The Planners Are Coming
The Planners Are Coming | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Narrated by | Timothy Spall |
Theme music composer | Simon Russell |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 8 |
Production | |
Location(s) | London and Essex, United Kingdom |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Production company(s) | IWC Media |
Release | |
Original network | BBC One |
Picture format | 16:9 |
Original release | 11 September 2008 – 14 April 2009 |
Chronology | |
Related shows |
Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners (2014) The Planners (2013) |
External links | |
Website |
The Planners Are Coming was a British fly on the wall documentary television series broadcast on BBC One in 2008 and 2009. It followed council Planning Officers and Enforcement Officers as they dealt with planning applications and enforced planning regulations in cases where planning permission had not been sought.[1]
Council planning departments featured in the programme include those of Braintree in Essex and Barking & Dagenham, Barnet and Brent in London.[2]
In 2008, the first four episodes were shown in an 8pm slot, with the remaining four episodes airing in 2009 at the later time of 10:35pm.[3] The series has also been broadcast on The LifeStyle Channel in Australia.[4]
When the programme was first announced by the BBC in June 2007, the working title was The Planners,[5] but this was later changed to The Planners Are Coming. In 2013, a similar documentary series called The Planners aired on BBC Two and in 2014 a new series called Permission Impossible: Britain's Planners began on BBC Two.
Episodes
# | Title | Original air date |
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| "Subject To Approval" | |
| "Garden Designs" | |
| "Planning Police" | |
| "Direct Action" | |
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| "Not in My Backyard" | |
| "How Not to Build" | |
| "Permission Impossible" | |
| "Extension Nightmares" | |
See also
References
- ↑ "IWC Media - The Planners Are Coming". IWC Media.
- ↑ "BBC One - The Planners Are Coming". BBC Programmes.
- ↑ "The Planners Are Coming returns". Planning Resource. 20 March 2009.
- ↑ "The Planners Are Coming". LifeStyle Channel.
- ↑ "BBC One commissions The Planners". BBC Press Office. 1 June 2007.