all safe and well, 365 days of the year.

Soho is an area of contrasts, designer clothes shops sit next door to sleazy strip joints, and while its home to some of the most expensive properties in the country; Soho also has the highest number of people sleeping rough in the whole of the UK.

Soho Blues sees the police and ambulance teams as they tackle a wide range of issues that the people who live, work and enjoy Soho throw their way. They deal with shoplifters, drug users, robbers and drunks.

Executive Producer, Matt Holden said: "We're really proud to have secured access to one of the busiest and diverse areas of London. The emergency workers here give us their frank and honest opinions from the front line in what can often be difficult and challenging work."

Andrew O'Connell said: "Soho Blues gives a fascinating insight into London's busiest policing districts. Soho is buzzing and the series really captures just what the emergency services are up against."

The programme is edited and produced by Dan Exelby and Sarah Robinson and the series is due for transmission later this summer.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby returned to host the riot special which saw panellists David Davis, Conservative MP and former Shadow Home Secretary; John Prescott, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party; John Sentamu, Archbishop of York; Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder of the Kids Company; Fraser Nelson, Editor, The Spectator; Brian Paddick, Former Deputy Assistant Commissioner Metropolitan Police and former Lib Dem Mayoral candidate for London, take questions from the audience.

Executive Producer, Steve Anderson, said: "This programme was made in two days. Producing such a high cast panel and an audience of 150 people, many with first-hand experience of the looting, is testament to the dedication and talent of the Mentorn production team. It's gratifying to see that the programme was appreciated by the audience at home.

"The hard work continues with a special edition of Young Voters Question Time, live on BBC Three at 8.30pm tonight, presented by Richard Bacon."

Richard Bacon hosts the programme tonight with panellists Shaun Bailey of the youth charity My Generation and a government's ambassador for "the big society", Stella Creasey MP Labour MP for Walthamstow, Adam Deacon, director of Kidulthood, and Annuvahood Sheldon Thomas from Gangsline.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby returns to host Question Time focusing on the issues of the riots where the studio audience will put questions to the panel about the widespread rioting and looting, the role of the police and whether the underlying causes are simple criminality or widening social gaps.

Question Time transmits on BBC One from London this Thursday 11th August, at 10.35pm and is produced by Mentorn Media.

Mentorn Media is also producing Riots: Young Voter's Question Time live on BBC Three on Friday, August 12th at 8.30pm.  Richard Bacon hosts the programme with panellists Shaun Bailey of the youth charity My Generation and a government's ambassador for "the big society", Stella Creasey MP Labour MP for Walthamstow, Adam Deacon, director of Kidulthood, and Annuvahood Sheldon Thomas from Gangsline.

Zai Bennett, BBC Three Controller, said: "The recent rioting across England is absolutely top of the news agenda for all audiences. We are ensuring young people get a specific chance to debate the issues around this with a special edition of Young Voters Question time live from London this Friday on BBC Three."

Mentorn Media Executive Producer, Steve Anderson, said: "Millions of people are being affected by this week's events and want to put their concerns to the politicians who govern the country. The fact that we have been asked to produce two editions - one for the mainstream BBC One audience, the other for younger viewers who watch BBC THREE - is testament to the vital role that Question Time performs on British television."

Sue Inglish is Commissioning Editor for Question Time and Fiona Campbell Commissioning Editor for BBC Three's Young Voter's Question Time special.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Colonel Bob Stewart MP (Conservative), Jo Swinson MP (Lib Dem) Ken Livingstone (Labour), George Galloway (Anti-War Coalition) and Brian Sewell are on the panel to answer questions from young people reacting to The Budget.  The programme offers 150 16-25 year olds the opportunity to question Government and Opposition MPs about the Chancellor's new austerity measures.

Following on from November's programme in reaction to the tuition fees Young Voters' Question Time will be staged in Central London, and continues BBC Three's commitment bringing political coverage to the 16 to 34-year-old audience.

Cuts in public spending, imminent increases in tuition fees, rising unemployment and housing shortages are all expected on the agenda.

For more information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

BBC has commissioned Mentorn Media to produce Question Time and Young Voter's Question Time focusing on the issues of the UK riots, it was announced today, (TUES).

David Dimbleby returns to host Question Time from London this Thursday 11^th August, at 10.35pm on BBC One, and Richard Bacon hosts UK Riots: Young Voter's Question Time live on BBC Three on Friday, August 12^th at 8.30pm.

In both programmes, studio audiences put questions to the panel about the widespread rioting and looting, the role of the police and whether the underlying causes are simple criminality or widening social gaps.

Executive Producer, Steve Anderson, said: "Millions of people are being affected by this week's events and want to put their concerns to the politicains who govern the country. The fact that we have been asked to produce two editions - one for the mainstream BBC One audience, the other for younger viewers who watch BBC THREE - is testament to the vital role that Question Time performs on British television."

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Amongst its best known programmes are Sport Science, a long-running series for ESPN, Known Universe and Fight Science for National Geographic, Police POV for Tru Tv with its innovative use of police actuality footage and Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files.

As well as Mentorn Media, Tinopolis - backed by private equity firm Vitruvian Partners - owns sports production company Sunset+Vine, Pioneer and US network producer A. Smith & Co.

The company produces around 1,600 hours of drama, factual, entertainment and sports programming each year for more than 200 broadcasters worldwide. The acquisition is part of its diversification and growth strategy and strengthens its already substantial US factual entertainment business.

BASE Productions will be able to tap into the company's worldwide resources and enjoy enhanced access to the UK for its non-scripted productions. It will continue to maintain its independence as a production company. Mickey Stern joins the main board of Tinopolis and will continue to lead BASE alongside his co-CEO, John Brenkus.

Tinopolis Executive Chairman Ron Jones said: "We have admired the Company built up by John and Mickey for some time. They have established a business based on great creativity and impressive business common sense. BASE is a producer trusted and respected throughout the industry and alongside A. Smith & Co we now have a US business with depth and breadth of coverage."

"BASE has experience and formats with the potential to be successful world-wide. This will be a major opportunity for our distribution company, MINT, and reinforces our plans to build a portfolio of brands and formats that work internationally."

