Secrets of Great British Castles

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2015 British TV series or programme

Secrets of Great British Castles

Genre| Documentary
Starring| Dan Jones/Billy McGrath (writer)
Country of origin| United Kingdom
Original language| English
No. of series| 2
No. of episodes| 12 (list of episodes)
Production
Production location| UK
Running time| 60 minutes
Production companies| Sideline Productions and Motion Content Group
Original release
Network| Channel 5
Release| 3 April 2015 (2015-04-03) –
9 December 2016 (2016-12-09)
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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 screen content distributors DCD Rights and sold to 160 countries world-wide. The deal with DCD was negotiated by ICM Partners London (now CAA).

## Episode list

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Season  | Castle  | Place  | Broadcast

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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

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

## External links

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* Secret of Great British Castles at IMDb

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