Record number of RDF shows in winter schedules
RDF Media, IWC Media, Touchpaper Television and Radar launch several new shows this christmas. RDF Media sees the second of its Faking It specials broadcast on the 29th December as Kate Harding attempts to fake it as a pop promo director for Liberty X. Julian Fellowes is back in two of Touchpaper Television's A Most Mysterious Murder's to shed light on unsolved crimes from 1941 and 1929 on the 27th and 30th December, BBC1. IWC's Mean Machines is monopolising the Discovery schedule with transmissions most days over the christmas period.
New Year's Day see's Radar's The 50 Greatest Comedy Films broadcast on Channel 4 and Shipwrecked makes a long awaited return to the channel on January 8th with a double bill kicking off the 19 week run. On five, Gary McCausland's How To Be A Property Developer returns for its second series on the 3rd January. IWC Media's contraversial two part documentary The Root of All Evil? for C4 also broadcasts in early January on the 9th and 16th and IWC also has television's most famous property duo Kirsty and Phil returning for Relocation, Relocation's series three at the end of the month.
On ITV1 Holiday Showdown returns for a fourth series mid-January as ten more families attempt to change each others holiday tastes and Touchpaper Television's psychological thriller The Best Man debuts a little later in the year.
January also sees two RDF format's returning to Channel 4 with Scrappy Races Ralley, Scrapheap Challenge's spin-off show, launching its third series on the 22nd and Rock School returning for a second series on the 29th January when Gene Simmon's faces a challenge in Lowestoft, a million miles away from his Hollywood lifestyle.
Brand new entertainment show for BBC3 Perfect Housewives where Anthea Turner attempts to transform hopeless housewives into domestic godesses also transmits in the first quarter of 2006 as does Extreme Breastfeeding RDF Media's one-off doc.