Factual Features
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FeaturesFree Nelson Mandela: How music reframed an iconic story
Rogan Productions uncovers what is believed to be former South African leader’s first TV interview
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FeaturesKeeping it real: the key to celebrity docs
Producers reveal the challenges of immersing yourself in your subject’s life, and the importance of authenticity, timing and flexibility
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FeaturesFactual creeps in front as drama takes a hit
While scripted Hot Pick submissions are down, true crime, celebrity travelogues, science and history docs are going strong
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Behind The ScenesHow we used AI to take a fresh look at one of Britain’s most intriguing murder cases
Editor and AI producer Sion Griffiths on navigating the quirks of AI to dramatise tantalising details for S4C’s Welsh language documentary
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FeaturesGallery: Disease X: Hunting The Next Pandemic, BBC2
Images and behind the scenes shots from the STV Studios’ doc on Dr Chris van Tulleken’s hunt for a pathogen that could trigger the next pandemic
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FeaturesGallery: Michael Palin in Venezuela, 5
Selection of images from the ITN Productions factual series
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Behind The ScenesHow 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 ScenesHow 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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FeaturesZara McDermott: How TikTok helped me access Thailand’s underbelly
Ellie Kahn Documentary presenter talks access through social media, breaking the fourth wall and why pace is increasingly important
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Behind The ScenesHow 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 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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FeaturesFactual 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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FeaturesEdinburgh 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 ScenesHow 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 ScenesDelivering 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 ScenesHow 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 ScenesHow 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 ScenesHow 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 ScenesWhy 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+