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The Day the Dinosaurs Died (BBC2)
Founded by Sam Barcroft in 2003, Barcroft Studios was early out of the gate when it came to recognizing the value and reach of online video. Beginning as a news agency, the production outfit gained visibility through embracing digital publishing and creating niche channels that would attract millions of views. That is still a significant portion of its business, with 500 million views per month for Barcroft content via social media and its own factual channel, truly.
But as the company’s reputation for sharp, zeitgeist-tapping content grew, so did its client base, which now ranges from Netflix and Snapchat to PSBs such as the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel 5, and cable nets including Discovery.
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All3Media’s Jane Turton on Navigating Pandemic Challenges
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In 2019, All3Media brought in a record £745 million ($1.02 billion) in revenues. At the start of 2020, CEO Jane Turton looked enthusiastically toward building on the group’s many successes developing, producing and distributing drama, factual and factual-entertainment programming. Then the pandemic hit, shutting down production and delaying delivery of shows. But the broad footprint of the group’s 40-plus production entities (located in the U.K., the U.S., Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand), its diverse output and a sizable catalog of finished shows and formats allowed All3Media to have an almost business-as-usual year. Turton does not minimize the challenges faced by the group’s employees but has confidence in their determination and creativity in developing new IP, refreshing existing formats, complying with Covid-19 safety protocols to keep production going, securing financing
Ursula Macfarlane s doc follows a man s quest to solve his own separated-at-birth mystery.
A twisty true-crime story loses much of its appeal in Ursula Macfarlane s
The Lost Sons, a who am I? doc whose subject is more fascinated with that question than most viewers will be. Paul Fronczak was ten years old when he learned he had been the victim of a foiled newborn abduction; only decades later did he realize his story was even more convoluted. Though well shot, the CNN-coproduced film always feels TV-grade at best; its level of drama (not to mention its failure to find anything universal in the specifics of Fronczak s tale) is out-of-place on a festival schedule, even in a year of diminished options.