Factual-entertainment Features – Page 3
-
Behind The ScenesMy Lottery Dream Home International, Discovery+
Reformatting a US series on UK soil for an international audience during lockdown proved a winning experience, says Paula Campion
-
Behind The ScenesFinding our Money Maker in a pandemic
Casting a business guru willing to invest big sums during Covid took more than blue sky thinking, says Nick Parnes
-
FeaturesC4 hunts fresh ideas in pivot to digital
Uncovering All 4-friendly shows is a primary goal for commissioning teams
-
Behind The ScenesRichard Hammond on The Great Escapists
Our ambitious attempt to reinvent pop-science for Amazon involved 13 shipping containers, a desert island and massive builds, says presenter
-
Behind The ScenesThe impact of Torvill & Dean’s Alaskan adventure
Assessing the environmental cost of our quest to film the famous skaters perform the Bolero in nature underpinned our production, says Helena Braun
-
FeaturesGlued to the Screen: The Great British Bake Off
Ninder Billing finds C4’s ‘tent of tension and delight’ exactly what she needs in Lockdown 2.0
-
![critics 18[3]](https://d11p0alxbet5ud.cloudfront.net/Pictures/100x67/6/1/5/1332615_critics183_529306.jpg)
FeaturesStepping up to the Covid plate
The team behind MasterChef: The Professionals on overcoming the challenges to record a new series
-
Behind The ScenesLodgers for Codgers: bringing the generations together
We combined flatmate speed-dating with intergenerational mixing to create our funny and emotional series, says Maia Liddell
-
Behind The ScenesBuilding HGTV’s Weekend Workshop in lockdown
With productions halted and staff fighting effects of the virus, our DIY series for HGTV was a lifesaver, says Richard Osborne
-
Behind The ScenesHow the Nolans stayed in cruise control for Quest Red
The coronavirus put paid to several European excursions we’d planned for the Nolan sisters but we adapted, says Dimitri Nicomanis
-
Behind The ScenesHow Rachel Khoo made a coronavirus era cooking show
Creating a Food Network series while self-isolating in a remote Swedish village was a unique experience, says celebrity chef Rachel Khoo
-
Behind The ScenesNikki Lilly Bakes: truly a family affair
Our teenage baking star’s parents became vital members of our production, says Sarah Murch
-
Features2015: Chris Evans confirmed as new Top Gear lead host
Radio presenter signed three-year deal
-
Behind The ScenesThe Real Housewives of Cheshire: staging a virtual reunion
Lockdown did not temper the extravagant behaviour of the leads of our ITV Be reality soap, says David Granger
-
Behind The ScenesArranging Netflix’s Big Flower Fight
MultiStory Media ran with SVoD’s ambition to create a horticulture competition series of scale and whimsy
-
The Broadcast InterviewBig Zuu’s recipe for Dave’s Big Eats
Rapper and self-taught cook on his switch from grime music to comedy-entertainment TV as his first show for Dave gets underway
-
Behind The ScenesThe Fantastical Factory of Curious Craft, Channel 4
We tapped into the Instagram generation’s obsession with crafting to create a reality show for everybody, says Andrew Cartmell
-
FeaturesHow Robin Ashbrook conquered the US
British-born unscripted guru on Hollywood’s reaction to Covid-19, the SVoDs’ appetite for unscripted and his Netflix hit Next in Fashion
-
Behind The ScenesWhat Harry Redknapp did last summer
Behind the scenes on Harry Redknapp’s Sandbanks Summer
-
Behind The ScenesDon’t Scream, BBC3
Creating fear and fun was the name of the game for our BBC3 reality show, says Simon Knight