# One Born Every Minute > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/One_Born_Every_Minute > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/One_Born_Every_Minute.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Born_Every_Minute > Source revision: 1356990768 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Not to be confused with [There's One Born Every Minute](/source/There's_One_Born_Every_Minute). 2010 British TV series or programme One Born Every Minute Genre Reality television Narrated by Steven Hartley (series 3-4) Paul Venables (series 5-8) Jonathan Kydd (series 9-11) Country of origin United Kingdom Original language English No. of series 11 No. of episodes 112 (list of episodes) Production Executive producers Magnus Temple and Nick Curwin (series 1) Peter Moore and Sanjay Singhal (series 2) Producers Series 1: Jonathan Smith (series producer) Series 2: Francesca Newby (director of production), Lucy Bowden (series producer) and Lorraine Charker-Phillips (series director) Production company Dragonfly Original release Network Channel 4 Release 9 February 2010 (2010-02-09) – 9 May 2018 (2018-05-09) ***One Born Every Minute*** is a British observational documentary series which shows activities taking place in the labour ward. The programme ran for eleven series on [Channel 4](/source/Channel_4), premiering on 9 February 2010 and airing its final episode on 9 May 2018. Channel 4 announced in August 2019 that *One Born Every Minute* had been cancelled.[1][2] ## Production *One Born Every Minute* has to date achieved the highest ratings of any "fixed rig" multicamera documentary series, with its most popular episodes attracting audiences in excess of five million. The "rig" technique for making factual television was pioneered by Dragonfly founders Nick Curwin and Magnus Temple, in partnership with Channel 4 commissioning editor Simon Dickson, in 2008. ## Awards The first series won a 2010 [BAFTA](/source/BAFTA) for best factual series; the second series was nominated for a 2011 BAFTA for best factual series.[3] [Airlock](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Airlock_(agency)&action=edit&redlink=1), who designed the interactive and multimedia material to accompany the series, were nominated for a 2010 BAFTA "New Media Award".[4] ## International versions In February 2011 an American version of *One Born Every Minute* premiered in the USA on [Lifetime Television](/source/Lifetime_(TV_network)) and in August 2011 a French adaptation named *Baby Boom* premiered on France's [TF1](/source/TF1). There have been two seasons of the American show and five of the French.[5][6] There have been eleven UK series. Country Name Network Date premiered France Baby Boom TF1 23 August 2011 USA One Born Every Minute Lifetime Television 1 February 2011 Sweden En unge i minuten TV4 7 March 2011 Israel Baby Boom Channel 10 2013 Spain TBA TBA TBA Slovakia Malé lásky TV Markíza 2020 Czech Republic Malé lásky TV Nova 2017 Denmark One Born Every Minute Kanal 4 2018 Australia One Born Every Minute Australia Network 10 22 October 2019 ## Spoof The 2013 edition of the [Comic Relief](/source/Comic_Relief) telethon featured a three-way spoof/mini-episode aired under the *One Born Every Minute* title and logo: a parody of the show's format with appearances by the cast of *[Call the Midwife](/source/Call_the_Midwife)* along with [Matt Smith](/source/Matt_Smith_(actor)) as [the Doctor](/source/The_Doctor_(Doctor_Who)) from *[Doctor Who](/source/Doctor_Who)* and closing narration by [Vanessa Redgrave](/source/Vanessa_Redgrave).[7] ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Edwards, Chris (1 August 2019). ["Channel 4 confirms One Born Every Minute has been cancelled"](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/channel-4-confirms-one-born-every-minute-has-been-cancelled/). *Radio Times*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Bond, Kimberley (1 August 2019). ["One Born Every Minute axed by Channel 4 after nearly a decade"](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/reality-tv/a28582137/channel-4-one-born-every-minute-axed/). *Digital Spy*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Bafta TV awards 2011: nominations in full"](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/apr/26/bafta-tv-awards-2011-nominations). *The Guardian*. 26 April 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["Awards & Nominations"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110909111701/http://www.airlock.com/awards/). Airlock.com. Archived from [the original](http://airlock.com/awards/) on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-One_Born_Every_Minute_(US)_on_imdb_5-0)** ["One Born Every Minute (US)"](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1863965/?ref_=ttco_co_tt). *imdb*. February 2011. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-Baby_Boom_on_Wikipédia_(French)_6-0)** [Baby Boom](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Boom_(%C3%A9mission_de_t%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision)#Notes_et_r)[*[circular reference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipedia_and_sources_that_mirror_or_use_it)*] 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** Greg Laing (15 March 2013). ["Comic Relief: Doctor Who meets Call the Midwife, One Born Every Minute"](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/doctor-who/news/a466151/comic-relief-doctor-who-meets-call-the-midwife-one-born-every-minute/). *Digital Spy*. ## External links - [*One Born Every Minute*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1623135/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) - [One Born Every Minute, Channel 4, review](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/7198234/One-Born-Every-Minute-Channel-4-review.html) a review from *[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph)* - [New Channel 4 series focuses on Southampton's Princess Anne Hospital](http://www.suht.nhs.uk/AboutTheTrust/Newsandpublications/Latestnews/2010/NewChannel4seriesfocusesonSouthamptonsPrincessAnneHospital.aspx) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20111109072424/http://www.suht.nhs.uk/AboutTheTrust/Newsandpublications/Latestnews/2010/NewChannel4seriesfocusesonSouthamptonsPrincessAnneHospital.aspx) 9 November 2011 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) A news article from Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust - [One Born Every Minute: labours of love](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2011/jan/10/one-born-every-minute) a *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)* blog article on the second UK series - [Last Night's TV - One Born Every Minute, Channel 4](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/reviews/last-nights-tv--one-born-every-minute-channel-4-baking-made-easy-bbc2-episodes-bbc2-2200102.html) a review of the second UK series from *[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)* - [Channel 4 - One Born Every Minute Episode Guide](https://www.channel4.com/programmes/one-born-every-minute/episode-guide) v t e BAFTA TV Award for Best Factual Series The Death of Yugoslavia (1996) The House (1997) The Nazis: A Warning from History (1998) The Human Body (1999) The Mayfair Set (2000) Britain at War in Colour (2001) Horizon (2002) The Trust (2003) The National Trust (2004) The Power of Nightmares (2005) Jamie's School Dinners (2006) Ross Kemp on Gangs (2007) The Tower: A Tale of Two Cities (2008) Amazon with Bruce Parry (2009) One Born Every Minute (2010) Welcome to Lagos (2011) Our War (2012) Our War (2013) Bedlam (2014) Gogglebox (2015) The Murder Detectives (2016) Exodus: Our Journey to Europe (2017) Ambulance (2018) Louis Theroux's Altered States (2019) Leaving Neverland (2020) Once Upon a Time in Iraq (2021) Uprising (2022) Libby, Are You Home Yet? 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