All Features articles – Page 94
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Behind The ScenesUndercover, BBC1
Key scenes finally clicked once we changed continent last-minute, says producer Richard Stokes - while director James Hawes battled to make a riot look real.
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Behind The ScenesLife In The Air, BBC1
Capturing animals in flight in some of the world’s toughest locations required some unorthodox kit, says Simon Bell
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Behind The ScenesBehind the Scenes: Marcella, ITV
The Bridge creator Hans Rosenfeldt has brought Scandinavian rhythms to our ‘London noir’, says Nicola Larder
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FeaturesHot Picks: Insta Traveller
Broadcasters around the world are searching for ways to appeal to younger viewers. Norway’s NRK3 thinks it may have found the answer in the form of a travelogue with a twist.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Drive
Top Gear has rarely been out of the news over the past 12 months, with multiple controversies, new hosts and a star-studded launch for international buyers at BBC Worldwide’s Showcase event (not to mention the former presenters’ rival show for Amazon) all making the front pages.
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Innocence Network
True crime is a tough genre to crack, with unpredictable storylines and drawn-out court cases. No group understands this better than The Innocence Network, a group of 69 international organisations that attempt to exonerate unjustly convicted men and women around the world.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Robot Wars
Mentorn Scotland has rebooted its classic entertainment format Robot Wars for BBC2, 13 years after it last aired.
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FeaturesHot Picks: NSU German History X
German drama is experiencing an explosion of international interest thanks to the global success of spy thriller Deutschland 83 (sold to Channel 4 in the UK and Sundance-TV in the US) and BBC2 acquisition Generation War.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Bear Grylls’ Survival School
Extreme-survival expert Bear Grylls is hoping to reach a whole new demographic with this CITV-commissioned adventure show, in which 10 children learn to fend for themselves in the Welsh wilderness.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Serena
Serena Williams is one of the greatest tennis players of all time – the Florida born athlete has won all four major tennis tournaments in a row, dubbed the ‘Serena Slam’, twice.
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Powerpuff Girls
The trend for girl or ‘gender neutral’ positioning among traditionally boy-skewed broadcasters looks set to continue as superheroes Blossom, Buttercup and Bubbles take over the Croisette in Cannes this month.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Things on Strings
Ruff-Ruff, Tweet And Dave producer Collingwood & Co is taking a taster to Mip TV that could end up being the UK’s first pre-school show using marionettes in more than 50 years.
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FeaturesHot Picks: The Bagel & Becky Show
The Bagel & Becky Show comes out of Canadian pre-school production outfit Radical Sheep and, like its predecessor Stella And Sam, it follows the exploits of a brother and sister duo.
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FeaturesHot Picks: SpacePOP
Children’s content group Genius Brands has eschewed the broadcast- based model for this girl-skewed animated adventure for seven to 12 year-olds, as it delivers its latest offering digitally to the tweens’ mobile-driven world this autumn.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Chuck's Choice
Market wisdom dictates that if you can make a six-year-old laugh with an animated comedy featuring great characters, you’ll be able to sell it.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Magiki
Turning a lucky-dip-bag toy product into a compelling story for upper pre-school girls was the main challenge in creating Magiki, according to Eryk Casemiro, chief creative officer of Zodiak Kids Studios.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Little Astro Boy
Hot on the heels of a number of British heritage kids’ TV properties bought back for a modern audience comes this French/Japanese co-production, Little Astro Boy.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Spartan Race
NBC has ordered a series based on Spartan Race, a series of obstacle courses that vary from three miles and 20 obstacles to 26 miles and 60 obstacles.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Radio Gaga
If Alan Partridge hosted Catfish, it might look something like Radio Gaga. In this Belgian format, two radio hosts travel the country with their mobile radio station, stopping in various small communities and setting up camp for 48 hours.
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FeaturesHot Picks: Splash and Bubbles
This marine biology show for four to seven year-olds is the result of a partnership between ImaginOcean creator John Tartaglia, The Jim Henson Company and US theme park operator Herschend Enterprises.