Pippa Considine

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Fremantle’s Imaginae Studios has revealed its first project - Art Awakens, a short-form series that uses generative AI to reveal the inner worlds of iconic paintings.

BBC documentary Miriam Margolyes Made Me Me is directed and produced by Simon Draper and edited by Gwyn Jones, who write here about how it reached the screen.

Mint is an eight part drama for the BBC produced by House Productions, from writer and film maker Charlotte Regan. Here, she writes about working with executive producer Theo Barrowclough on the upcoming series.

Apple TV+ has released the trailer for the second season of thriller Criminal Record, starring Peter Capaldi as Detective Chief Inspector Daniel Hegarty and Cush Jumbo as Detective Sergeant June Lenker.

5 has commissioned a three-part travel adventure series, Michael Palin in the Philippines produced by ITN Productions. The Philippines, still dominated by the legacy of the Marcos family is now part tourist paradise, but there is extreme >>>

Channel 4 has released the trailer for S2 of Double Act’s reality format Virgin Island. The first series shot to the top of the list of Channel 4’s new unscripted series launches for share of 16-34s. In >>>

Backlight, the global media technology company behind Iconik and Wildmoka, is bringing the multi-platform publishing capabilities of Wildmoka to the media management workflow of Iconik, and will be the first platform to fully connect high-volume media management, reviewand approval, and multi-platform publishing.

Vodcasts were once an adjunct to the main podcast action or a marketing tool for a show spin off, but now visuals are moving front and centre.

Believe Me is a four-part true crime drama from Jeff Pope’s Etta Pictures that tells the story of black cab serial rapist John Worboys. Ahead of its ITV release on 9th May, writer and executive producer Pope, alongside co exec producer Saurabh Kakkar, talked about how the drama developed, its particular sensitivities and the efficiencies needed to pull the production together.