All Blink Films articles – Page 4
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NewsUKTV to boost indie hours by a third
Romesh Ranganathan and Jon Richardson spearhead originals push
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NewsBBC plans mental health season
Blink Films has landed a one-off BBC1 documentary exploring the physiological effects of stress as part of a season of mental health programming to play across the BBC this spring.
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NewsC4 orders money-saving pilots
Britain’s post-Brexit attitude to spending and employment are to come under the microscope after Channel 4 ordered two pilots from Blink Films and RDF.
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NewsBlink boots up Dave gadget format
Comedian Marcus Brigstocke and Celebrity MasterChef winner Alexis Conran will put the world’s top gadgets to the test in a ten-part series for Dave.
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NewsBlink recruits for popular factual push
Blink Films has hired former Boomerang executive producer Jon Lloyd as its first popular factual creative director to expand its output.
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NewsBlink gears up for US push with high-end factual
Blink Films will push into bluechip factual after setting up shop in the US and hiring Brad Kohlenstein, senior vice-president of development at Discovery’s Science Channel.
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NewsTin Roof Media backs Blink
Blink Films has received financial backing from Tin Roof Media, an investment group of which Twofour founder Charles Wace is a non-exec director.
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NewsBBC4 acquires Blink brain doc
BBC4 has acquired Blink Films biggest-budget show, a six-part series exploring the human brain hosted by neuroscientist David Eagleman.
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NewsBlink lands Korean doc deal
Blink Films has struck a landmark partnership with Korean broadcaster EBS after working closely with Argonon-backed business enabler The Bridge.
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NewsOrangutans swing onto Animal Planet
Animal Planet has ordered Meet The Orangutans, an eight-part follow up to its hit series Meet The Sloths.
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NewsC4’s Gill Wilson overhauls features
North One, Blink Films and Red House are among the indies to have won business as Channel 4 head of features Gill Wilson overhauls her slate.
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NewsDiscovery orders Blink nature series
Discovery has commissioned a four part natural history series from Blink Films about relationships struck up between humans and animals.
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NewsBlink explores sloths for Animal Planet, DNI
US cable network Animal Planet is to air Blink Films’ wildlife documentary series Meet The Sloths.
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CommentBlink and you’ll miss it
The perils of natural history filmmaking came into focus at UKTV’s showcase of coming programmes, where David Attenborough revealed the patience required of his cameramen.
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NewsC4 serves up sex season
Docs about a psychosexual therapist and a Loaded editor’s decision to leave the soft porn industry will form part of a five-part real sex season due to air next month on Channel 4.
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NewsDNI Lat Am scouts UK indies
Discovery Networks International’s (DNI) Latin American commissioning hub has placed several orders with UK-based producers and its boss plans to come to the UK to scope out further opportunities.
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NewsDNI recommissions over 50 hours
Discovery Networks International has ordered 54 hours of original content from UK producers as it recommissions five series for 2013.