All Disability articles – Page 38
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NewsSecond helpings for Beyond Boundaries
8am: BBC2 controller Roly Keating has ordered a second series of disability adventure travel programme Beyond Boundaries while the first series is still on air.
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Granada Starting Over In France
Granada International has licensed the US reality format Starting Overto French commercial broadcaster TF1.
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Tessa Jowell: RTS Cambridge keynote address
Tessa Jowell, secretary of state for culture, media and sport 7pm 15 September 2005
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News5m support Man Utd
BBC1's coverage of Manchester United's Champions League qualifier against Debrecen gained a solid peak audience of 5 million (22.8%) at 9.30pm.
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Tigress set to film genetic disorder doc
Factual specialist Tigress Productions is to make a 50-minute documentary about a rare genetic disorder - Sacral Agnesis - for Discovery Health and Five.
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Credit where it's due
Producers' alliance Pact has been accused of turning a blind eye to employee exploitation by independent production...
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BBC3 greenlights disability sitcom
BBC3 controller Stuart Murphy is adding to his channel's growing reputation for comedy with a new show about the unlikely relationship between a man confined to a wheelchair and his homeless friend.
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NewsBBC dominates Promax
The BBC grabbed top honours and 10 gold statuettes at the Promax UK awards at the Grosvenor House on Saturday (6 November).
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NewsBBC and C4 dominate Promax shortlist
The BBC and Channel 4 have dominated the shortlist for this year's Promax UK awards with half of the nominations split between them.
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BBC disabled target
The BBC has set a target of 4% of its 28,000 jobs to be staffed by people with disabilities by 2007. Around 2.7% of BBC staff currently identify themselves as having a disability compared to 10.1% of the population as a whole. The new target sits alongside improved targets for ...
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Far-right tries to 'hijack' C4 social documentary
Channel 4's multicultural remit seems to have backfired this week after the British National Party 'hijacked' a documentary, which includes a section in which Asian men groom young white girls for sexual abuse.
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Whatever - a Teenage Musical (C4) - James Walton, Daily Telegraph
'Issues such as drugs, racism, Aids, teenage pregnancy and disability were all tackled - but in a way that gave us ...
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NewsBBC pledge on arts and current affairs
The BBC this week revealed plans to put greater focus on arts and current affairs programmes on its main services over the next year, as it gears up for its Charter review battle.
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Every Time You Look at Me (BBC2) - Sam Wollaston, Guardian
'It's obviously a good thing to see a drama that tackles disability honestly... It's just a shame it had to be so d...
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Every Time You Look at Me (BBC2) - Peter Paterson, Daily Mail
'All this disability propaganda rather over-extended the piece, which, at 90-minutes, was far too long: had this be...
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PRODUCTION - ON LOCATION - PREPARING FOR DEATH.
For Jonny Kennedy, his own death was to be a release from his suffering and a chance to move on. He convinced director Patrick Collerton to chart the final months of his life on film.
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Production - Falling in love with HD.
The producers of a groundbreaking love story made an 'aesthetic' decision to shoot on high-definition video.
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Analysis - Profile - A wheelie good approach to TV.
There is far more to Julie Fernandez than The Office. She's fed up of disabled people being left out of TV and has started her own indie to break down the stereotypes.
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Office star aims to boost opportunities for disabled.
Actress Julie Fernandez, who played disabled character Brenda in The Office, has set up her own production company in a bid to get more work for disabled talent, writes Jon Rogers.
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Office star aims to boost opportunities for disabled
Actress Julie Fernandez, who played disabled character Brenda in The Office , has set up her own production company in a bid to get more work for disabled talent.