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| The Scheme | |
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| Genre | Documentary |
| Narrated by | Jamie Lee |
| Theme music composer | David Francis Hamill |
| Country of origin | Scotland |
| Original languages | English Scots |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Ewan Angus |
| Production location | Kilmarnock |
| Camera setup | Single-camera setup |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One Scotland |
| Release | 18 May 2010 – 30 May 2011 |
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The Scheme is a BBC Scotland BAFTA-award-winning[1] documentary series which follows the lives of six families in the Onthank and Knockinlaw housing schemes in Kilmarnock. The series has been the subject of some media criticism, with the series being labelled as "poverty porn"[2][3] and described as giving a "misleading impression" of life on the estate.[4][5]
The programme makers have denied allegations that their series exploits the residents of the estate.[6]
- ^ [1][dead link]
- ^ The Scheme: gritty TV or poverty porn?, The Guardian TV & Radio Blog, Friday 28 May 2010
- ^ The Scheme: A brutal eye-opener or poverty porn?, The Scotsman, 28 May 2010
- ^ Debate over housing estate portrayal on 'The Scheme', stv.tv, 19 May 2010
- ^ The Scheme, a TV documentary of life on a Kilmarnock estate, has already been dubbed Scotland's Shameless. But what's life really like there?, Scotsman, 20 May 2010
- ^ Producers of BBC series The Scheme hits back after MSP blasts show, Sunday Mail, 30 May 2010