What is being touted as London’s largest TV studio is due to open in Enfield later this Summer. OMA Studios, which will be owned and operated by the Location Collective is a 139,000 sq ft former industrial depot. The Location Collective is saying that a conversion of this scale, which will increase by 53% the […]
The Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Craft Awards nominees have been announced. It’s a long list, which you can view in full here. We’ve picked out one category for a special mentionn. Special, visual and graphics effects The Crown – Left Bank Pictures, Sony Pictures Television/Netflix Ben Turner Chris Reynolds Asa Should His […]
Smaller crews, fewer extras, reduced international travel and restricted contact with key people are all likely to be aspects of film and higher-end TV drama production in the months to come and until it’s safe to revert to something resembling normality. Or, will the new ways of working that have been forced upon the industry […]
After consulting several US studios, the BFI, the British Film Commission, Pact, BECTU and the UK government, the UK Screen Alliance has published a guidance document for post production and visual effects companies to help them operate safely during the current health crisis. Get the document “Guidance for safe working in Post-Production and Visual Effects […]
The Hollywood Reporter brings us updates from several European countries, including Iceland, the Czech Republic, Poland and France, where a return to film and television production is being allowed under strict new COVID-19 guidelines. Some of the hygiene guidelines are near-universal, such as two metres (6.5 feet) social distancing between crew members and the use […]
It’s the first new Informed Sauce podcast. What do we have in store? Regulars Will Strauss, Editor of SVG Europe, and HPE’s Matt Armstrong-Barnes are on to discuss the return of top-flight football to our TV screens this weekend in the shape of the German Bundesliga. How are outside broadcast companies going to cope with […]