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All Factual articles – Page 293
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RatingsBear Grylls bows out with 2.3m
THURSDAY: ITV’s Bear Grylls: Mission Survive closed 1m behind the final episode of its debut series, while BBC1’s How To Stay Young won the 9pm slot with its launch episode.
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NewsITV unveils Kevin Lygo’s top team
BBC drama controller Polly Hill, Optomen managing director Sue Murphy and ITV Studios’ Siobhan Greene have been confirmed as the star signings in ITV director of television Kevin Lygo’s new commissioning team.
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NewsFull Fat pioneers ‘full human body rig’ for C4
Colette Foster’s Full Fat TV has landed its second Channel 4 commission – a fixed-rig format which will monitor the human body using forensic filming techniques.
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NewsStacey Dooley and Reggie Yates sign up for latest BBC3 docs
Stacey Dooley and Reggie Yates will continue their successful partnership with BBC3 after signing up to present two new immersive documentary series.
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NewsBBC kicks off World Service campaign
The BBC has launched its first domestic campaign promoting the World Service in seven years to raise awareness of the station’s programming.
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NewsBBC3's Life and Death Row gets digital twist
BBC3 is to give one of its highest-profile factual formats, Life and Death Row, a digital twist – after producing a serialised version of the documentary.
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NewsLord Puttnam lined up for Doc/Fest panel
Director Tilda Swinton, sportsman Ronnie O’Sullivan and Lord David Puttnam are to feature as part of the Sheffield Doc/Fest line-up.
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NewsSky News launches weekly debate show
Sky News is preparing to launch an unmoderated weekly debate show focusing on freedom of speech and lively debate.
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Behind The ScenesDispatches: Britain’s Pensioner Care Scandal, Channel 4
Listening in to secret recordings of care home visits, just metres away in a car outside, was a distressing experience for Alison Ramsay
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NewsNatural history chief exits BBC
The BBC’s first female Natural History Unit (NHU) boss Wendy Darke has become the latest BBC Studios board member to leave the corporation.
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NewsC4 uses fixed-rig for The Job Interview
Former Dragonfly managing director Simon Dickson’s new ITV Studios label will use a fixed-rig to film job interviews for its first commission.
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NewsWorld Media Rights lands Reelz film format
US cable network Reelz has ordered a six-part series about the real stories that inspired major Hollywood movies from World Media Rights.
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Behind The ScenesLife In The Air, BBC1
Capturing animals in flight in some of the world’s toughest locations required some unorthodox kit, says Simon Bell
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NewsUKTV and PBS team for treasure series
UKTV and US public broadcaster PBS have teamed up with Carl Hall’s indie Warehouse 51 to dig for treasure.
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NewsUS indie Megalomedia hires UK development boss
US production company Megalomedia has hired the series producer of Help! My Supply Teacher is Magic as its head of development as it looks to grow its UK ouput.
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RatingsDonald Trump doc gets the vote of 1.8m viewers
WEDNESDAY: Channel 4’s second Donald Trump documentary in two months performed solidly, as Countryfile spin-off Secret Britain failed to match its previous outings.
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Innocence Network
True crime is a tough genre to crack, with unpredictable storylines and drawn-out court cases. No group understands this better than The Innocence Network, a group of 69 international organisations that attempt to exonerate unjustly convicted men and women around the world.
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NewsMarjorie Kaplan sets out DNI vision
Discovery Networks International (DNI) is looking to supersize its local commissions into global formats and is hunting for ideas that have the sensibility of independent feature docs.
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FeaturesHot Picks: 1916
Distributor RTÉ GlobalProducer Coco ProductionsLength 3 x 60 minutesBroadcaster RTÉ (Ireland)It’s now 100 years since the Easter Rising, when armed Irish Republicans seized key locations in Dublin and proclaimed an Irish Republic.Irish public broadcaster RTÉ aired three-part documentary 1916 to coincide with this anniversary.The films examined ...