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Behind The Scenes
BBC Radio 1: Our Big Weekend with Lady Gaga
We wanted more live coverage than ever before, says Neil Wyatt. But what do you do when your headline act won’t stop playing?
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Behind The ScenesFour Rooms, Channel 4
No old brown furniture and teapots for this C4 antiques series, says Claudia Lewis. We wanted mummified mermaids and stuffed polar bears.
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Behind The ScenesThe Street That Cut Everything, BBC1
With 20 households and 52 residents taking part, our most crucial task on this series was making sure we didn’t miss anything, says Ricky Kelehar.
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Behind The ScenesAtlantis: End Of The World, Birth Of A Legend, BBC1
Shot entirely against green screen, our story of the ‘real’ Atlantis looked doomed when the VFX supplier went into liquidation, says Detlef Siebert
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Behind The ScenesExile, BBC1
Part psychological drama, part crime thriller and part family character piece, Paul Abbot’s Exile is a difficult one to pigeon-hole. Will Strauss goes on set to meet the cast and crew
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Behind The ScenesBorn To Be Different A Decade On, C4
Our series following the lives of disabled children has had a huge impact on everyone involved, and hopefully the viewers too, says Anna Strickland
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Behind The ScenesDoctor Who: Utah diary
Producer Marcus Wilson had to contend with cultural differences, jet lag and a language barrier on Doctor Who’s first Stateside shoot.
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Behind The ScenesLong Lost Family, ITV1
Tracking down and persuading families to reunite for TV was harder than expected for Duncan Coates - and doubled the production schedule.
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Behind The ScenesWonderland: the Trouble With Love and Sex, BBC2
Working with animators for the first time on a documentary dealing with the difficult subject of marital breakdown gave Zac Beattie ‘the fear’
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Behind The Scenes
Filming the heart of darkness
HD and tapeless kit is transforming how film-makers self-shoot in the world’s least hospitable environments. Ed Braman and Fiona Lloyd-Davies report from the Congo.
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Behind The ScenesCandy Cabs, BBC1
Making a BBC comedy was a new experience for an indie with no history of scripted programming. Creator Jane Lush recalls the drama on and off set.
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Behind The ScenesLambing Live, BBC2
How do you follow a success like Lambing Live? We’ve moved the story on with a switch from Wales to Cumbria, says producer Sarah Gibbs.
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Behind The ScenesA Different Breed, Sky 1
Using the ‘performance doc’ style pioneered for Pineapple Dance Studios helped us blur the lines between ob doc and comedy, says Jonathan Stadlen.
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Behind The ScenesThe Kennedys, History
Ahead of the UK debut of controversial mini-series The Kennedys, Broadcast presents an exclusive behind-the scenes portfolio, while Michael Rosser speaks to the series’ creators.
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Behind The ScenesThe Crimson Petal & The White, BBC2
Michael Faber’s sensuous novel spared nothing in bringing 19th-century London to life. Robin Parker meets the creative team who translated his vision into a vivid TV drama.
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Behind The ScenesMonroe, ITV1
Our focus on authenticity meant always having medical experts on set - which proved lucky when half the crew got sick, writes Jennie Scanlon.
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Behind The ScenesLove Thy Neighbour, Channel 4
Building trust with the residents of Grassington in Yorkshire meant getting involved in am-dram and downing pints with the locals, says Jamie Isaacs.
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Behind The ScenesWyneb Glyndwr (The Face of Glyndwr), S4C
When director Stuart Clarke set out to reveal the face of a Welsh hero who vanished 600 years ago, he needed a unique way to bring his search to life.
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Behind The ScenesThe Sparticle Mystery, CBBC
The series may be set in a place where there are no grown-ups, says Stephen Smallwood, but it was important that parents could enjoy it too.
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Behind The ScenesThe Model Agency, Channel 4
The world of modelling was fertile ground for an ob doc. But filming was threatened when the boss had to testify in a war crimes trial, says Jilly Pearce.