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Set in internet cafés in Birmingham, Glasgow and London, VEE-TV combines documentary, drama and entertainment in an ambitious new format. The new series is a co-production between two award-winning companies, Maverick and Resource Base.

The VEE-TV production team brings deaf and hearing together in a new way of working. We’re committed to opening up opportunities for as many deaf people as possible to get involved in the programme, on and off screen. The programme fuses diverse strands from news to entertainment, drama to debate, from chat to comedy.

Starting at the Orange café in Birmingham on 24 February, the series runs for 12 weeks. In each venue, we’ll involve presenters, regulars, guests and locals in exploring ideas, debating issues, commenting on short films and features – and simply being there.

The series has three film strands. Each week there is a short film from the frontline of contemporary Deaf culture. These films focus on young deaf people and their experiences from comedy to clubbing, drugs to depression, style to survival, business to backpacking. Each week this site will follow up these issues.

Then there’s the Pulse strand, which gives new film-makers an opportunity to develop film ideas and see their work broadcast for the first time. The twelve Pulse films offer strong personal perspectives on anything and everything explored through animation, documentary, drama – and signed pop video.

VEE-TV also has its own regular drama strand in 12 episodes. Rush follows a group of deaf students in a mainstream college as they deal with their relationships, sexuality, emotional difficulties, politics and culture. Rush explores the choices they face: between success and failure; between a career, a job, and no job at all; between the Deaf and hearing worlds.

Contact VEE-TV at comments@vee-tv.com or check out the message board and have your say.

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