Janet Ellis

Acting

Janet Ellis

Born 1955-09-16 · Chatham, Kent, England, UK

Janet Michell Ellis, MBE is an English television presenter, actress and writer, who is best known for presenting the children's television programmes Blue Peter and Jigsaw between 1979 and 1987. She has published two novels, The Butcher's Hook and How It Was.

Acting credits

Kids' TV: The Surprising Story poster
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Konnie Huq celebrates the very best of British children’s television, with a dazzling array of clips from some of the most treasured programmes ever made and revealing chats with some of TV’s most beloved stars. But Konnie also tells a perhaps more surprising story: of how kids’ TV has frequently been at the forefront of social change, in terms of the stories it tells and the people who get to tell them.

Kids' TV: The Surprising Story

2022

Talking Doctor Who poster
5.0

As part of the sixtieth anniversary celebrations of Doctor Who, David Tennant time-travels back through the BBC archives to tell the story of the Doctor’s classic era.

Talking Doctor Who

2023

Lingerie: The Industry Exposed poster
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Lingerie--a word that conjures up silk, seduction and sensuality, the items that can create a curve or a mood. Underwear is the first thing to touch you in the morning and the last to touch you at night. Whether or not it's seen by anyone else, what you're wearing next to your skin matters. This sexy documentary shows you who makes these all-important articles, who sells them, and what influences people to buy them.

Lingerie: The Industry Exposed

1999

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6.0

A look at the popularity of the Page 3 Girl and the sometimes-dark fallout that comes from being one.

The Curse of Page 3

2003

Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon poster
4.7

After the TARDIS collides with a spacecraft delivering human tributes to the evil bull-like Nimon, the Doctor and Romana must stop the fearsome alien's quest to rule the galaxy.

Doctor Who: The Horns of Nimon

1980

The Man Behind the Masquerade poster
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A documentary about the painter, clockmaker and author Kit Williams, and his 1979 book Masquerade. A treasure hunt in book form, Masquerade became a national obsession as Britons tried to decode its mystery and find the golden rabbit Williams had buried in a location which would be revealed upon solving the book's enigma.

The Man Behind the Masquerade

2009

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC poster
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The former principal ballerina tells her story, with historic performances from the BBC archives and candid interviews from throughout her career. Showing how she grew up in front of the camera and mastered television.

Darcey Bussell: My Life on the BBC

2016

B.P. Confidential poster
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Documentary revealing the true character of those working behind and in front of the camera on Blue Peter - Britain's longest continuously running children's programme.

B.P. Confidential

1998

Frederick Douglass: An American Life poster
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This director's cut of the William Greaves' documentary short film dramatizes the life and deeds of the noted abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

Frederick Douglass: An American Life

1985