U.K. broadcaster the BBC turns 100 in 2022 and to mark the occasion, the corporation has unveiled a raft of special programming across genres and platforms under the banner BBC 100.
The content will include the Queen’s platinum jubilee celebrations, soccer via the Women’s Euros and the World Cup, and the Commonwealth Games.
The BBC will also broadcast specials of its biggest shows around its 100th birthday, including “Strictly Come Dancing,” “Doctor Who,” “Top Gear,” “MasterChef,” “The Apprentice” and “Antiques Roadshow.”
BBC Three will return as a broadcast channel with a focus on British drama with series including an adaptation of “Normal People” writer Sally Rooney’s novel “Conversations with Friends”; “Superhoe,” written by and starring Nicôle Lecky; a contemporary horror series from the Clarkson Twins set in Bolton titled “Red Rose”; and emerging writer Ryan J. Brown’s thriller “Wrecked.”
Three-part series “David Dimbleby’s BBC: A Very British...
The content will include the Queen’s platinum jubilee celebrations, soccer via the Women’s Euros and the World Cup, and the Commonwealth Games.
The BBC will also broadcast specials of its biggest shows around its 100th birthday, including “Strictly Come Dancing,” “Doctor Who,” “Top Gear,” “MasterChef,” “The Apprentice” and “Antiques Roadshow.”
BBC Three will return as a broadcast channel with a focus on British drama with series including an adaptation of “Normal People” writer Sally Rooney’s novel “Conversations with Friends”; “Superhoe,” written by and starring Nicôle Lecky; a contemporary horror series from the Clarkson Twins set in Bolton titled “Red Rose”; and emerging writer Ryan J. Brown’s thriller “Wrecked.”
Three-part series “David Dimbleby’s BBC: A Very British...
- 11/18/2021
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The BBC has ordered a raft of factual and arts programming, including three-part BBC Two docu-series Frida & Diego, an exploration of the personal and political life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo and her relationship with Diego Rivera.
The Rogan Films production will be directed by Louise Lockwood. Executive producers are James Rogan, Nancy Bornat and Mark Hedgecoe. BBC commissioner is Emma Cahusac.
Four-part series Black Art Matters will examine how African-American creativity has transformed popular culture. It is the first series commission for BBC Small Indie Fund company Milk And Honey Productions, whose previous work for the BBC includes The Trouble With Naipaul, Stacey Dooley Investigates Spycams and Sex Criminals. Executive producer is Lucy Pilkington and the series will be made in association with Afua Hirsch and her production company, Born In Me.
Meanwhile, the new slate also includes Union With David Olusoga, a five-part BBC Two docu-series about union and disunion in the UK.
The Rogan Films production will be directed by Louise Lockwood. Executive producers are James Rogan, Nancy Bornat and Mark Hedgecoe. BBC commissioner is Emma Cahusac.
Four-part series Black Art Matters will examine how African-American creativity has transformed popular culture. It is the first series commission for BBC Small Indie Fund company Milk And Honey Productions, whose previous work for the BBC includes The Trouble With Naipaul, Stacey Dooley Investigates Spycams and Sex Criminals. Executive producer is Lucy Pilkington and the series will be made in association with Afua Hirsch and her production company, Born In Me.
Meanwhile, the new slate also includes Union With David Olusoga, a five-part BBC Two docu-series about union and disunion in the UK.
- 8/9/2021
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
While Prince George calls her "Gan-Gan," Prince Harry refers to Queen Elizabeth as the "boss." In the upcoming documentary Elizabeth At 90 - A Family Tribute, the spare heir reveals his bond with the Queen isn't quite like normal grandparent-grandchild relationships. "I still view her more as the Queen than my grandmother," Prince Harry shares in the documentary, according to Radio Times. "You have this huge amount of respect for your boss and I always view her as my boss, but occasionally as a grandmother." In addition to interviewing with six royal family members, filmmaker John Bridcut was granted access to...
- 4/12/2016
- by Karen Mizoguchi
- PEOPLE.com
Documentary awards took place last night [Nov 3] at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Particle Fever and Cutie and the Boxer were among the film winners at last night’s Grierson Awards, held in association with Sky Atlantic and Shell.
Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever, about the quest for find the Higgs boson, won the Satusfaction Best Science or Natural History Documentary and was praised as a “stunning piece of work” by the jury, while Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer scooped the Bertha Dochouse Best Cinema Documentary award with the jury calling it a “true gem”.
The big winner on the night was Channel 4 as it took a record eight of the 13 award available, including two wins for Education Yorkshire for Envy Best Documentary Series Award and Radio Times Reader’s Choice Award.
