Features – Page 456
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FeaturesIn the wake of Waco
The 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas was an event tailor-made for live rolling news.
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FeaturesSkins - Getting teenage kicks
The show's creator hired young scriptwriters and unknown actors to add real-life grit.
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FeaturesA tale for our times
Five Daysis an intense crime drama for BBC1 takes US shows such as Murder Oneas its inspiration.
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FeaturesDirty rotten cheater
The twist to this gameshow is that one of the contestants is a cheat and the others must discover who.
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FeaturesThe magic of Abbey Road
Live From Abbey Road takes the bold step of dispensing with the usual trappings of music TV.
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The Broadcast InterviewLorraine Heggessey, BBC1
She has turned around a BBC1 struggling against an ascendant ITV and the rise of multichannel to make it the UK’s favourite channel - Lorraine Heggessey tells Leigh Holmwood how she intends to build on this success and why experimentation is worth the ris
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The Broadcast InterviewRupert Gavin, BBC Worldwide
BBC Worldwide chief executive Rupert Gavin presides over a global empire of television, publishing and music interests. He talks to Conor Dignam about the Communications Bill and why he has no truck with those who cry foul over the success of his business
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The Broadcast InterviewPaul Smith, Celador
Celador’s chief executive is in no mood to celebrate in the wake of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? fraud documentary. But bagging the West Midlands radio licence would definitely make him break into a smile.
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The Broadcast InterviewPeter Bazalgette: Cold steel and silky charm.
Endemol UK chairman Peter Bazalgette, the man behind the UK’s biggest production company, is becoming an increasingly powerful voice within the broadcasting industry.
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The Broadcast InterviewBarry Cox, Channel 4
Channel 4 deputy chairman Barry Cox made waves when he called for the licence fee to be scrapped and Sky to be broken up. Here he outlines his vision for the future and tells us why he objects to being known as ‘the government’s digital tsar’.
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The Broadcast InterviewEileen Gallagher, Ginger TV
A year into the job and Ginger TV boss Eileen Gallagher says the company is doing ‘very well’. With a brief to develop its TV interests beyond Chris Evans, the indie has three series in production without the big man in sight.