Extraordinary Families this February
Every weekday this February, Community Channel are bringing you the best of family-centred programming. From fly-on-the-wall series The Family, absorbing maternity ward documentary One Born Every Minute and touching observational documentary Born to Be Different.
The Family - Mondays to Thursdays 9pm
A British family opens its doors to viewers in a major new eight-part observational series, documenting universal themes of family life. For nearly four months the Hughes family was filmed around the clock: dad Simon, 44, mum Jane, about to turn 40, and their four children: Jessica, 22, who lives nearby with her fiancé Pat and 10 month-old baby Ruby, Emily, 19, Charlotte, 17, and the youngest, 14-year-old Tom.
The Family premieres on Community Channel Monday 30th January
One Born Every Minute - Mondays to Thursdays 10pm
Every minute of every day, a baby is born in Britain. One Born Every Minute celebrates what it really feels like to become a parent, by filling a bustling maternity hospital with 40 cameras. Filming from the reception desk to the neo-natal ward; from the operating theatre to the birthing pool, this ground-breaking and tender new series observes the dramatic, emotional and often funny moments that go hand in hand with bringing a new life into the world, from the perspective of the soon-to-be parents and family, as well as the hospital staff.
One Born Every Minute premieres on Community Channel Monday 30th January
Born to Be Different - Fridays 10.30pm
Shot over a period of ten years, these films reveal the bittersweet challenges faced by six families as they raise their disabled children, from the initial shock and guilt of diagnosis, through a minefield of medical problems, operations, and mixed emotions.
Born to Be Different premieres on Community Channel Friday 3rd February
Organisations that can aid your family
Families
Home-start
National Society for Children and Family Contact
Family Lives
Children
Elderly
