Youtube star and influencer Patricia Bright returns to the platform that launched her career to present a new four-part original series ‘If I Could Tell You Just One Thing’.
Based on the bestselling book of the same name, the series features Patricia in conversation with some of the world’s most renowned and powerful women about the stories and experiences that have shaped their own lives. As a self-made lifestyle and career/financial guru, Bright is emblematic of the women she interviews, highlighting the inspirational advice and unique perspectives that motivated them to reach their success.
Produced by Hidden Light, the production company recently launched by Hillary Clinton, Sam Branson and Chelsea Clinton, Youtube Originals commissioned the show after the success of the 2019 US pilot episode presented by Priyanka Chopra and brings it over to the UK.
Joe Swanson, editor on the series said: ‘So many interesting contributors, beautifully shot by an incredible team, I can’t wait for the series to launch.’ We can safely say Joe thoroughly enjoyed working on this one!
Jay Blades opens the doors to his brand-new workshop in Bradford in this new series for BBC Two.
In each episode, three of Britain’s finest furniture makers and experts craftspeople – Ciaran, Isabelle and Saf – will be given the task to team up with six woodworkers from the surrounding area to handmake a bespoke piece of furniture for local community heroes nominated by members of the public from across Yorkshire.
Whilst Jay will be collecting information about each local hero to find out what’s special about them and why their local community wants to thank them in this unique way for going above and beyond, the workshop team will be learning from the experts they’re working alongside. Each has a personal reason to be there, and the series explores their lives whilst following how they go about making these items and learning on the job.
Belle Borgeaud cut one episode and commented: ‘It was a great team to work with and a really nice show to make. Feel good telly – and all for the most deserving people – exactly what we all need at the moment!’ Hugo Fowler, an adept of the Repair Shop, confided that ‘After working on 2 episodes, I’m pretty sure I could throw together a walnut and mahogany table, in my mind at least.’
Enter the workshop and watch the craft at 9pm on Wednesday 18th August on BBC Two.
“Generation 9/11” is an intimate film driven by the stories and personalities of its protagonists, six young people who were born in the wake of a global tragedy which, for them, was also deeply personal as it marks the day they lost their fathers before they ever got to meet them. Marking the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, this film also tells the story of an entire generation shaped by the attacks and their aftermath.
Following the lives of this unique group of teenagers, the film will document what happened to them and their families in the 20 years following the assaults. Whilst the film weaves together shared chapters of the lives of these children – their first day of school; the first time the absence of their father was felt; the moment they learned how their father died – it also serves as a lens to look at the broader world and the effects the tragedy had globally.
Teddy Bekele worked on finishing the series directed by award-winning filmmaker Liz Mermin and produced by Arrow Media for PBS, Channel 4 and Arte France.
Soaring gold prices pitting miners against miners over the frozen winter months!
This next chapter in Discovery’s winning franchise features fan favourites Tony Beets, Rick Ness, Dave Turin, Fred Lewis, and Dustin Hurt doing what they do best – digging for gold. In this off season spin-off, miners will face life-threatening conditions and below-freezing temperatures as they work to purchase the right land in the face of rising gold prices.
See lots of heavy machinery break into the frozen tundra while “King of the Klondike” Beets talks about how he needs to step up his prospecting game, while Turin tries to stay a step ahead of the competition after spending lots of time resurrecting old mines. Hurt, aka “Dare Devil Miner,” has his own cross to bear: he needs to make sure his camp wasn’t destroyed by recent landslides.
Steven Struthers (Episode 5) and Tom Savage (Episode 8), both Gold Rush afficionados for many years, return to edit this new series with excitement to find out how the miners will make it through the mining off season!
Watch the first episode at 9pm tonight on Discovery!
Filmed across new locations in Manchester and produced by Naked Entertainment (Fremantle), the Rap Game UK returns to BBC iPlayer this summer for its third season. Six MC’s compete once more for a new £20,000 cash prize and mentor scheme to help the winning artist create, launch and promote new music following the competition. The new series will once again feature some of the scene’s biggest names.
Abraham Teweldebrhan and Ben Burgess edited the newest edition of the award-winning series which will be available on Thursday 22nd July at 7pm on BBC iPlayer and at 10:30pm on BBC One.
Both commented that working on the show was technically challenging but also great fun to cut.
Don’t miss the mic drop on 22nd July on BBC iPlayer.
