Features – Page 149
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FeaturesFresh opportunities on horizon
With new players entering the SVoD fray, distributors are positive about the future despite concerns over consolidation
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FeaturesThe changing rights landscape
Buyers for six major UK & Irish broadcasters talk about the complicated rights situation and what they want for their channel portfolios
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FeaturesGallery: Catherine The Great
Selection of images from the set of the New Pictures and Origin Pictures drama for Sky Atlantic and HBO
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FeaturesSarah Kendall: M*A*S*H
The creator and star of Sky 1’s Frayed celebrates a comedy that trusted viewers to follow it from high farce to tragedy
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FeaturesJake Humphrey: ‘The last thing the established players wanted was Whisper’
Having carved out a space for itself in sports production, the indie has bold ambitions in entertainment and other genres
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Features8k content: behind the scenes at Japan’s NHK
NHK is pioneering the move to higher resolutions, with three new dramas shot in 8K and plans to cover the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in the format
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FeaturesHow to break the US
Broadcast Intelligence report on why scripted drama indies should boldly pitch to some of the biggest names in American programming
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FeaturesJes Wilkins on QED: John’s Not Mad
Beyond sixth-form giggles over its subject’s swearing, the landmark doc inspired the Firecracker exec to explore extremes of the human experience
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The Broadcast Interview‘The last thing the established players wanted was Whisper’
Having carved out a space for itself in sports production, the indie has bold ambitions in entertainment and other genres
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FeaturesBBC3 delves into specialist factual
New commissioning strategies see the channel returning to specialist factual content
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FeaturesUrsula Macfarlane: Mad Men
The AMC drama’s seductive surface masked a tale of melancholy and broken dreams - and taught the documentary-maker about the elasticity of time
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FeaturesWhat Britain Buys and Sells in a Day is emblematic of commissioner strategy
Why the DSP production presses the right buttons for BBC speciast factual
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Behind The ScenesTop Boy, Netflix
Bringing back his gritty drama, writer Ronan Bennett wanted to show the reality of life in a corner of London without glamourising it
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FeaturesMillion Pound Hand Jobs – Channel 5 seeks attention-grabbing titles
Channel 5 commissioning editor Daniel Louw outlines an interesting aspect of his strategy for attracting viewers
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Features‘A comforting familiarity of themes and storytelling’
Does ITV’s period drama warrant its big-screen transfer? Wendy Ide finds the Crawleys’ cinema outing a cosy, if scattershot, affair
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FeaturesStreaming: Taking the direct route
Both established and niche sports are testing the waters of serving fans via their own D2C services
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The Broadcast InterviewAlex Green, Amazon Prime
With two blocks of Premier League matches to sit alongside its ATP Tour tennis coverage, Amazon is emerging as one of the key players in the future of sports broadcasting
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Behind The ScenesMotoGP: Full throttle action
Covering the Silverstone MotoGP race meeting for BT Sport is a mammoth operation for North One, with 26 hours of live outside broadcast over three days