Monthly Archive: August 2010

27 August 2010
BBC One's political debate programme, Question Time, is being hosted in London as it returns after the summer break with a special Labour Leadership edition.

On September 16^th presenter, David Dimbleby is back in the driving seat to chair the debate which transmits at 10.35pm on BBC One.

People in the audience will pose their questions to the five candidates - Diane Abbott, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham, David Miliband and Ed Miliband.

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 or to interview Question Time's Editor, Ed Havard, please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com
17 August 2010

Mentorn Media's documentary for BBC Three, I Can't Stop Stealing will be broadcast on August 26^th, it was announced today.

Britain was top of Europe's league for shoplifting last year with an item being stolen from a UK store every minute. For many nicking something is a one off teenage rite of passage or a way to feed their drugs habit, but for some it becomes an addiction in itself.

This programme meets three people who have all battled with the urge to shoplift, following their stories as they reveal why they did it, the buzz they got from, the impact it's had on their lives and how they kicked the habit.

We also meet the people whose job it is to stop them getting away with it in a cat and mouse game where each side thinks they can outwit the other. Shoplifting carries a maximum prison sentence of seven years and retailers spend millions of pounds on high tech surveillance equipment yet people continue to brazenly steal from shops.

For further information or DVD's please contact Louise on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com
11 August 2010

Mentorn Media's documentary, Madness in the Fast Lane, attracted a strong audience of 3.34 million last night and a 23.2% share. The show was above slot average and beat all other terrestrials in the late evening slot.

Last year in an episode of BBC One's Motorway Cops, viewers saw terrifying film of two people rushing headlong across the M6 and careering into oncoming traffic in an apparently random incident. Just as astonishingly, they both survived.

The programme last night revealed the extraordinary circumstances in which two Swedish sisters threw themselves into oncoming traffic on the M6 and revealed that this was only the start of a real-life horror story.

With unseen footage, dramatic reconstruction and first-hand witness accounts, it gave an account of the ensuing nightmare.

For further information please contact Louise Plank on 020 8995 3936 or lou@plankpr.com
10 August 2010

Last year in an episode of BBC One's Motorway Cops, more than seven million viewers saw terrifying film of two people rushing headlong across the M6 and careering into oncoming traffic in an apparently random incident. Just as astonishingly, they both survived.

Now, a BBC One documentary made by Mentorn Media entitled Madness in the Fast Lane, reveals that this was only the start of a real-life horror story and, with hitherto unseen footage, dramatic reconstruction and first-hand witness accounts, it gives an account of the ensuing nightmare.

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