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A ground-breaking television experiment
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THE RESTAURANT THAT MAKES MISTAKES
Innovative series that sees 14 people with dementia tasked with running a professional restaurant
From the creators of ‘Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds’ Format commissioned for a second season in the Netherlands; licensed to countries including Canada, Norway and Belgium Winner of a prestigious 2020 Grierson Award
In this extraordinary social experiment for the UK’s Channel 4, a group of people living with dementia and spanning different ages and at various stages of the disease, help run a restaurant led by Michelin-starred chef Josh Eggleton. Over a five-week period and with a dementia expert on hand to advise, the group take on all the roles of a busy restaurant. Will they remember the orders, the recipes, or even the name of the restaurant? Celebrity diners and the public visit the restaurant to put the newly trained staff to the test. At the beginning of the experiment all volunteers are tested for cognition, mood and memory. These tests are repeated at the end of the experiment with surprising results. Poignant, informative and uplifting, this major series challenges perceptions and demonstrates that a diagnosis of dementia doesn’t have to mean the end of a career. FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT / REALITY
4 x 47’
Co-produced by CPL Productions and Motion Content Group for Channel 4 (UK)
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BUYING BLIND
The biggest decision you’ll never make, in this life-changing show
A success for Bravo in the US, and a ratings hit on RTL (the Netherlands) and
TV3 (Denmark) over three seasons
Format sold to over eight territories including Bravo (US), RTL (Germany), Nine
Network (Australia), RTL (the Netherlands), M6 (France)
A family who can’t decide what house to buy, put their life-savings in the hands of experts to purchase them a home – without ever having seen it! They meet with experts to discuss how the problems with their current living situation are affecting their lives. Interviewing the family members together and separately reveals conflicts and highlights the difficulty in finding the right property. The family must then decide whether to hand the experts their life-savings to buy a house on their behalf, or to walk away. If they part with the cash, the experts start house hunting, culminating in them completing a purchase. After a blindfold reveal, any disappointment on seeing their new home for the first time disappears when the experts reveal they have kept money aside for a revamp. After renovations, the experts show the family their new house, completely transformed. FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT / HOME IMPROVEMENT USA: 6 x 45’ / Produced by Kinetic Content for Bravo Australia: 6 x 75’ / Produced by Endemol Shine Australia for Nine Format created by Kinetic Content
