It may not surprise you to learn that among the hundreds of companies that the royal family patronise are eight champagne houses. But also on the list of royal warrants, there’s a scaffolding company, a sacks supplier, a broomstick maker and Weetabix (so now we know what the Queen has for breakfast). With the exception of new technology firms, they’re all well established companies, many dating back to the 1800s and even the 1700s.
Gibraltar: Britain in the Sun is a British documentary broadcast on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. It first broadcast on 11 June 2013. Documentary series following the lives of the residents of Gibraltar, the British Overseas Territory at the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea.
Historian Ruth Goodman guides farming brothers Rob and Dave Nicholson on a trip back in time to learn what life on the farm was like in three historic periods and how old agricultural methods have shaped modern farms.
Builder Mark Millar helps families around Britain who are taking the extraordinary step of building their own dream homes. The dream homes cover a wide range of budgets from as little as £10,000, and all types of homes in beautiful country locations.
Series venturing behind the doors of one of the greatest museums in the world. Visitors to the museum see only a fraction of the staggering 80 million items in the collection. This programme reveals the unique and rare pieces too valuable to exhibit.
Many members of the royal family have seen action on the frontline in some of Britain's most significant conflicts. Cameras reveal how the House of Windsor risked life and limb to help the nation through the Second World War.
Royal Navy Submarine Mission is a documentary series which follows the crew on the hunter-killer class submarine HMS Turbulent. Captain Ryan Ramsey and his 130 crew are getting ready for a mission that will see them stay underwater for 100 days as they patrol the pirate-infested waters surrounding the Horn of Africa. The uprising in Libyan though means the submarine is forced to plot a new course towards Tripoli, where the crew will have to protect civilians caught up in the conflict.
5 News is the news programme of British broadcaster Channel 5 produced by ITN from Channel 5's parent company Northern & Shell head office on Lower Thames Street in the City of London.
From 1 January 2005, Sky News was awarded the contract to provide the news for Channel 5, replacing ITN, which had provided the channel's news service from the channel's launch in 1997. On 14 February 2011, the service was rebranded back to its original name, 5 News, having been called Five News from 2002 until 2011. On 20 February 2012 the contract returned to original provider ITN.
The ITV press centre announced on 2 September 2011 that David Kermode, at-the-time editor, would leave 5 News in order to take up an editorial spot on Daybreak. He was replaced by Geoff Hill.
BrainTeaser was a British game show, first broadcast in 2002, produced by Endemol UK subsidiary Cheetah Productions.
BrainTeaser was live, with phone-in viewer puzzles being announced and played during the show in addition to the studio game. During its run until 7 March 2007, it aired on Channel 5 Mondays to Fridays, usually for an hour around lunchtime, with Alex Lovell as the main presenter. Until the end of 2005, Lovell rotated presenting duties on a weekly basis with Craig Stevens, Rachel Pierman and Jonny Gould, at different times in the show's history.
The programme was suspended on 8 March 2007 after it was revealed that the production company had misled viewers regarding winners of the viewer puzzles. Actions included publishing fictional names and presenting a member of the production team as a 'winner'. On 26 June 2007, Five announced that the show had been axed after 7 March 2007 due to the Phone-In Scandal.
Three long-term unemployed families on benefits will each be given a cash lump sum of £26,000 upfront (the current maximum amount of benefits given in a year to most families) in return for signing off. Will the families have what it takes to escape the benefit trap and start a business or get a job? Or will they just blow the lot?
On 6th June 1944, 156,000 men took part in D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history. Its aim: to land in France and liberate Europe from four years of Nazi domination. In this series, the first 24 crucial hours of this incredible story is told — minute by minute — by the last surviving men who witnessed the horrors and victory unfold. Diaries and stories, told by those left behind, recount the personal experience of the men who were there. It was a day that not only changed their lives, but changed the course of the Second World War.
Eight couples whose relationships have reached breaking point are whisked off to a tropical Mexican resort, where they will find out whether their current squeezes are really right for them. Expert-led behaviour workshops, challenges, and sex therapy sessions aim to give each participant a deeper understanding of themselves, and each other. However, on arriving at the resort, each couple's relationship is put "on a break", and they are forced to swap partners every 48 hours, meaning the temptation to play away might prove too much for some.
Documentary series going behind-the-scenes at the airline, charting the fortunes of the business and meeting the staff who work hard to keep the planes flying and the passengers happy.