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First Light at BAFTA

On September 6 at 10:30 AM, BAFTA is holding a very special screening of the Lion Television/Manray Media co-production First Light. The screening will be followed by a Q&A conducted by Guardian writer Jonathan Glancey with Geoffrey Wellum, actor Sam Heughan and writer/producer director Matthew Whiteman.

To find out more and buy tickets.
http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/user/?region=gb_london&query=detail&event=401771&interface=bafta

09/08/2010

Record-setting double Emmy win for Cash Cab team!

All hail the cab once more!
Our very own “Cash Cab” left the opposition trailing in its (low emission) exhaust fumes again. For the third year in a row the cab won the Daytime Emmy for Best Gameshow while our beloved Ben Bailey took his rightful place on the podium winning Best Host.

What a triumph for the cab and all who ride in her.

Congratulations to the whole team.

01/07/2010

First Light

Coming soon to your screens...

Leading the programming on BBC Two, First Light is an intimate one-off drama-documentary, that tells the extraordinary story of nineteen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum – one of the youngest pilots to participate in the battle, who was posted at the beginning of the war having never flown a Spitfire.


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01/07/2010

Horrible Histories on BBC Breakfast

Horrible Histories returned to CBBC this week, to delight viewers with its funny and sometimes gruesome sketches from real historical events. Laurence Richard and Mathew Baynton, who wrote and performed in the series, visited BBC Breakfast to talk about all things horrible.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/8717460.stm

02/06/2010

Scream if You Know the Answer!

Duncan James to present Lion's new extreme game show on roller coasters for Watch

Lion TV's new format Scream if You Know the Answer! Has been commissioned by UKTV for its entertainment channel, Watch. This brand new family game show is played entirely on roller coasters.

Filmed at Thorpe Park and hosted by Blue’s Duncan James, this exciting and entertaining new 10 x 30 format will see members of the public team up with celebrities to compete a series of hilarious challenges - all of which take part ON the rides themselves - for a potential prize pot of £5,000. Celebrities confirmed for filming to date include Katie Price, Phil Tuffnell, Ben Shephard and Matt Willis. Scream if You Know the Answer! will premiere on UKTV’s pay TV channel Watch on Sunday 2nd May 2010.

30/04/2010

Victorian Farm RTS Nomination

Lion’s hugely successful Victorian Farm series has been nominated for a Royal Television Society Award. The series, which attracted over 6 million viewers a week in 2009, was one of the year’s biggest hits on BBC2. The book of the series also went to No.1 on the Sunday Times best seller list. Executive Producer, David Upshal, says: “It’s great to see Victorian Farm honoured by the industry in this way. And it’s a huge boost to the team who are currently midway through filming the 12-part follow-up series Edwardian Farm.”

29/03/2010

Horrible Histories nominated for a BAFTA

The production team behind Lion's hit children's series Horrible Histories are celebrating the fact that the series has been nominated for two Baftas at the 2009 EA British Academy Children's Awards. The nominations are in the categories of Best Writing and Best Factual programme. The nominees are Caroline Norris, Chloe Thomas, Steve Connelly, Giles Pilbrow, Ben Ward and Laurence Rickard

The series with its irreverent mix of gruesome and gory facts and laugh out loud humour was an instant hit with its young - and judging by the comments on You Tube - many not so young - viewers. Exec Producer Richard Bradley says 'We are thrilled that Lion's first venture into children's television has been acclaimed in this way. It's a tribute to all the efforts of an incredibly talented team in creating such a fresh, innovative and ambitious show.'

02/12/2009

Britain From Above nominated for DADI Award!

Lion's digital partner on Britain from Above, Numiko has been nominated for a DADI Award, the digital agency awards. Britain from Above is up for Best Public Sector Website or Campaign, which is for any public sector organisation, service or individual project.

Good Luck Numiko!

04/09/2009

Lion Interactive in New Media Age Magazine

Lion Interactive are featured in the New Media Age magazine (27th August 2009, pg. 22). The article looks at the team's past success with Britain From Above, recent work, the Horrible Histories game for CBBC, and their future plans.

