Factual Features – Page 21
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Behind The ScenesBBC1 Ian Wright doc: telling Home Truths on and off-screen
Ensuring a diverse crew was crucial to spotlighting the football star’s childhood experiences, says producer Charlene Chika Osuagwu
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Behind The ScenesSecrets of the Whales: the art of goosebump TV
Filming whale culture in every ocean on earth, but you still have to fight to keep the emotion going on-screen, Brian Armstrong argues
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Behind The ScenesMaking Man Like Greta
Rockerdale Studios underwent ‘detailed exploration of a new world’ to forge C4 social media show , says exec Michelle Singer
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FeaturesGlued to the screen: 2020: The Story Of Us
Through heart-tugging first-hand accounts set against a backdrop of news footage, this ITV doc reveals our debt to NHS workers, says Sally Benton
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Behind The ScenesBreaking the social silence around pregnancy for C4
Wonderhood Studios’ doc series Baby Surgeons challenged us to film sensitively and carefully, says James W Newton
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Behind The ScenesHow Hollywood helped Lucy the Human Chimp
Going into production during the global pandemic meant using a technique reserved for big-budget films on our Channel 4 doc, says Alex Parkinson
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Behind The ScenesWorking with the Wolf of Wall Street
Creating Discovery+’s GameStop: The Wall Street Hijack was a complicated and exciting challenge – and so was its presenter, says Mark Radice
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Behind The ScenesMatt Baker’s diary: a debut commission in lockdown
Presenter reveals how a family accident led to More 4’s Our Farm in the Dales
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FeaturesGlued to the Screen: Cornwall: This Fishing Life
With its deft storytelling and strong characters, this BBC2 gem helped me understand a different viewpoint and another way of life, says Muslim Alim
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Behind The ScenesUnlocking the Secrets of the Supercars
The pandemic posed unimagined problems for our behind-the-scenes look at the supercar world for Dave, but a belt and braces approach got us over the finish line, says Jonney Steven
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Behind The ScenesPredator: Catching the Black Cab Rapist, C5
Honouring the brave accounts of the women attacked by John Worboys was essential to making this documentary, says Sheun Adelasoye
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Behind The ScenesThe Detectives: Fighting Organised Crime, BBC2
Building trust with officers was key to recording some extraordinary moments, says series producer Louise Malkinson
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Behind The ScenesWhy Tern TV trawled through sewage for BBC2
Directing The Secret Science of Sewage under Covid was smelly and hard, but led to real-life breakthroughs, says Craig Collinson
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Behind The ScenesCaroline Flack: Her Life and Death, C4
We wanted to celebrate the TV presenter’s life, but she deserved more from our industry says director Charlie Russell
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FeaturesGallery - Happy Campers: The Caravan Park
Selection of images of the Twofour doc series for Channel 5, following events at two West Country holiday camps post-lockdown
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Behind The ScenesLost Boy: The Killing of James Bulger, C5
Exec Andy Dunn on why trust was key for the two-parter revisiting a shocking death
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Behind The ScenesWomen on the Force: captured in lockdown
A previous career in the police helped Dan Clark-Neal gain the trust of contributors for a locked down run of the W series
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Behind The ScenesReliving the sinister crimes of a serial killer
The Yorkshire Ripper’s New Victims producer Heenan Bhatti on recording the emotional stories on those who survived at the hands of Peter Sutcliffe
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Behind The ScenesUsing innovation to tell colourful stories
Humble Bee Films’ Sharmila Choudhury on bringing Attenborough’s Life In Colour to the screen
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FeaturesBoom time for Bristol
The city is at the centre of a global natural history explosion that is increasing competition for talent and pushing up budgets


















