ALTITUDE EVEREST EXPEDITION 2007
Co-production with Altitude Films

ALTITUDE EVEREST EXPEDITION 2007 on the web

Follow the Altitude Everest Expedition 2007 moment by moment as Conrad Anker leads a team retracing the last journey of legendary explorer George Mallory. In a golden age of exploration, Mallory was the pioneering adventurer who dared to reach into the world's last great untouched wilderness. But in June 1924 Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine disappeared into the clouds just 800 feet from the summit of Everest. In 1999 Conrad Anker found Mallory's body. Now he returns with a group of world class climbers, including Leo Houlding, to explore the mystery Mallory and Irvine left behind - could they been the first men to reach the highest place in the world? Experience their climb as it happens with daily video clips, photos, an expedition diary and blogs posted daily.

'The expedition will provide a new sense of the effects which the climb took on its famous predecessors... It might be as close as anyone will get to understanding the physical toll exacted on two of the most celebrated men in mountaineering history' - The New York Times

'In true web 2.0 fashion the production company is going uber-interactive with a website monitoring the ascent at www.ueverest.com' - The Guardian

'Two climbers showed yesterday that Mallory and his pal may actually have been on their way down when they perished' - The Sun, 15th June 2007

'The most well-documented expedition to the mountain's summit' - The Courier Journal

'Thanks to the internet. you can track the group's progress. right down to the climbers' heart rates, from the comfort of your desk' - The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

'It's one of those sites where you just keep finding more and more stuff to sneak a look at' - Outdoors Magic.com

'The site may be the best in the history of Everest'
- riskru.com

'This old-school summit bid has a decidedly modern website' - OutDoorNewsWire.com

'Climb the world's highest mountain peak, without leaving your comfy chair' - appscout.com

'If its primary objective in retracing their doomed 1924 attempt has been to generate publicity, then it has been a triumph. I would not attempt the ascent, but I would hire the PR team' - The Guardian

EGYPT UNWRAPPED
aka SECRETS OF EGYPT
8 x One-Hour Series for National Geographic / five / FremantleMedia
EGYPT UNWRAPPED on the web

A major eight-part series following experts using the latest research and modern techniques to unravel Egypt's greatest mysteries. With special access to sites across the country, the series travels from the pyramids and Sphinx in Giza and Saqqara down to the Valley of the Kings near Luxor and the great rock temples of Abu Simbel in southern Egypt. The series investigates the origins of Egyptian civilisation and the real history behind the legend of the Scorpion King, uses CT scans and facial reconstruction to try to identify the Screaming Man mummy, and reveals new insights into Egypt's great figures including Rameses II, Alexander The Great and Cleopatra.

Read about the series in the Evening Standard, The Daily Beast, National Geographic News, Metro, The Daily Telegraph, The Daily Telegraph again, Daily Mail, Daily Mail again, The Mail On Sunday, The Mirror, The Mirror again, De Bild, and The Times Of India

'Leaves you wanting more' - The Sunday Times

'An illuminating study' - The Daily Telegraph

'The mystery of who the 3,000-year-old Screaming Man was and how he died, is on the brink of being solved.'
- Daily Mail

'It is a mystery that has troubled Egyptologists for generations - just why was this mummy screaming 3,000 years ago?' - Evening Standard

'An ancient Egyptian mystery is solved with modern technology in a fascinating TV documentary'
- The Daily Beast

'Fascinating stuff' - Daily Record

'Very intriguing' - The Northern Echo

EGYPT'S TEN GREATEST DISCOVERIES
aka EGYPT'S TOP TEN MYSTERIES
Two-Hour Special for Discovery Channel

For more than two hundred years, Egypt has been home to some of the greatest archaeological dicoveries the world has ever seen. Through the application of scientific analysis, modern archaeology takes us beyond these finds and unlocks their hidden secrets. For this film, Dr Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, and a team of leading archaeologists have selected the ten most important discoveries. From the uncovering of Rameses II's great temple complex at Abu Simbel and the opening of Tutankhamun's tomb, to the discovery of the Valley of the Golden Mummies, these are the finds that have transformed our knowledge of ancient Egypt - and they are finds that we are still learning from today.

LOST WORLDS - SEASON TWO
1 x Two-Hour Special & 18 x One-Hour Series for
The History Channel

LOST WORLDS on the web

The acclaimed series returns for a brand new season. Join our investigators as they use the latest research, expert analysis and cutting edge graphic technology to take us back in time. We reveal some of the greatest feats of engineering ever undertaken; the most ambitious building projects; the most technologically advanced cultures and bring them back to life. From the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World to the palaces of the Kama Sutra to Al Capone's underworld to the nuclear bunkers of the Cold War, this is the past rebuilt.

PREDATOR X
Two-Hour Special for History

PREDATOR X on the web

Deep in the Arctic, a startling discovery has been made - a fossil that holds the key to a world beneath the waves 147 million years ago. This giant sea monster weighed five times as much as a T-Rex, had four times the bite power, and its body was more than fifty foot long with four huge flippers. Follow palaeontologist Jørn Hurum and a team of experts as they excavate this extraordinary creature and embark on an international adventure to piece together the most formidable predator to terrorise the Jurassic oceans.