Peter Aker’s Sing Your Heart Out received the Sky Atlantic Best Student Documentary, while former Wall To Wall chief executive Alex Graham was awarded...
Particle Fever and Cutie and the Boxer were among the film winners at last night’s Grierson Awards, held in association with Sky Atlantic and Shell.
Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever, about the quest for find the Higgs boson, won the Satusfaction Best Science or Natural History Documentary and was praised as a “stunning piece of work” by the jury, while Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer scooped the Bertha Dochouse Best Cinema Documentary award with the jury calling it a “true gem”.
The big winner on the night was Channel 4 as it took a record eight of the 13 award available, including two wins for Education Yorkshire for Envy Best Documentary Series Award and Radio Times Reader’s Choice Award.
Peter Aker’s Sing Your Heart Out received the Sky Atlantic Best Student Documentary, while former Wall To Wall chief executive Alex Graham was awarded...
- 11/4/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Documentary awards took place last night [Nov 3] at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Particle Fever and Cutie and the Boxer were among the film winners at last night’s Grierson Awards, held in association with Sky Atlantic and Shell.
Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever, about the quest for find the Higgs boson, won the Satusfaction Best Science or Natural History Documentary and was praised as a “stunning piece of work” by the jury, while Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer scooped the Bertha Dochouse Best Cinema Documentary award with the jury calling it a “true gem”.
The big winner on the night was Channel 4 as it took a record eight of the 13 award available, including two wins for Education Yorkshire for Envy Best Documentary Series Award and Radio Times Reader’s Choice Award.
Peter Aker’s Sing Your Heart Out received the Sky Atlantic Best Student Documentary, while former Wall To Wall chief executive Alex Graham was awarded...
Particle Fever and Cutie and the Boxer were among the film winners at last night’s Grierson Awards, held in association with Sky Atlantic and Shell.
Mark Levinson’s Particle Fever, about the quest for find the Higgs boson, won the Satusfaction Best Science or Natural History Documentary and was praised as a “stunning piece of work” by the jury, while Zachary Heinzerling’s Cutie and the Boxer scooped the Bertha Dochouse Best Cinema Documentary award with the jury calling it a “true gem”.
The big winner on the night was Channel 4 as it took a record eight of the 13 award available, including two wins for Education Yorkshire for Envy Best Documentary Series Award and Radio Times Reader’s Choice Award.
Peter Aker’s Sing Your Heart Out received the Sky Atlantic Best Student Documentary, while former Wall To Wall chief executive Alex Graham was awarded...
- 11/4/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
London – An independent review of the BBC's impartiality commissioned by the BBC Trust is to be led by the former chief executive of U.K. commercial web ITV, Stuart Prebble. The former ITV chief's review will be a follow-up to John Bridcut's 2007 report, "From Seesaw to Wagon Wheel," which set out a dozen "guiding principles" to help ensure against biased reporting. The Bridcut report said technological and social change meant the spread of opinion went beyond traditional concepts of left and right, but warned that impartiality did not mean insipid program making. Prebble will investigate how
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- 8/2/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Bradford boyhood of Frederick Delius had a profound impact on the music he wrote until the end of his life
The untold story of the Bradford youth of one of Britain's greatest composers is to be investigated on film for the first time. Frederick Delius is sometimes claimed as a German composer, due to his parentage, and sometimes as a cosmopolitan European who finished his life in France.
In fact, the composer of On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring and La Calinda, was born in Bradford and spent his early working life employed at his father's wool business.
BBC4 has commissioned the
award-winning film-maker John Bridcut to produce a 90-minute profile that will reclaim his status as a Yorkshire talent. Delius not only had a Yorkshire accent but loved cricket and played as a young man, Bridcut has discovered.
"There is no recording of his voice, but according to the writer Neville Cardus,...
The untold story of the Bradford youth of one of Britain's greatest composers is to be investigated on film for the first time. Frederick Delius is sometimes claimed as a German composer, due to his parentage, and sometimes as a cosmopolitan European who finished his life in France.
In fact, the composer of On Hearing the first Cuckoo in Spring and La Calinda, was born in Bradford and spent his early working life employed at his father's wool business.
BBC4 has commissioned the
award-winning film-maker John Bridcut to produce a 90-minute profile that will reclaim his status as a Yorkshire talent. Delius not only had a Yorkshire accent but loved cricket and played as a young man, Bridcut has discovered.
"There is no recording of his voice, but according to the writer Neville Cardus,...
