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More BBC factual, entertainment titles for ABC.

Alan Carr: Chatty Man and Billy Connolly’s Big Send Off among ABC acquisitions from the BBC.

2014-04-09_0000The ABC has recently picked up a package of new entertainment and factual content from the BBC.

These include Alan Carr: Chatty Man, currently screening on ABC2, plus Billy Connolly’s Big Send Off in which the comedian explores changing attitudes, beliefs and approaches towards death, whilst also considering his own ‘final curtain.’

Two specials feature investigative journalist Jacques Peretti: in The Men Who Made Us Thin, he confronts those who are making a fortune from people’s desire to become thinner and in The Men Who Made Us Spend, he examines the three key driving forces behind our spending habits.

Mad Man: Inside the Secret World of Muammar Gaddafi takes viewers inside the horrifying and unbelievable secret world of Muammar Gaddafi, who terrorised and compromised Libyans and Western countries alike.

“The variety of programming in this package highlights the diversity of BBC Worldwide’s catalogue and we are delighted to offer the ABC’s viewers the opportunity to view this fantastic range of great British content,” said Irene Read, Head of TV Sales, BBC Worldwide Australia & New Zealand.

Other titles included in the package are: Secrets of South America, which explores the extreme measures one South American country goes to in order to turn its young women into world-beating beauty queens; Prostitution: What’s the Harm?, a lively and thought provoking documentary investigating the current state of prostitution in the UK; My Baggy Body, an intimate film that follows three people as they decide how to deal with the excess skin they’ve been left with after extreme weight loss; and Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2014, set against the world famous backdrop of Edinburgh Castle, featuring awe-inspiring variety and performers from the four corners of the globe.

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  1. I can not wait to see Billy Connolly’s Big Send Off, it should be brilliant after all he is the only person on the planet who knows how to tell people to “F – off” without it sounding offensive !!

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