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Lets Get a Good Thing Going
Let’s Get a Good Thing Going new series where passionate locals pitch ideas that could help their community. They need cash to kick start their dream projects. The assembled audience donate towards the fund and vote for their favourite. Presented by Kevin Duala, this warm and feelgood series which celebrates… Read more.
Broadcast – BBC4 explores ethnic diversity in classical music
BBC4 has ordered a documentary looking at the issues of diversity in classical music featuring BBC Young Musician winner Sheku Kanneh-Mason. Hour-long doc Young, Gifted and Classical was commissioned by head of music TV commissioning Jan Younghusband for BBC4 channel editor Cassian Harrison and produced by Outline Productions. 17-year-old cellist… Read more.
Born On The Same Day – TV Times weekend Magazine
BIRTH OF A NOTION Sharing her birth date with Ricky Tomlinson and Victor Young, midwife Julia Allison talks to TV Times about how championing home births changed the lives of thousands On September, 1939, three babies are born. One grows up in Liverpool, another in London and the third in… Read more.
Born On The Same Day – The Sunday Times Weekend Magazine, 26th June
One can only hope that this series is recommissioned, its three episodes have formed a fascinating history of the past century, carefully positioning the better known subjects (Rannulph Fiennes, Twiggy and now Ricky Tomlinson) at the centre of each film in a manner that never undermined the life achievements of… Read more.
Born on The Same Day – The Daily Telegraph, 14th June 2016
The title sums up the so-simple-it’s-fiendishly-clever premise of this major new series. Each episode explores the parallel lives of three Brits born on the same day – one famous figure and two people who are less well-known, each with extraordinary stories to tell. The four-parter, based on a hit format… Read more.
Born on the Same Day – The Guardian, 15th June 2016
On 7 March 1944, thousands of babies were born – Born on the Same Day (Channel 4). Among them are Ewart, Frances and Ran, their lives spliced together with the postwar history of Britain. Ewart was born in rural Jamaica, but when he was 16, his parents left with their… Read more.
BORN ON THE SAME DAY REVIEW – WAITROSE WEEKEND MAGAZINE
“The premise of this new documentary strand – following the lives of three people with the same birthdate, only one of whom achieved fame and glory – is so brilliantly simple, you wonder why no one has thought of it before. (Actually, someone did think of it before, as the… Read more.
Televisual – Outline strikes content deal with DRG
Outline Productions has struck a content partnership deal with distributor DRG. The deal follows recent news that Outline has been commissioned to produce a UK version of DRG’s Norwegian format, Born On (pictured), for Channel 4. Outline and DRG have billed the deal as an alliance which will support growth… Read more.
Broadcast – Outline strikes first-look deal with DRG
The partnership will enable the Show Me Your Garden indie grow its business by bolstering its development fund to help create series for UK and international broadcasters that DRG will then distribute globally. The distribution deal follows an agreement struck between the businesses earlier this month for Born On [pictured]… Read more.
TBI – DRG, Outline in major content pact
Distributor DRG has entered into a content partnership agreement with Outline Productions, the UK indie that’s producing the UK remake of Norwegian format Born On. DRG will help Outline expand its business and growth by contributing to a development fund designed to aid the creation of formats for the local and… Read more.
World screen – DRG Forms Alliance with Outline Productions
LONDON: DRG has entered into a content partnership with Outline Productions following the recent announcement that Outline was commissioned to produce a U.K. version of the DRG format Born On. Under the agreement, DRG will help Outline to expand its business and contribute to a development fund to invest in new,… Read more.
C21 – Outlines UK prodco deal
UK-based production outfit Outline Productions and Modern Times Group-owned distributor DRG have formed a content partnership to create international formats. DRG aims to help expand Outline’s business by contributing to a development fund to invest in new content and formats for both the UK and abroad. The distributor will accordingly become the… Read more.
Realscreen – Outline Productions, DRG ink content deal
UK indie Outline Productions and distributor DRG have formed a content partnership. As part of the deal, DRG will contribute to a development fund to help the Health Freaks producer expand its original content and formats. The Nice Group-owned distributor will also advise on the type of content developed to ensure it has… Read more.
Broadcast – Outline plans fresh US assault in deal with DRG
Outline Productions is planning a fresh attack on the US market after arming itself with development funding to compete with British super-indies and Hollywood studios. The Show Me Your Garden producer struck a deal with Doc Martin distributor DRG this week that will give it greater financial and creative firepower as… Read more.
Broadcast Now – Outline Productions brings Norway’s Born On to C4
A Norwegian format which tracks the lives of a disparate group of people who share a birthday is to be remade for Channel 4 by Outline Productions. Read the full article in Broadcast here.
Broadcast Now – Outline Productions Managing Director Laura Mansfield Appointed Chair of Pact
Former Fremantle Media UK boss Sara Geater has joined All3Media as chief operating officer, forcing her to relinquish her duties as the chair of Pact after only four months. Geater takes up the All3 position previously held by Jane Turton, who was promoted to chief executive of the Discovery and… Read more.
PACT – Laura Mansfield Appointed as Pact Council Chair
Laura Mansfield has today been appointed as Pact Council Chair, as Sara Geater steps down to become COO of All3Media. Under Pact’s constitution, non-qualifying independent producers, such as All3Media, can be Pact members but are unable to sit on Pact Council. In the event of the Chair stepping down, the… Read more.
Pact – Pact Appoints Laura Mansfield as New Vice Chair
Pact has appointed Laura Mansfield as Vice Chair of Pact Council. Laura Mansfield co-founded Outline Productions in 1999 and is its Managing Director. Outline has built a strong reputation for creating and delivering imaginative factual entertainment formats and series for UK and US broadcasters. The company was voted in the… Read more.
TBI Vision – Pact Appoints Outline Boss Laura Mansfield Vice Chair
UK producers trade body, Pact, has appointed Laura Mansfield vice chair of the Pact Council. Mansfield co-founded Outline Productions in 1999 and is the indie’s managing director. She first joined the Pact council in January 2013. The Pact council oversees the work of the trade body, signing off budgets and… Read more.
Broadcast – Laura Mansfield Appointed Pact Council Vice Chair
Outline Productions managing director Laura Mansfield has been appointed vice chair of Pact Council. Mansfield, who founded the indie in 1999, will take up the role with immediate effect. Her term will run until December 2016. She became a member of Pact Council in January 2013. Pact Council oversees the… Read more.
Televisual – Pact appoints Laura Mansfield as New Vice Chair
Pact has appointed Outline Productions’ Laura Mansfield as Vice Chair of Pact Council. Mansfield co-founded Outline Productions in 1999 and is its md. Outline was voted in the top 10 of all UK independent production companies by its peers in Televisual’s 2014 Production 100 survey and has series under its… Read more.
The Australian – Trevor Phillips Makes Frank Confessions in Things We Won’t Say about Race That are True
How dare our Prime Minister slander the abstemious Irish, a sober, temperate and respectable people healthy of mind, body and soul! Surely we are beyond the days when it was OK to cast aspersions on the tight-fisted Scots, the leek-munching Welsh or the sheep-doting Kiwis. That, at least, is the… Read more.
