‘Gogglebox’ Co-Creator Leaves Studio Lambert
Tania Alexander, a 12-year Studio Lambert executive who oversees Gogglebox, is leaving the All3Media-owned producer. The director of factual entertainment’s somewhat abrupt departure comes part-way through Gogglebox’s current series on Channel 4, during which it has chalked up some record audiences. Studio Lambert said Alexander is leaving to pursue fresh challenges, with a spokeswoman adding: “We wish Tania success with her future projects.” Studio Lambert’s deputy creative director, Mike Cotton, will oversee the remainder of Season 16 of Gogglebox, alongside the show’s executive producer Leon Campbell.
Women In Film & TV UK New CEO
Women in Film and Television UK (Wftv) has appointed Katie Bailiff as CEO. Bailiff joins from TV firm Century Films, where she has worked for two decades. Her credits as an executive producer include TV shows Feltham Sings, The Secret History Of Our Streets, Abused By My Girlfriend,...
Tania Alexander, a 12-year Studio Lambert executive who oversees Gogglebox, is leaving the All3Media-owned producer. The director of factual entertainment’s somewhat abrupt departure comes part-way through Gogglebox’s current series on Channel 4, during which it has chalked up some record audiences. Studio Lambert said Alexander is leaving to pursue fresh challenges, with a spokeswoman adding: “We wish Tania success with her future projects.” Studio Lambert’s deputy creative director, Mike Cotton, will oversee the remainder of Season 16 of Gogglebox, alongside the show’s executive producer Leon Campbell.
Women In Film & TV UK New CEO
Women in Film and Television UK (Wftv) has appointed Katie Bailiff as CEO. Bailiff joins from TV firm Century Films, where she has worked for two decades. Her credits as an executive producer include TV shows Feltham Sings, The Secret History Of Our Streets, Abused By My Girlfriend,...
- 11/26/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman and Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
British entertainment format Gogglebox is getting a second chance in the U.S. after Fox ordered a celebrity adaptation. The broadcaster is launching 10-part series Celebrity Watch Party on May 7 at 8 Pm with stars including Rob Lowe, Meghan Trainor and Raven-Symoné.
The Studio Lambert-produced show, which features people being recorded watching television, has been a long-running hit in the UK, where it airs on Channel 4. It has been particularly Covid-19 proof as the producers have been able to keep filming going through the pandemic with remote shoots. C4 has produced a number of celebrity versions in the UK, largely for charity, featuring the likes of Noel Gallagher, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell.
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The Studio Lambert-produced show, which features people being recorded watching television, has been a long-running hit in the UK, where it airs on Channel 4. It has been particularly Covid-19 proof as the producers have been able to keep filming going through the pandemic with remote shoots. C4 has produced a number of celebrity versions in the UK, largely for charity, featuring the likes of Noel Gallagher, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell.
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- 5/1/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Fox announced Thursday that it has greenlit a new unscripted series titled “Celebrity Watch Party.”
Debuting May 7 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, the hour-long show will feature celebrities and their families filming themselves in their own homes and reacting to the week’s most interesting television shows and events. Guests in the premiere episode will include Rob Lowe, Meghan Trainor, Joe Buck, Raven-Symoné, Master P and Romeo, JoJo Siwa, Steve Wozniak, Curtis Stone, and Robert and Kym Herjavec.
“’Celebrity Watch Party’ is a fantastically innovative, clever and culturally relevant format that brings families together to celebrate all the best films, entertainment shows and news on television on any given week,” said Rob Wade, president of Alternative Entertainment and Specials for Fox Entertainment. “We’ve got some incredible personalities inviting us into their homes and onto their couches for an hour of pure fun with them, their families and the viewers at home.
Debuting May 7 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt, the hour-long show will feature celebrities and their families filming themselves in their own homes and reacting to the week’s most interesting television shows and events. Guests in the premiere episode will include Rob Lowe, Meghan Trainor, Joe Buck, Raven-Symoné, Master P and Romeo, JoJo Siwa, Steve Wozniak, Curtis Stone, and Robert and Kym Herjavec.
“’Celebrity Watch Party’ is a fantastically innovative, clever and culturally relevant format that brings families together to celebrate all the best films, entertainment shows and news on television on any given week,” said Rob Wade, president of Alternative Entertainment and Specials for Fox Entertainment. “We’ve got some incredible personalities inviting us into their homes and onto their couches for an hour of pure fun with them, their families and the viewers at home.
- 5/1/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Details of sessions at the Media Production Show today (June 10) - register to attend the free event now.
Day 1: The Media Production Show from The Media Production Show on Vimeo.
The Media Production Show continues today with more than 20 seminars across the event [click here for full list].
At the Keynote Theatre, the sessions will kick off at 11am with a Dop Masterclass with speakers Ben Steele and Andrew Muggleton, both BAFTA Craft Award nominees 2016, Photography – Factual for BBC4’s Handmade: Metal; and Robert Shacklady, Dop.
At 12.30pm, challenges facing the UK indie film sector will be debated by Jason Maza and Gina Powell of Unstoppable Entertainment (Adulthood, The Anomaly), chaired by Screen International.