"We have a strong reputation for producing quality programmes across a range of genres. In sport we supply the BBC's coverage of the horse racing classics such as the Derby and all sports coverage for BBC Scotland and Channel 5. From our drama expertise in Daybreak and Fiction Factory to our expertise in live programming, particularly for S4C, and Mentorn and Pioneer's record on factual programmes, we are a strong creative team. With two major producers in the US now as part of the group Tinopolis has become a truly international player and even better able to serve our customers around the world."

"We've been approached by numerous companies over the years, and none of the offers made sense until now." said John Brenkus, Co-CEO of BASE. "We are thrilled to be joining a group that is as dynamic as Tinopolis, and to be playing a key role in helping to shape the Group's future. Between their UK core, and our new alliance with A. Smith & Co here in the U.S., our combined global reach, quality programming and outstanding management make the Tinopolis Group a true force in the industry."

It was the story that stunned the world, when 18 years after she was kidnapped, Jaycee was found alive having been held captive by a notorious sex offender.

The film is an updated version of the 2009 Cutting Edge film Mentorn Media produced on the Jaycee Dugard case.

Following the conviction of kidnapper Phillip Garrido, who received a 400 year prison sentence, this programme explores how it was possible for Garrido to imprison Jaycee and remain undetected for 18 years.

Commissioned by Channel 4's Mark Raphael, the 1 x 60 is due to transmit in mid-August.

Jaycee's own shocking testimony features in this edition as well as exclusive interviews with Garrido's lawyer, the lawyer for Garrido's wife, Nancy; the local Sherrif and Jaycee's stepfather Carl Probyn who, for 18 years, was wrongly suspected of being responsible for Jaycee's disappearance.

In addition there's shocking new video evidence released by the District Attorney's Office of a visit by a parole officer to Garrido's home, failing to find Jaycee who is just a few feet away from him in the back garden. The programme questions how it was possible for Garrido, a convicted rapist, on parole after being convicted of kidnap and rape in 1978, to evade law enforcement despite being visited on 60 occasions.

Executive Producer, Steve Anderson, said: "Despite the horrific nature of the story and the scandal of missed opportunities by law enforcement, there is a message of hope.

"Jaycee's own testimony, in her book and in her TV interview, shows that she is a person who is determined to overcome the past and look forward. As she says, Garrido may have stolen much of her life, 'but he did not get all of me'."

Nick London is Producer/Director, Toby Strutt is Assistant Producer and the Editor is Chris Scurfield.

Mentorn International will be distributing the documentary.

For more information please contact Plank PR on 020 8995 3936

With unique access to the town, each 60-minute instalment provides an eye-opening insight into the fishing community from the point of view of the great characters who live and work there. Episode Two focuses on April, when Brixham draws on Devon's colourful past of smuggling and piracy. Thanks to the efforts of its Brixham Buccaneers the town plays host to an annual Pirate Festival. They run their operations from a replica of the Golden Hind moored in Brixham harbour.

Marketing consultant Nigel James is determined to bring a large number of tourists into the town by creating a new record - a mile long line of people dressed as pirates. It's a bold plan.

Fisherman Nathan Ould is in search of Brixham's bounty - 'Black Gold'. It's the local name for cuttlefish, which this time of year shoals inshore to breed. Nathan will rely on Barry Young and Brixham's fish market auctioneers to get him the best price. It's an important bounty for Brixham, bringing in 2 million pounds a year through the market.

Landlady of the Maritime Inn - Pat Seddon - revels in the history of her Inn, ancient haunt of smugglers, freebooters and cut throats. On its walls hang handbills and customs letters detailing the exploits of the smugglers who developed their ancient trade in Fish Town.

For more information please contact Sally Kent: sally@plankpr.com 020 8995 3936

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Hampshire town of Basingstoke which sees Labour MP for Paisley and Renfrewshire South, and Secretary of State for International Development Douglas Alexander; Broadcaster and columnist Jon Gaunt; Actor Hugh Grant; Conservative MP for Epsom and Ewell Chris Grayling and Politician, Academic and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party Baroness Shirley Williams, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from Birmingham which sees General Secretary of the National Union of Teacher Christine Blower; Labour MP for Southampton Itchen John Denham; Secretary of State for Transport and Conservative MP for Runnymede and Weybridge Philip Hammond; former Director-General of the CBI Sir Richard Lambert and journalist and Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The deal brings together Tinopolis' portfolio of global television production companies with A. Smith & Co's global ratings hits including The Swan and Trading Spaces as well as Gordon Ramsay vehicles Hell's Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares.

Tinopolis, backed by private equity firm Vitruvian Partners and with a turn-over of £75m, owns Question Time producer Mentorn Media and sports production company Sunset+Vine.  The company produces around 1,600 hours of drama, factual, and sports programming each year for more than 200 broadcasters worldwide.  The acquisition is part of its diversification and growth strategy and increases its access to the US sports and entertainment markets.

Smith & Co. will become Tinopolis' leading North American television production entity, able to tap into the company's worldwide resources and enjoy enhanced access to the UK for its non-scripted productions. A. Smith & Co will continue to maintain its independence as a production company, operating out of its Los Angeles headquarters. Mr Smith joins the main board of Tinopolis and will continue to lead A. Smith & Co. alongside his partner and Company President, Kent Weed.

Tinopolis Executive Chairman Ron Jones said: "Arthur, Kent and all of A. Smith & Co. are great additions to our company.  Their experience of launching global brands and television programming and their vision of what programmes need to be will ensure that programme buyers and audiences will be well served for years to come.  Tinopolis has a strong reputation for producing quality programmes across a range of genres and this new strategic relationship will support all our businesses as we continue to grow.

"Moving further into a US market hungry for UK formats in partnership with an established and successful entity like A. Smith & Co - with ideas and formats that have international potential - will further enhance opportunities for our distribution company, MINT, and is a massive strategic gain for the group."

"We have a strong reputation for producing quality programmes across a range of genres. In sport we supply the BBC's coverage of the horse racing classics such as the Derby and all sports coverage for BBC Scotland and Channel 5. From our drama expertise in Daybreak and Fiction Factory to our expertise in live programming, particularly for S4C, and Mentorn and Pioneer's record on factual programmes, we are a strong creative team.  Mentorn has worked successfully with A. Smith & Co over recent years and is already successful in the US with Discovery, Nat Geo and Fox. The fit is obvious."

