All articles by Joanna Tilley
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      Behind The ScenesArranging Netflix’s Big Flower Fight
MultiStory Media ran with SVoD’s ambition to create a horticulture competition series of scale and whimsy
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      FeaturesTom Kingsley: comedy could be resurgent post-lockdown
Ghosts director tells Joanna Tilley about escapist TV, narrowly finishing filming before lockdown and why comedy needs more women
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      NewsYACF unveils debut development slate
Projects steered by Emma Cooper and trio involved with This Is England among initial 14 projects
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      NewsLygo: ‘ITV without soaps is barely ITV’
Director of TV on stopping viewers ‘detoxing’ from Corrie & Emmerdale, the future of studio shows and the prospects of a summer Love Island
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      NewsESG extends Samsung distribution
Launch of curated channels in US and Germany includes several key library titles
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      NewsChannel 4 puts Steph Show on pause
Final lockdown show to air next week as broadcaster eyes future return to original studio format
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      NewsITVS punts unscripted slate
Distributor offers docs including MultiStory’s Return to Belsen and The Garden’s 24 Hours in Police Custody
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      NewsC4 calls halt to daytime commissioning
Hopes to have a ‘clearer picture’ of coronavirus impact soon
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      RatingsBeat The Chasers beats the others
MONDAY: The Chase spin-off brings 5.7m to ITV as Normal People underwhelms on BBC1
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      NewsLoose Women returns to the studio
Remote production too ’labour-intensive’, says ITV daytime chief
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      NewsBritBox unlocks kids TV vault
Worst Witch, Press Gang and Children’s Ward coming to PSB SVoD next month
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      NewsDancing Ledge extends drama mentoring scheme
ITV and BBC to back two-year support initiative for writers and directors
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      NewsWest Midlands handed £1m boost
BFI ploughs sum into recently-established screen agency Create Central
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      NewsWorkerbee charts world’s fastest car for C4
Elba vs Block indie documents engineers’ decade-long effort to enter the record books
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      NewsITVS picks up Japanese game show
Red Carpet Survival is sole Asian format in distributor’s catalogue
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      RatingsSewing Bee brings 4.9m to BBC1
WEDNESDAY: Love show joins fellow BBC2 transfer The Repair Shop in all-conquering double
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      NewsNorth One bags Tom Moore for ITV doc
Fundraising veteran to share memories of WW2 Burma campaign in Captain’s Tom War
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      FeaturesIsolation Stories: ‘the families are filming everything’
Jeff Pope takes Joanna Tilley inside the unusual set-up of ITV’s lockdown dramas
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      NewsFatima Salaria: ‘Science has got the answers’
C4’s specialist factual head wants ‘clever’ experts to guide us through the current crisis - and is already eyeing up a lockdown anniversary doc
 



    
    
    














