All Neal Street articles – Page 10
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NewsPeriod drama leads Bafta Craft nominations
Period drama could dominate this year’s Bafta Craft Awards after seven nominations for BBC1’s Great Expectations and multiple appearances on the shortlist for Birdsong, Downton Abbey and The Crimson Petal and the White.
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NewsLipSync lines up £3m EIS fund for high-end drama
Soho-based post-production company LipSync is raising a £3m TV drama fund through the government’s private investor Enterprise Investment Scheme.
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FeaturesCall the Midwife
Create titles that place the BBC drama in the 1950s and link it to the memoirs of Jennifer Worth
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NewsBBC1 recommissions Call the Midwife
BBC1 period drama Call the Midwife has been recommissioned after just two episodes.
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NewsBBC: coping with the cuts
If the BBC’s 2011 was defined by months of speculation over where exactly that 16% budget cut would be made, the year ahead will be characterised by the start of the surgery.
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NewsBBC1 orders 1950s midwife drama
BBC1 has revealed details of an adaptation of the memoirs of a 1950s East London midwife from Neal Street Productions.
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The Broadcast InterviewDanny Cohen, BBC1
The new controller of BBC1 is looking to shake up its content across all genres. He tells Catherine Neilan about his plans to take the channel in a more experimental direction
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NewsTCI round-up: New year brings new drama for BBC1
BBC1’s controller Danny Cohen has commissioned a host of new programmes, including a new adaption of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, while Channel 4 sees the return of a new series of Million Pound Drop Live.
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NewsCohen commissions raft of drama series for BBC1
A new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations and a “blue-collar” series about prisoners’ wives are among a broad first raft of drama commissions by Danny Cohen for BBC1.
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NewsSam Mendes to work on BBC Shakespeare season
Sam Mendes, Jane Campion and Sir David Hare have been signed up by the BBC’s controller of drama Ben Stephenson to work on dramas for its autumn/winter season.
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No direct replacement for Tranter at BBC
The BBC has abandoned its search for ‘a new Jane Tranter' and instead promoted its existing films and acquisitions chiefs to the BBC Fiction board.
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Sam Mendes to exec Lost in Austen movie
ITV's Jane Austen time-travel drama Lost in Austen is to be turned into a movie, with Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes as an executive producer.
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NewsBourne takes top prize for BBC Alzheimer doc
Documentary-maker Sue Bourne and Century Films' documentary Forgotten Heroes: The Not Dead picked up special awards at this year's Mental Health Media Awards.
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Winners: Mental Health Media Awards
Full list of winners at this year's Mental Health Media Awards.
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NewsTop indie producers decline Tranter's job
The BBC is struggling to find a successor to controller of fiction Jane Tranter who departs for BBC Worldwide in LA next month.
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NewsBBC leads UK success at Banff
A bumper performance by the BBC led a strong night for British television at the 29th Banff World Television Festival Award.
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NewsNeal Street gains Worth novel rights
Sam Mendes' indie, Neal Street Productions, has secured the television rights to best-selling novel Call the Midwife as its follow-up TV project to the critically acclaimed Stuart: A Life Backwards.
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NewsBBC leads RTS nominations
The BBC is leading the running for the annual RTS awards, with 39 nominations.
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FeaturesStuart: a Life Backwards
Bringing a sense of warmth to a tale of drug abuse, homelessness and bloody violence called for some unique production techniques.