We are looking for 2 couples for a new documentary series. The film follows couples who are having serious marital difficulties, in counseling (or considering it) and who are willing to meet our counselors and re-live their honeymoon (ideally interesting or unusual honeymoons) to possibly re-ignite a spark, and hopefully help save their relationship. These couples are at the end of the line, but want to give it one last shot.

With their children moving on, or retirement looming, these couples feel they have reached breaking point, and that they no longer have anything in common, and are seriously considering divorce.
We will film you meeting our counselors and discussing what you think has gone wrong in your relationship.
We will get to know all about your history using interview and archive photos, painting a portrait of a previously happy life together, before we follow you back on honeymoon, to find out if you can rediscover your passion and remember why you fell in love in the first place. This will be done sensitively under the guidance of marriage counselors. Video diary elements will help the audience keep in touch with how you are both feeling, and we will be filming at close quarters while the you both try to re-live the romantic moments and blow away some of the resentment which has built up over the years. Our counselor will be watching footage back in the UK and in contact via sat phone at certain points to help you negotiate any difficult moments. And at the end of the trip, you return to the counselor office where we find out whether they are going to give it another chance.

If you BOTH want to do take part, please contact me directly on info@favouritefilms.co.uk.

Good god, train wreck tv. Who on earth would want to take part in that? I'm assuming that no-one involved with this from Sky has ever experienced the agonising pain of splitting up with someone you loved and may still love. Is there nothing some people won't do to appear on TV? It really saddens me. Could Sky not just give this a miss? Or just pay for marriage counselling away from the cameras.

Apologies if the outline sounds cold and calculating. I should have made more explicit the fact that what we are looking for is couples who absolutely have a relationship worth saving, both parties want to take part, and the cameras are observing the intimate process of a couple re-opening a dialogue, hopefully re-discovering their relationship, whilst illustrating how and why some relationships do breakdown. It is not an organised shouting match. As a guideline, think more like No Going Back then Wife Swap.

tvds, excuse my cynicism, but we both know that someone somewhere thought this would make good tv. But it is like a death, and why would anyone want to watch someone dying? Who would want to be filmed dying? For my part I'm finding this process excrutiatingly painful, and I would question the sincerity of anyone happy to have this filmed, given how intimate and sacred marriage is supposed to be, just to appear on tv. But I shouldn't be surprised really, society seems to have gone to hell in a handcart, and all of its values with it.

itma wrote:
Good god, train wreck tv.
Following the wreck - there's the salvage.

If I had a magic wand to transport me back to Cuba; to see if we had a chance; I'd grasp the opportunity with both hands. (But I can't speak for ex) he's more dictator than Castro himself!

Good luck with your project; I'm all for showing how couples can rescue and recover.

Sera, I agree, but why do it on tv for the titilation of others?

I think society has grown (emotionaly) from the influx of real-life TV. I personally think there ought to be a public realisation of how marriage can survive; (Divorce is too easy!)and a better awareness of how counselling can help.

Courts deal only with the finances and kids, and not with the actual problem of the breakdown; or addresing the issues.

Society is breaking down because of the values and the way it treats this sacred matter as 'disposable'. Therefore, anyone - doing anything to help repair; or show an audience how it can repair; is a good thing.