| THEBIGTIME | BBC TV documentary/reality series presented by Esther Rantzen whose featured amateurs included singer Sheena Easton and cook Gwen Troake (3,3,4) |
| THATSLIFE | TV series presented by Esther Rantzen on BBC1 between 1973 and 1994 |
| HUNTERS | Word after Storage gives the title of a 2010s reality series presented by Sean Kelly (7) |
| THEASCENTOFMAN | 1973 13-part BBC TV documentary written and presented by Dr Jacob Bronowski |
| SNL | Show whose featured players currently include Punkie Johnson and Bowen Yang: Abbr. |
| MURDERSHEWROTE | CBS mystery series that featured amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher: 3 wds. |
| MASTERMIND | 1970s board game whose box featured amateur models Bill Woodward and Cecilia Fung |
| LETALONE | Not to mention hindrance by solitary amateur included (3,5) |
| ASCENT | The ___ of Man, 1973 TV documentary series presented by Dr Jacob Bronowski (6) |
| LIFE | That's what TV host Dame Esther Rantzen presented with long sentence (4) |
| SHEENA | Polish article for Ms Easton, who was discovered by Dame Esther Rantzen (6) |
| SIMONREEVE | Television documentary presenter whose name completes the 2019 BBC Two series The Americas with - - - - - - (5,5) |
| CORVUS | 2008 nature memoir by Esther Woolfson, subtitled A Life With Birds (6) |
| HORIZON | Long-running British TV documentary series that covers science and philosophy (7) |
| APTED | Michael ___ , British film director noted for the Up TV documentary series (5) |
| JOHNBISHOP | English comedian who presented a TV documentary in 2022 about deafness (4,6) |
| SIMONSCHAMA | Historian born in 1945 noted for his TV documentary series 'A History of Britain' (5,6) |
| THEROUX | Louis, TV documentary maker noted for his Weird Weekends series (7) |
| CHOIR | The _ _ _ _ _ , reality TV series presented by Gareth Malone (5) |
| FAIRGO | TV series presented by Gordon Harcourt and Pippa Wetzell (4,2) |