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BBC Takes On Competition With Major Factual Slate Including Louis Theroux, Simon Schama, Virgil Abloh, Dinosaur Graveyard Shows & Season Three Of ‘Race Across The World’

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The BBC has unveiled a factual slate to take on the competition that includes more Louis Theroux Interviews, a Simon Schama personal exploration of post-1945 society, natural history series on a mass dinosaur graveyard and a third season of Race Across The World.The slate was presented by newly appointed Director of Unscripted Kate Phillips at a press event yesterday morning in Central London, and featured a wealth of new shows and previews of pre-announced fare.

Phillips was promoted in a protracted restructure following the departure of Patrick Holland to Banijay last year and she now oversees a huge brief incorporating documentaries, factual entertainment, specialist factual and arts.Theroux’s series will see him interview the likes of Dame Judi Dench, Stormzy and Bear Grylls and press were treated to a clip in which he speaks to rapper Stormzy about his dating life.The BBC stressed the slate is a “British at its heart” offering that will cut through the immense non-scripted competition currently out there on a range of commercial broadcasters and streaming services. “We have to do something to bring eyeballs back to our screens and as part of that we need to make noise,” said Popular Factual and Factual Entertainment commissioning Editor Clare Mottershead.

Her comments came a day after the RTS London event, where competition for eyeballs was a major talking point.Speaking to Deadline after the screening, Phillips said the BBC’s supercharging of its iPlayer service increases the need for more regular, quality factual content at a time when the competition is stiffer than it has ever been.“People are burning through our shows faster than ever on iPlayer and so we need something to give them,” she added. “These shows

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