Arthur Smith, CEO of A. Smith & Co commented:  "We have been fortunate to have been approached by a number of entities offering strategic partnerships, but none until now presented the benefits and synergies that we have found in our new partners at Tinopolis and Vitruvian Partners.  This new relationship allows us to expand aggressively while ensuring that we will have even more resources to continue to produce the high quality and successful content.  We have a phenomenal team in place, and now look to expand on our already existing relationship with Mentorn as well as harness our experience in sports programming via Tinopolis' respected sports production unit Sunset + Vine."

The acquisition will further the Tinopolis Group's strategy of transforming the company into a genuinely international business with a strong US presence. The purchase will also give Tinopolis an international base from which to launch its intellectual property, with a focus on programme and format rights in an area in which A. Smith & Co excels.

Ron Jones added: "Structural changes in the market mean that traditional broadcasting now has to share its access to viewers with on-demand and non-broadcaster funded services.  Many of these trends are US-originated and today's acquisition ensures that Tinopolis is well placed to commercialise them."

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The film will be shown in the True Stories slot at 10pm on Tuesday 21^st June on More 4.

On June 20^th 2009 the young Iranian woman Neda Agha Soltan was shot in the heart protesting the failed Iranian elections.

To mark the occasion, as well as the two year anniversary of Neda's death, there was a screening held at London's Royal Society of Arts. Chief Executive of Mentorn Media, John Willis, interviewed the film's director Antony Thomas and Saeed Kamali Dehghan, the Iranian journalist who went under cover and put his own life at risk to gain access to Neda's family.

Antony Thomas's documentary tells for the first time Neda's personal story and attempts to find out who this young woman was, how she become such a powerful symbol to millions and what she was fighting for. In making the film multi-award winning director, Antony Thomas, travelled from California to the Turkish/Iranian border and within Europe to find people who knew Neda personally or were close to the events of June and July 2009.

The documentary became the most successful viral programme of all time. Because of its importance, and prior to its US broadcast, HBO gave permission for its pre-release in Iran via the Voice of America's Persian News Network where it was shown multiple times, and on various websites in English, Arabic, and Farsi.

The film has received accolades of the highest degree, including winning the Foreign Press Association's Best TV Feature/Documentary Award and most recently being announced amongst 2011's Peabody Awards winners list. Antony Thomas and Saeed Kamali Dehegan were also honoured by the FPA when presented with the Journalist of the Year award.

Note to Editors

For Neda was originally broadcast on 14^th June, repeated on the anniversary of Neda's death. In the UK BAFTA held a screening, Amnesty International, Frontline Club all held scfreenings while it received its European premier at the Sunny Side Documentary Festival on June 22^nd 2010.

True Stories broadcasts at 10pm on Tuesday nights on More4.

For further information please contact Sally Kent at Plank PR sally@plankpr.com 020 8995 3936

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Granite City of Aberdeen which sees Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington and Shadow Minister for Public Health Diane Abbott; Conservative Peer and ex Secretary of State for Scotland Lord Michael Forsyth; Scottish Businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist Sir Tom Hunter; Liberal Democrat MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk Michael Moore and the Leader of Scottish National Party and First minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The promotion comes as the third series of Mentorn's hugely popular, Underage and Pregnant series prepares to air on BBC THREE. Hannah was recently Executive Producer for BBC Vision of the hugely successful Junior Doctors series for BBC THREE.

Hannah takes up the position immediately and will continue working across developing format ideas across all broadcasters as well as becoming part of the Mentorn Senior Management Team.

Mentorn Media Chief Executive, John Willis, said: "Hannah is incredibly talented Executive Producer and we're delighted to announce her promotion. She is an integral part of the team and hugely respected both within Mentorn and within the industry. This is a chance for her to grow a major area of production for Mentorn."

Hannah Wyatt said: "Having worked with Mentorn Media for the past five years, I know how creative and hard-working the team is here. I'm really looking forward to taking up this new position and building Mentorn's reputation for Factual Entertainment and Features programmes further."

Hannah was responsible for the commission of all three series of Underage and Pregnant and has been Executive Producer across them all. She joined Mentorn Media in 2006 and although she became freelance in September 2009 has continued working with closely with Mentorn.

While at Mentorn she has been responsible for Hairspray: School Musical, Grease: School Musical for Sky1; The Real Full Monty for Sky1; Tulisa: My Mum and Me, I Can't Stop Stealing - both for BBC THREE; the forthcoming David Suchet on Sid Fields for BBC Four; Diet on the Dance Floor for Living; The Bill Made Me Famous for ITV1 and Jean Christophe Novelli's US launch for Bravo - Le Chef.

Before joining Mentorn in June 2006 Hannah was an Executive Producer at Prospect Pictures for two years and before that worked developing formats for both Prospect Pictures and Twofour.

Junior Doctors has been nominated for a Broadcast Digital Award.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Norfolk city of Norwich which sees Labour MP for Norwich South Charles Clarke; feminist writer, academic and journalist Germaine Greer; author and journalist Peter Hitchens; Conservative MP for Sutton Coldfield and Secretary of State for International Development Andrew Mitchell and Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire Jo Swinson, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from the Welsh town of Wrexham which sees Conservative MP for Charnwood Stephen Dorrell; journalist and broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer; Labour MP for Kingston Upon Hull West and Hessle Alan Johnson; author and journalist Sir Simon Jenkins and Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader and MP for Dwyfor Meirionydd Elfyn Llwyd, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from Devon which sees Labour MP for Leeds Central Hilary Benn; Conservative MP for Corby and author Louise Bagshawe; Liberal Democrat MP for Taunton Deane Jeremy Browne; former British Ambassador to the Unites States Sir Christopher Meyer and media lawyer Charlotte Harris, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in future audiences you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Claudia joins Mentorn from Talkback Thames TV where she was Head of Specialist Factual, setting up specialist factual development there in 2009.

