All Minnow Films articles – Page 10
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PodcastTalking TV: BBC quotas & Secret Life of Students
This week Talking TV focuses on the BBC’s proposal to scrap its quota system - and goes behind the digital rig of Channel 4’s Secret Life Of Students.
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NewsBBC on hunt for riskier docs
Emma Willis is on the hunt for an innovative format on the scale of Stephen Lambert’s controversial 2007 series The Verdict as she looks to boost risky and provocative documentaries across her BBC channels.
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NewsC4 takes aim at US gun culture
The lives of children who are caught up in America’s gun culture are to be explored in a Minnow Films doc for Channel 4.
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NewsBBC docs boss: formats could be on way back
DOCFEST: The BBC’s Emma Willis has hinted that Charlotte Moore and Kim Shillinglaw are keen to take more risks with docs on their channels - and that factual formats could be on the point of returning.
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NewsC4 training scheme offers Cutting Edge prize
Channel 4 is to give an aspiring documentary-maker the opportunity to direct a Cutting Edge film as part of a wider training scheme launching in September.
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NewsC4 marries strangers in new format
Channel 4 has commissioned Married at First Sight, a controversial Danish format that sees strangers get married after meeting for the first time.
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NewsBBC dominates RTS nominations
The BBC was nominated for 29 awards in 20 categories at the Royal Television Society Programme awards.
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NewsBroadcast Awards 2014: winners in full
Click through for the full list of winners in the Broadcast Awards 2014.
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NewsRTS News nominations unveiled
Dispatches Plebgate investigation, ITN’s Woolwich attack report and BBC News coverage of an attack on a Syrian school will go head-to-head for scoop of the year at the RTS Television Journalism Awards.
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The Broadcast InterviewNick Fraser & Kate Townsend, Storyville
From football in South Sudan to a chimpanzee’s court case, Nick Fraser and Kat Townsend challenge how we view the world
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NewsBattle begins for Broadcast Awards 2014
Indies Big Talk Productions and Twofour lead the nominations for the Broadcast Awards 2014 after being shortlisted in multiple categories, including Best Independent Production Company.
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NewsSecret History of Our Streets wins twice at Griersons
The Secret History of Our Streets, 7/7: One Day in London and Grayson Perry’s All in the Best Possible Taste were among the diverse winners at last night’s 41st Grierson documentary awards.
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NewsEducating Yorkshire director joins C4
Documentary-maker David Brindley is leaving Twofour to join the Channel 4 factual commissioning team.
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CommentObituary: Carys Morgan
Colleagues have paid tribute to Minnow Films and Shine TV producer Carys Morgan, who died earlier this year
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NewsC4 orders six First Cut docs
Channel 4 has commissioned six hour-long docs for its First Cut strand from up-and-coming directors including Alex Brooker: Man v Fat’s Eddie Hutton-Mills.
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NewsMinnow Films hires Our War exec producer
Minnow Films has hired Colin Barr, the Bafta-winning executive producer behind Our War, as creative director as it expands into drama.
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NewsZodiak inks Rare Day deal
Documentary specialist Rare Day has signed a first look development deal with Zodiak Rights – the distribution division of Zodiak Media.
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Behind The ScenesTrue Stories: Dogging Tales, C4
It wasn’t too difficult to find people who enjoyed going dogging, says Leo Maguire. But persuading them to appear on camera was another matter
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NewsParade's End leads Bafta Craft nominations
BBC2 period drama Parade’s End has been nominated five times at the British Academy Television Craft Awards, closely followed by The Girl, The Hour and Ripper Street.
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NewsBBC2 investigates The Detectives
BBC2 has ordered a three-part series following Greater Manchester Police’s new sexual crime division from Minnow Films.