All DSP articles – Page 3
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NewsDonna Clark to join Darlow Smithson
Donna Clark, former head of formats and features commissioning at the BBC, has joined Darlow Smithson Productions as joint managing director.
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RatingsBBC2 triumphs with Dad's Army Story
TUESDAY: We’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story reeled in BBC2’s biggest audience for a single drama of the year.
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Behind The ScenesWe’re Doomed! The Dad’s Army Story, BBC2
A drama about the birth of Dad’s Army reveals the behind-the-scenes conflict over the classic sitcom - and how it almost didn’t happen. Olly Grant meets the team telling the tale
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NewsBBC hires raft of factual commissioners
Darlow Smithson Productions director of programmes Rachel Morgan and UKTV commissioner Catherine Catton have joined the BBC as part of a number of factual appointments.
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Ratings24 Hours In The Past concludes with 3.2m
TUESDAY: 24 Hours In The Past bowed out with an unspectacular 3m viewers, as Sky 1 dram Critical ended with fewer than 200,000 viewers.
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Ratings24 Hours in the Past transports 3.8m
TUESDAY: BBC1’s latest reality documentary format 24 Hours In The Past failed to uncover more than 4m viewers as Channel 4’s political comedy Ballot Monkeys climbed higher.
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NewsDarlow Smithson travels to Victorian workhouse for BBC1
BBC1 controller Charlotte Moore is keen to introduce new angles to the channel’s factual programming, kicking off with a series focusing on the poorest members of Victorian society.
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NewsUK indies pick up Nat Geo orders
Nat Geo is to follow a space mission, meet the 9/11 emergency teams and take a nostalgic trip back to the 1990s in a slew of commissions from UK indies.
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NewsHasselhoff returns to Berlin Wall for Nat Geo
David Hasselhoff is to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by fronting a Darlow Smithson film for Nat Geo.
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NewsDSP prepares for Mars mission
Darlow Smithson Productions has gained exclusive access to film the Mars One space mission, which will send a number of astronauts on a one-way trip to the Red Planet.
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NewsRichard III reinterment to air live on C4
Channel 4 is to broadcast the reburial of Richard III live from Leicester Cathedral after the former King’s descendants lost a High Court battle to have him laid to rest in York.
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NewsNat Geo orders World War II docs for global slate
National Geographic Channels International has commissioned two big-budget World War II documentaries as part of its latest slate of global programming.
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NewsEmily Dalton named MD of Darlow Smithson
Darlow Smithson Productions has promoted Emily Dalton to managing director to replace Ben Bowie, who is leaving to pursue a new venture.
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NewsDSP reshuffle as Ware retires
Blue-chip factual producer Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) is reorganising its management team following the retirement of co-creative director Julian Ware after 40 years in the industry.
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NewsC4 to tell Stephen Hawking's life story
The first TV autobiography of Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most famous scientists, is set to be broadcast on Channel 4.
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NewsC5 orders Darlow volcano doc
Channel 5 has commissioned Darlow Smithson Productions to make a one-off doc about the volcanic eruption of Eyjafjallajökull.
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NewsC4 orders Richard III follow-up
A follow-up film looking at how leading archaeologists from the University of Leicester uncovered Richard III’s body has been ordered for More4.
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NewsC4 to trace history of De Havilland Comet
The creation and demise of the world’s first passenger jet airliner will be explored in a one-off Channel 4 documentary.