With GETAWAY DRIVER, October Films brings an event like no other to the Discovery Channel, the ultimate driving fantasy hosted by Fast & Furious star Michelle Rodriguez. This 8-episode competition series features 24 elite drivers from drift champions to street racers to hotshot YouTubers who compete to prove they have the skill behind the wheel and the mental toughness to outrun and out-drive the competition in a massive nearly 60-acre compound filled with obstacles. Part Baby Driver, part Grand Theft Auto, the Getaway Drivers will put it all on the line – sacrificing their own cars for the opportunity to be the wheelman in a real-life car chase. The rules are simple… evade the pursuers and escape the compound to score some cold hard cash. These drivers already have the loot- but can they get away to keep it?
Jen Hampson edited episodes 4 and 8, the last episode of the series, and had a blast working on this high octane, fast-paced series.
Don’t miss the premiere at 9pm on 19th July on Discovery Channel.
Produced by Double Act Productions for National Geographic’s Sharkfest segment, Shark Gangs is a new ob doc looking at the behaviour of sharks. For years sharks have been viewed as solitary predators, but scientists have recently discovered a surprising new behaviour. In this special, they reveal how this apex predator likes to hang out in gangs. What is behind this change? Do sharks enjoy a social life or are they working together to become even more effective hunters?
Editor Charlie Webb worked on the series and reflects on his time editing the show:
‘Really enjoyed working on the show with Alex and Rob at Double Act. Some of the photography within the film is breath-taking. The score is also amazing and really adds drama to the film. It was done by Paul Saunderson (Three identical strangers, Trying and Life). The channel loved it and I look forward to people being able to see it.’
Find out more at 10pm on National Geographic on 7th July or start streaming on Disney+ on Friday 9th July.
Produced by Blink Films, this new two-part documentary for ITV explores the amazing world of conjoined twins, discovering how families cope with the extraordinary circumstance of being parents to the rarest of babies – one out of every 200,000 live births.
This documentary features three-year-old twins Callie and Carter from Idaho, who are fused from the chest down with two legs between them, and whose parents Nick and Chelsea Torres only have a few months left to decide whether to opt for separation.
They meet still-conjoined and now separated twins on their quest to make the best decision for their children. Cameras follow the work of leading British doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital as they try to separate conjoined twins over four nail-biting operations.
Editor Tanya Trochoulias worked on Episode 2 where the Torres family find out how 18-year-old twins Sohna and Mohna from Amritsar in India cope being joined together. These twins have got over people staring at them and are training in electrical engineering observing that having four hands means they can work more quickly than others. They are healthy and happy – although they rule out getting married at the moment.
Congratulations to all who worked on Saving Notre-Dame, including editors Hacene Azzoug and Sarjit Bains, as well as the production team at Windfall Films. This documentary following the efforts to rebuild the world-famous Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, a year from the devastating fire that ravaged the 850-year-old Gothic masterpiece was nominated as part of the documentary finalists of the New York Festival’s TV & Film Awards.
Chief architect Philippe Villeneuve urgently needs a complete picture of the damage sustained during the fire, so he initiates an unprecedented collaboration between architects and scientists. Their mission is to meticulously analyse the fallen timber, stone and fractured glass, to develop a decontamination and restoration plan. This unique opportunity offers a new insight into the medieval materials, techniques and people who built Notre-Dame.
The winners will be announced on 12th October 2021 during the National Association of Broadcasters’ Show in Las Vegas.
Need to change horizons? Fancy a trip to the other side of the world? Or just a night out at the comedy club to have a good laugh? Russell Howard Stands Up To the World is the show for you!
This three-part travelogue produced by Avalon UK follows comedian Russell Howard as he prepares his new international tour in Australia and New Zealand, becoming the first comedian to do so post Covid. At a time when we’ve never felt further apart as a world, he plans to discover what our cousins across the seas are really like, celebrating our differences and unexpected shared passions.
Following two weeks in quarantine to gain access, Howard tries divebombing, sheep shearing, underwater driving and Maori hot pool cooking in New Zealand where he meets Kiwi actor Sam Neill, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s partner Clarke Gayford and comedian Urzila Carlson.
Then, on the Australian leg of his journey he spends time with Tim Minchin and meets real life mermaids and gets up close to koalas in the care of Robert Irwin, son of the Aussie zoo legend Steve Irwin.
Dan Knight worked on the first episode of the series and reflected that ‘it was challenging and fun to make a travelogue in lockdown- which is a central theme of the show. It was also exciting as an editor using stand up (rather than VO) as the main narration to the adventures. Creating a refreshing take on the genre with echoes of the classic Billy Connolly travelogues from the 90s.’
Connor Snedecor, who edited episode 2 said “It was a nice virtual holiday to cut Russell’s experiences in New Zealand, the only place you could pretend the world was back to normal at the time! The production team pulled off a real feat as we didn’t just edit the show remotely, it was basically shot remotely too, with local crews.”
Airing Monday 31st May on Sky 1 at 9pm. Don’t miss take off!
