The Food Detectives
The Food Detectives (known as The Food Files outside Singapore) is a Singaporean television documentary series produced by ActiveTV for Mediacorp's Channel 5 and presented by Nikki Muller. The series ran for three seasons from 2013 to 2016 and was followed by a spin-off, The Food Detectives vs. Diabetes in 2017.
The series is distributed worldwide by TVF International, a British company, and is also based on a similar format distributed by them, the New Zealand series What's Really In Our Food?.[1]
Premise
[edit]The series tackled myths and facts related to food. The series featured food experts who debunked several myths. The series is presented in an easy-to-understand manner.[2]
The programme was lauded by the Media Development Authority's 2014 report on improvements of the production quality of programming with PSB credentials.[3]
Production
[edit]Recording for the second series began in 2014, with a trip to a poultry farm in Malaysia.[4] The third season production was expected to conclude in the first quarter of 2016.[5]
Distribution
[edit]British distributor TVF International picked up the rights to the show outside Singapore. In 2014, the first two seasons were sold to Nat Geo People Asia, TVBI in some Asia-Pacific territories, Metro Channel in the Philippines, Stream TV in Russia, Ukraine and CIS countries and Fokus TV in Poland.[6] In Poland, the series started airing on 2 December 2014, as Detektyw kulinarny.[7]
The series started airing in South Africa on eReality on 7 April 2018.[8]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Formats". TVF International.
- ↑ "THE BROADCAST PROGRAMME ADVISORY COMMITTEES ANNUAL REPORT" (PDF).
- ↑ "MDA committees laud improvements in quality of public service broadcast programmes". February 2, 2015 – via The Straits Times.
- ↑ "Nikki Muller on naked introductions". Today (retrieved from NLB). 20 June 2014.
- ↑ "Singapore Makes Strong Showing at MIPCOM with Line-up of Over 600 Hours of Original TV and Animation Content". www.acnnewswire.com.
- ↑ "Shining on the World's Stage" (PDF). MDA Annual Report 2014/2015. Infocomm Media Development Authority.
- ↑ ""Detektyw kulinarny", "Twój dom zabójca?", "Choroby na sprzedaż" - premierowy grudzień w Fokus TV". media2.pl (in Polish).
- ↑ "New on TV today". tvsa.co.za.
- 2013 Singaporean television series debuts
- 2017 Singaporean television series endings
- English-language Singaporean television shows
- Singaporean documentary television series
- Health information television series
- Food and drink television series
- Channel 5 (Singapore) original programming
- Singaporean television series based on non-Singaporean television series