Glorious summer for Green Inc

Glorious Gardens (6x30”) starts on Monday 26th July at 8pm on UTV and Green Inc is also on fertile ground with insert commissions for BBC1/The One Show!

Irish gardening expert Eugene Higgins embarks on a challenging project unique to Northern Ireland - to transform six tired and dull plots into gardens of his dreams in UTV's exciting new TV series, Glorious Gardens.

Each programme features one garden in desperate need of some love and attention.

After establishing how the garden is to be used by the community Eugene visits the local National Trust property for inspiration, touring the grounds, investigating plants and features as he goes.

Back at the garden the work begins on the transformation, with fun and friction caused by the hard work and tight deadlines. And at the end of the journey, Eugene hands over the new garden to its owners, returning six months later to see how it has enriched their lives.

Eugene Higgins has been a regular contributor for the past five years on The Afternoon Show, RTE1’s flagship daytime series also produced by Green Inc.

Glorious Gardens was produced by Deborah Bennett and Directed by Tracie O’Neill.

Glorious Gardens - Monday 26th July at 8pm on UTV

BBC The One Show

London indie CTVC and Belfast-based Green Inc have scored their first joint commission: nine short films for BBC1’s The One Show.

The films are the first fruit of the indies’ formal joint venture, established last autumn. The companies will co-produce the films out of Northern Ireland but they will be filmed across the UK.

One of the ideas, presented as a series of mini docu-soaps, tells the story of Brian Burnie, a multi-millionaire whose ambition is to die penniless.

The strand will follow Burnie as he tries to sell his 10-acre estate in Northumberland, using the profits to set up his own charity. The money will fund a fleet of cars to ferry cancer patients to and from their chemotherapy appointments.

The second strand, My Big Decision, examines the choices made by extraordinary individuals, including a woman who turned her own sons in to the police and the first person in Britain to have a sex change.

The nine films will be presented by Wendy Robbins, produced by Belfast-based producer Peter Murphy and executive produced by Paul Woolwich.

Stephen Stewart, Green Inc’s Managing Director said; “It’s very exciting to be working with CTVC and co-producing inserts for a BBC1 series as successful as The One Show, and with our new UTV gardening series launching both commissions significantly enhance Green Inc’s reputation as a trusted supplier of high quality factual-entertainment formats for local and network broadcasters”.

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