World Collide: The Manchester Bombing has been nominated in the best factual series category at this years BAFTA Television Awards. The 69th annual TV awards will be held in May, and the full list of shows, actors and writers who have earned a nod has been announced. The full list is viewable here
Congratulations to all the team at Label1 and a huge thank you to our incredibly brave contributors!
Having been shortlisted for two categories at the 2021 Grierson Awards, very pleased to announce that In Cold Blood has got through to the final round of Nominations for Best Current Affairs. Congratulations to all the team and of course all the nominees.
Marcus Plowright, Celia Watson, Diene Petterle, Nina Davies, Leigh Brzeski & Alex Parsons
Darlow Smithson Productions – ITV
This new 90-minute feature-length documentary for ITV's Exposure strand examines the biggest treatment disaster in NHS history. In the 1970s, a new treatment for haemophilia known as Factor VIII was prescribed on the NHS. It infected over 1,300 people with HIV, more than 4,000 people with Hepatitis C and killed more people than Grenfell, Hillsborough, 7/7 and the Birmingham bombings combined. Yet its scale and impact has until now been relatively understated in Britain.
Very pleased to announce that In Cold Blood has been nominated for best documentary at this year’s Amnesty International Media Awards. Congratulations to all the team and big special thanks to Jason Evans and the Factor 8 Campaign.
The winners of this year’s awards will be announced at a virtual event on Wednesday 28 April.
The 11 award categories celebrate excellence in human rights journalism over the past year and applaud the courage and determination of journalists and editors who sometimes put their lives on the line to report on vital human rights issues.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/amnesty-international-uk-media-awards-2021-finalists-announced
In Cold Blood has been nominated for Best Current Affairs Documentary (Home) at the 2021 Royal Television Society Awards. Congratulations to all the team and especially the contributors for their bravery in taking part in the film. With the inquiry in the scandal still on going, public awareness about this topic continues to grow. Watch this space.
The Murder of Jill Dando has been nominated for a BAFTA Cymru Award!
Read More
COMING SOON TO ITV
IN COLD BLOOD - a 90 MINUTE FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY
A new feature length documentary about the Factor VIII contaminated blood scandal
Read MoreThe reviews are in, as are the viewing figures. The Murder of Jill Dando on BBC One received 4.01 million viewers last night, with a 20% share of all viewers, beating the slot average of 3.4 million. Source - https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/ratings/bbc1s-jill-dando-doc-tops-4-million/5138283.article
BBC Breakfast invited me on to talk about my latest film, The Murder of Jill Dando. We talked about Jill’s career and the shockwaves that news of death sent on the entire nation. #TheMurderOfJillDando aired on 2nd April 2019 is available to watch now on BBC iPlayer.
Last night The Football Club won Best Specialist Factual Programme at the Broadcast Awards 2019. We were up against Blue Planet and Grayson perry: Rites of Passage. One judge said they were amazed that “two subjects I had no interest in totally blew me away”. Team picture below. Big thank you to Channel 4 for making it all possible and a well done to all the team! Good night and good luck. MP
Storyvault Films Team Photo, Broadcast Awards 2019
“It manages to be about failure, masculinity, creativity and community at the same time.. it gets my vote for the sheer ambition is pours into a commercial hour” - editor Chris Collins
Chris Curtis, Editor-in-chief: The Football Club: Artist in Residence (Channel 4)
Queer Eye, Bodyguard or the sexy Sabrina reboot? Nah, you’re all right – I’ll take a Tony Pulis ob-doc. Well, not quite. The Football Club: Artist in Residence gets my vote for the sheer ambition it pours into a single commercial hour. It manages to be ‘about’ failure, masculinity, creativity and community all at the same time, through the prism of football.
Artist Tai Schierenberg is the unlikely outsider slowly being accepted into world of West Bromwich Albion, and relishing it – much to his surprise.
He takes on the combined role of portrait painter, narrator and gentle interrogator to hear manager Pulis confront the inevitability of his sacking.
And he prompts Premier League players to give interviews in which they behave like actual human beings – no mean feat considering the stymied TV appearances that characterise top level footballers.
At a time when Britain’s divisions seem deeper than ever, it captures ordinary people articulating what it means to belong to something bigger than themselves. Long live the beautiful game.