While heading up Specialist Factual Department, Claudia also co-created and then series produced the imminent Four Rooms series for Channel 4 which starts on Tuesday  May 24th. Other commissions won at Talkback Thames have included Squeamish, a 14-part series for Discovery US and Shackleton's Whisky a 60-minute special for the National Geographic Channel US.

Mentorn Media Chief Executive, John Willis, said: "Claudia will be a tremendous asset to the Mentorn Media team. Her creativity in the UK will be invaluable as well as in the US."

Claudia said: "I'm thrilled to be joining Mentorn and working across series both here and in America."

Claudia began her television career when she trained at the BBC in the Consumer Unit on programmes such as Watchdog and Holiday.  She then became a producer/director and then series producer of factual and specialist factual programming.

In the BBC science department, she series produced the BAFTA nominated Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery for BBC4/2; she was also producer/director of Fight for Life, a six-part series for BBC 1/Discovery/Prozieben following the real life cases of serious illness and injury which won a BAFTA Craft Award for Special Effects.

For further information please contact Louise Plank at 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

BBC One's Question Time from Wormwood Scrubs won its slot with 3 million viewers at its peak, while Hunting Britain's Most Wanted secured 2 million viewers for Channel 4.

Mentorn Media's Creative Director, Steve Anderson, said: "Both programmes were made possible by patient and intensive journalistic work by the production teams. It's terrific that both an in-depth documentary and a debate programme were watched by so many viewers."

Last night's edition of Question Time saw David Dimbleby host the political debate programme from the Chapel in Wormwood Scrubs, with panellists Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke MP; former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw MP; British journalist and author Melanie Phillips and Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) Shami Chakrabarti.

It was the first time in Question Time's 32-year history to broadcast from inside a prison, and followed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in April to give the UK six months to comply with its ruling to extend the right to vote to convicted prisoners.

Hunting Britain's Most Wanted, in Channel 4's acclaimed Cutting Edge slot, followed an elite squad of Scotland Yard police officers hunting down the some of world's most dangerous criminals currently on the run in the UK. The expansion of the EU and open borders in the UK has led to a surge in foreign criminals heading for Britain. The number of requests for wanted fugitives has risen ten-fold over the past five years and now totals more than 4,300 a year. Over the course of three months the production team, led by Lee Sorrell, gained unique access to New Scotland Yard's Extradition Unit and followed them as they went about their work - tracking down murderers, suspected rapists and armed robbers from abroad to send them back to face justice.

For more information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936.

In the one-hour programme, Bragg embarks on a journey to learn more about literary great.

Mentorn Media's Executive Producer, said Steve Anderson said: "Melvyn will be travelling from the Oklahoma dust bowl to the California coast, to celebrate The Grapes of Wrath, the most famous of John Steinbeck's works.

"The big questions Melvyn will be exploring are: Why did this novel rattle the sensitivities of America, and more than 70 years on, what parallels can be drawn with today's USA as it struggles with a new economic downturn and wrestles with the excesses of the banks?"

Speaking at the Booksellers' Association annual Book Industry Conference, Arts Commissioning Editor, Mark Bell said "The BBC continues to be a platform for debate, celebration, narration and dramatisation of great writing and storytelling. Many of our best programmes have derived from books, drive audiences back to those books or become books to buy, treasure or press into the hands of people you care about."

For more information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme with panellists Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke MP; former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw MP; British journalist and author Melanie Phillips and Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties) Shami Chakrabarti.

The decision to broadcast the episode from the Chapel in Wormwood Scrubs follows the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in April to give the UK six months to comply with its ruling to extend the right to vote to convicted prisoners.

The audience will be made up of 10 prison staff, more than 100 members of the public and include 10 prisoners, chosen by the prison and the BBC, none of whom is serving a sentence for violent crime.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The hour-long programme, Hunting Britain's Most Wanted, transmits on Channel 4 this Thursday, 19th May at 9pm.

The expansion of the EU and open borders in the UK has led to a surge in foreign criminals heading for Britain. The number of requests for wanted fugitives has risen ten-fold over the past five years and now totals more than 4,300 a year. Over the course of three months Mentorn Media secured unique access to New Scotland Yard's Extradition Unit and follow them as they go about their work - tracking down murderers, suspected rapists and armed robbers from abroad to send them back to face justice.

Some of these criminals go to extraordinary lengths to evade capture, changing their name and ID so it's a painstaking and often frustrating experience tracking them down. A record 1500 foreign fugitives are now arrested each year and with more and more coming to these shores it's a job that is stretching the unit and its officers to the limit.

Mentorn's team are there as officers follow up on leads, tracing potentially dangerous criminals, and capture high tension arrests as the unit's hard work finally pays off. The cameras are also with the unit when it deals with some of its biggest ever high profile cases including the arrest of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, wanted in Sweden for alleged sex crimes, and the arrest of Shrien Dewani, wanted in South Africa in connection with the death of his wife, Anni, on their honeymoon.

Other cases include the hunt for Hungary's most wanted fugitive, a man linked to a string of armed robberies and an attempted murder and currently roaming around London. The police also chase down a Turkish man who conducted an honour killing and a suspected Croatian war criminal. Officers intercept a man convicted of murder in his homeland Albania. He has spent more than ten years on the run, and his wife unwittingly leads them to him. He is arrested in the middle of a busy street market protesting his innocence. The unit is put on high alert for a suspected serial rapist who's escaped the French authorities - he is considered by the police to be highly dangerous and they must do everything in their power to close in on him before it's too late.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The decision to broadcast the episode from the Chapel in Wormwood Scrubs on Thursday, May 19th at 10.35pm follows the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in April to give the UK six months to comply with its ruling to extend the right to vote to convicted prisoners.

David Dimbleby chairs the programme which includes panellists Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke MP and former Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw MP.

The audience will include 10 prisoners, none of whom is serving a sentence for violent crime. They will be chosen by the prison and the BBC, as well as 10 prison staff as well as more than 100 members of the public.

Sue Inglish, BBC's Head of Political Programmes said: "The involvement in the debate of prisoners and prison staff will offer Question Time viewers a unique insight into their views on the issue of the right to vote as well as more general questions."

The programme is produced by Mentorn Oxford.

