Channel 4 has ordered a raft of new arts series including a Swan Lake-themed ballet series from Rare Day.
The broadcaster has commissioned 3 x 60-minute Big Ballet, a Wayne Sleep-fronted series that follows a group of plus-size dancers looking to produce their own version of Swan Lake.
It has also ordered Rebuilding The World Trade Centre, a one-off doc that follows Marcus Robinson, who has been filming at the site since 2006. It is produced by Lion Television in association with Robinson.
Other C4 series include hour-long doc Chopin Saved My Life, produced by Oxford Film and Television, Fresh One Productions’ James Rhodes Notes From The Inside, as well as previously announced Bjork and Attenborough: The Nature of Music from Pulse Films and Grayson Perry – Who Are You?
All of the docs were commissioned by arts commissioning editor Tabitha Jackson.
“I have two ambitions for Channel 4 Arts – to celebrate, enable, showcase, and inspire contemporary creativity, and to use the arts as a prism through which we can understand what it is to be alive today,” she said. “These films do that and provoke us to see both the arts and ourselves in a different way.”
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