Features – Page 19
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The Broadcast InterviewMackenzie 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 ScenesCoronation 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 ScenesDIY: SOS’s most challenging build
Pulling off major constructions for television is tough at the best of times, so imagine that during a pandemic, says Hamish Summers
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Behind The ScenesHow The Liberator revolutionises animated drama
Our technology has transformed Netflix and A&E’s WWII drama into a unique live-action/comic book hybrid, says Greg Jonkajtys
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Behind The ScenesSurviving 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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Behind The ScenesThe 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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Behind The ScenesHow 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 ScenesTaking 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 ScenesAmerican 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 ScenesSmall 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 Broadcast InterviewSaving Strictly: Interview with showrunner Sarah James
Exec producer on stress, self isolation and same-sex couples
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Behind The ScenesAnimation 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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Behind The ScenesThe collaboration game – C5’s ‘confederate’ commission
How the trio of regional indies and commissioning editor reveal how they collaborated on A Big History of…
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Behind The ScenesAddressing miscarriage on screen: a sensitive task
Producer and director Janice Sutherland, explains her C5 film about a topic no-one could bring themselves to talk about
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Behind The ScenesCovid couldn’t stop us - try as it might
Sometimes it felt our BBC Wales drama The Pact would never get made, but we have made it into production, say Elwen Rowlands and Hayley Manning
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Behind The ScenesProducing Inside the Tower of London from a distance
We had to remotely teach Beefeaters to become professional filmmakers to complete our C5 series during lockdown, says Sarah Sarkhel
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Behind The ScenesHenry VIII: revealing the inner torment
Our quest to explore the mental health of the storied monarch for C5 through docu-drama took us to the Vatican and back, says Luke Korzun Martin
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Behind The ScenesCreating the legacy Teddy Pendergrass deserves
Our BBC2 documentary about the late soul singer was tough to finance but spotlights his life and talent perfectly, says Olivia Lichtenstein
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Behind The ScenesStrictly Amy: a private battle with Crohn’s during lockdown
Strictly star’s personal account of the terrible disease for BBC1 Wales transformed into a love letter to ballroom, says Laura Martin Robinson
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Behind The ScenesHow BBC2’s Mountain Vets avoided Covid-19
We thought shooting the second series had been a challenge - then Covid turned up during the edit, says Edward Hart