All Factual articles – Page 296
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NewsNoddy Holder fronts mega Sky rock doc series
Slade frontman Noddy Holder is to front a mega 19-part rock doc series for Sky Arts.
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NewsC4 indie wins major Netflix order
Channel 4-backed indie Lightbox Media has won a landmark factual series from Netflix, Broadcast has learned.
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NewsC5 returns to Extraordinary People
The Extraordinary People strand is to return to Channel 5 with three films from Dragonfly, Transparent Television and Markthree Media.
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RatingsMuslim doc draws 1.2m to C4
WEDNESDAY: Channel 4’s Trevor Phillips-fronted documentary What British Muslims Really Think easily beat slot average, while the return of ITV’s crime solving duo Scott and Bailey triumphed at 9pm.
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CommentJuniper TV: C4 Muslim doc can kickstart debate
Critics of our survey are ignorant - and attacks were predictable, says Samir Shah
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VideoVIDEO: What British Muslims Really Think, C4
Juniper TV’s film, fronted by Trevor Phillips, interprets the results of a rigorous survey.
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NewsITVSGE strikes first-look deal with WMR
ITV Studios Global Entertainment has struck a first-look deal with Animal Black Ops indie World Media Rights.
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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