All Love Productions articles – Page 12
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NewsShillinglaw lands Endemol Shine empire
Endemol Shine UK has made Kim Shillinglaw its first director of factual and handed her responsibility for its three UK indies that specialise in the genre.
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NewsBBC lines up Bake Off Christmas special
Previous contestants from The Great British Bake Off are to return to the tent for a BBC1 Christmas special.
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NewsC4 puts a stop to Benefits Street
Love Productions’ controversial factual format Benefits Street will not return to Channel 4.
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NewsLove’s Muslim doc to explore pluralism
Love Productions’ forthcoming BBC2 constructed documentary series is to place 10 Muslims from a variety of backgrounds into a single house.
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FeaturesGoggledocs
Five of the UK’s top TV documentary-makers watched C4’s factual output in the first week of February. Here they deliver their verdicts in the style of the channel’s hit series Gogglebox
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NewsHot House backs former Mentorn boss
Mentorn Media’s former specialist factual boss Malcolm Clark has set up an indie with new production incubator The Hot House.
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FeaturesCreative Access: Building a diverse workforce
Creative Access has been organising internships for young BAME talent for the past three years. Former trainees and their employers tell Ann-Marie Corvin what it has done for them
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FeaturesNations and Regions: post industry goes west
Along with Salford, Bristol is booming thanks to a busy BBC slate, leaving the likes of Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham playing catch-up. Adrian Pennington reports
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NewsMuslim docs take centre stage
The BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5 will go head to head with programming about British Muslim communities amid concerns that broadcasters focus too heavily on extremism.
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NewsRevealed: the crunch talks over Bake Off's future
The BBC and Love Productions are set for crunch talks over The Great British Bake Off in the coming weeks, with ITV and Channel 4 thought to be ready to pounce if a deal cannot be agreed.
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NewsBake Off winner lands BBC1 series
The Great British Bake Off winner Nadiya Hussain is to present a two-part travel cookery show for BBC1 tracing her culinary roots.
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NewsDavid Abraham accuses Channel 5 of copy-cat commissioning
David Abraham has hit out at Channel 5 for “carpet-bombing” its schedule with benefits-related programming following the success of Channel 4 documentary Benefits Street.
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PodcastTalking TV: ITV's commissioning team analysed
Talking TV runs the rule over ITV’s new group of commissioners and assesses Polly Hill’s decision to leave the BBC - while two contrasting BBC3 shows are previewed.
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RatingsBake Off spin-off sweet for BBC2
TUESDAY: Bake Off: Crème de la Crème became BBC2’s highest-rated show since Jeremy Clarkson’s final Top Gear in June.
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NewsWolf Hall leads hunt for Bafta
Wolf Hall is leading the pack in the hunt for a Bafta television award, but the academy has snubbed Catastrophe in its Scripted Comedy category.
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NewsSky buys a spoonful of Sugar Films
Sky has taken a minority stake in Pat Younge’s production company Sugar Films, continuing its UK indie investment strategy.
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NewsLove to look beyond BBC and C4
Love Productions creative director Richard McKerrow has admitted that The Great British Bake Off indie is too reliant on the BBC and Channel 4.
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FeaturesESG dominates after merger
Turnover dwarfs that of nearest rival as Endemol Shine Group reports combined figures for the first time, but drama acquisitions are boosting All3Media. Neil Midgley reports
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FeaturesWatershed moment for TV
BBC Studios, charter renewal and a potential privatisation of Channel 4 are the big issues for indies in this year’s survey as fears grow over government tinkering in ‘distinctive’ TV
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FeaturesPeer poll: Love still the one to beat
Last year’s winner is again top of the poll after applying its winning Bake Off formula to the world of pottery, while boutique Minnow sits joint second alongside a resurgent Keo