All Features articles – Page 107
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Behind The ScenesNo Offence, Channel 4
Paul Abbott’s new Channel 4 series is a comedy/police procedural with three female leads. Benji Wilson visits the set, while the writer explains how it draws on his previous work
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FeaturesA winning tactic for OB
Innovation in technology is enabling broadcasters to improve the audience’s experience of sports coverage. Adrian Pennington reports on the kit that’s helping on location
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FeaturesElection coverage: battle for the viewers’ vote
As politicians make their final pitches, Adrian Pennington examines broadcasters’ strategies for ensuring their OB teams will be first past the post with the election results
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Behind The ScenesBallot Monkeys, C4
C4’s Ballot Monkeys had to be filmed close to the wire to keep it topical. The solution? An unusual OB with four crews crammed into four coaches, writes Jimmy Mulville
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FeaturesHow to get the best from contributors
BBC Academy executive producer Lucy Hooper asks five programme-makers how they cast their shows and deal with sensitive subjects and vulnerable people
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Behind The ScenesUK Election Debate, CNN
CNN has ambitions for McLaren’s ‘Thought Leadership’ hub beyond its election debates. Alex Farber paid a visit
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Behind The ScenesChannel Patrol, BBC1
Drones and GoPros helped us capture the busy English channel on a daytime budget, says series producer Rebecca Nunn
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Behind The ScenesHunters of the South Seas, BBC2
When we gave our researcher his dream assignment, a new star presenter was born, says series producer/director Jamie Balment
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Behind The ScenesSafe House, ITV
When a hurricane blown in from the Caribbean put filming in jeopardy, we turned the conditions to our advantage, says Andrew Benson
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Behind The ScenesEpisodes, BBC2
When Wimbledon Studios went into receivership just before shooting began on Episodes’ fourth series, producer Debs Pisani had her work cut out keeping the production on track
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FeaturesHot Picks: Non-Scripted
MipTV is prime hunting ground for the next breakout non-scripted format. Broadcast looks at the gameshows, fact ent formats and reality series that might explode at the market.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Hindsight
VH1’s Hindsight is a time-travelling drama largely set in New York in the 1990s
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FeaturesHot Picks: Scripted
High-end drama will continue to be a main focus at MipTV, with global players such as Netflix becoming aggressively involved alongside local broadcasters keen to differentiate their schedules. Broadcast looks at some of the hottest international scripted projects set to launch in Cannes.
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FeaturesInside MTG’s new facility
Sweden’s Modern Times Group’s move to a new London playout facility provided an opportunity to make changes to key technology
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FeaturesHot Picks: Pioneers
Pioneers is a social experiment documentary series that follows four couples as they trade in their 21st century comforts for covered wagons, campfires and the harsh reality of the American prairie.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Best of British
British series are often among the hottest titles in Cannes, and this is even more apparent at MipTV than at Mipcom, where the latest US titles sometimes take over.Broadcast looks at the latest British big-budget dramas, shiny-floor studio shows and fact ent formats.
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FeaturesTerritory Focus: Germany
After the success of Scandinavia and Israel, it’s the turn of Germany to make its mark internationally, with its history providing great material for drama.
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The Broadcast InterviewWayne Garvie, Sony Pictures
Sony’s Wayne Garvie talks to Peter White about the US company’s desire to find the next Millionaire, boosting scripted in the UK and the dangers of messing with terms of trade
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Behind The ScenesTatau, BBC3
The tropical setting of the Cook Islands and legends surrounding Maori culture inspired BBC3’s new drama about two backpackers caught up in a mystery.
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FeaturesMaking space for light entertainment
Shiny-floor formats haven’t been squeezed out by high-end drama and even quiz show productions are demanding larger, higher-spec spaces, writes Adrian Pennington