BBC Three
Britain's Youngest Football Boss 2018
Follow top flight football club West Ham United Women’s team and their 19-year-old Managing Director Jack Sullivan.
"Fake Homeless": Who's Begging on the Streets? 2018
Is Britain being duped by “fake homeless”, chancers posing as destitute to boost takings? Or is this a scare story to demonise real homeless? Ellie Flynn investigates. The number of people sleeping rough in England is at a record-high – a 73% increase over the last three years. Government data shows that on any given night in autumn last year, nearly five thousand people were recorded sleeping on the streets, a figure that has more than doubled since 2010. But there are claims that the UK has a serious problem with “fake homeless” begging on the street. These are people who have homes, but still go out onto the streets to beg. They pose as if they are living on the streets so that they can collect money from strangers. News stories of scammers are frequent, and some police records show that 80% of people begging have “some kind of home” to go to. With beggars in our towns and cities sometimes behaving aggressively and anti-socially, the thought that people may be pretending to be homeless when they're not has enraged many communities. In Cambridgeshire, the police say there are towns where everyone begging is fake so they practice a “zero tolerance” attitude to encountering begging, sending them for sentencing at a magistrates. But it’s not just the police who are stamping out fake begging. In Devon, Ashley Sims is taking a stand by photographing, investigating and then shaming fake homeless beggars. He claims he has cut the number of homeless in Torbay from 23 to just 6 homeless people, as all the “fake homeless” have been driven out after being exposed. Ashley has been branded a “homeless vigilante” by the press. And in Liverpool one business owner claims every beggar outside his pubs and clubs is fake homeless. So are we in a country full of scammers? Homeless charities argue that the individuals people like Ashley is photographing and Cambridge police are taking action on may well have homes, but that they have complex and chaotic lives that may have led to them begging on the streets. They argue that people like Ashley are demonising the homeless population, who already face a lack of trust and abuse from the public. So what's the truth?
Made Up in Belfast 2023
Behind the scenes at Belfast's fastest growing beauty brand, delve into the glamorous lives, loves and fake tans of the young staff whose maxim is 'work hard, play hard'.
Undercover Princes 2009
Undercover Princes is a BBC Three reality TV show which took three royal claimants from foreign cultures and placed them in Brighton where they had to 'live and date' like normal people. The idea for the programme came from the 1988 Eddie Murphy movie Coming to America. The contestants were Remigius Jerry Kanagarajah, in exile from the kingdom of Jaffna; Africa Zulu, a Zulu chief from South Africa; and Manvendra Singh Gohil of Rajpipla in north west India. The three men lived in a house together and the primary focus is on their search for a 'princess' in the UK whilst at the same time getting used to having to do things for themselves. All three ultimately failed to find a lasting relationship. The series was narrated by Dawn Porter. A female counterpart, Undercover Princesses, was made.
Nail Bar Boys 2021
Meet Astro, Little Kenny, Brandon, Bruno, Dragon and Big Tony. Together, they work in a nail salon in Liverpool. But this is no ordinary workplace - it's all about fun, friendship and fighting to overcome the odds. Follow these British Vietnamese lads from Liverpool and Manchester as they support each other, and their customers, through some of life's toughest challenges, including dealing with addiction, overcoming racism and searching for love. The larger-than-life characters are like local celebrities, and we get to know them at work, at home and at play.
Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested 1970
Help Me Anthea, I'm Infested is a 2007 factual entertainment television show produced by RDF Television for BBC Three, presented by Anthea Turner and Mark Coltman, a professional pest control expert. The presenters visit people whose houses have pest control problems, give them advice and help them to exterminate vermin. Originally slated for six episodes, the BBC cut the series short after the third episode was broadcast. According to an interview with Anthea Turner, only the first three episodes were planned to be on bug infestations, although she did not specify what later episodes would cover. Critical reactions were very negative: James Watson at the Daily Telegraph described it as being both boring and exhibiting "grinding, excruciating pointlessness", while The Guardian's Nancy Banks-Smith described it as "frightful". Charlie Brooker thought Turner came across as "a hard, judgemental piece of work who spends most of her time haranguing the human inhabitants for living in filth", and the resulting programme feels like "a strange psychodrama in which the punters are caught between unfeeling vermin on one side, and an unfeeling former Blue Peter presenter on the other". Jeremy Paxman used it as an example of the perceived low quality and lack of public value of BBC Three programmes in an interview with the BBC chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, on Newsnight along with My Man Boobs and Me, My Dog Is As Fat As Me, Freaky Eaters and Fat Men Can't Hunt. The novelist P.D. James listed it as one of the BBC's "most embarrassing programmes".
Stitch Please 2022
A brand new arts and crafts reality show from BBC3, in `Stitch, Please!' two costume crazy contestants compete to be crowned Stitch Perfect. On a tight budget, the talented contestants will each have just 12 hours to create a costume inspired by iconic looks from the world of pop culture, before modelling them head-to-head on a runaway. The looks will be judged by `RuPaul's Drag Race UK' contestant, and winner of `RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs the World', the fabulous drag queen Blu Hydrangea.
60 Seconds 2001
60 Seconds is a news programme which runs between shows on BBC Three. It broadcasts under the BBC News format and branding. The weekday presenter is Sam Naz, whereas the weekend bulletins are presented by Claudia-Liza Armah. Previous presenters include Tasmin Lucia-Khan, Andy May, Matt Cooke, James Dagwell and Nick Young.
Sky High Club: Scotland and Beyond 2022
Flying high above the skies of Scotland, meet the young crew of the UK's largest regional airline. Prepare to take off with the pilots, cabin crew and engineers who are buckling their belts for their busiest summer yet.
The Most Annoying People of 2008 1970
The Most Annoying People of 2008 was broadcast on BBC Three on 27 & 29 December 2008 and narrated by Richard Bacon.
Dictatorland 2017
Ben Zand travels to some of the worlds's longest-running dictatorships, discovering the sinister and at times bizarre reality of life there.
Manchester Passion 1970
Stars in Fast Cars 2005
Stars in Fast Cars was a humorous motoring-themed celebrity game show, in which celebrities competed at motoring challenges, including recreating movie stunts and racing modified armchairs.
Young Mums' Mansion: The Dads Arrive 1970
Social experiment in which five single mums from all over Britain move into a large Somerset mansion with their kids for a month and are joined by five single fathers and their children.
Undercover Princesses 2010
Undercover Princesses is a BBC Three reality TV show which took three royal claimants from foreign cultures and placed them in Ingatestone where they had to 'live and date' like normal people. The idea for the programme came from the 1988 Eddie Murphy film Coming to America. The contestants are Xenia Gabriela Florence Sophie Iris, Princess of Saxony and Duchess to Saxony, Germany, b. 1986; HRH Princess Sheillah Cinderella Nvannungi of Buganda, Uganda, b. 1982 although this claim by her is disputed; and HH Princess Aaliya Sultana Babi of Balasinor, India, b. 1974. The three women lived in a house together in Essex and the primary focus is on their search to find love in the UK whilst at the same time getting used to doing things for themselves. Only one of the princesses, Sheillah Cinderella Nvannungi, was able to find a long lasting relationship, with former Tobagan basketball player Paul David as her candidate.
My Mate's A Bad Date 2020
Sex and relationship guru Oloni dishes out a cold, hard dose of reality to seven disastrous daters, to show them where it’s all going wrong.
Canny Cops 2019
Documentary series following Durham police in the former mining towns on the north-east coast where crime and drug use is high and cops and criminals are on first name terms.
The Indestructibles 2006
The Indestructibles is a 2006 British Documentary show made for the BBC. The show involves 4 Characters Doc Damage, Data Girl and the Petri Twins experiment on themselves to uncover the secrets of the human body






