All October Films articles
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Behind The Scenes
Emperor: The Rise & Fall of a Dynasty, Channel 5
Producer Bob Marsden reveals how October Films used AI and comic strips to bring the debauchery, violence and excess of ancient Rome back to life
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News
Channel 4 stands out at Grierson Awards
Broadcaster picks up five awards including two for Me and the Voice in My Head
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Comment
The decade-long friendship at the heart of Living Every Second: The Kris Hallenga Story
Neil Bonner on a relationship that began when he was a debut director and culminated in a new celebration of the breast cancer campaigner’s life
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News
In brief: Banijay Kids acquisition; Kris Hellenga doc; Global launches sister stations
French indie Procidis is the first edutainment focused acquisition for the superindie
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News
Siân Phillips Roman doc leads C5 history slate
Ben Fogle’s Endurance returns alongside Dan Snow Pompeii four-parter
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News
WBD orders more true crime from Octavia Spencer indie and October
Feds and Lost Women set for second runs on Investigation Discovery
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News
Younger viewers demand authentic storytelling, says Nat Geo exec
Sheffield DocFest: Karen Greenfield tells how inclusive stories are key part of broadcaster’s slate
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News
October and Idris Elba WWII series leads Nat Geo slate
Greenlights from October and Wall to Wall are ‘packed full of revelation’
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Behind The Scenes
Endurance - Race to the Pole with Ben Fogle, Channel 5
Series PD and cameraman Alexis Girardet on how October Films’ Channel 5 series was imbued with authenticity and adventure
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News
C4 reaches ‘planet’s wildest corners’ with Levison Wood
Series on endangered species from October Films and Blackmane Media
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News
October Films signs Pulse Films exec as US development head
Mohammed Adnan takes up New York-based role to grow indie’s Stateside business
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News
Rooney director Matt Smith and October prep true crime series for ITVX
The Other Mrs Jordan tells tale of serial bigamist and conman William Allen Jordan
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News
Ben Fogle to follow Shackleton’s footsteps to South Pole
October Films to track attempt to replicate Edwardian explorers
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Video
Trail: Viagra: The Little Blue Pill that Changed the World, Discovery+
October Films’ three-part doc series revealing the story of the drug that wrote the playbook of Big Pharma and changed sex forever
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News
Octavia Spencer indie & October strike Discovery deal
Hidden Figures star to exec produce premium true crime shows for Discovery+ and ID
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News
October transports C5 to the Ice Age
Ties with Krempelwood for three-parter fronted by Steve Backshall & Michaela Strachan
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News
October exec signs to Story Films
Head of studio Josh Wilkins joins as All3 indie restructures along genre lines
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Features
How to pick the perfect distributor
Three leading producers reveal what they are looking for in a partner
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Behind The Scenes
Predator: Catching the Black Cab Rapist, C5
Honouring the brave accounts of the women attacked by John Worboys was essential to making this documentary, says Sheun Adelasoye