EXCLUSIVE: 24 Hours in A&E producer The Garden has scored a serious blue-chip documentary sequence on world childhood growth for ITV.
The producer is making primetime sequence Planet Child for the broadcaster, a three-part sequence that has been within the making for 2 years. It will current a sequence of scientific experiments wanting on the methods a brand new technology expertise life throughout Britain and the world right this moment.
The present, which can air later this 12 months, is fronted by twin docs Chris and Xand Van Tulleken, who current CBBC sequence Operation Ouch. It will observe kids in Japan, Africa and America, dwelling in places as excessive as mega-cities and deserts and units out to match and distinction their growth to kids throughout Britain. It will discover risk-taking, independence, morality and gender consciousness in a variety of situations for teenagers between 4 and 7.
The three-part sequence was commissioned by ITV’s Head of Factual Entertainment Sue Murphy and Factual Commissioner Nicola Lloyd and is exec produced by Chloë Solomon and Teresa Watkins.
ITV Studios Global Entertainment are distributing the sequence internationally and can launch it at Mip TV subsequent week.
The Garden, which was arrange by Magnus Temple and Nick Curwin, is now run by Temple as CEO with ex-BBC Films exec Nicola Hill as MD and former Channel four exec John Hay as Chief Creative Officer. It was bought to ITV in 2013.
The firm makes sequence together with C4’s 24 Hours in Police Custody and Channel 5’s Operation: Live along with the long-running format 24 Hours in A&E.
Xand Van Tulleken stated, “It feels to me like it’s wildlife, but for people. You’re seeing children almost in their natural habitat. You’re seeing what happens if there’s no interference and that’s very lovely because we all might wonder how we would have behaved given a bit more freedom and anyone who’s a parent wonders what would happen if they stood back a lot further.”
ITV’s Lloyd stated, “This is the first generation of children growing up in the technology age. It’s a long way from the stone age to the phone age, so it feels like the perfect time to take a bold look at the development of children in Britain and compare them to children in other cultures across the world. The results are fascinating and as a parent I’ll never look at my two year old in the same light again.”
The Garden’s Head of Popular Factual Chloë Solomon added, “Featuring children from around the world, the series offers an ambitious global perspective on the way we raise our children and, through a series of experiments with British kids, asks us to consider whether we are getting the balance right for this generation. From the jaw-dropping freedom offered to a Japanese seven-year-old as he travels across Tokyo alone, or the confident handing of a machete by a three-year-old in Namibia, the series explores how much children are capable of and what we can learn about growing up in modern Britain, from elsewhere.”
