Secrets of Great British Castles
GenreDocumentary
StarringDan Jones/Billy McGrath (writer)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
No. of series2
No. of episodes12 (list of episodes)
Production
Production locationUK
Running time60 minutes
Production companiesSideline Productions and Motion Content Group
Original release
NetworkChannel 5
Release3 April 2015 (2015-04-03) –
9 December 2016 (2016-12-09)
Related
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Henry VIII and His Six Wives

Secrets of Great British Castles is a British history documentary series that grew from the success of Irish TV series Tales of Irish Castles. The idea - initially created and written by Billy McGrath - was rejected by state broadcaster RTE. It was subsequently pitched to Ben Frow - the director of programming for Ireland's 1st ever commercial channel TV3 - and it proved a ratings success. When he returned to London to head up Channel 5 Ben asked Billy (then partner in Sideline Productions) to expand on a new idea based on UK castles. The result was the much more ambitious Secrets of Great British Castles produced by Dublin based Sideline in 12 parts. It was first broadcast between 3 April 2015 and 9 December 2016 (6 parts per season). Historian Dan Jones[1] came on board as host and writer to explore the history behind Great Britain's most famous castles and is currently broadcast on Netflix around the globe. International sales for SoGBC were secured by DCD Rights and the deal for Sideline was negotiated by ICM Partners London (now CAA).

Episode list

Season Castle Place Broadcast
1 Dover Castle England 3 April 2015
Tower of London England 10 April 2015
Warwick Castle England 17 April 2015
Caernarfon Castle Wales 24 April 2015
Stirling Castle Scotland 1 May 2015
Carrickfergus Castle Northern Ireland 8 May 2015
2 Edinburgh Castle Scotland 28 October 2016
Cardiff Castle Wales 4 November 2016
York Castle England 18 November 2016
Leeds Castle England 25 November 2016
Lancaster Castle England 2 December 2016
Arundel Castle England 9 December 2016

References

  1. ↑ "Catalogue". Dcdrights.com. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
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