The Family Show

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Lifestyle magazine series for all the family, featuring items on 11+ exams, coping with bereavement and ice hockey.

Presenter Helen Mark gives an overview of what is coming up on this edition of the weekly family and lifestyle magazine show. Report on the stress of waiting for 11+ exam results including interviews with parents. Pip Jaffa of the Parents' Advice Centre provides tips for reducing anxiety for the children and how to sensitively deal with failure. Geraldine and Tina Duffy, two girls who tragically witnessed their father dying, talk about how they have coped with their grief and tried to overcome it with help from a child bereavement service provided by Barnardo's.

Sports journalist, Nigel Ringland, is in studio to talk about the craze in Belfast for ice hockey with local team, the Belfast Giants, flying high. Laura Francis reports from their home rink at the Odyssey. Vox pops with supporters which suggests that few of them know the rules but go along for the sense of fun and entertainment. Stephen Nolan attends for his weigh-in as part of a dieting strand but Linda Hamilton from Weight Watchers says that he hasn't turned up to meetings or returned any of her calls.

Report on men's style after UK men were voted the best groomed in Europe. Michael Kwelu is Northern Ireland's Best Dressed Man and he shares his daily routines. Vox pops followed by a visit to Aura salon on the Lisburn Road in Belfast.

The Family Show (previously named Family Life) was a weekly magazine style series presenting reports and in-studio features on family matters, from young children, education, mothers, fathers and issues for the elderly, as well as items on cooking, shopping and leisure.


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The Family Show

Consumer, health and family issues combine in this UTV magazine series from the early 2000s.
Helen Mark presented this eclectic weekly show for Ulster Television, which embraced all aspects of family life from the home and garden to healthcare; from retail to education; from consumer protection to organisations providing care for those in need. Originally called Family Life before morphing into the Family Show, the series provides a warm snapshot of the times as it deals with the issues affecting everyone from young children to the elderly in the early days of the new century. And it was also to provide a platform for a young rising star in the shape of Stephen Nolan, who embarked upon his award-winning broadcasting career as a roving consumer reporter for the series.

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