Factual-entertainment Features
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Behind The ScenesHow we captured the love and chaos of the Osbournes’ last hurrah
Entertainment creative director Ben Wicks on adapting a planned series into a 1-hour tribute in the face of the late singer’s declining health
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FeaturesKeeping it real: the lasting appeal of NBCU’s structured reality formats
Rebecca Cooney NBCUniversal’s Hannah Mabruk and UTAS UK’s Helen Kruger Bratt chat authenticity and evolution in Made in Chelsea and the UK’s Real Housewives series
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Behind The ScenesWhy making series two of Channel 4’s Jury: Murder Trial felt like pulling off a heist
Series director Misha Manson-Smith on how Screendog’s updated format allowed the team to make the second series even more immersive
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The Broadcast InterviewIan Katz: C4 is buying big and buying British
Chief content officer pledges to back original formats while rivals play it safe, as the PSB prepares for a new era of leadership
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Behind The ScenesHow we deliberately inflicted pain on a Hollywood A-lister
Executive producer Tom Watt-Smith on the challenges of filming Nutopia’s Limitless: Live Better Now with Chris Hemsworth in South Korea
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Behind The ScenesAdrenaline, squalls and lots of teeth: How Plimsoll threw celebrities to the sharks
The nature specialist hopes its ITV entertainment format will help celebrities and viewers fall in love with one of the ocean’s top predators
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Behind The ScenesMy Week With, Sky Arts
Executive producer Julie Heathcote on capuring seven days in the art world with art historian Kate Bryan and ground-breaking female artists
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Behind The ScenesVirgin Island, Channel 4
Exectuive producer Tom Garland on creating the right environment to bring C4’s reality show to release
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FeaturesZig Zag returns: the inside story of insolvency and rebirth
Danny Fenton and Matt Graff unpack the circumstance of Zig Zag Productions’ demise and how their new business has emerged in a better place
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FeaturesSharks, geniuses and nosey neighbours: What’s next for ITV entertainment?
Kevin Lygo and Katie Rawcliffe lift the lid on ITV’s next generation of major entertainment series
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Behind The ScenesHow Curve reimagined chess for the small screen
Curve chief Camilla Lewis reveals how she persuaded BBC bosses to back a risky new format
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Behind The ScenesThe Undercover Police Scandal: Love and Lies Exposed, ITV1
Raw executive producer Rebecca North on securing the access to create the definitive film about the spy cops scandal
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Behind The ScenesHow we ignored the rejections to create a tricky but brilliant quiz format
Chalkboard TV exec producer Mike Benson on the challenges of bringing One Question to the screen
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Behind The ScenesEmperor: The Rise & Fall of a Dynasty, Channel 5
Producer Bob Marsden reveals how October Films used AI and comic strips to bring the debauchery, violence and excess of ancient Rome back to life
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Behind The ScenesWill You Marry Me?, E4
Button Down managing director Louis Bamber on how cover stories helped Lovestruck Brits stage lavish marriage proposals
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FeaturesPlimsoll eyes natural history ‘Trojan Horse’ to grow fact-ent slate
Andrea Jackson and Karen Plumb explain indie’s heartland can strengthen ’noisy and audacious ideas’
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Behind The ScenesMy Mum Your Dad series 2, ITV1
Executive producers Ami Jackson and Ros Coward on the challenges of moving the dating series forward from its debut run
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FeaturesFormats in Australia: Why Gladiators and The Traitors flopped down under
After Aussie takes on two international hits fall flat, former ITV commissioner Asif Zubairy asks what’s next for the erstwhile format powerhouse?
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FeaturesRob Wade: Creativity, creativity, creativity
Fox chief exec wants scripted and unscripted worlds to get ‘a bit loose and creative’ and focus less on money
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Behind The ScenesI Kissed a Girl, BBC3
Executive producer Dan Gray on assembling the perfect team to turn a groundbreaking format into the UK’s first dating show for gay women