The Choir (TV series)
| The Choir | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Documentary Reality television |
| Directed by | Dollan Cannell (Unsung Town) Sing while you work S2 Peter Coventry (Episode 1) Stuart Froude (Episode 2) Tim Hancock (Episode 3) |
| Presented by | Gareth Malone |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 6 |
| No. of episodes | 28 + 10 Specials |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Jamie Isaacs Lucy Hillman (Military Wives, Unsung Town Revisited) |
| Producer(s) | Pete Cooksley (Sing while you work) Ludo Graham Rachel Morgan (Sing while you work Series 2) Dollan Cannell (Unsung Town Revisited) Stephen Finnigan (Military Wives) |
| Running time | 60 min |
| Production company(s) |
Twenty Twenty BBC |
| Distributor | BBC |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC Two, BBC America |
| Original release | 2006 – Present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The Choir: Revisited |
| External links | |
| BBC homepage for The Choir series | |
| Production website | |
The Choir is a BAFTA award-winning TV series following Gareth Malone as he tackles the task of teaching choral singing to people who have never had the chance, or experience to sing before.
The first series aired in 2006, the third series, The Choir: Unsung Town, which involved the creation of a choir in South Oxhey, Hertfordshire began on BBC Two on 1 September 2009, whilst the fourth series, The Choir: Military Wives was aired in November 2011. The series began to air on BBC America in the summer of 2010.
The original series of The Choir, aired in three episodes in 2006, followed Gareth Malone’s attempts to start a choir from scratch in Northolt High School, a comprehensive school in Middlesex that has never previously had a school choir. In the programme he auditions 160 pupils for his 30-strong choir. After only nine months' training, take them to China to compete in the 2006 World Choir Games. This observational documentary series focuses on the emotional journey of the choir members as they overcome their initial reluctance and try to meet Malone's challenge of performing competitively.
This one-off documentary was filmed as a follow-up to the first series of The Choir and features a return visit to the pupils of Northolt as Malone finds out how the young singers' live have changed in the two years since the first programme.
In the second series, originally aired in 2008, Malone takes his choral mission to the Lancaster School, an all-boys school in Leicester which, like the school in the first series, has no previous singing tradition. The single-sex education setting focuses the programme on issues of gender as Malone tackles the perception that "boys don’t sing".
Malone joins the teaching staff and has to work to gain the trust of fellow teachers. His ambition is to form a 100-strong, all-boys choir performing out on the stage alongside the best school choirs in the country as part of the Schools Prom concert at the Royal Albert Hall. As he tries to drive through his ambitious plans, he also has to spend time in classroom teaching, deal with the daily bureaucracy of being a teacher, and coping with staff politics.
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