Diversity in the creative sector will be explored at 1.30pm with speakers Fraser Ayres, actor and founder of TriForce Network, and Edi Smockum, director of ThinkBigger, with session chair Gavin Ramjaun of ITV Studios.
At 2.30pm, delegates will be invited to go behind the scenes of the...
Day 1: The Media Production Show from The Media Production Show on Vimeo.
The Media Production Show continues today with more than 20 seminars across the event [click here for full list].
At the Keynote Theatre, the sessions will kick off at 11am with a Dop Masterclass with speakers Ben Steele and Andrew Muggleton, both BAFTA Craft Award nominees 2016, Photography – Factual for BBC4’s Handmade: Metal; and Robert Shacklady, Dop.
At 12.30pm, challenges facing the UK indie film sector will be debated by Jason Maza and Gina Powell of Unstoppable Entertainment (Adulthood, The Anomaly), chaired by Screen International.
Diversity in the creative sector will be explored at 1.30pm with speakers Fraser Ayres, actor and founder of TriForce Network, and Edi Smockum, director of ThinkBigger, with session chair Gavin Ramjaun of ITV Studios.
At 2.30pm, delegates will be invited to go behind the scenes of the...
- 6/10/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Other winners include 20,000 Days on Earth.
Oscar-nominated Virunga was one of the top winners at this year’s Grierson Awards, taking home Best Cinema Documentary.
The film, which was also nominated for a BAFTA at the beginning of this year, covers the fight between business interests, rebel groups, and rangers over the Congolese home of the world’s only remaining mountain gorillas.
Elsewhere at the awards, Grayson Perry received Documentary Presenter of the Year for his Channel 4 show, Who Are You?
Repeating its success from last year, Channel 4 won a total of five awards out of the 12 available, including Best Documentary Series and Best Entertaining Documentary.
As previously reported, Kim Longinotto was presented with the Grierson Trustees’ Award for achievement in the world of factual film.
Lorraine Heggessey, Chairman of the Grierson Trust said about the winners: “Once again our winning films demonstrate the vibrant, exciting and innovative ways in which the UK documentary industry...
Oscar-nominated Virunga was one of the top winners at this year’s Grierson Awards, taking home Best Cinema Documentary.
The film, which was also nominated for a BAFTA at the beginning of this year, covers the fight between business interests, rebel groups, and rangers over the Congolese home of the world’s only remaining mountain gorillas.
Elsewhere at the awards, Grayson Perry received Documentary Presenter of the Year for his Channel 4 show, Who Are You?
Repeating its success from last year, Channel 4 won a total of five awards out of the 12 available, including Best Documentary Series and Best Entertaining Documentary.
As previously reported, Kim Longinotto was presented with the Grierson Trustees’ Award for achievement in the world of factual film.
Lorraine Heggessey, Chairman of the Grierson Trust said about the winners: “Once again our winning films demonstrate the vibrant, exciting and innovative ways in which the UK documentary industry...
- 11/2/2015
- ScreenDaily
Gogglebox is to show footage of the programme winning a BAFTA this week.
Executive producer Tania Alexander confirmed that last night's (May 18) award win will be included in the final episode of the current series, airing this Friday (May 23) at 9pm.
Speaking at last night's Arqiva BAFTA Television Awards 2014, Alexander said: "Our guys will hopefully react to it - it'll be a bit weird, it'll be a bit 'eating itself' possibly but it'll be interesting to see what we get."
Alexander also said that there are no plans to drop any families for the next series.
She said: "There's no way that we're taking away [any families] if they want to do it. We just absolutely love them and so do the audience
"Of course, we'd love to bring in some new people, but the ones we've got as long as they stay, we're happy!"
Gogglebox won the BAFTA in the Reality & Constructed Factual category,...
Executive producer Tania Alexander confirmed that last night's (May 18) award win will be included in the final episode of the current series, airing this Friday (May 23) at 9pm.
Speaking at last night's Arqiva BAFTA Television Awards 2014, Alexander said: "Our guys will hopefully react to it - it'll be a bit weird, it'll be a bit 'eating itself' possibly but it'll be interesting to see what we get."
Alexander also said that there are no plans to drop any families for the next series.
She said: "There's no way that we're taking away [any families] if they want to do it. We just absolutely love them and so do the audience
"Of course, we'd love to bring in some new people, but the ones we've got as long as they stay, we're happy!"
Gogglebox won the BAFTA in the Reality & Constructed Factual category,...
- 5/19/2014
- Digital Spy
Exclusive: Bravo Media has greenlighted limited half-hour unscripted series The People’s Couch to air Sundays at 11:30 Pm on October 6, October 13 and October 20. Based on the UK show, Gogglebox (trailer below), The People’s Couch features real people watching and commenting on popular shows and news from the past week. The series will focus on the Fall television season by showcasing avid TV watchers in their homes, as they laugh, cry, talk, gasp, and scream at their TVs watching the network’s new and returning shows. Each episode will feature the same homes — whether it is a group of sorority sisters doing their nails or grandparents watching with their technology-obsessed grandchildren. “The People’s Couch is a funny, unfiltered comment on America’s current TV viewing habits,” said Bravo’s VP development Lara Spotts. The People’s Couch is produced by Studio Lambert and All3Media America with Executive Producers: Stephen Lambert,...
- 9/12/2013
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
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