Features – Page 17
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Behind The Scenes
Tackling the menopause with Davina
Finestripe set out to smash taboos on C4 single and was helped along by a host willing to open up, says director/producer Linda Sands
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Leigh-Anne: Race, Pop & Power, BBC1/BBC3
My childhood friendship with the Little Mix star helped focus our exploration of race, says Tash Gaunt
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Sitting down with the Queen’s cousins
Yorkshire Vet indie Daisybeck’s signature heartfelt style was applied to a sometimes-divisive subject, says development producer Claire Scollie
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BBC1 Ian Wright doc: telling Home Truths on and off-screen
Ensuring a diverse crew was crucial to spotlighting the football star’s childhood experiences, says producer Charlene Chika Osuagwu
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Finding our Money Maker in a pandemic
Casting a business guru willing to invest big sums during Covid took more than blue sky thinking, says Nick Parnes
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Making Man Like Greta
Rockerdale Studios underwent ‘detailed exploration of a new world’ to forge C4 social media show , says exec Michelle Singer
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The Beast Must Die: Revenge is sweet
The team behind BritBox’s original drama on how colour-blind casting & a gender switch bring a different dimension to their novel adaptation
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Smart budgeting for British sci-fi
Creating Intergalactic for Sky 1 was a mix of big ambitious and clear boundaries, says Kieron Hawkes
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Breaking into the comedy boys’ club
Despite repeated calls for more comedy shows with female writers, the latest stats from Broadcast’s Programme Index suggest progress has been slow
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Dreaming Whilst Black: from web to BBC1
Our Comedy Slice adaptation of Adjani Salmon’s online hit shows people of colour given senior positions create brilliant programmes, says Gina Lyons
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Breaking the social silence around pregnancy for C4
Wonderhood Studios’ doc series Baby Surgeons challenged us to film sensitively and carefully, says James W Newton
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How Hollywood helped Lucy the Human Chimp
Going into production during the global pandemic meant using a technique reserved for big-budget films on our Channel 4 doc, says Alex Parkinson
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How the ‘woman of Cremona’ revealed Big Light’s Leonardo
Telling the story of the great Renaissance painter came together when we discovered his possible ‘muse’, says Frank Spotnitz
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Gallery - Frank Of Ireland
Selection of images of the Merman comedy series for Channel 4, centring on a misanthropic, 30-something, struggling singer-songwriter
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Working with the Wolf of Wall Street
Creating Discovery+’s GameStop: The Wall Street Hijack was a complicated and exciting challenge – and so was its presenter, says Mark Radice
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Matt Baker’s diary: a debut commission in lockdown
Presenter reveals how a family accident led to More 4’s Our Farm in the Dales
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The Syndicate: Eyes on the prize
Writer Kay Mellor on her determination to mix young working-class actors with more familiar faces as her Lottery-winner drama returns
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Glued to the Screen: Cornwall: This Fishing Life
With its deft storytelling and strong characters, this BBC2 gem helped me understand a different viewpoint and another way of life, says Muslim Alim
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Nurturing Would I Lie to You
Peter Holmes and Rachel Ablett, the husband and wife team behind BBC1’s comedy panel show, reveal how they keep the magic of the series alive
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Unlocking the Secrets of the Supercars
The pandemic posed unimagined problems for our behind-the-scenes look at the supercar world for Dave, but a belt and braces approach got us over the finish line, says Jonney Steven