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Box to Box for Netflix

Exec Producers: James Gay-Rees & Paul Martin

Editor: Chris Duveen

It’s almost time! Netflix have announced that the new season of Formula 1: Drive To Survive will land on their streaming service 24^th February.

Chris Duveen worked his little socks off on this series, he edited Episode 1 and was the series lead editor. Go behind the scenes to find out how drivers and teams prepare for the 2022 Formula 1 season and get all the answers from Max Verstappen, the double-defending World Drivers’ Championship winner, back to the interview chair.

Once again, Netflix have embedded their cameras and microphones in the stands to pick up all conversations. F1 fans will be pleased to see that pedal and helmet cams all feature in the series as well to cover all the top stories of the season, so sit back, strap up and get ready!

Drive to Survive Series 5 streams from 24^th February on Netflix

DSP for Channel 5

Editor: Simon Warner

Exec Producer: Ninder Billing Khandelwal

New two part series presented by Xand van Tulleken.

Tonight’s episode The Great Stink of 1858: Saving London edited by Simon Warner continues the story of the 19th-century smell which dominated London. The Thames river became putrid after thousands of litres of raw sewage were discharged into it every day in the 19th century and after a summer heatwave in 1858 the stink became so bad that it spread disease and panic over London.

Presenter Xand van Tulleken reveals how Queen Victoria suffered from the stench during a trip to see Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s gigantic ship, the Great Eastern. Archaeologist and TV presenter, Raksha Dave recreates the Great Stink with the help of a special-effects expert. 

Simon explained the set up of the edit with this project. “With The Great Stink, I came on board to edit Episode 2, working with PD Sam Bailey and then Series Producer Jamie Simpson. It was a complete work from home edit, with media sent to me on drives rather than ‘remoting in’. This meant it was much quicker and smoother to edit with. Once I started working with Jamie, he liked to feel he was ‘in the room’ so we set up a FaceTime call at the start of the day with the phone pointing at the screen so he could see what I was doing, and we left the call open so we could comment on things as we needed to. Although I have worked from home almost entirely over the past three years, it was my first experience of working exactly like that with someone in the room with me. Despite my initial reservations, it was a rewarding and collaborative experience, and reminded me of the positive aspects of working in an edit suite with someone who understands editing workflow”.

The Great Stink of 1858 Part Two: Saving London is on Friday 17^th Feb 9pm Channel 5 

Both episodes will be available on My5.

BriteSpark Films for Channel 4

Editors : Nick Follows and Nick Watson

Exec Producer: Tom Porter

Director/producer: Storm Theunissen

This new three part documentary series looks at the lives of tech revolutionaries, Bill Gates, Mark Zukerberg and Jeff Bezoz. With exclusive access to friends, former colleagues and insiders it examines company culture, charitable endeavours to challenges with governments. The documentaries explores the truth behind the men linked to three of the world’s biggest and most iconic companies. It delves into their psychology and key events from their lives. It fuses beautifully-shot master interview, filmic elements, archive, and has minimal commentary.

Nick Watson edited Episode one which looks at Bill Gates who revolutionised the world of tech. Since stepping away from the world of business, the Microsoft founder has forged a reputation as the “good” billionaire, whose foundation’s aim to help the world. The documentary digs into Gates’s business practices and questions if Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in the healthcare sphere really is such a good thing.

Nick Follows edited the Mark Zuckerberg episode which delves into the empire that Zuckerberg has built, examining the impact he’s had on the world.  Available on the 1^st March.

Nick Watson’s Episode 1 on Bill Gates will air on Wednesday 15^th Feb at 10pm on Channel 4.

Dragonfly TV

Exec Producer: Daniel Barry

Editor: Tanya Trochoulias and Jayesh Lathia

Bafta winning Surgeons: At the Edge of Life has returned with a new series which started on Wednesday 18th January.

World renowned surgeons at Addenbrooke’s Hospital perform complex procedures to save lives. The hospital in Cambridge is an internationally renowned university teaching hospital and a centre of excellence for a number of specialities. The surgeons here take on complex cases where a successful operation can save and transform the patient’s quality of life. Technical skill is paramount as even the smallest slip of the scalpel would result in catastrophe, the surgeons bear the ultimate responsibility.

Footage for the documentary series is from fixed rig cameras linked to a remote gallery. Shots include close-ups of surgeons and other members of the surgical teams at work during the most critical moments during the operations.

Jayesh Lathia who edited the pre-title teasers for this series said that ‘This was a fascinating series to work on. There was much to learn about new medical advances and as always the key was to make sure that the emotional journey of surgeons and patients remained with the audience throughout’.

Tanya Trochoulias edited episode 5. She explained that “Surgeons has a dedicated team behind it, it’s well covered and is really enjoyable to work on. The operations are often complex and decoding the process, to get the drama of the surgery, is both interesting and rewarding”.

The series is currently on Wednesdays at 9pm on BBC Two and then available on BBC iPlayer.  Episode 5 which Tanya edited will be on Wednesday 15^th Feb.  

Renegade Pictures for Channel 5

Editor Melanie Golden

Ben Fogle is back with the eleventh series of his popular New Lives in the Wild where he travels the world to meet people who have turned their back on the rat race and set up home in remote locations.

Melanie Golden worked on this series.

Melanie arrived in the UK a few years ago from South Africa, and it’s been wonderful seeing her career go from strength to strength. Renegade booked her for one episode of Ben Fogles New Lives in the Wild but loved her so much they snapped her up for another one straight after!

