Blink creates space station doc for PBS, SBS and France Télévisions

Blink Films is behind a documentary about the International Space Station (ISS) for broadcasters in the US, Australia and France.  

Terror on the Space Station, which will air as either a 2 x 60-minute series or a 90-minute single, recounts a series of near-catastrophic incidents aboard the ISS from the people who witnessed them. Astronauts and mission control insiders reveal the most terrifying  moments they have faced onboard the ISS since its first crew boarded in November 2000.  

Gas leaks, meteor strikes, docking disasters, colliding satellites, spacewalks, showers of space junk and the moment the ISS backflipped out of control are among the life-and-death stories that will feature in the film. 

The doc will air on PSB in the US as Operation Space Station for its Nova strand, and will also broadcast France Télévisions and on SBS in Australia. It will receive a theatrical release in the UK.  

Terror on the Space Station is executive produced by Tom Adams and Dan Chambers for Tin Roof Media label Blink Films, and Julia Cort and Chris Schmidt for Nova. Oscar Chan directs with Sophie Burley producing. PBS International is the worldwide distribution partner, and will launch it to the international market at Mipcom next month.  

Chambers said the doc will provide an edge-of-your-seat account of the space station’s 25-year history. 

“It reveals a whole new story to the ISS, with the astronauts’ first-hand tales of survival in the most hostile environment known to humanity. We are thrilled to be in production for PBS, France Télévisions and SBS as well as looking forward to seeing audiences’ reaction to the film being shown on big screens in cinemas.” 

Schmidt added: “We’ll be sad to say goodbye when this remarkable engineering marvel is decommissioned but we look forward to continuing to tell the dramatic and inspiring story of humankind’s presence in space.”