Factual Features
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Behind The Scenes
How Rex got rare access to US Navy fighter pilots — and what we did with it
Showrunner Karen Edwards on the painstaking process of ensuring Rex’s Top Guns: The Next Generation was more than just ‘jet porn’
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Behind The Scenes
How we told a horrifying story of abuse with care and trust
FirstLookTV executive producer Rachel Bowering on making My Boyfriend, My Rapist: The Secret Footage for 5
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Features
Zara McDermott: How TikTok helped me access Thailand’s underbelly
Documentary presenter talks access through social media, breaking the fourth wall and why pace is increasingly important
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Behind The Scenes
How Twenty Twenty and Netflix sought justice for romance scam victims
Showrunner Chris McLaughlin on helping a Tinder Swindler contributor turn investigator in Love Con Revenge
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The Broadcast Interview
Ian 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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Features
Factual under pressure: how global PSBs are responding
Genre bosses from the BBC, ABC and CBC unpack the challenges of producing trusted, responsive and authoritative content
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Features
Edinburgh organisers lift the lid on this year’s festival
Edinburgh TV Festival preview: Broadcast talks to Rowan Woods and Jane Tranter
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Behind The Scenes
How we brought the seven wonders of the ancient world to life
Series producer Shula Subramaniam on working with Snapchat to create 7 Wonders of the World with Bettany Hughes for 5
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Behind The Scenes
Delivering a diamond documentary for a steal
Writer and director Mark Lewis lays out how he produced a heist movie on a documentary budget
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Behind The Scenes
How we unpacked the shocking story of one of the UK’s biggest cults
Exec producer and founder of Big Sister Films Katie Buchanan on why the time was right to make Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army
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Behind The Scenes
How we balanced private tragedy and chaos to explore last summer’s riots
One Day in Southport director Dan Reed on telling a complex, uncomfortable story about the aftermath of the Southport killings for Channel 4
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Features
‘Mobilising a mini army’: How The Garden evolved the medical access doc for streaming
John Hay and Nicola Brown reflect on the ITV Studios label’s purple patch of blue-light factual series
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Behind The Scenes
How Full Fat TV set out to scam the sex scammers
Executive producer Sam Wilson unpacks the tricky process of making Hunting My Sextortion Scammer for Channel 4’s Untold strand
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Behind The Scenes
Why I came out from behind the camera to join the wildlife on screen
Presenter and camera operator Declan Burley on making Offspring Films’s The Wild Ones for Apple TV+
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Behind The Scenes
I realised I went to school with a murderer – here’s why I wanted to tell her story
Confessions of a Parent Killer series producer Charlie Wakefield on former classmate at centre of the film
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Behind The Scenes
How we turned a newspaper investigation into thrilling exposé for Channel 4
Wonderhood producer-director Joy Ash on how Poisoned: Killer in the Post tells the story of an online poison seller preying on vulnerable people
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Behind The Scenes
Live Aid at 40: how Bob Geldolf helped bring talent together - again
Zinc TV MD and executive producer Tanya Shaw on getting the band back together to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Live Aid for BBC2
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Features
Best True Crime Programme: Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke
‘A complex and emotional story brought to life with skill and wit. Excellent and raw interviews and powerful reveals that constantly surprise’
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Features
Best Specialist Factual Programme: The Lost Music of Auschwitz
‘To take the music so perversely used by the Nazis and bring it back to life through context was both brave and profound’
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