Archive for the ‘News’ Category
DEV AP SELECTED FOR FAST TRACK SCHEME
Development Assistant Producer Ross Goodlass was selected for the Edinburgh Festival Fast Track scheme.
Jamie: Drag Queen at Sixteen seen by over 1.4 million viewers
Jamie: Drag Queen at Sixteen was seen by over 1.4 million viewers in it’s first week of transmission on BBC3. [...]
FIRECRACKER THIRD IN PEER POLL
Firecracker have come 3rd in the Best Indie peer poll in both Broadcast and Televisual magazines.
NEW EXEC PRODUCER FOR FIRECRACKER
We are delighted to welcome our new Executive Producer David Herman who will be overseeing many of our American series.
MOST GROUNDBREAKING PROGRAMME 2010
Broadcast readers voted ‘My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’ the ‘Most Groundbreaking Show’ at the Cultural Diversity Awards 2010 beating ‘The Sex Education Show: Am I Normal?’ and poignant disability drama ‘Cast Off’s’.
Big Fat Buzz
‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’ has had a phenomenal response online. The Official ‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’ page has shot from around 20,000 ‘likes’ pre-TX to over 70,000 and rising.
A post announcing the start of the show at 9pm on Tuesday 25th has been viewed over 140,000 times with an incredible average feedback rate of 94% during TX.
RATTY ROM-COM
We are proud to announce that Jenny Popplewell’s First Cut ‘Head Over Heels in Rats’ goes out on Channel 4 at 7.30pm on Fri 28th Jan.
Picked up across the all the weekend papers as ‘Pick of the Day,’ The Guardian have described the film as ‘a unique and strangely heartwarming short about an unconventional couple.
GYPSY MILLIONS
The first episode of ‘Big Fat Gypsy Weddings’ is now confirmed at 8.2 million viewers.
It’s the highest rating documentary ever on Channel 4 and the 10th highest rated programme in the history of the channel.
Nominated for Broadcast Award
‘My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’ one off programme from 2010 has been nominated for ‘Best Documentary Programme’ at the Broadcast Awards 2011. The competition is strong but we will have our fingers and toes crossed at the awards on the 2nd Feb.
Adidas update
We’re excited to announce the launch of the follow-up film for Adidas in the ‘Made From 100% Chelsea’ series with the legendary pop artist Sir Peter Blake.