David Dimbleby chairs the programme which sees Energy and Climate Change Secretary and Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh Chris Huhne; former leader of the Conservative Party and ex-MP for Folkeston and Hythe Lord Michael Howard; Labour MP for Neath Peter Hain; Leader of the SNP and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond MP and journalist, novelist and broadcaster Cristina Odone, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

For Neda, a Mentorn Media produced documentary, examined the life and death of Neda Agha-Soltan, whose senseless shooting made her the international face of Iranian opposition.

Multi-award winning director, Antony Thomas, travelled from California to the Turkish/Iranian border to find people who knew Neda personally or were close to the events of June and July 2009.

But the only way to get to the personal heart of the story was to work inside Iran -- at a time when foreign film-makers were forbidden entry, and Iranians themselves risked arrest and long term imprisonment if caught filming without official approval.

Thanks to the exceptional bravery of Neda's family and Saeed Kamali Dehghan, a young undercover Iranian journalist, Neda comes to life through first time interviews with her father, mother, sister and younger brother.

The Peabodys, the oldest awards in broadcasting, are considered among the most prestigious and selective prizes in electronic media and recognise excellence and meritorious work by radio and television stations, networks, webcasters, producing organizations and individuals. The 16-member Peabody Board is a distinguished panel of television critics, industry practitioners and experts in culture and the arts.

Antony Thomas said: "In reality, this is an award for bravery, which rightfully belongs to Neda's family, who risked everything in order to tell world what young Iranians like Neda were fighting for."

The film premiered on HBO in the United States on June 14th 2010 and was repeated on June 20th the first anniversary of Neda's death.

In the same month, a Farsi version was beamed into Iran four times by Voice of America. In spite of attempts to jam the signal and deliberate power cuts during the broadcast, For Neda reached huge audiences, and the film-makers received over 20,000 emails of support from inside the country.

Mentorn's Executive Producer Neil Grant said, "I am absolutely delighted that For Neda has won such a prestigious award.  This film is a poignant historic tribute to Neda Agha-Soltan and what she came to represent both in Iran and around the World, which was so sensitively recorded by Antony Thomas in this powerful and important documentary".

For Neda is due for transmission on More 4 in June to mark the second anniversary of Neda's death.

For further information please contact Sally Kent at Plank PR on 020 8995 3936 or sally@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme which sees Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport and MP for South West Surrey Jeremey Hunt; Labour MP for Don Valley Caroline Flint; Liberal Democrat MP for East Dunbartonshire Jo Swinson; Medical Doctor, Scientist, Television Presenter and Labour Peer Professor Lord Robert Winston and actor, writer and director Simon Callow, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The series has now sold in 14 territories, including Discovery Belgium, Discovery Netherlands, Planéte France, Globosat Brazil, Onet.pl Poland. These are in addition to the previous sales of Network Ten in Australia, TV3 in New Zealand, Discovery USA's Science Channel, Discovery Canada,  SVT in Sweden, TV3 in Denmark, YLE in Finland, NRK in Norway and ITC Skjarinn in Iceland.

The Mentorn-produced, eight-part series which stars Karl Pilkington, with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant in a documentary travelogue will now be followed by a second series for Sky1 which will be available this autumn.

Managing Director of Mentorn International, David Leach, said: "This series has been hugely popular in the UK and the USA and has already done fantastic business around the globe. The success of the ancillary products - a bestselling DVD and Book are further testament to its enormous appeal to audiences.

"We're delighted that Mentorn International is continuing our relationship with Ricky, Stephen and Karl, and distributing their next series."

At MIP Mentorn International will be selling An Idiot Abroad series 1 and 2 in addition to launching their Drama arm with The Promise and Naked Apes, and launching high profile docu series Katie: My Beautiful Friends as well as numerous Factual programmes from both Pioneer and Mentorn.

Visit Mentorn International at MIPTV 2011 - stand 11.29

Notes to editors:

Mentorn International is a long-established international distributor of programme content and formats for TV companies including Mentorn Media, BBC World, Pioneer Productions, Daybreak Pictures, Quicksilver, Fiction Factory, Folio, Ludus and Mentorn USA. Mentorn International distributes formats and programmes in the reality, entertainment, factual entertainment, documentary, drama, science, history and popular factual genres.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The one-hour documentary made by Pioneer Productions was a fast-turnaround for Channel 4 and the first ever three-week turnaround to transmit on NOVA (last night 9pm on PBS).  The programme covered the geological and scientific background behind the recent earthquake and subsequent tsunami which has devastated the Japanese coastal areas.

Japan's Killer Quake is part of the Pioneer-produced slate that Mentorn International is offering for sale at MIPTV. Others include High: How Drugs Work - a three-part series which attracted a huge audience on BBC Three and National Geographic Channel USA, and which follows real life stories of recreational drug-taking with leading scientists and doctors explaining the scientific effects on our bodies; also Earth: Making of a Planet 1 x 96 minutes, Volcano that Stopped the World 1 x 50mins, Buried Alive: Chile Mine Rescue 1 x 50 mins and Birth of Britain the 3 part Channel 4 series with Tony Robinson, all of which feature spectacular footage and CGI.

Pioneer Productions Executive Producer, Stuart Carter, said: "Making a fast turnaround for Channel 4 and NOVA in such a short time was an epic undertaking.  Not only do you have all the technical problems of getting it made in time, but also getting the tone right - sadly nearly 30,000 have died."

Managing Director of Mentorn International, David Leach, said: "Pioneer Productions has a considerable reputation for high-quality and entertaining science documentaries and this collection of new programmes is a varied and fascinating slate."

Visit Mentorn International at MIPTV 2011 - stand 11.29

Notes to editors:

Mentorn International is a long-established international distributor of programme content and formats for TV companies including Mentorn Media, BBC World, Pioneer Productions, Daybreak Pictures, Quicksilver, Fiction Factory, Folio, Ludus and Mentorn USA. Mentorn International distributes formats and programmes in the reality, entertainment, factual entertainment, documentary, drama, science, history and popular factual genres.

For further information please contact Louise Plank at Plank PR on behalf of Pioneer Productions on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

TV 3 New Zealand and TV4 in Sweden have both purchased the series with interest from several major territories including USA, France, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, Finland and Denmark.