Melanie has really enjoyed working on this series, her episode sees Ben Fogle travel to Oregon USA to meet up with Pirate Rob, a single homeless Dad, who is bringing his son, Damion. Rob and Damion live 6 months of the year on an Island and Ben discovers another side to Rob, and the reasons behind this chosen lifestyle.

Melanie’s episode will be on Tuesday 7th February.

Minnow Films for Channel 4

Exec Producer: Liam Humphreys, Ricky Kelehar and Richard Cook

Minnow Films for Channel 4

Editors: Kel McKeown John Watts, Mikhael Junod and Mike Kerr

Monday 23^rd Jan

In the 8^th series of SAS: Who Dares Wins, a new group of recruits face the toughest challenge of their life, in one of the toughest environments faced by Special Forces operatives. Over six episodes twenty brave men and women are put through jungle hell, in Thung Ui, North Vietnam, to attempt to complete the punishing jungle phase of SAS selection. It’s the ultimate endurance test. Who will have the mental strength to survive jungle hell and make it to the end. The line up for the most brutal season to date includes a firefighter, a ballet dancer, a stay-at-home mum, a bin man and a farmer’s wife.

This is one of those series that a lot of editors specify they’d like to work on and it had been on John Watt’s list for a while!  We also had Kel, Mikhael and Mike cutting on the series. Dream team!

SAS: Who Dares Wins – Jungle Hell begins on Monday, 23 January at 9pm on Channel 4.

Tiger Aspect

Editor: Gavin Ames

Deep Fake Neighbour Wars is a brand new comedy show premiering on ITVX in January 2023.

Produced by Tiger Aspect the series uses the very latest in AI technology to turn the UK’s best new impressionists into the world’s most famous celebrities – only here they are ordinary people who happen to be embroiled in petty silly neighbour disputes!

Gavin is a seasoned comedy editor who has been focusing on scripted comedy in recent years.  So when he was asked to work on this ground-breaking new comedy series with one of his favourite directors, Tom Vinnicombe, and involving some of Britain’s most talented comedians and impersonators, it was a no-brainer!

Deep Fake Neighbour Wars is a complex production which harnesses state-of-the-art visual technology to take some of the most famous people in the world and put them in down-to-earth situations. This Deep Fake technology results in Actor Tom Holland and rapper Nicki Minaj living together and arguing with Mark Zuckerberg over the garden fence. Gavin did face some technical challenges in the edit which he hasn’t come across before as this is the first time deep-fake technology has been used at this scale for broadcast globally.  He said “As well as having to cut the scenes for maximum comedy we also had to work closely with the deep fake experts at Studio Neural to make sure the shots we were providing would work with the AI. It was a pretty steep learning curve but I’m really pleased with how the show has turned out”.  

We are hugely looking forward to this one!

The series starts on the 26th January on ITVX.

Box to Box Films for Netflix

Editor: Belle Borgeaud

Satusfaction has been asked to source many editors for Box to Box’s numerous commissions, some returning series such as Drive to Survive and some new ones such as Break Point. Break Point is a behind-the-scenes documentary series about the 2022 tennis season.

Editor Belle Borgeaud is working on part two of this series which is due to be released later in the year.  She is enjoying working on this new series and says that she is “working with a lovely team of people on a great show”.

The series follows a select group of top tennis players as they compete in gruelling Grand Slams and tournaments. It get’s up close and personal with the top players through an entire year travelling across the globe for all four Grand Slams and the ATP and WTA tours showing the pressure and the emotional ups and downs of being a top tennis player.

Part One of the first series has been released on Netflix, and features Nick Kyrgios, Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas. Also Iga Swiatek, Ons Jabeur and Aryna Sabalenka. We look forward to Part Two being released later this year.

Can you believe these two young entrepreneurial businesswomen highflyer types ?? have been running Satusfaction for 20 years! That’s right, Satu and Louisa have been managing the Faction, a happy home for freelance editors for TWO DECADES! We know, it’s crazy… they don’t look old enough!

A big thank you to all of our clients and editors for their continued support throughout the years. Here’s to another 20!

Editor: Paul Holland

Series Director: Yemi Bamiro

BBC Studios for BBC

Produced in partnership with BBC Music, the four-part docuseries will premiere on BBC Two on the 21^st January. Developed by Chuck D and his producing partner, Lorrie Boula.

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World features insightful and intimate interviews with Chuck D and hip hop icons Grandmaster Caz, Ice-T, Abiodun Oyewole (The Last Poets), Roxanne Shanté, Run DMC, John Forté, will.i.am, MC Lyte, B-Real (Cypress Hill), Melle Mel, Fat Joe, Lupe Fiasco and more. It weaves these interviews with archive footage to tell the story of the relationship between politics and the hip hop movement and to explore how hip hop became a cultural phenomenon against the backdrop of American history.

Paul Holland is a big hip hop fan so this was the perfect project him. Speaking about the docuseries, he said “it was one of those  rare jobs where the narrative didn’t have to be unearthed in the edit thanks to director Yemi having a firm grip on the story he wanted to tell from the outset. The main challenges came from outside the edit suite and there were occasions when we had to fight for the cut. Ultimately everyone came on board and I’m very grateful to have had the opportunity to work on such a series”.

Part one will air on Saturday 21st January on BBC Two and iPlayer.