UK pay TV channel Sky Atlantic has unveiled a four-part observational documentary focusing on the family unit, with award-winning directors attached. The 4×60’ project aims to tell the story of everyday lives that are each, in different ways, extraordinary. The Sky original series will air on Sky Atlantic and streaming service NOW TV in January. View full article

Produced by Little Gem, This Is Our Family unites top doc directing talent with four families from across the UK, to tell the stories of their lives in three years. View full article

‘This Is Our Family’ In 2020 – Four Years After Filming Kicked Off Sky is to debut an ambitious family documentary project – nearly four years after kicking off filming. Directors Clare Richards (Acid Attack: My Story) Will Yapp (The Real Full Monty) Marcus Plowright (The Murder of Jill Dando) and Ellena Wood (Louis Theroux: Talking to Anorexia) have been filming the stories since 2016. View full article

Sky Atlantic has unveiled a observational docu-series that has been following the lives of four British families over three years. Little Gem’s 4 x 60-minute This Is Our Family has paired a director with each family to create an intimate, authored portrait of their life. View full article

Following a season of over indulgence many of us will be looking for ways to shift those extra pounds. And with so many diets on the horizon it can be hard to decide which is best for you, but luckily Channel 4's How to Lose Weight Well is on hand to help. In a brand new series, which aired last night, doctors Xand van Tulleken and Helen Lawal trails six types of meal plan on hopeful dieters. Each participant trialed the diet from one week to three months wolfing down everyth

If it’s January, it must be time to bring out the diet shows, so here comes a new series from doctors Xand van Tulleken and Helen Lawal. There’s a six-week challenge to compare cabbage soup and potato diets, and one brave soul eats nothing but Greggs. Hannah Verdier View original article

'...Brexit: The Uncivil War’s lead-in on C4 was the first of the five-part fourth series of Little Gem’s magazine format How to Lose Weight Well. It delivered 1.9m (9%) over the 8pm hour, in line with the 2m (9.1%) who tuned in for season three’s opener one year ago.' View original article

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Inside the plus-size modelling agency where curvy beauties including Hayley Hasselhoff and Felicity Hayward don’t obsess over their weight and charge huge fees. Big girls are making big names for themselves in plus-size modelling — including David Hasselhoff's daughter Hayley, and rocker Steve Tyler's daughter Mia. By Kate Jackson Read the full article here

'These women are beautiful and inspiring!' Viewers praise 'refreshing' documentary highlighting the success of curve models – but some question how a 12 can be considered ‘plus size’ By NATALIE CORNER FOR MAILONLINE Gushing viewers have praised Channel 5's documentary Curvy Girls Stripped Bare for its 'refreshing' insight into the modelling industry - which focused solely on plus size success stories. The two-part series, which continues next Tuesday, went behind the scenes a

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Curvy Model Agency will aim to examine world of plus-size models. Little Gem has secured access to a plus-sized modelling agency for its debut Channel 5 commission. The Curvy Model Agency (working title) is a 2 x 60-minute series that goes behind-the-scenes at Milk Management, which signed recent Cosmo cover star Tess Holliday. Milk was founded by former model Anna Shillinglaw, who is passionate about promoting plus-size women and has established a dedicated ‘curve’ division

E4 has commissioned a Little Gem gameshow that challenges hungover contestants to complete outrageous challenges based on their antics from the night before. Presented by Matt Richardson and Ken Cheng, The Hangover Games leads its unsuspecting contestants to believe that they are taking part in a documentary about British nightlife until they are challenged the next morning to compete against each other to win a cash prize. Each game will test their memories of the night befo

Little Gem and Twofour’s format, in which the likes of Joey Essex and Lydia Bright take over the running of a luxury Greek hotel, more than doubled E4’s 16-34 slot average. The opener of the stripped 15-part reality show gave the channel a 9.7% share of the demographic, up from the 4.3% 10pm Monday average. It delivered an 8.9% share of 16-24 year-olds, almost double the 4.6% slot average and was also a hit with 25-34s, delivering a 10.4% share, up from the typical 4.1%. Some

Little Gem is pleased to announce our new programme: Famously Unfit.....for Sports Relief. The programme will be broadcast on BBC Two as part of this year’s exciting week of Sport Relief activity. The hour long programme will see celebrities Susannah Constantine, Les Dennis, Tameka Empson and Miles Jupp push themselves to the limit as they embark on a mission to regain their fitness and help inspire the great British public to get active and do their part for Sport Relief too

Our brand new series of online platforms Truth Or Mare? with Antonella launched on 29th January. A series of 10 x 3 minute shorts - you can watch them only on both Facebook and YouTube.  Each short sees Antonella confront some of the baffling and unbelieve lifestyle questions thrown up by headlines, like ‘Does Drinking Coffee Give You Acne? to ‘Will Eating a Banana Before Bedtime Help You Sleep after browsing on your phone?’ using her common sense, life experience and uncenso

Reality TV heavy-weights Joey Essex and Spencer Matthews are heading off the sun-soaked Mediterranean where E4 will be opening the doors to the Five Star Hotel. It’s the first time Joey and Spencer have appeared in the same show so they’ll have to battle it out to be alpha male. The other three celebrity team members there to deliver 5 Star Service will be TOWIE leading lady Lydia Bright, former Geordie Shore lass Holly Hagen and Ex On the Beach star Ashley Cain. E4 fans will

Youth channel orders Five Star Hotel Little Gem has tied up with Twofour to produce a celebrity hotel format for E4. The youth-skewing broadcaster has ordered 15 x 60-minute Five Star Hotel from the two firms in association with Motion Content Group, formerly known as GroupM Entertainment. The show, slightly reminiscent of Optomen’s Hotel GB, follows a team of five celebrities as they attempt to deliver five-star service at a boutique Mediterranean hotel. The celebrities must

On Thursday 27th July The Grierson Trust was delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2017 Grierson Awards. Of the 103 films on the shortlist across 14 category awards Little Gem's How To Build A Human is one of those nominated for Best Science Documentary! For full details and shortlist: http://www.griersontrust.org/about-us/news/2017/2017-shortlist-is-announced.html

Little Gem to produce 6 x 30-minute series. The star of the Bank of Dave is to front a six-part Channel 4 series to help viewers to ‘get rick quick’. Little Gem Media’s 6 x 30-minute series How To Get Rich Quick will follow the attempts of self-made millionaire Dave Fishwick to teach people the money-making skills that enabled him to build his fortune. Centred on Fishwick’s money-making manifesto, the show will offer viewers practical tools to help increase their money and al