Managing Director, Mentorn International, David Leach said: "Katie is a remarkable young woman and after the sales around the world of the first programme, we're thrilled at the early sales we've had for this series. As with the first programme, Katie tackles everything with a sense of humour which is an inspiration to us all as well as the friends that she meets. It's unmissable television."

Katie: My Beautiful Friends starts on Channel 4 on Tuesday, 22^nd March at 9pm.

Katie: My Beautiful Face followed Katie Piper, the victim of a vicious acid attack, who waived her anonymity and shared her story for the first time.  It achieved the highest ratings of 2009 for Channel 4's Cutting Edge strand with 3.5 million viewers watching and recently won a Broadcast Award for Best Documentary Programme.

The response was so remarkable that Channel 4 commissioned Mentorn Media to produce the Alternative Christmas Message with Katie and prompted Katie to set up the Katie Piper Foundation to help other burns victims.

The first programme has sold around the World to 15 countries, including TV2 Norway, M6 France, XYZ Australia, TV3 New Zealand, Globosat Brazil, TV4 Sweden, TV2 Denmark, Nelonen Finland, RTL 2 Germany, ABC USA, VTM Belgium, RTL Holland, Discovery Europe, Discovery Italy, Fuji TV Japan.

Visit Mentorn International at MIPTV 2011 - stand 11.29

Notes to Editors:

Mentorn International is a long-established international distributor of programme content and formats for TV companies including Mentorn Media, BBC World, Pioneer Productions, Daybreak Pictures, Quicksilver, Fiction Factory, Folio, Ludus and Mentorn USA. Mentorn International distributes formats and programmes in the reality, entertainment, factual entertainment, documentary, drama, science, history, lifestyle, human interest and popular factual genres.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Millions were moved by the 2009 Cutting Edge film, Katie: My Beautiful Face, which showed her extraordinary determination to overcome the physical and emotional damage wrought by the attack. Since the film was broadcast, Katie has received an incredible response from people offering their support, including many also living with disfigurement.

The series follows her over a year as, inspired on to a new phase of recovery, Katie sets up a charity to help others living with disfigurement.  Meanwhile, she continues the grueling treatment still necessary two years after the attack and, despite setbacks, puts together the building blocks of her new life.

She also wants to offer a support network to other people facing similar issues and is meeting people with a whole range of disfigurements, hoping to build a network of mentors to spur others on as she was a year ago.

"There are a lot of people that need a support network," says Katie.  "Sometimes you can draw strength from other people - nobody can be strong all the time.  It would be nice just to text somebody and tell them how you're feeling and ask them how they are."

Katie finds people walking a variety of paths, some similar to her own, some very different, but all having to deal with a world that turns away from disfigurement.  With candid humour, they ask each other the difficult questions no-one else can about how to get the best out of life when others can't get past how they look.

In the first programme of the series, Katie meets two young women who have experienced very different forms of disfigurement, one through a life-threatening condition, the other through a terrible accident.

Five years ago Adele, a ballet student, suffered an epileptic fit in the shower, knocking the tap as she fell, and was left with burns across nearly half her upper body.  She was found by her mum, Denise.

Rushed into a specialist burns unit in Chelmsford she received emergency and reconstructive treatment in the intensive care unit.  Now nineteen, Adele decided that the physical perfection demanded by the ballet world meant her dreams of dancing for a living were over.

"I feel a lot of the time I should be at the bottom of the heap," says Adele.  "I seriously hope the scars don't make a difference, but a lot of the time I think they do."

And as Katie gets to know Adele, she sees the young performer gain in confidence, winning a part in a play going to Edinburgh.

23-year-old Chantelle was born with a rare condition called arteriovenous malformation (AVM), which means that a group of blood vessels are growing out of control deep in her nose, leaving her disfigured and threatening her life.

Chantelle's treatment is making her look worse before plastic surgery can eventually make her look better and the situation is putting a strain on her marriage to Brett, an RAF fireman.

"Since we've found about how aggressive the AVM was I've not been able to do anything physically that will get my blood pumping."

She feels trapped in their home, but hopes that the treatment will allow her to start living life again.

"With everything that's going on with all the operations I don't have a life at all, I don't do anything, I don't leave the house," says Chantelle.  "It's like a cocoon and then when everything is done I'm going to come out like a butterfly and have loads of new clothes, new shoes, new things, just a new life.  Get rid of the old me and start with a new me.  I want to experience things and travel the world."

Chantelle has been bullied for looking different all her life.  She had a facial birthmark that spread across the centre of her face and it wasn't until she was fourteen that doctors diagnosed her condition as a potentially life threatening.

"High School was an absolute nightmare," says Chantelle.  "I think I'd rather die than go back.  I'd stand in the corridor waiting for class and everyone would be walking past and saying things like 'Rudolf' and 'Big Nose'.  I had people threatening me, groups of girls circling and saying things.  I just kept my head down."

Chantelle tells Katie about how she was recently insulted and punched in the face by a girl who was drunk.  The girl was arrested, but it has knocked back Chantelle's confidence even further.

Radical new surgery to save her face, but she could lose her whole nose as a result.

Meanwhile Katie is in Istanbul for the most significant surgery since her face was grafted two years ago.  Mr Jawad, the plastic surgeon who treated her when she was first admitted to Chelsea and Westminster burns unit has brought Katie to see Professor Erol for fat injections under her skin.  They hope to replace the fat that was burned away by the acid which will not only improve the contours of her skin but might mean she will be able to properly close her eyes for the first time since the attack.

Back in England, as the launch of her charity looms, Katie is frantically sorting out last-minute arrangements.  And she receives bad news about the man who organized the attack on her: he is appealing against the life sentence he received."

Series Dir: Clare Richards

Series Prod: Sara Woodford

Prod: Tanya Freedman

Dirs: Sarah Hardy, Ashok Prasad

Exec Prods: Dan Goldsack, Tamara Abood

Prod Co: Mentorn Media

For more information please contact Louise Plank on behalf of Mentorn Media on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Discussing the impact of the violence seen at the Rangers and Celtic match Nicola Sturgeon called for the teams to lead by example while Annabel Goldie was 'deeply disturbed' by the increase in domestic violence and finds it 'unacceptable'. 

