Features – Page 19
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Behind The Scenes
Recreating the Blitz Spirit for BBC1
Covid-19, budgets and a trio of lockdown beards were among the challenges we faced creating our latest Lucy Worsley programme, says Emma Hindley
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Jools in lockdown: keeping the music playing
The length of the great man’s grand piano helped Alison Howe’s team produce the 56th series of Later with… Jools Holland during the pandemic
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Digging deep for More 4
We wrecked gardens, circumvented local councils and stunk out a Premier Inn hotel room to create The Great British Dig, says Steve Wynne
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Discovering the true Jodi Arias during Covid
We gained access to the people closest to convicted US killer Jodi Arias as the world locked down, says Lucie Ridout
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Reconstructing Shannon Matthews’ disappearance
Gaining the trust of a community dubbed ‘Broken Britain’ was tricky but rewarding, says director/producer Neil Rawles
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Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable – creating comedy in lockdown
We’d nearly finished filming our panel show when production stopped, but we adapted, says Dom Wells-Martin
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It’s A Sin: out and proud in the 80s
Russell T Davies on why it was so important to cast gay actors in his 1980s-set AIDS drama
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Glued to the Screen: Line Of Duty
With its emphasis on character, Jed Mercurio’s police corruption drama takes me back to the great detectives of my childhood, says Ian McKee
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Richard Hammond on The Great Escapists
Our ambitious attempt to reinvent pop-science for Amazon involved 13 shipping containers, a desert island and massive builds, says presenter
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Why 13 could be lucky for Dancing on Ice
Every eventuality has been considered and contingency plan plotted for 13th series of ITV’s ice-skating competition, says Clodagh O’Donoghue
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A Discovery of Witches, Sky
Bad Wolf exec producer Lachlan MacKinnon on creating 16th century London in South Wales
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The ‘pawsome’ challenge of Pooch Perfect
Covid-19 played havoc with the planning of our BBC1 dog grooming competition series but it might have also made it better, says Damon Pattison
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London’s Greatest Bridges, C5
Lockdown restrictions have forced factual producers to think differently – but this can present creative opportunities, says Dominic Gallagher
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Bringing order to Pandemonium
Mucking in and keeping crew and cast safe were key to our Covid-themed comedy for BBC1, says Tom Jordan
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Unmasking the Singer again
Face-covering jokes aside, it took a Herculean effort to get the The Masked Singer’s second run on screen, says exec Derek McLean
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The impact of Torvill & Dean’s Alaskan adventure
Assessing the environmental cost of our quest to film the famous skaters perform the Bolero in nature underpinned our production, says Helena Braun
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Bringing Quentin Blake’s Clown to life
It was a race against time to realise our ambition for Channel 4’s animated special from day one, says Massimo Fenati
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Finding festive cheer in KFC
Sifting through 960 stores to discover the ‘people behind the uniform’ was a daunting task, says C4 ob-doc director Jonny Ashton
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The Surgeon’s Cut: capturing life and death situations
We scoured the planet to find the surgeons whose pioneering and lifesaving work is at the centre of our Netflix doc series, says James van der Pool
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Co-ordinating a Very Country Christmas
Tern TV had to grapple with PM’s Whack-a-Mole strategy and spiritual donkey-related conundrums for BBC1 three-parter, says exec Brendan Hughes