All Blakeway articles – Page 4

  • De Burgh
    News

    Blakeway wins series for China

    2012-07-05T08:30:00Z

    Blakeway Productions has partnered a Chinese indie to make a landmark series about the West that is being lined up for state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV).

  • 911: The Day That Changed The World
    News

    Ten Alps cuts losses

    2012-06-27T09:25:00Z

    Ten Alps has significantly cut its pre-tax losses after restructuring its finances and raising £3m from shareholders.

  • Dispatches
    News

    Standing Stone develops app for new Dispatches

    2012-03-22T09:00:00Z

    Tom Gutteridge’s Standing Stone Digital has won the second-screen contract for Channel 4’s new-look Dispatches. 

  • Tom_Porter
    News

    Blakeway exec completes C4 current affairs team

    2012-03-20T12:47:00Z

    Channel 4 has completed its news and current affairs commissioning team with the appointment of an executive producer from Blakeway Productions.

  • David Walliams
    News

    ITV commissions second Perspectives run

    2012-01-19T11:07:00Z

    Comedian David Walliams is to divulge his passion for Roald Dahl and actor David Suchet will provide a snapshot of the world of photography for the second run of ITV1’s arts strand Perspectives.

  • Dispatches
    News

    C4 awards Dispatches contracts

    2012-01-10T14:33:00Z

    Channel 4 has awarded Blakeway Productions, October Films, Nine Lives Media and ITN Productions contracts to make programmes for the Dispatches strand in 2012.

  • Victoria and Abdul
    News

    C4 probes Queen Victoria’s secrets

    2011-12-01T09:30:00Z

    The controversial relationship between Queen Victoria and her Muslim Indian servant Abdul Karim will be explored as part of Channel 4’s 2012 history documentary line-up.

  • Channel 5
    News

    C5 orders Benidorm ER

    2011-11-21T12:44:00Z

    Brits who injure themselves while on holiday are to be the subject of a new Channel 5 doc series.

  • News

    Ten Alps TV names development chief

    2011-07-19T12:26:00Z

    Ten Alps has promoted a Blakeway Productions executive to head of development for its entire television and radio division.

  • Undercover Mosque
    News

    Producers defend standards of TV journalism

    2011-07-14T08:30:00Z

    Current affairs producers and investigative journalists have given TV newsgathering practices a clean bill of health in light of the News Of The World phone-hacking scandal.

  • Channel_4.jpg
    News

    C4 reworks Dispatches evidence for news bulletin

    2011-07-07T13:18:00Z

    Material intended to form the basis of a third Blakeway Productions’ Dispatches on the phone hacking scandal will instead be used to make fresh allegations against the police in Channel 4 News tonight.

  • Walking With Dinosaurs
    News

    BBC to explore Planet Dinosaur

    2011-02-28T12:22:00Z

    The BBC is to bring to dinosaurs back to life with four new commissions and a range of interactive initiatives.

  • What’s In Your Breakfast?
    News

    Food giants lose battle over Dispatches claims

    2010-08-23T12:31:00Z

    Cereal manufacturers Nestle and Kellogg’s have lost their challenge against an edition of Dispatches that they claim unfairly portrayed them as targeting children with unhealthy foods.

  • CBBC
    News

    CBBC meets ballet boys

    2010-07-30T10:31:00Z

    Real-life Billy Elliots and children trying to overcome a stammer will feature in a series of documentaries for CBBC.

  • Mark Bell
    News

    BBC nabs Stirling Prize in arts push

    2010-06-23T10:36:00Z

    The BBC’s arts commissioning editor Mark Bell has unveiled a raft of new programmes that includes snatching the broadcast rights to the Stirling Prize for architecture from Channel 4.

  • A Mother Like Alex
    News

    Sky Real Lives spotlights cancer care

    2010-04-08T09:01:00Z

    Sky Real Lives has ordered a 10-part documentary series from indie Blakeway North focusing on the work of Macmillan and Marie Curie nurses.

  • Fiona Stourton
    News

    Blakeway wins Nobel commissions

    2009-06-19T11:12:00Z

    Blakeway Productions has won a double commission for two shows on this year’s Nobel Prize awards.

  • Bernie Madoff
    News

    Victim's son to front Madoff doc

    2009-05-27T08:23:00Z

    The son of a British soldier who killed himself after his family’s life savings were swallowed up in Bernie Madoff’s $50bn swindle is to front a BBC2 doc on the subject.

  • News

    Blakeway buys Belfast indie

    2009-02-11T12:58:30Z

    Ten Alps subsidiary Blakeway Productions has acquired the Belfast-based indie Below the Radar in a deal worth up to£800,000 to help expand its factual output.

  • News

    Blakeway North gains 30 Stone sequel

    2008-10-29T16:11:38Z

    Manchester-based Blakeway North is celebrating four new commissions following the appointment of executive producer Sarah Murch earlier this year, including a follow-up to the successful documentary Lose 30 Stone or Die for ITV1.