Shane Allen, Director, BBC Comedy Commissioning has appointed Tanya Qureshi as Commissioning Editor, BBC Comedy. As Commissioning Editor, she will be responsible for a slate of programmes as well as developing her own portfolio of new shows. Qureshi started her career in commissioning at UKTV, primarily focused on scripted comedy across Dave and Gold. She […]

Sky has received a record-breaking 13 nominations at the 2021 Royal Television Society Programme Awards, across all key programme genres, beating its previous best of eight nominations in 2020 and 2019. The nominations, which were announced this morning, are: Male actor: Lennie James for Save Me Too. James, who also serves as writer and creator […]

Goldfinch’s streaming platform Birdbox.Film launches its shorts channel with a selection of Oscar and BAFTA award-winning titles and the premiere of Sadie Frost’s Running Man, starring Raff Law. Running Man also marks the launch of Birdbox.Film’s first monthly ‘Film Club’. At 7.30pm on February 3rd, users will be able to tune into a live discussion […]

Megaport, a  global Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, is helping bring Hollywood hits to the big screen by providing Framestore with a solution that allows it to tap into the power of public cloud providers to deliver on demand visual effects projects. Framestore is a BAFTA and Oscar award-winning creative studio headquartered in London with […]

BBC Studios Natural History Unit has announced the successful live transmission of a 60 minute episode of Winterwatch powered entirely by green hydrogen fuel and energy saving batteries. The hydrogen generator is located at Winterwatch’s outside broadcasting hub at BBC Bristol and is helping to replace the use of a diesel powered generator. Diesel generators […]

albert has updated its carbon calculator and certification toolkit. The two products form the cornerstone of albert’s offering to the industry helping TV and Film productions to measure their carbon impact as well as take active steps towards reducing it. The calculator was originally launched in August 2011 with the support of the albert consortium; […]

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced that applications are now open for BAFTA Breakthrough India, supported by Netflix. The initiative marks BAFTA’s first steps into India, showcasing and supporting the next generation of creative talent in film, games and television globally alongside the UK, USA and China. BAFTA has also […]

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and BFI have today announced the six industry mentors who will provide a year-long mentorship to the BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew 2020 mentees. Now in its sixth year, BFI Flare x BAFTA Crew is a partnership between BFI Flare: London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, BAFTA and […]

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has announced the global recipients of its 2020/21 scholarships programme, supporting the study of film, games and television courses in the UK and US. This year BAFTA has awarded 28 scholarships in total, 12 in the UK and a further 16 in the US. In addition […]