My New Best Friend

My New Best Friend(2008)

Name: My New Best Friend
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-05-21

May 21, 20081 Season · 3 Episodes

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Overview

Three-part documentary series about the importance and nature of friendship among children, told from their point of view. Shot over eight months and told entirely from their perspective, it is an intimate and moving insight into how children think and feel as they journey into a new world.

Network BBC Four

Seasons

Season 1

3 Episodes

2008

E01

Cheltenham

5/21/2008·60m

Four 11-year-old girls leave the familiarity of their prep schools to join one of the most prestigious girls' schools in the country, Cheltenham Ladies' College. For the three new boarders and one day girl, a new school is as daunting as it is exciting.

E02

Scotland

5/28/2008·60m

Bryony, Galen, Jessica and Ruairidh must leave their tiny primary schools on remote north-west Scotland islands to start secondary school together on the mainland at Mallaig High School. Each has a different journey into this new world, but they the share universal challenges of finding their own identities, making new friends and trying to belong.

E03

Islington

6/4/2008·60m

Four London children make the transition from their familiar primary schools to the grown-up world of an inner-city secondary school. The two boys, Demian and Azad, are best friends from the start, while girls Semra and Katriye are twin sisters. Playground politics and rivalries come to affect all of them profoundly.