Nicola Sturgeon said: "Rangers and Celtic are not responsible for all of Scotland's social problems and I don't think that anyone is suggesting that. But they do occupy positions of power and influence in Scottish society and they have a responsibility to lead by example. I think what has perhaps gone wrong in recent weeks is that they have hopefully temporarily forgotten that and that's a shame because both clubs have done great work in recent years to bridge the divide.  I know the work that Rangers and Celtic have done and I think it's important we get back to that.

"This view, that is frankly held by a minority, that violence and particularly violence against women is somehow an acceptable reaction to a team loosing a football match - it's not."

She continued: "Rangers and Celtic are great football clubs. They should be a source of pride to Glasgow and Scotland and we've got to get back quickly to a situation where that could be the case."

Annabel Goldie said: "I have been very disturbed to learn, because Strathclyde police confirmed this, that in the wake of these old firm matches, that domestic abuse surges. I found that a very disturbing scenario. I also happen to see in the news report after the match some of the scenes from the match and I have to say that   I was very, very deeply concerned because my anxiety was that if you see management and players engaging in behaviour, and I describe that behaviour as thuggish then I said that without a shadow of a doubt minority elements of their supporters will go away and also behave like thugs and I frankly think that is unacceptable."

Douglas Alexander called the domestic violence 'obsence'.

Question Time is on BBC One tonight at 10.35pm and available on BBC iPlayer after transmission.

Moore said:  "I think what we have to recognise is the fantastic job that Prince Andrew has done for this country over a very long period of time. As an unpaid volunteer trade representative, he has for the best part of a decade made sure that British companies across the world get access to markets and do deals with other companies that they would not have otherwise have done.

He continued: "He doesn't need to do this job, he didn't get asked to do it he's unpaid in doing it, I actually think he's still doing a fantastic job for the country as a whole."  

Question Time is on BBC One at 10.35pm tonight and available on BBC iPlayer after transmission.

BBC Director of News Helen Boaden said: "Question Time has an outstanding new team to lead it. Nicolai and Hayley have a great depth of experience in the political institutions across the UK. They will ensure that one of the BBC's most important programmes goes from strength to strength."

Nicolai, who became a senior producer on Today in 2008, is presently on secondment as editor of Good Morning Scotland. He previously worked at Bloomberg News for six years, where he started as a producer, going on to be a radio reporter, then presenter and editor.

"Question Time is a great programme. I am honoured and delighted at the prospect of joining the team," Nicolai said.

He joined the BBC in 2006 and became an output editor on Today where he helped produce coverage from party conferences; he produced a special series from Russia with Bridget Kendall looking at how the country had changed under Putin; and in November 2009 travelled with reporter Andrew Hosken to Pakistan to produce a series of reports during the South Waziristan offensive.

A graduate of Glasgow University, he came to Pacific Quay last year to lead Good Morning Scotland through the General Election. He is expected to take up his new post in May.

Hayley is the former Head of News at 5 Live, leading the network's coverage of the last General Election, the Cumbria shootings and the World Cup in South Africa. Before that she edited a wide variety of news programmes on the network, most recently the Victoria Derbyshire programme. While in London she also did a stint as Assistant Editor on Breakfast TV.

Hayley previously worked at both BBC Scotland and Scottish Television, as well as commercial radio in Edinburgh. She started her journalism career in newspapers in Dundee after studying English literature at Edinburgh University.

BBC Scotland's Head of News Atholl Duncan said the appointment of Nicolai and Hayley is good news for Question Time. "Hayley and Nicolai will add to the existing wealth of political and programme experience in the Question Time team and I'm delighted that we have appointed them."

Steve Anderson, the Executive Producer of Question Time for Mentorn Media, said: "I am confident that Question Time will be in good hands with Nicolai and Hayley. Nicolai succeeds Ed Havard who has taken the programme to new heights, generating news stories, boosting ratings and overseeing spin-off series on BBC Three."

Question Time moves to Glasgow in late summer as part of the BBC's strategy of building sustainable production bases throughout the UK.

For more information please contact Louise Plank on behalf of Mentorn Media on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Mentorn Media produced the award-winning documentary, Katie: My Beautiful Face as well as the Alternative Christmas Message in 2009 and her forthcoming four-part series, Katie: My Beautiful Friends - all for Channel 4.

The deal will see Katie work with Executive Producer, Hannah Wyatt to creating new series ideas across factual and features genres.

Mentorn Media's Chief Executive, John Willis, said: "We're delighted that we've been able to further strengthen our relationship with Katie. She is an incredible young woman who has a bright future in television, her warmth, humour and bravery makes her a very special person and an exciting talent to work with. We are enormously proud of the work that we've produced with her thus far, culminating in last week's Broadcast award and we look forward to working with her on many more series."

Notes to Editors:

Millions saw the 2009 Cutting Edge film, Katie: My Beautiful Face, which showed her extraordinary determination to overcome the physical and emotional damage wrought by the attack. Since the film was broadcast, thousands of people living with a facial disfigurement have written to Katie, asking to meet to share their stories. The film was recently awarded with a Broadcast Award for Best Documentary Programme.

In her new four part series, Katie: My Beautiful Friends, Katie continues her journey and meets others on similar paths. Katie and her new friends keep each other company as they deal with the ups and downs of looking different in a world that just wants symmetry. With candid humour, they ask each other the difficult questions about how to get the best out of life when others can't get past how they look.

For more information please contact Louise Plank on behalf of Mentorn Media on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme which sees Business Secretary and Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham Vince Cable; Labour MP for Pontefract and Castleford Yvette Cooper; Michael Heseltine; UKIP leader and MEP for the South East Counties Nigel Farage and one of the country's most powerful businesswomen Victoria Barnsley, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The four part series, airing on BBC ONE Wales, sees Rolf explore his passion for historical and contemporary Welsh art by putting a different Welsh artist in the frame with each episode, featuring Sir Kyffin Williams, Shani Rhys James, Graham Sutherland and Josef Herman.

