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Jimmy Doherty

Jimmy Doherty

Acting

Biography

Suffolk based farmer and television presenter formerly for the BBC and now for Channel 4, famous for the show Jimmy's Farm, detailing the operation of the Essex Pig Company that he and his wife Michaela Furney owned.

Known For

Natural World
7.4

Natural World is a nature documentary television series broadcast annually on BBC Two and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history brand. It is currently the longest-running series in its genre on British television, with more than 400 episodes broadcast since its inception in 1983. Natural World is produced by the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol, but individual programmes can be in-house productions, collaborative productions with other broadcasters or films made and distributed by independent production companies and purchased by the BBC. Natural World programmes are often broadcast as PBS Nature episodes in the USA. Since 2008, most Natural World programmes have been shot and broadcast in high definition.

Natural World

1983
Gadget Man
7.0

Gadget Man shows the world's collection of handy gadgets throughout the ages, from today's smart devices to decades old electronics to even older mechanical devices.

Gadget Man

2012
Food Unwrapped
7.7

The food and science series that travels the world to explore the industry secrets behind our favourite produce, industry secrets, and how foods are really made.

Food Unwrapped

2012
Jamie and Jimmy's Food Fight Club
8.5

Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty pair up to open a pop-up caff on Southend pier. They also take to the continent to pit the best of British food against Europe's finest.

Jamie and Jimmy's Food Fight Club

2012
Walks with My Dog
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Celebrities take a stroll in the great British outdoors with their faithful hound.

Walks with My Dog

2017
Jimmy's Big Bee Rescue
7.0

Bees are disappearing fast, with 46% of species having declined in the past 10 years; Jimmy Doherty looks at the reasons why, and rallies the people of Peterborough to bring back the bees.

Jimmy's Big Bee Rescue

2020
Katie Piper's Breakfast Show
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The model and Loose Women panellist presents a Sunday morning chat show featuring celebrity guests, advice from experts and tips for entertainment in the week ahead.

Katie Piper's Breakfast Show

2022
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Documentary by Clare Stronge

Easter Eggs Live

2013
Jimmy's Global Harvest
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Jimmy Doherty sets out to discover if the world's farmers will be able to feed us in the future

Jimmy's Global Harvest

2010
Jimmy Doherty's New Zealand Escape
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Jimmy takes a foodie trip down under, exploring the land and meeting the makers of some of the best food on the planet.

Jimmy Doherty's New Zealand Escape

2023
Jimmy's Farm
7.0

Jimmy's Farm was a documentary series, in 2002. It featured the story of Jimmy Doherty setting up the Essex Pig Company, a rare breeds piggery on the outskirts of Ipswich in Suffolk. The drama revolved around Jimmy's previous lack of hands-on experience of farming, the financial struggles involved in starting a small business, and Jimmy's relationships with employees, friends and his girlfriend, Michaela Furney.

Jimmy's Farm

Museum of Life
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Museum of Life is a 2010 BBC2 documentary, that takes a look behind the scenes at the British Museum of Natural History. It is introduced and co-presented by Jimmy Doherty, who was a volunteer at the Natural History Museum ten years previously. Other presenters are Kate Bellingham, Liz Bonnin, Mark Carwardine, and Chris Van Tulleken. The six-part program ranges over topics such as the care and maintenance of the Museum's 70 million specimens, and the relevance of research by the Museum scientists to contemporary problems such as biodiversity loss and the spread of tropical disease.

Museum of Life

2010
Jimmy Doherty's Escape to the Wild
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Jimmy Doherty visits far-flung places to meet people who have created new lives for themselves in surprising and unlikely locations

Jimmy Doherty's Escape to the Wild

2017
Jimmy Doherty's Dream Builds on Wheels
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Jimmy Doherty meets builders who are turning everyday vehicles into campervans. He lends a hand to these ambitious projects and gets inspiration for his own dream build.

Jimmy Doherty's Dream Builds on Wheels

2021
Jimmy And Shivi's Farmhouse Breakfast
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Join Jimmy Doherty and Shivi Ramoutar at Jimmy's Suffolk farm for a series that is full of delicious food and drink, crafts, animals and country life.

Jimmy And Shivi's Farmhouse Breakfast

2024
The Private Life of...
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Jimmy Doherty embarks on a quest to reveal the hidden lives of farmyard animals.

The Private Life of...

2010
Disabused
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After returning to his home town and the church, Vince embarks of a dangerous downward spiral of redemption and revenge.

Disabused

2017
Food Unwrapped's Nordic Adventure
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A one-hour special for an epic culinary journey across Sweden, Norway, and Finland: from cod farming, to the best meatballs, and the favourite foods of the happiest people on the planet.

Food Unwrapped's Nordic Adventure

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One of the things that is moving with the global warming, the search for new energy sources and the fight against AIDS is the cause of genetically modified plants. Many people believe that this new technology will solve the problem of hunger on Earth in the near future, and another large group sees it as a danger to the genetic pool of existing agricultural crops and to the health of all humankind. The British farmer and quirky practitioner Jimmy Doherty therefore went out into the world in the company of BBC filmmakers to find out what the current situation is. His conclusions could not, of course, be unambiguous. A serious observer must state that the problem of genetically modified crops is an open chapter with great promise for the future. The proverbial "but" will, however, accompany an even longer period of debate about this - perhaps - revolutionary method ...

Jimmy’s GM Food Fight

2008