All Features articles – Page 110
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Behind The ScenesHarlan Coben's The Five, Sky 1
Approaching a drama script in the same vein as author Harlan Coben’s thrillers, with hooks and cliffhangers at every turn, had to be a collaborative process, says Danny Brocklehurst
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FeaturesDigital Video: adjusting to a digital future
As video-on-demand and catch-up become destinations in their own right, five leading digital experts debate how this development will affect broadcasters. Ann-Marie Corvin reports
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FeaturesTV music: what’s the score?
The much improved range offered by production music libraries is a bonus for programmemakers, but commissioned music can take a show to another level, says Adrian Pennington
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The Broadcast InterviewCelia Taylor, Sky
Sky’s non-scripted boss talks to Peter White about flying dogs, why ‘funny factual’ is harder than it looks - and why she couldn’t turn down Renegade’s Don’t Tell The Bride
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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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Behind The ScenesUndercover, BBC1
Key scenes finally clicked once we changed continent last-minute, says producer Richard Stokes - while director James Hawes battled to make a riot look real.
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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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Behind The ScenesBehind the Scenes: Marcella, ITV
The Bridge creator Hans Rosenfeldt has brought Scandinavian rhythms to our ‘London noir’, says Nicola Larder
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FeaturesHot Picks: Drive
Top Gear has rarely been out of the news over the past 12 months, with multiple controversies, new hosts and a star-studded launch for international buyers at BBC Worldwide’s Showcase event (not to mention the former presenters’ rival show for Amazon) all making the front pages.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Insta Traveller
Broadcasters around the world are searching for ways to appeal to younger viewers. Norway’s NRK3 thinks it may have found the answer in the form of a travelogue with a twist.
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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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FeaturesHot Picks: Robot Wars
Mentorn Scotland has rebooted its classic entertainment format Robot Wars for BBC2, 13 years after it last aired.
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FeaturesHot Picks: NSU German History X
German drama is experiencing an explosion of international interest thanks to the global success of spy thriller Deutschland 83 (sold to Channel 4 in the UK and Sundance-TV in the US) and BBC2 acquisition Generation War.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Bear Grylls’ Survival School
Extreme-survival expert Bear Grylls is hoping to reach a whole new demographic with this CITV-commissioned adventure show, in which 10 children learn to fend for themselves in the Welsh wilderness.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Serena
Serena Williams is one of the greatest tennis players of all time – the Florida born athlete has won all four major tennis tournaments in a row, dubbed the ‘Serena Slam’, twice.
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Powerpuff Girls
The trend for girl or ‘gender neutral’ positioning among traditionally boy-skewed broadcasters looks set to continue as superheroes Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles take over the Croisette in Cannes this month.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Things on Strings
Ruff-Ruff, Tweet And Dave producer Collingwood & Co is taking a taster to Mip TV that could end up being the UK’s first pre-school show using marionettes in more than 50 years.
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Bagel & Becky Show
The Bagel & Becky Show comes out of Canadian pre-school production outfit Radical Sheep and, like its predecessor Stella And Sam, it follows the exploits of a brother and sister duo.
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FeaturesHot Picks: SpacePOP
Children’s content group Genius Brands has eschewed the broadcast- based model for this girl-skewed animated adventure for seven to 12 year-olds, as it delivers its latest offering digitally to the tweens’ mobile-driven world this autumn.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Chuck's Choice
Market wisdom dictates that if you can make a six-year-old laugh with an animated comedy featuring great characters, you’ll be able to sell it.