Features – Page 13
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Behind The Scenes
Locked In: Breaking the Silence, BBC4
Filmmaker Xavier Alford on the cathartic experience of sharing the story of his illness
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Science shows thrive in pandemic
Growing appetite for genre as audiences seek information on coronavirus
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Behind The Scenes
Exploring the World According to Grandpa
Creating a relaxed atmosphere for child actors in a Covid-19 world was no easy task, says exec producer Caroline Cherry-Roberts
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The Broadcast Interview
Mackenzie Crook: Man of many talents
The actor and Pirates of the Caribbean star on leaving Hollywood behind to write and direct for British TV
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Behind The Scenes
Coronation Street: Sixty years on the Street
How ITV Studios pulled off a series of ambitious 60th anniversary specials under Covid restrictions
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Behind The Scenes
Surviving the Stone Age with Channel 4’s explorers
There was genuine jeopardy as our anthropological experiment pushed our ‘Stone Age’ cast to the limit, says Natalie Wilkinson
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Don’t forget TV’s LGBTQ community
Broadcaster diversity pushes are great, but they are missing us out, says Greg Sanderson
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Behind The Scenes
The rollercoaster ride reopening Alton Towers
Our Channel 4 documentary reveals the quiet anxieties of staff at the famous theme park, says Kate Siney
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How Spirit Studios revealed The Whole Truth
We braced for a social media reaction to our Channel 4 music-meets-mental health special, but only found positivity, says Matt Campion
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Behind The Scenes
American Nightmare: the two-week shoot that lasted six months
Covid-19 hit when I was filming our Channel 4 child poverty doc in US - but we decided to see it through, says Jezza Neumann
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Behind The Scenes
Taking Ghost Bus Tours mid-pandemic
Our Lithuania-shot horror entertainment series for ITV2 could have been a nightmare but ended up a scarily strong success, says Ben Wilson
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Behind The Scenes
Small Axe: Lessons in black history
Tracing the stories of black West Indians over 16 years, director Steve McQueen’s new BBC1 series couldn’t be more relevant or timely
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The BBC’s radical commissioning plan
Industry reacts to corporation’s proposal for switch to iPlayer-first approach
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BritBox’s originals wishlist
Managing director Will Harrison reveals his plans to step up commissioning, with a focus on scripted shows that reflect British culture
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The Broadcast Interview
Saving Strictly: Interview with showrunner Sarah James
Exec producer on stress, self isolation and same-sex couples
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Glued to the Screen: Freddie Flintoff: Living with Bulimia
Daniela Neumann is humbled by this taboo-busting documentary that raises awareness of the condition in men
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Capturing the story of GRM Daily during lockdown
Lockdown surprisingly helped expand YouTube’s one-off YouTube doc about the rise of the grime music business to a series
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Behind The Scenes
Animation in lockdown: a new pace for stop motion
Every rule our animators use went out the window to create the second series of CBBC’s Scream Street, says Phil Chalk
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Comment
Time to take diverse voices off mute
Television businesses to help young people from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds break into the sector, says Nishy Lall
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Behind The Scenes
The collaboration game – C5’s ‘confederate’ commission
How the trio of regional indies and commissioning editor reveal how they collaborated on A Big History of…