Features – Page 337
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FeaturesOn location: Amazon Heartbeat
Producer/director Irini Vachlioti had to dodge terrorists and landslides to deliver a boat and a TV series.
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FeaturesCreative Review - Crime Museum: New Scotland Yard
A title sequence, created by Component Graphics, for a new series about crime artefacts.
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FeaturesCreative Review - The Invisibles
A title sequence created by Liquid TV for a BBC1/Company Pictures crime show.
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FeaturesContent Focus: Central vision
Amid ongoing cuts in regional television, a community partnership is offering local news and community programming to the West Midlands.
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FeaturesDigital Focus: Electronic Programme Guide
If, as consultancy group Accenture suggests, viewers are choosing to watch programmes rather than channels and will switch to new channels to see their chosen programmes, then finding that channel on the EPG is increasingly important.
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FeaturesViewer choice is business model of the future
“Consumers of all ages say there is a lot they dislike about live TV,” according to an international survey of TV viewing tastes published by consultancy group Accenture last week. In this case live TV means scheduled, linear TV. So what turns viewers off? In the UK, 65% cited “commercials,” ...
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FeaturesGavin & Stacey draws tidy figures for BBC3
BBC3's comedy drama Gavin & Stacey not only picked up two Baftas to go with the reams of critical praise, it has also been a huge hit for the channel.
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FeaturesFormat Focus: El Sexometro
The sexual habits of the nation are revealed in a new entertainment format from Spain.
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FeaturesEureka!: the story behind an idea
Executive producer Nell Butler on taking daytime sleeper hit Come Dine with Me into primetime.
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FeaturesOn Location: Unearthed: Film School Wild
A film-making reality show wants to uncover the world's next Attenborough.
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FeaturesBehind the news: From cult to mainstream
Sunday's Baftas saw shows such as Britain's Got Talent overlooked in favour of TV Burp, Gavin & Stacey and Fonejacker. So how do shows make the leap from cult to mainstream and is this an increasing trend?
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FeaturesOn location: Russia - A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby
Executive producer George Carey recounts the trials of travelling and filming in remote Russia.
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FeaturesAnother dimension
Now that HDTV has established itself, the industry is beginning to ask what the next big thing for TV could be. There's an increasingly strong possibility that the answer is 3D stereo.
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FeaturesTX: Midnight Man
Filming an ITV conspiracy thriller about a journalist with a fear of daylight meant night shoots in the middle of winter in London, with the capital considered one of the characters.
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FeaturesCreative Review - Inside The Box
A stop-frame animation promo created by Artillery.tv for Virgin Media.
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FeaturesCreative Review - Headcases
Titles and interstitial graphics created by Rushes for a new animated sketch show on ITV.
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FeaturesContent Focus: Beijing 2008
Web-based video platform NewsMarket aims to build anticipation of the Olympics.
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FeaturesPushing Daisies gives ITV a night to remember
American drama series Pushing Daisies made its UK debut on ITV1 on Saturday at 9pm with 5.7 million/25% share, a good audience for a Saturday night. The appeal of this quirky drama for ITV was that it premiered to strong numbers and critical acclaim in the US last October, drawing ...
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FeaturesFormat Focus: Head of the Class
Young contestants have just five minutes to graduate from school in a new kids format from Israel.