All Producing in lockdown articles – Page 2
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Behind The Scenes
Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable – creating comedy in lockdown
We’d nearly finished filming our panel show when production stopped, but we adapted, says Dom Wells-Martin
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Bringing back the MOBOs’ magic
Bringing back the music awards show for the first time in three years is vindication for an unexpectedly tough year, says Justin Rees
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DIY: SOS’s most challenging build
Pulling off major constructions for television is tough at the best of times, so imagine that during a pandemic, says Hamish Summers
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The rollercoaster ride reopening Alton Towers
Our Channel 4 documentary reveals the quiet anxieties of staff at the famous theme park, says Kate Siney
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American Nightmare: the two-week shoot that lasted six months
Covid-19 hit when I was filming our Channel 4 child poverty doc in US - but we decided to see it through, says Jezza Neumann
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Angels of the North: two industries, two Covid protocols
Beauty salon ob-doc presented production challenges
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Capturing the story of GRM Daily during lockdown
Lockdown surprisingly helped expand YouTube’s one-off YouTube doc about the rise of the grime music business to a series
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Animation in lockdown: a new pace for stop motion
Every rule our animators use went out the window to create the second series of CBBC’s Scream Street, says Phil Chalk
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Behind The Scenes
Covid couldn’t stop us - try as it might
Sometimes it felt our BBC Wales drama The Pact would never get made, but we have made it into production, say Elwen Rowlands and Hayley Manning
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Producing Inside the Tower of London from a distance
We had to remotely teach Beefeaters to become professional filmmakers to complete our C5 series during lockdown, says Sarah Sarkhel
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Strictly Amy: a private battle with Crohn’s during lockdown
Strictly star’s personal account of the terrible disease for BBC1 Wales transformed into a love letter to ballroom, says Laura Martin Robinson
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How BBC2’s Mountain Vets avoided Covid-19
We thought shooting the second series had been a challenge - then Covid turned up during the edit, says Edward Hart
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Producing in Lockdown - Faking It: Tears of a Crime
What lessons has Steve Anderson learned from 90 post-lockdown interviews, from west Wales to East Anglia?
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Behind The Scenes
Comedy Central at the Edinburgh Fringe: remote but live
Our plan to recreate the energy of the UK’s leading comedy festival was a technical challenge like no other, says Chris Jones
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Opening up the Dino Toybox
Navigating a teething two-year-old was never going to be easy for our latest CBeebies dinosaur offering, says producer Paul Deane
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Our Yorkshire Farm special: self-filmed in lockdown
A wholehearted effort from the Owen family created the footage for our lockdown episode, says Kate Fraser
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Features
The BBC keeps the music playing
Social distancing means the 125th Proms season will be unlike all others – but the broadcasts will go ahead, says Jan Younghusband
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How Celebrity Catchphrase got back into the studio
Gary Chippington reveals how the quiz became the first major entertainment series to return to studio post-lockdown
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Preparing for The Talk with C4
Distancing posed a challenge when filming celebrity contributors and their parents for our exploration of a little-known Black British custom
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Behind The Scenes
Cooking up a lockdown barbecue treat for Food Network
Covid-19 forced Blink Films to grill every decision when making Tom Kerridge Barbecues, says Simon Arnold