- 1/15/2012
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
Russell got inside the psychological and emotional realities of the composers he loved, for which we should be ever grateful
I had two surpassingly strange obsessions as a teenage music lover: Anton Bruckner and Arnold Bax. And so, it turned out, did Ken Russell. I could hardly believe it when, after making his Bruckner film in 1990, The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner – a study of the Austrian composer's obsessive compulsive disorders, monastic seclusion and infatuation with young girls – Russell made a TV film a couple of years later about Bax, The Secret Life of Arnold Bax, the biggest prime-time exposure this otherwise little-known English composer is probably ever going to get.
Russell himself played Bax, and Glenda Jackson took the role of one of Bax's lovers, the pianist Harriet Cohen (in fact one of her last acting jobs before devoting her life to politics). But the scene that's burned into...
I had two surpassingly strange obsessions as a teenage music lover: Anton Bruckner and Arnold Bax. And so, it turned out, did Ken Russell. I could hardly believe it when, after making his Bruckner film in 1990, The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner – a study of the Austrian composer's obsessive compulsive disorders, monastic seclusion and infatuation with young girls – Russell made a TV film a couple of years later about Bax, The Secret Life of Arnold Bax, the biggest prime-time exposure this otherwise little-known English composer is probably ever going to get.
Russell himself played Bax, and Glenda Jackson took the role of one of Bax's lovers, the pianist Harriet Cohen (in fact one of her last acting jobs before devoting her life to politics). But the scene that's burned into...
- 11/29/2011
- by Tom Service
- The Guardian - Film News
"Ken Russell, the British director whose daring and sometimes outrageous films often tested the patience of audiences and critics, has died," reports the AP. "He was 84."
"Known for a flamboyant style that was developed during his early career in television, Russell's films often courted controversy," writes Henry Barnes for the Guardian. "Women in Love, released in 1969, became notorious for its nude male wrestling scene between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed, while Tommy, his starry version of The Who's rock opera, was his biggest commercial success, beginning as a stage musical before being reimagined for the screen in 1976. But Russell fell out of the limelight in recent years, as some of his funding resources dried up and his proposed projects ever more eclectic. He returned to the public eye in 2007, when he appeared on the fifth edition of Celebrity Big Brother, before quitting the show after a disagreement with fellow contestant Jade Goody.
"Known for a flamboyant style that was developed during his early career in television, Russell's films often courted controversy," writes Henry Barnes for the Guardian. "Women in Love, released in 1969, became notorious for its nude male wrestling scene between Alan Bates and Oliver Reed, while Tommy, his starry version of The Who's rock opera, was his biggest commercial success, beginning as a stage musical before being reimagined for the screen in 1976. But Russell fell out of the limelight in recent years, as some of his funding resources dried up and his proposed projects ever more eclectic. He returned to the public eye in 2007, when he appeared on the fifth edition of Celebrity Big Brother, before quitting the show after a disagreement with fellow contestant Jade Goody.
- 11/28/2011
- MUBI
John Bridcut on Ken Russell, a film-maker who 'resisted the facts getting in the way of his visual imagination'
The wild visual imagination of Ken Russell brought classical music to a whole new audience, and made his name notorious in respectable musical circles. His feature films about composers went straight for the jugular – sometimes almost literally, as in his blood-soaked Mahler. He loved the music, but he also loved the sex. He sold the idea of The Music Lovers on the basis that it was a story about a nymphomaniac who fell in love with a homosexual, and sure enough the film opens in a bedroom, with an unbridled romp between Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky and Christopher Gable as his lover.
His films on Liszt, Debussy, Richard Strauss and Wagner all involved sexual fantasy, to the dismay and outrage of people who took the music rather more seriously. Each one made headlines,...
The wild visual imagination of Ken Russell brought classical music to a whole new audience, and made his name notorious in respectable musical circles. His feature films about composers went straight for the jugular – sometimes almost literally, as in his blood-soaked Mahler. He loved the music, but he also loved the sex. He sold the idea of The Music Lovers on the basis that it was a story about a nymphomaniac who fell in love with a homosexual, and sure enough the film opens in a bedroom, with an unbridled romp between Richard Chamberlain as Tchaikovsky and Christopher Gable as his lover.
His films on Liszt, Debussy, Richard Strauss and Wagner all involved sexual fantasy, to the dismay and outrage of people who took the music rather more seriously. Each one made headlines,...
