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Britain’s Favourite 90s TV Comedy (C5, 10.25pm) IT was the era of Britpop and Tony Blair, but it wasn’t just music and politics that got a makeover in the 1990s – the humble sketch show was given, a new lease of life too. The Fast Show lived up to its name by cutting to the jokes in record time, while Goodness Gracious Me and The Real McCoy brought more diversity to our screens. Jo Brand roots around the archives for some of her favourite sketches from the decade, and chats to some of the directors, writers and performers behind them.
Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Announces Latest Spitfire Under Restoration
Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar Announces Latest Spitfire Under Restoration
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As we have reported in the past, the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar and its parent organization, The Spitfire Company (Biggin Hill) Ltd, have made remarkable progress in their work restoring Supermarine Spitfires at their facility on London Biggin Hill Airport, south east of London, England. This site is steeped in Spitfire history, being the former home of what once was RAF Biggin Hill, a major fighter base during the Battle of Britain. The company has worked on a dozen or so Spitfires since their inception, and has several on site at any given time, both airworthy and those under rebuild. Readers might recall the first flight last year of ‘The Greek Spitfire’, Spitfire Mk.IX MJ755, which is the last complete surviving example to have served in the Greek Air Force.
| 11 February 2021
Independent multiplatform factual content distributor Orange Smarty has acquired a slate of new content through a string of development-stage investment deals with new and existing producer partners.
Leading the new offer is a new relationship with Whitworth Media brings history and engineering series Inside the Spitfire Factory (6 x 60’ - pictured) to the Orange Smarty slate. Produced for and currently on air on Channel 4, led by a cast of wonderful characters, this observational documentary series follows engineers, pilots and historians as they restore rusty remains of the iconic Second World War flying machines.
Two more new producer relationships, meanwhile, will result in two new true-crime series, both scheduled for release in the first half of 2021. The first is a distribution partnership with Brown Bob Productions on The Moment of Proof (15 x 30’), which after a successful January 2021 TX is said to have performed consistently above slo
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