You can download a scan of the article below or online at New Media Age.

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27/08/2009

Edwardian Farm - In Production

Following the huge success of the Victorian Farm series, BBC Two is presenting the same intrepid team with a brand new set of challenges as they are forced to get to grips with the trials and tribulations of life on an Edwardian Farm.

Archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and domestic historian Ruth Goodman will return to front Edwardian Farm, spending a full year delving into Britain's rural heritage.

They will make their home in a stunning new location, exploring the challenges posed by the British countryside at a time of great change and tumult; a time when farming was becoming increasingly mechanised at home, and abroad the world was moving gradually towards war.

As in the first series, the action will be based primarily on the farm, but the new setting will also allow the team to explore wider aspects of the working countryside, including rivers and coasts, boat-building, mining, fishing and market gardening.

13/08/2009

Kwame goes On Tour With the Queen

Monday 10th August marks the start of Lion's new four part contemporary travelogue for Channel 4 - On Tour With the Queen, exploring the Queen's 1953 Coronation Tour of the Empire.

Over the course of the series, Kwame Kwei-Armah retraces the young Queen’s journey across five continents – from the Caribbean, Australasia and the Pacific Islands, to Asia, Africa and the Mediterranean.

Intercut with rarely-seen archive footage from the Queen’s tour, this is the story of Britain’s fight to keep its status as a world power, even while its Empire was slipping away. It is also the story of a 27-year-old woman sent on a mission to re-establish Britain’s place in the world.

05/08/2009

Jack The Ripper - Tabloid Killer: Revealed

Join former-tabloid editor, Kelvin Mackenzie and historian, Andrew Cook as they re-examine the Ripper murders, uncover startling documentary evidence and identify a new set of suspects; the crooked journalists who faked evidence, printed fantasy and mislead the police investigation, all to keep the Ripper murders on their front pages.

Jack The Ripper - Tabloid Killer: Revealed is on five, Wednesday 24th June at 8pm.

Don't miss it!

23/06/2009

"Homes Under the Hammer" to move to Scotland

The BBC announced today that production of “Homes under the Hammer”, the property auction television show, is to move to Scotland.

The move is part of the Network Supply Strategy, the BBC’s plan to greatly increase network television production from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

With a commission of 160 programmes over the next three years, the move of the programme team will be phased.

The show will be led from Scotland and the team will include a mix of members of the existing production and Scotland team.

The new episodes will start to TX from mid 2010.

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12/05/2009

Britain From Above wins International Digital Emmy

Britain From Above has won at the prestigous International Digital Emmy Awards for best nonfiction programme.

Britain From Above took the idea of multiplatform production to new heights: the entire project was commissioned, planned, scripted and shot as one joint television and online project.

Congratulations to all the team.

Check out the award winning website here.

31/03/2009

Hottest Place On Earth - Coming Soon!

Don't miss The Hottest Place On Earth, airing on Thursday the 19th and 26th March at 9pm on BBC One.

A team of experts make the very tough journey to the Danakil Depression, officially the hottest place on earth, to see how its people and animals survive.

16/03/2009

Britain From Above wins award!

Last night Britain From Above picked up a Media Innovation Award.

Congratulations to the team.

13/03/2009

All3Media named top UK independent producer

Midsomer Murders and Richard and Judy producer All3Media has come top in an annual survey of the UK's biggest independent producers, with a turnover of £241.6m.

Founded just five years ago by former ITV executives Steve Morrison, Jules Burns and David Liddiment, All3Media has moved ahead of rivals such as IMG Media and Endemol to become the sector's highest revenue earner and take the so-called "super-indie" crown, according to trade magazine Televisual's annual Production 100 survey...

Read the full article in the Guardian online.

22/08/2008

Britain From Above airs on the BBC

Britain from Above, the major series presented by Andrew Marr, has aired on the BBC.

You can check out the website at bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove.

05/08/2008