The document discusses the British television documentary series "Extraordinary People" which profiles individuals with rare medical conditions or unusual abilities. Each episode follows their lives and many engage in activities previously thought impossible. The documentary uses interviews directly with the subjects as well as emotional storytelling to engage viewers in their conditions and treatments. As a smaller channel, Channel 5 produces a wide range of documentaries on various topics to remain popular with audiences.

1. HOWARD SMITH

2. Extraordinary People is a television documentary series broadcast
on Channel 5 in the United Kingdom. Each programme follows the
lives of people with a rare medical condition or unusual ability.
People featured have or had rare illnesses such as rabies and eye
cancer. Many of these people do activities previously thought
impossible for people in their condition.

3. Documentary Mode
‘Extraordinary People’ is a reflexive and expository documentary.
It shows interviews of the people suffering the conditions. This
engages the audience more as they can hear directly from the
person themselves instead of a narrator doing it.
This documentary is for educational purposes and also has
emtotional qualities. People will feel sad and the producer has
made it so that the view wants to find out how their surgery or
treatment goes. As the viewer feels they need to find out if they
get better.

4. Documentaries
As channel 5 are not as big as the likes of Channel 4, BBC
and ITV they produce a big range of documentaries for the
viewer across multiple subjects.
They can be for nature, educational purposes or social issues
etc. they must cover as many as possible to remain popular.