All Behind The Scenes articles
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FeaturesInterviewers assemble: How Rockerdale makes TV’s toughest hotseat truly accessible
Heather Fallon visits the set of ITV’s The Assembly to find out what goes into supporting and celebrating the entire cast and crew
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Behind The ScenesHow it took a village to raise The Neighbourhood
Lifted Entertainment and The Garden headed to Derbyshire in their bid to construct a reality gameshow centred on rival families for ITV
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Behind The ScenesChernobyl: How Windfall Films captured a nuclear disaster site
Series director Tom Cook on how his team navigated wartime Ukraine, strict safety protocols and locations that won’t be habitable for 20,000 years
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Behind The ScenesHow we turned charity shopping and online auctions into a BBC daytime format
Shift the Thrift series director Tom Cunningham on translating the thrill of bagging and reselling a bargain for the screen
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Behind The ScenesHow I turned a career dry spell and a chaotic podcast into an unexpectedly raw documentary
Shot on a phone, BBC2’s Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me offers an unvarnished look at its star and the industry, says director Simon Draper
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Behind The ScenesHow we took Ben Fogle to China
Director Freddie Martin on turning tightly-controlled access into an epic journey across an incredible country for 5
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Behind The ScenesRecapturing the thrills: the return of The Capture after a four-year hiatus
Heyday executive producer Rosie Alison on how tech has caught up with the show, turning series one’s predictions into series three’s reality
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Behind The ScenesWonderhood and 5 open up about Huw Edwards drama
Sam Anstiss, Tom Garton, Guy Davies and Paul Testar share the inside track on the high-profile film
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Behind The ScenesDouble bluff: How Lifted Entertainment created fake shows for famous faces to ruin
Director of unscripted and executive producer Diego Rincón on the elaborate subterfuge behind reality competition format Celebrity Sabotage
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Behind The ScenesLast One Laughing: How we cracked the casting of series two
Zeppotron director of programmes Richard Cohen on picking the right comedians to give each other the giggles
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Behind The ScenesCaught on camera: when Mindhouse execs met the manosphere
The team behind Netflix’s Louis Theroux: Inside the Manosphere on grappling with interviewees’ filming their own content mid-interview
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Behind The ScenesCuffing season: What happens when you chain contributors together?
Executive producer Tom Clarke on the practical and care challenges of Channel 4’s Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing
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NewsFunny bones: How to Get to Heaven from Belfast’s road trip to the screen
Writer Lisa McGee, exec producer Jimmy Mulville and director Michael Lennox on how their show sets out to marry comedy, mystery and ambition
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Behind The ScenesThe challenge of making a reality show while climbing 8,500ft up a mountain
The Summit executive producer Mandy Morris on filming 14 ordinary Brits scaling New Zealand’s highest peak to win a share of £200,000
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Behind The ScenesHow Passion Planet set out to bring the King’s eco-vision to life
Director Nicolas Brown on working alongside the monarch to create Finding Harmony: A King’s Vision for Amazon Prime Video
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Behind The ScenesAge of innocence: How Eleven Film found the Lord of the Flies castaways
Director Marc Munden and exec producer Joel Wilson talk to Robin Parker about working with a young cast to adapt William Golding’s brutal classic
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Behind The ScenesHow we helped Ross Edgley swim around Iceland
The Great Icelandic Swim series producer and Big Wave founder Sarah Cunliffe on navigating ice, pilot whales and a seemingly impossible dream
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Behind The ScenesHow we became embedded with a British Army battalion
Director Will Lorimer on winning the trust of soldiers preparing for war in Eastern Europe for a 5 documentary
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Behind The ScenesHow IWC Media used AI to assassinate Queen Victoria
IWC creative director Mark Downie on using AI to recreate the eight attempts on Queen Victoria’s life for 5
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Behind The ScenesThe challenge of finding the million Britons who could qualify for Mensa but don't know it
Kelly Webb-Lamb on how Mothership and Channel 4 solved the puzzle of finding contestants who don’t know how smart they truly are