All Brinkworth Films articles – Page 3

  • Lip Sync Battle
    Features

    C5 keeps it in the family

    2017-02-23T11:53:00Z

    Primed for the 10pm battle

  • The Fake News Show
    Ratings

    1m watch fake news on C4

    2017-02-07T12:31:00Z

    MONDAY: Channel 4 kicked off its fake news season in front of 1m viewers, as BBC2’s SAS documentary outgunned Channel 5’s recent effort.

  • Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away
    News

    Ofcom raps C5 for Can't Pay? cursing

    2017-02-06T12:56:00Z

    Ofcom has rapped Channel 5 over an episode of Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away after receiving three complaints about frequent offensive language broadcast shortly after the watershed.

  • Kenzey The Accused
    Behind The Scenes

    The Accused, Channel 5

    2017-02-06T11:38:00Z

    Insight of a trial of a mother accused of failing to protect her baby from a violent assault by her boyfriend.

  • Muslims Like Us
    News

    C5 seeks jaw-dropping events

    2017-01-19T07:01:00Z

    Channel 5 is to push into event programming as it searches for big-budget formats to reduce its reliance on Endemol Shine’s Big Brother.

  • Gangland
    News

    C5 plots to make 10pm slot 'edgier'

    2016-12-05T12:32:00Z

    Channel 5 is eyeing bringing back hard-hitting documentary Gangland as it beefs up its 10pm slot with “edgier” programmes.

  • Slum Britain
    News

    Slum Britain sparks C5 content review

    2016-12-01T12:57:00Z

    Channel 5 is considering a review of its 2017 programming line-up in light of its 90-minute documentary Slum Britain: 50 Years On.

  • Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!
    News

    C5 pledges to take more risks

    2016-11-10T07:04:00Z

    Channel 5 is looking to broaden its programming repertoire and up its “mainstream populist” ambitions on the back of increased programming spend.

  • National Trust
    News

    Channel 5 ups factual ambitions

    2016-11-03T12:41:00Z

    Channel 5 is stepping up its factual commissioning slate with three ambitious documentary projects.

  • Never Trust a Doctor
    Ratings

    C4 health series opens healthily

    2016-05-05T12:46:00Z

    WEDNESDAY: The launch of Channel 4’s factual health series Never Seen a Doctor smashed the slot average while Mary Beard’s historical doc reached the half way mark with solid numbers.

  • Caravanner of the Year
    Ratings

    BBC2 caravan doc transports 1.3m

    2016-04-21T12:53:00Z

    WEDNESDAY: BBC2 documentary Caravanner of the Year got off to a slow start, drawing in an audience below the channel’s slot average.

  • Secrets of the Mona Lisa
    News

    Brinkworth unravels Mona Lisa mysteries

    2015-12-08T09:24:00Z

    The groundbreaking discovery of a secret portrait beneath the Mona Lisa has been unearthed in one of fledgling indie Brinkworth Films’ first documentaries.

  • Benefits Street
    News

    Immigration Street downsized to single film

    2015-02-12T13:16:00Z

    Channel 4’s controversial documentary series Immigration Street has been scaled back to just a single episode after disruptions to filming resulted in a lack of footage.

  • age-gap-love
    News

    C5 re-orders five factual series

    2014-07-04T12:16:00Z

    Channel 5 has recommissioned five documentary series as part of a push to grow its returning brands.

  • Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away!
    News

    C5 rings up bailiff doc

    2014-02-03T12:59:00Z

    The bailiffs and repo workers responsible for reclaiming the nation’s bad debt are the subject of a Touch Productions doc series for Channel 5.

  • Pushy & Proud
    News

    Sky Living to put pushy mums in the spotlight

    2011-07-28T08:00:00Z

    Sky Living is to launch a parenting strand called Pushy & Proud that will debut as a collection of 5 x 60-minute docs from five indies.

  • Taking on Tyson
    News

    Touch and Nat Geo forge format venture

    2011-03-28T11:04:00Z

    Touch Productions and National Geographic’s UK distribution arm have come together to establish a new factual entertainment formats business.

  • Jonathan Shalit
    Comment

    Shalit proposes in The Ivy

    2010-03-25T07:00:00Z

    Off Cuts congratulates superagent Jonathan Shalit, who became engaged to Katrina Sedley in typically showbiz style - getting down on his knee at The Ivy.

  • Mike Tyson
    News

    Touch lands Tyson for pigeon pilot

    2010-03-24T11:34:00Z

    Touch Productions is behind a Animal Planet US pilot that will see boxing bad boy Mike Tyson make his pigeon racing debut.

  • Features

    Spin-offs: The art of spinning a fresh story

    2009-04-02T08:49:29Z

    As ITV heads to MipTV with an Ant and Dec Saturday Night Takeaway spin-off, Broadcast asks five past masters what makes a good second take on an original idea