All Features articles – Page 9
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FeaturesJulie Graham: self-shooting drama on lockdown
Actor reveals story behind her self-published YouTube drama
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The Broadcast Interview
Kirstie Swain: I like to write about people who have wronged me
The writer behind comedy-drama Pure on why lockdown could impact creativity and how she is preparing Sky Atlantic’s Sweetpea remotely
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Behind The Scenes
The Fantastical Factory of Curious Craft, Channel 4
We tapped into the Instagram generation’s obsession with crafting to create a reality show for everybody, says Andrew Cartmell
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Features
Jack Thorne: my working from home life
The His Dark Materials writer on Zoom readthroughs, the government’s ‘barbaric’ health rationing and the need for uplifting TV
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Features
Down but not out: commissioning continues amid coronavirus
Broadcast Intelligence investigates what sticks with commissioners
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Features
Tom Kingsley: comedy could be resurgent post-lockdown
Ghosts director tells Joanna Tilley about escapist TV, narrowly finishing filming before lockdown and why comedy needs more women
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Behind The Scenes
Police: Hour of Duty, Channel 5
Filming police stories across a single hour poses challenges our crew had never faced before, says Tom Clarke
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Behind The Scenes
Trying: the lowdown on Apple TV+’s first UK series
Balancing laughs and emotion in Apple TV+’s comedy series was key to revealing the truth about Britain’s adoption system, says Jim O’Hanlon
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Features
Channel 4 faces down advertising downturn
Broadcaster’s £250m cost savings may be painful, but will see it through the coronavirus
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News
BBC daily show chiefs: ‘thinking long-term is absurd’
The editors of The One Show and BBC Breakfast on keeping the nation entertained and informed in an unprecedented era of television
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Features
One World: Together at Home: ‘we proved we can still execute big shows’
Putting a BBC1 spin on an ambitious remotely-produced global event meant being on Zoom calls from dawn till dusk, says David Brindley
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Features
The production sector pushes back
The impact on the production sector and its response to the Covid-19 crisis
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Features
Analyst opinion: Netflix results mask coronavirus threat
A slowing of the original content pipeline will reveal itself later this year
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Features
Normal People - review
“No film could channel the spirit of Sally Rooney’s work as astutely as this beautifully-judged 12-episode BBC adaptation of her work”
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Features
Analyst opinion: Lockdown has scotched Quibi’s strategy
Quibi was never supposed to be a Netflix killer
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Behind The Scenes
Life and Birth: how Dragonfly created BBC1’s childbirth doc
Known for a popular fixed rig childbirth series, our latest take on the format had to deliver fresh insights, says Dragonfly’s Tom Currie
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Features
UK Viewing Trends - PSB channel genre analysis
Overnights data reveals changes in transmitted and consumed genres
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Comment
Why Covid-19 could create opportunity in Italy
Country is likely to be Europe’s first to leave lockdown and international broadcasters may move productions there, says Giuliano Papadia
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Behind The Scenes
Devs: the making of BBC2’s FX drama
We dodged the coronavirus lockdown, but producing our sci-fi drama still posed several challenges, says Allon Reich
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Behind The Scenes
Rebuilding Notre-Dame: Inside the Great Cathedral Rescue, BBC4
Gaining access to the huge efforts to salvage the Paris landmark threw up challenges we could never have imagined, says Joby Lubman
