Features – Page 124
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FeaturesCalm after the consolidation storm
The attempted sale of production giant ESG was the biggest event in a relatively quiet period for UK firms
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FeaturesBroadcasters retain edge over SVoDs
While Netflix has risen to sixth on the best broadcaster to deal with table, it is yet to unseat its more established peers
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FeaturesProducers prepare for N&R boom
Nations and regions indies are gearing up for an increase in commissioning when C4 opens its new offices
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FeaturesStudio Lambert circles in on top spot
The Gogglebox and Four In A Bed producer was the pick of its peers this year
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FeaturesC4: Relocation announcement caps year of change
But ITN remained the broadcaster’s key supplier
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FeaturesBBC: Commissioned hours rise despite BBCS spin-off
Corporation worked with 328 indies last year, up from 295 in 2017
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FeaturesITV: Indies back strategy but wary of in-house
Broadcaster drew praise for innovative stripped scheduling and strong drama output
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FeaturesC5: Creative renewal begins
Michael Palin In North Korea and Our Yorkshire Farm among 2018 commissions
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FeaturesSky: Heavy investment in high-end drama yields strong results
Bulletproof and Britannia propelled Vertigo Films to the top of Sky’s spending chart
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FeaturesUKTV: Record hours commissioned in originals push
Brown Bob Productions and Avalon among the beneficiaries
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FeaturesDiscovery: Indies benefit from push into sport and comedy
78% of Discovery’s programming came from 40 indies
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FeaturesAndrew Newman: Hail the New Puritan
The Spelthorne Community Television co-founder joins the dots between C4’s 1986 avant-garde dance oddity, Vic and Bob and Made in Chelsea
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FeaturesJo McGrath: Tiswas
The Walter Presents co-founder got a taste for the adrenaline rush of live TV after winning a golden ticket to the most anarchic show on telly
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FeaturesDaragh Carville: Spiral (Engrenages)
With a fierce sense of place and commitment to ‘messy reality’, the French procedural is TV drama as psychogeography, says the creator of ITV thriller The Bay
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FeaturesJoe Evans: Eurotrash
Swan Films’ managing director salutes a simpler time, when German adult babies with Geordie accents made a persuasive case for European integration
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FeaturesReview: Chris Morris' The Day Shall Come
The Brass Eye satirist’s second movie premiered this week at South by Southwest
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FeaturesAshley Pharoah: A Very Peculiar Practice
The ‘unapologetically intelligent and odd’ comedy-drama was a radical and stylish antidote to social realism, says the Life on Mars co-creator
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FeaturesSohail Shah: Dynasty
Raised on Bollywood movies, the entertainment producer and commissioner lapped up their lurid Hollywood equivalent
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FeaturesSamira Ahmed: Newsround
The broadcaster remembers when John Craven and ‘cool auntie’ Lucy Mathen presided over a ‘lighthouse of calm’ that brought the world into her home
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FeaturesSue Bourne on Horizon: You Do As You Are Told
Stanley Milgram’s guide to his infamous experiment forever changed the way the documentary-maker saw the world – and kickstarted her TV ambitions