All Drama articles – Page 266
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Features
EastEnders: broadcasting live from Albert Square
Ahead of this week’s 30th anniversary EastEnders specials, BBC Studios & Post Production operations manager Geoff Ward reveals the challenges involved in delivering the soap live.
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News
Ukip docu-drama stokes controversy
Channel 4’s docu-drama Ukip: The First 100 Days has stoked controversy – drawing criticism from Nigel Farage and nearly 80 complaints to the broadcaster and Ofcom.
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Ratings
Indian Summers C4's best drama launch in five years
SUNDAY: Channel 4’s big budget epic Indian Summers transported almost 3m viewers to become the channel’s best performing drama in nearly five years.
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News
Sky Atlantic re-enters The Tunnel
Sky Atlantic is bringing back Anglo-French crime drama The Tunnel for a second series.
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News
Nick Hornby and Anthony Horowitz pen BBC1 dramas
Nick Hornby is to pen his first television drama for BBC1 while Anthony Horowitz is to return to the channel after more than a decade with an investigative thriller.
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Video
VIDEO: UKIP: The First 100 Days, C4
Watch the trailer for Raw TV’s fictional documentary about UKIP’s first 100 days in power.
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Features
Training in drama: solving the skills problem
Drama experts examine what can be done about the growing shortage of skilled TV production crew
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News
All3Media secures global buyers for C4’s Indian Summers
All3Media International has closed seven deals for forthcoming Channel 4 drama Indian Summers.
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Comment
Comment: Channel 4 drama is here to be different
As C4 head of drama, it’s a badge of honour to open Broadcast and see you have appalled a TV critic
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News
Amazon grabs Outlander for UK
Amazon has acquired the UK rights to Left Bank Pictures’ sci-fi period drama Outlander.
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News
BBCW strikes Wolf Hall deals
Thomas Cromwell is set to travel the world after BBC Worldwide struck a slew of international sales for period drama Wolf Hall.
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News
Objective seals umbrella deal with fledgling indie
Objective Productions has inked an umbrella deal with Vox Pictures and will share in the fledgling drama indie’s profits in exchange for back office support.
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Comment
Channel 4’s drama push isn’t working
Broadcaster is struggling to get the balance right, says Maggie Brown
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Features
Best Single Drama: Common
Jimmy McGovern’s 90-minute drama Common, which told the story of a young man standing trial for murder under complicated circumstances, was a “jaw-dropping drama that never did the predictable” and an “outstanding exposition of a complex theme”, according to the judges.
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Features
Best Original Programme: Glasgow Girls
Glasgow Girls may not be the highest-profile show to win a Broadcast Award this year, but it is one of the most distinctive.
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Features
Best Drama Series: Happy Valley
Such was the impact of Happy Valley when it aired in April 2014, it was used as one of Charlotte Moore’s ripostes to criticism of BBC One.
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Comment
Comment: Fortitude success shows Sky is on the right path
Drama has demonstrated the ambition and quality viewers can expect
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News
BFI: high-end TV spend hits £600m
More than 80 TV productions with a total spend of over £600m benefited from the UK’s high-end TV tax break in 2014.
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News
The Musketeers poised to return
BBC1 is ready to press ahead with a third series of The Musketeers despite the drama’s below-par ratings.
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Comment
The Twitter verdict: Fortitude
“Well I stuck with #Fortitude and thought it was really good. Except for the pig. Didn’t like the pig bit”