Features – Page 165
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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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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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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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The Broadcast InterviewInterview: Phil Clarke & Roberto Troni, Various Artists Ltd
Working with the best of British talent
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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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Behind The ScenesThe Choir: Our School By The Tower, BBC2
Giving school kids affected by the Grenfell Tower fire freedom to express themselves was key to our story, says Ben Rumney
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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
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FeaturesDiederick Santer: Twin Peaks
David Lynch and Mark Frost’s idiosyncratic fusion of US soap and indie cinema aesthetic held the former Kudos chief executive spellbound
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FeaturesAysha Rafaele: The Singing Detective
The BBC Studios drama exec recalls the impact of Dennis Potter’s otherworldly fever dream
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FeaturesA Window on the World
How TV broadened viewers’ horizons, including Melvyn Bragg on Monitor and David Glover and John Smithson on Horizon