Read about PREDATOR X in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, The Times, The Guardian, BBC News, New Scientist, Reuters, Daily Mail, The Mirror, Discover Magazine, Yahoo News, and AOL News

'One of the most significant Jurassic discoveries ever made' - The Guardian

'A gigantic new species... this extinct marine reptile was at least 50 feet long and weighed 45 tons... and four times the bite force of T. Rex' - New York Times

What Makes a T. Rex Go "Ouch"? Predator X'
- The Washington Post

'The most fearsome animal ever to swim the oceans'
- The Times

'Its anatomy, physiology and hunting strategy all point to it being the ultimate predator' - New Scientist

'Able to crush a 4x4 car' - BBC News

JACK THE RIPPER: KILLER REVEALED
One-Hour Special for Discovery Channel / Science Channel / FremantleMedia Enterprises

JACK THE RIPPER on the web

The identity of Jack the Ripper has remained an unsolved mystery for over a century. Now historian Mei Trow presents a new theory on the unparalleled reign of terror in which at least five women were killed in London's East End in 1888. Based on two years of exhaustive research, and using modern psychological and geographical profiling techniques, Trow identifies Robert Mann, a Whitechapel mortuary assistant, as the Ripper. Mann was mentioned during the original investigation but has never been put forward as a possible suspect - until now. As Trow pieces together the evidence linking Mann with the Ripper murders, he also makes the case for two additional Ripper victims.

This film accompanies a major new book, 'Jack the Ripper: Quest for a Killer' published by Pen and Sword Books.

Read about the story in the The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Scotsman

'An imaginative and extremely well-crafted documentary' - The Sunday Times

'Robert Mann is the one of the most credible suspects the closest we may ever get to a plausible psychological explanation for these murders' - The Daily Telegraph

'Mei Trow has uncovered a suspect who fits a modern forensic profile of the killer' - The Independent

'The theory is based on intensive research using forensic techniques' - Daily Mail

'Mann fits the profile perfectly' - The Scotsman

ADVENTURE BHUTAN
aka EXPEDITION BHUTAN
Two-Hour Special for Discovery Channel / FremantleMedia

The Kingdom of Bhutan is a mystical land tucked away in the high Himalaya, and even in the 21st century is virtually undiscovered by western explorers. Join an expedition going over snow covered mountains, down churning rapids and into thick sub-tropical jungle, on an adrenaline-fuelled mission to travel across this hidden kingdom. With extraordinary access to isolated regions of the country never before visited by westerners, the team completes an epic journey to become the first group of people to successfully navigate the Mangde Chhu River.

'Macho meets the mystical in a Himalayan river trek'
- New York Times

'The expedition team, armed with satellite technology, navigates Himalyan mountain passes and dense jungles to reach previously uncharted areas' - Washington Post

THE LOST PYRAMID
Two-Hour Special for History
90-Minute Special for Channel 4

THE LOST PYRAMID on the web

In Egypt archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of a giant structure. Just five miles north of the three pyramids of Giza, it once stood higher than the Great Pyramid. But it has been forgotten due to the chance of history. Now access has been granted to an international team to fully excavate the site for the first time. This film allows us, after nearly five thousand years, to brush away the desert sands to uncover and recreate what the archaeological team believes to be the fourth, lost, pyramid.

THE WAR ON BRITAIN'S JEWS?
One-Hour Special for Channel 4

Britain 2007: diverse, multi-cultural, inclusive and anti-racist. Unless you're Jewish. The oldest hatred of them all is back. Journalist Richard Littlejohn investigates the shocking rise of anti-Semitism in modern Britain, and finds out why it's open season on the Jews.

'Richard Littlejohn comes up trumps with this clearly presented argument' - The Guardian

'Littlejohn's argument proves rather convincing'
- The Daily Telegraph

'This important programme' - The Times

'In this punchy authored documentary, Richard Littlejohn asks why, in the 21st century, it is once again open season on Jews... His findings are deeply unsettling'
- Daily Mail

'This profoundly unsettling documentary examines the rise of anti-Semitism in today's Britain... chilling first-hand evidence from those who've been directly affected' - Daily Express

'A disturbing documentary' - Evening Standard

STAR OF BETHLEHEM
aka SEARCH FOR THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM
One-Hour Special for BBC / The Science Channel / FremantleMedia

STAR OF BETHLEHEM on the web

In one of the most magical stories ever told, a bright star led the wise men from the east to the new Messiah. Now scientists are looking back into the skies of the ancient world to investigate real astronomical events that the Magi may have witnessed. Could the Star of Bethlehem have been a comet, an alignment of planets or even a Supernova? Who were the wise men, and why were they watching the night skies? This film looks at how modern science, combined with evidence from a clay tablet from Babylon, an ancient manuscript from China, a fresco in the Catacombs of Rome and Biblical texts could finally help to unravel the greatest astronomical story in history.

'Equally uplifting and fascinating as a detective story'
- The Wall Street Journal

THE LINK
aka UNCOVERING OUR EARLIEST ANCESTOR: THE LINK
Two-Hour Special for History / BBC Worldwide
One-Hour Special for BBC / ZDF / NRK
THE LINK on the web

When scientists announced the discovery of Ida, a 47 million year old fossil that could be our earliest ancestor, the world was stunned by the detail preserved in the most complete fossil primate ever found. With exclusive access to Ida, this film follows the scientists who believe she is one of the missing links in the chain of our evolution. Through the remains of one small primate, the film explores the origins of humankind though a fossil that connects to every one of us.

THE LINK is a major multi-platform event including a landmark documentary, book, and interactive website to coincide with the publication of scientific paper describing one of the most significant discoveries ever made.

'Ida is undoubtedly a very significant link in the primate lineage... her skeleton is extraordinarily well-preserved' - The Guardian

'An engaging, compelling, cleverly illustrated scientific adventure with a ground-breaking conclusion. Well worth watching' - The Observer

'A fascinating look at one of the most important scientific discoveries of the 21st century'
- Radio Times

'Could revolutionize the understanding of human evolution' - The New York Times

'A landmark discovery... an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans'
- The Wall Street Journal

'Every moment of the special is fascinating... you must watch with your kids (it should be a law!)
- New York Post