- 11/28/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
The best of your comments on the latest films and music
I can't fathom why Patrick Wolf isn't an international superstar," said rippinupthedisco, commenting on Alexis Petridis's four-star review of Lupercalia, Wolf's new album. "There really is no other artist to compare Patrick Wolf to and perhaps this is the reason why he has struggled to sell himself where 'who is safe' and 'what has gone before' dominate."
Alexis had pondered that very matter in his review. One reason he didn't offer was the experience suffered by Becks66. Perhaps because it's the kind of gig experience few of us are likely ever to suffer: "I've only seen him live once … and the evening was spoiled by the masses of drunk, coked-up public school brats in the crowd, all in ballgowns and dinner jackets, stamping on and pushing anyone around them and going on and on very loudly about how expensive all their shit was.
I can't fathom why Patrick Wolf isn't an international superstar," said rippinupthedisco, commenting on Alexis Petridis's four-star review of Lupercalia, Wolf's new album. "There really is no other artist to compare Patrick Wolf to and perhaps this is the reason why he has struggled to sell himself where 'who is safe' and 'what has gone before' dominate."
Alexis had pondered that very matter in his review. One reason he didn't offer was the experience suffered by Becks66. Perhaps because it's the kind of gig experience few of us are likely ever to suffer: "I've only seen him live once … and the evening was spoiled by the masses of drunk, coked-up public school brats in the crowd, all in ballgowns and dinner jackets, stamping on and pushing anyone around them and going on and on very loudly about how expensive all their shit was.
- 6/23/2011
- by Michael Hann
- The Guardian - Film News
Woody Allen opens Cannes, a new dawn for the Aurora Orchestra, plus Prince Charles learns about doorbells
Woody brings Paris to Cannes
The Cannes film festival kicks off this morning with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. We may be bored of Allen this side of the channel, particularly after his London films (the Cannes screening of Match Point in 2005 marked some of the deadest hours of my life), but in France he is still adored.
Its trailer – in which the Eiffel tower features about five times, along with the Arc de Triomphe, the Grand Palais and innumerable chic little bistros – suggests a love letter to a touristy version of the city, and the familiar trope of an American finding himself in Paris. On the plus side, Michael Sheen's in it.
The film with most potential for watch-through-your-fingers anguish, however, may be Jodie Foster's The Beaver, in which...
Woody brings Paris to Cannes
The Cannes film festival kicks off this morning with Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. We may be bored of Allen this side of the channel, particularly after his London films (the Cannes screening of Match Point in 2005 marked some of the deadest hours of my life), but in France he is still adored.
Its trailer – in which the Eiffel tower features about five times, along with the Arc de Triomphe, the Grand Palais and innumerable chic little bistros – suggests a love letter to a touristy version of the city, and the familiar trope of an American finding himself in Paris. On the plus side, Michael Sheen's in it.
The film with most potential for watch-through-your-fingers anguish, however, may be Jodie Foster's The Beaver, in which...
- 5/10/2011
- by Charlotte Higgins
- The Guardian - Film News
The miniature song Owls: An Epitaph – halting, dissonant, weird – is the most powerful corrective I know to the image of Elgar as moustachioed imperialist. Listen and tell me what you think
A quick Elgar discovery for the weekend, after a sneak preview of John Bridcut's film about the composer, Elgar: The Man Behind the Mask, scheduled to be broadcast on BBC4 on 12 November. Bridcut creates some striking scenes with some great Elgarians – Colin Davis, Edward Gardner, Anthony Payne, Michael Kennedy, David Owen Norris – listening to their favourite Elgar works. A simple idea, but it's moving to see the sunlit magic of the soloist's first notes in the Violin Concerto reflected in Colin Davis's smile, or Michael Kennedy's rapt contemplation as he hears the raw melancolia of Sospiri.
Most revelatory of all, at least for me, was watching Mark Elder listen to Elgar's Owls: An Epitaph (one of the...
A quick Elgar discovery for the weekend, after a sneak preview of John Bridcut's film about the composer, Elgar: The Man Behind the Mask, scheduled to be broadcast on BBC4 on 12 November. Bridcut creates some striking scenes with some great Elgarians – Colin Davis, Edward Gardner, Anthony Payne, Michael Kennedy, David Owen Norris – listening to their favourite Elgar works. A simple idea, but it's moving to see the sunlit magic of the soloist's first notes in the Violin Concerto reflected in Colin Davis's smile, or Michael Kennedy's rapt contemplation as he hears the raw melancolia of Sospiri.
Most revelatory of all, at least for me, was watching Mark Elder listen to Elgar's Owls: An Epitaph (one of the...
- 10/15/2010
- by Tom Service
- The Guardian - Film News
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