Donal MacIntyre

After the success of the recent Celebrity Shark Bait, those camera-friendly great whites are back again, this time with undercover reporter Donal MacIntyre tracking them down. Killer Shark Live (starting Sunday, Five) describes itself as a unique, live event spread over seven days.

Former model Melanie Paul lends a hand as a "shark wrangler" while the crew attempt to place a camera on a shark's nose – something which has never been done before, for fairly obvious reasons.

We're led to believe anything could happen, but as MacIntyre's on dry land, unfortunately he'll probably be safe. He's also back with MacIntyre's Toughest Towns (Wednesday, Five). Although he made his name knocking around with football hooligans and gangsters, and spending a week trying to get mugged on the streets of London, it seems the Irishman's fame has been his downfall. He stays comfortably in front of the camera, and out of reach of the thugs who might recognise him from the telly. In this opening double-bill, he tells us why Glasgow has become Western Europe's murder capital, before giving us the low-down on Liverpool's drug gangs.

Who knows, he might even have something to say about Manchester before the series is out.

30 September 2005
by Conrad Astley
MetroNews
http://www.metronews.co.uk/magazine/article/1/1094_tv_they_give_us_silly_telly_as_nights_draw_in.html

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After the success of the recent Celebrity Shark Bait, those camera-friendly great whites are back again, this time with undercover reporter Donal MacIntyre tracking them down. Killer Shark Live (starting Sunday, Five) describes itself as a unique, live event spread over seven days.

Former model Melanie Paul lends a hand as a "shark wrangler" while the crew attempt to place a camera on a shark's nose – something which has never been done before, for fairly obvious reasons.

We're led to believe anything could happen, but as MacIntyre's on dry land, unfortunately he'll probably be safe. He's also back with MacIntyre's Toughest Towns (Wednesday, Five). Although he made his name knocking around with football hooligans and gangsters, and spending a week trying to get mugged on the streets of London, it seems the Irishman's fame has been his downfall. He stays comfortably in front of the camera, and out of reach of the thugs who might recognise him from the telly. In this opening double-bill, he tells us why Glasgow has become Western Europe's murder capital, before giving us the low-down on Liverpool's drug gangs.

Who knows, he might even have something to say about Manchester before the series is out.

30 September 2005
by Conrad Astley
MetroNews
http://www.metronews.co.uk/magazine/article/1/1094_tv_they_give_us_silly_telly_as_nights_draw_in.html

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GLASGOW'S shocking record on knife crime will be laid bare before a nationwide television audience in a documentary.

A 10-part series, presented by investigative journalist Donal Macintyre and called Macintyre's Toughest Towns, will open on Channel Five with a look at Glasgow's "frightening epidemic of knife attacks".
   
The programme, to be screened next week, features interviews with victims, the emergency services and local youths.

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Next week, Five screens a unique seven-day event documenting the magnificent world of the great white shark.

Presented by Five's investigative journalist Donal MacIntyre and science and natural history presenter Nick Baker, the series combines observations of this most feared predator, with analysis from the world's leading shark experts including shark behaviourist Melanie Paul.

The programmes come live from the Condor diving boat on Isla de Guadalupe, 160 miles off the coast of Baja, California, and from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in San Diego.

Each night Nick Baker and an intrepid camera team dive in dangerous waters observing the species, by conducting unique scientific experiments including a live shark autopsy.

Meanwhile Donal MacIntyre interviews shark experts and survivors about their remarkable experiences, in order to accomplish the most comprehensive, aquatic observation to date.

In addition, footage from around the world of the most shocking attacks is presented in a series of films,Bitemares.

Five
24-30 Sept Program
http://www.five.tv/media/pdf/11784360.pdf

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“This woman wasn’t missing deadlines or snorting with a baby in her right hand. This didn’t affect her professionally,” said Donal McIntyre, the British documentarian behind the 1999 fashion-industry exposé “Undercover: Fashion Victims.”

“I hope she gets better for her own health. But the people who gave her these contracts are as immersed in the world of excessive alcohol and drug abuse as she is,” he said. “She’s probably a hotter property now than ever before. If not for the media firestorm, she’d still have all her contracts.”

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Donal MacIntyre the UK’s best known investigative reporter, this autumn delves into the world of the Killer Shark in San Diego, California.

“Start early. Great Insurance. Don’t stress out” – a byline for a journalist who is no stranger to danger and the odd adrenaline rush, often bringing fearlessness to the table.

A Milanese Model, a Nigerian Con Man, a Glaswegian Gangster and a little boy in India. The above list includes four items with no obvious relationship, but the four actually have one thing in common – they all appeared in programmes fronted by MacIntyre. These four items represent everything he enjoys about journalism: immense contrast, powerful insightful subjects, investigations that cause reaction and positive change, same game.

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As the world's most glamorous people fly in for the start of London Fashion Week today, Cole Moreton, Katy Guest and Stephen Khan reveal why Kate Moss being caught taking drugs has made the entire industry feel very nervous indeed

Forget the clothes. Kate and coke will be all that the fashionistas talk about in VIP airport lounges, limousines and dressing rooms today, as the most famous models and designers fly in to the capital for the start of London Fashion Week.

Photographs of Kate Moss snorting cocaine have threatened the contracts with luxury brands like Chanel and Dior that earn her up to £4m a year. But an investigation by The Independent on Sunday has revealed what every insider at this week's glittering event already knows: cocaine fuels the fashion industry at every level, from glamorous catwalk to exotic photo shoot.

"Models use coke like truck drivers do," said an industry insider yesterday, "to stay awake and keep working." Another said cocaine was used as a "performance-enhancing drug" in the same way athletes use steroids.

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Five has announced its next live television event following on from the imminent Killer Shark Watch Live. Inside The Bermuda Triangle Live, produced by Brighter Pictures (part of Endemol UK), explores the science behind the mysterious and dramatic history of The Bermuda Triangle, one of the world's most inexplicably dangerous zones, located in a region off the Atlantic Ocean between Bermuda, Miami, Florida and Puerto Rico.

Stripped across seven nights, the nightly programmes will explore the theories behind this incredible modern mystery, which has a history of unexplainable disappearances of ships and planes that defy any logical reasoning. Each night theories will be tested to debunk the myth and demystify the legend as we traverse through the triangle to follow the paths of the doomed missions – the fateful final voyages of some of the Triangle's famous victims, including, The Ellen Austin in 1881, The U.S.S. Clyclops in 1918, the disappearing yacht called Witchcraft in 1967 and the ill-fated Sylvia L Ossa in 1976, the biggest ship to disappear into the ether.

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