Rolf on Welsh Art transmits tonight at 19.30 on BBC One Wales

For more information please contact Louise Plank at lou@plankpr.com

Former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell MP told a Question Time audience in Bristol: "No doubt what people in Freedom Square want, they want Mubarak to go and they want him to go quickly. What he is saying then, he may well have tonight provoked a rather less peaceful response than we've had so far."

Francis Maude MP, the Minister for Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, said: "Its whole position is hazardous. It's very important there should be a transition. Ideally there is a government emerging which is broad, broad-based and inclusive and commands broad support. How that emerges, whether you move immediately to elections, is a matter for Egypt not for us."

For more information please contact Louise Plank on lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme which sees Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General and MP for Horsham Francis Maude; Former Secretary of State and Labour MP for Redditch Jacqui Smith; senior politics editor at the New Statesman and a former news and current affairs editor at Channel 4, Mehdi Hasan; former leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Menzies Campbell and author and commentator Douglas Murray, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

The new Editor will lead the transfer of Question Time to Glasgow where it will be based from September 2011.

Question Time broadcasts each week from a different UK location giving the audience its say every week on the topics affecting the political news agenda.

For more information please contact Louise Plank at lou@plankpr.com

Based in Los Angeles, Oakley will develop new series and adapt formats for US networks, building on both companies' successes to date in the non-scripted genre.

Oakley is a British executive who has lived and worked in the US for six years.  Most recently he was Vice President, Series Development, MTV since 2008.  His responsibilities included A Double Shot At Love, The Girls of Hedsor Hall (adapted from UK series Ladette to Lady) and the teen pregnancy documentary Baby High.

Prior to that he was Vice President, Development at ITV Studios' Los Angeles base, then known as Granada America, for three years.  There he created new series such as But Can They Sing? for VH1, looked after current series such as Celebrity Fit Club, also for VH1, and discovered foreign formats such as Phenomenon which was sold to NBC.

Pioneer has also announced the recruitment of former Nat Geo alumnus Tiffany Orvet as development producer for the US. Orvet, will work alongside Oakley from San Francisco, and is charged with developing ideas, formats and relationships for a range of networks with a more female demographic.

Jeremy Dear, Head of Development, Pioneer Productions says: "These appointments are part of Pioneer's continuing growth and development in the US.  We've always had great relationships with a number of the most important networks on the East Coast, but Nick and Tiffany's appointments will spread our reach even further into the market and particularly those networks based in LA."

David Leach, Managing Director Mentorn International and President Mentorn USA, says: "Mentorn has built a successful US production business with hit series such as Work Out and Paradise Hotel and these appointments show our commitment to accelerate growth and take the business to the next level by investing further resources into US development."

Oakley adds: "Pioneer is at the forefront of great-quality documentary series and Mentorn has a strong reputation in the US for big reality formats and I'm proud to be joining the team. I look forward to expanding our strong output with fresh and creative ideas and am delighted to be involved at this exciting time."

Pioneer Productions over the past 20 years has produced numerous series for the US market across many genres, including science, history and lifestyle programming.  Previous shows including the Emmy award-winning In the Womb, Inside The Living Body, How the Earth Was Made, Naked Science, World's Most Extreme Homes and many others, for clients including Discovery, TLC, HGTV, National Geographic, PBS, Travel Channel, History Channel and others.

Mentorn USA has operated out of Los Angeles for the past 10 years, and productions include three series of Work Out for Bravo, Paradise Hotel for Fox, America's Worst Driver for the Travel Channel, Fast & Dangerous for Fox Reality and Chef Academy for Bravo.

Mentorn USA also produces a large number of documentaries and current affairs programmes for Discovery Networks, National Geographic, ABC News, PBS, A&E and other cable networks; and cutting-edge contemporary TV movies and series, such as the Emmy Award nominated "The Hamburg Cell" (HBO).

Notes to Editors

Nicholas Oakley's career started at the BBC in London eleven years ago as researcher on a late-night daily comedy show. He went on to cast contestants on big game shows like Jet Set.  When the Weakest Link format sold worldwide, he spent a year as a part of the consultancy team to foreign producers. After spending time freelancing at companies including Sky, Carlton and Tiger Aspect, Nicholas joined the  development team at ITV Studios in the UK 2003, then known as Granada.  There, he created pitches and developed items for award-winning hits like Saturday Night Takeaway, Brainiac and The Paul O'Grady Show before he moved to America.

For more information and pictures or interview opportunities please contact Louise Plank on 020 8 995 393 or lou@plankpr.com

David Dimbleby chairs the programme which sees Liberal Democrat MP for Eastleigh and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne; Labour MP from Streatham and Parliamentary private secretary to Labour leader Ed Miliband, Chuka Umunna; former Conservative MP Edwina Currie; businesswoman and former Apprentice contestant Kate Hopkins and journalist Will Self, face questions from the audience.

To apply for a seat in a future Question Time audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk/questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com

Clive Holland said: "The series has really hit a chord with viewers and there are still builders out there behaving improperly and causing people anxiety and stress as a result.

"We're looking for more stories from people who have been victim of bad workmanship that for example hasn't passed basic building standards or work that has never been completed or botched with builders refusing to return and remedy the bad workmanship; or people who have paid money up front to the builder who hasn't finished the job and walked off leaving the owner out of pocket.

"In previous series we've heard from vulnerable people who builders have taken advantage of. I want to keep raising awareness of the pit falls out there and help viewers protect themselves."

If you think Clive could help you or have had such an experience or know someone who could benefit from Clive's expertise and his team's help please contact Mentorn Media on 020 7258 6724.

Challenged about his own criticism of Ed Balls in his diaries, Campbell accepted: "I have said some unkind things" but that he had been "incredibly impressed" by Ball's performance in the Shadow Cabinet, giving the Government "a run for their money". Campbell said that the differences between Ed Balls and Ed Miliband were "not that profound..they will work together and as a team they will be formidable."

The full quotes and programme is on BBC One at 10.35pm or on BBC iplayer.

David Dimbleby chairs the programme from Burnley. The panel includes Alastair Campbell; the Secretary of State for the Environment Caroline Spelman; and the Chairman of the Professional Footballers Association, the Burnley defender Clarke Carlisle.

To apply for a seat in the audience you can register your question at www.bbc.co.uk /questiontime or call the audience line on 01299 829 299.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com