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Emma Willis: Delivering Babies returns for Season 4 on W, UKTV Play

Emma Willis returns to W and UKTV Play for a fourth season of Emma Willis: Delivering Babies (6×60’). The award-winning UKTV Original series, produced by Firecracker Films, will see Willis move to Watford General Hospital, managed by West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, to take on the role of Maternity Support Worker. Willis said: “It […]

January 22, 2024

BBC sells Elstree Studios

The BBC is to sell its Elstree studio complex to French insurance company Axa, in a deal worth around £70 million (€81m). Axa Investment Managers, will buy the 16-acre complex near Watford, north-west of London. The BBC will take a 25-year leaseback of part of the facilities and continue to film there. The BBC had […]

January 16, 2024

WBD announces expansion plan for Studios Leavesden

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has announced plans to expand Warner Bros Studios Leavesden (WBSL), a film and television studio in the UK, with the addition of 10 new sound stages and 400,000 square feet of production and support space. Groundbreaking on the project, which will grow the production capacity at WBSL by more than 50 […]

September 22, 2023

Watford FC Women partners with Pixellot

Pixellot, a provider of AI-Automated sports video and analytics solutions, has announced a partnership for the 2022/23 season with English football club Watford FC Women to deliver video streaming, data, and analysis to take training to the next level.  Watford FC Women are currently in the third tier FA Women’s National League South and play […]

January 18, 2023

KSI: In Real Life debuts Jan 26 on Prime Video

Prime Video has announced that KSI: In Real Life will launch exclusively on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories worldwide on January 26th 2023. The trailer can be viewed here. On the eve of the release of his second album one of the world’s most influential young men, YouTube star KSI, is riding […]

December 26, 2022

Stellify Media, Acclaimed Content announce first digital commission

Stellify Media, the Belfast-based indie, founded by Kieran Doherty and Matthew Worthy, and Birmingham based Acclaimed Content have announced their first commission from new digital-first brand Channel 4.0,Get in the Van. In each of 6 x 20 min episodes, we are in a different UK town, where two teams will compete to find three extraordinary strangers of diverse looks, […]

December 8, 2022

Harry Potter Studio Tour adds Professor Sprout’s Greenhouse

Warner Bros Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter has unveiled details of its latest expansion, Professor Sprout’s Greenhouse, part of a new feature opening on July 1st titled Mandrakes and Magical Creatures. Tom Felton, who portrayed Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, visited the set ahead of it opening, which […]

June 21, 2022By Nik Roseveare

Channel 4 commissions Troy Deeney – Where’s My History?

Birmingham City FC Captain Troy Deeney’s high profile campaign to make the teaching of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic histories and experiences mandatory in the school curriculum will be featured in a new sixty-minute documentary to be aired next month on Channel 4 and produced by SBX Studios. Frustrated by the lack of diversity taught […]

April 8, 2022

ITV scores EFL, Carabao Cup highlights

ITV will show highlights of the Sky Bet Championship, Sky Bet League One, Sky Bet League Two, Carabao Cup and the Papa John’s Trophy from the 2022/23 season after agreeing a two-season partnership with the EFL. A comprehensive round-up of all the day’s action from across the EFL will be screened in the primetime slot […]

February 23, 2022

University of Hertfordshire deploys EditShare solutions

Located in the picturesque Hertfordshire countryside in England, the University of Hertfordshire has a robust film and TV programme with some 400 students. In 2018, the institution achieved the TEF gold rating by the UK government, the highest standard, for its teaching excellence framework. Thanks to its high-quality vocational content, graduates are ready for real-world […]

September 3, 2021