Archive for July, 2010
Greenlit: X-Cars, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
X-Cars (1×120′) – Documentary following a Canadian team of engineers as they attempt to build a fuel efficient car that can achieve more than 100 miles per gallon and compete in the international X Prize competition for the chance to win $10m in prizes. Channel: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Producer: Dreamfilm Productions TX: TBC Source: Realscreen
Greenlit: Elements, Channel 4
Elements (1×60′) – extreme sports documentary. Channel: Channel 4 / Ad funded by Red Bull Producer: Boomerang TX: Late 2010 Source: TBI
Greenlit: Baking Made Easy, BBC2
Baking Made Easy – It’s time to warm up the oven because Lorraine Pascale is in the kitchen to share her secrets, passion and knowledge and bring baking bang up to date. Lorraine is a new TV talent who quit the catwalk to become a qualified chef, baker and patissier. She has worked in some [...]
Greenlit: Welcome to the Worlds, BBC2
Welcome To The Worlds – In March 2010, 5,000 young dancers from around the globe, along with their families and teachers, descended upon Glasgow for one drama-filled week of competition in the 40th Irish Dancing World Championships. Welcome To The Worlds tells the story of the championships, as dancers clad in wigs, make-up, fake tan, [...]
Greenlit: Alan at Highgrove, BBC2
Alan At Highgrove - Alan Titchmarsh joins HRH the Prince of Wales for the first ever in-depth exploration of the vision, spirit and passion embedded in his personal sanctuary, Highgrove. To celebrate 30 years of Royal gardening, Alan has been granted exclusive access to perhaps the country’s most important contemporary organic garden. Meeting a host [...]
TED Talks: Long News
Ex-ad guy Kirk Citron’s “Long News” project aims to collate the news stories that will still matter centuries from today. He outlines the project in this TED Talk. Watch the video:
FindaTVexpert YouTube channel
FindaTVexpert the UK talent database has launched its own YouTube channel where you can watch showreels and video pitches of experts ranging from urban gardeners, to vets, psychologists sex therapists and a female priest.
Makemende
Makmende is Africa’s first viral video star – described by Monocle as “an African version of Shaft, mixed with a bit of Chuck Norris, he is the karate-chopping, damsel-rescuing star”. Makemende first appeared in the music video for Kenya’s but soon had a Facebook fanpage with 26,000+ fans and topped the Kenyan Twitter chart for [...]
Fraudulent Food
Uh oh, another thing to worry about as you set off to the farmers’ market: you might not be buying what you bargained for. Food fraud is on the rise, with honey sweetened with corn syrup, catfish masquerading as red snapper and sheep’s milk cheese made of cow’s milk. New DNA techniques mean that dodgy [...]
Country Focus 101: Spain
Next in our tour around the world, we’re visiting Spain for an at-a-glance guide to their TV channels. (Photo by maesejose CC BY 2.0)
