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Drama Drama Documentary Factual Entertainment 1 Springvale Terrace, W14 0AE Enge 37-38 Newman Street, W1T 1QA 44-48 Bloomsbury Street WC1B 3QJ COLOURIST Tel: 0207 605 1700 [email protected] CREDITS Drama One Night In Istanbul 1 x 95’ Stray Dogs Films The Call Out 1 x 30’ Sprout Pictures for Sky Arts Twinkle Twinkle 1 x 30’ Rankin Film Productions Drama Documentary Escape From Sobibor 1 x 60’ Darlow Smithson for PBS and NGC JFK: Seven Days That Made A President 1 x 120’ Blast! Films for NGC Dead or Alive 6 x 60’ Darlow Smithson for NGC Infested! series 2 & 3 14 x 45’ Darlow Smithson for Animal Planet I Shouldn’t Be Alive (series 3) 10 x 60’ Darlow Smithson for Discovery Innocent: The Colin Stagg Story 1 x 60’ BBC Vision for BBC One Real Crime: Mr Swirl 1 x 60’ Folio for ITV1 Revealed: Was Crippen Innocent? 1 x 60’ Films of Record for Channel 5 & NGC Crimewatch: Solved 1 x 60' BBC Vision for BBC One Factual Entertainment Boomtown 6 x 30’ Knickerbockerglory for BBC Three Bizarre ER 6 x 30’ Maverick for Discovery Health & Leisure Twin Town 8 x 60’ Knickerbockerglory for Sky 1 Jungle Gold 7 x 60’ RAW TV for Discovery The Guest Wing 8 x 60’ Landmark Films for Sky Atlantic Embarrassing Bodies 16 x 60’ Maverick Television for Channel 4 Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections series 1, 2 & 3 16 x 60’ Darlow Smithson for NGC and BBC Two In It to Win It XII: Red Button 12 x 45’ BBC Interactive for BBC Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections 10 x 60' Darlow Smithson for BBC Two Gok's Fashion Fix series 2 & 3 13 x 60' Endemol for Channel 4 Charley Boorman: Sydney to Tokyo: By Any Means 6 x 60’ Big Earth for BBC Two James May: My Sister’s Top 10 Toys 1 x 60’ BBC Vision for BBC Two Different Like Me 1 x 30' Endemol for BBC Three Funny Business 4 x 60’ Dai4 Films for BBC Wales TV Is Dead? 4 x 30' Liberty Bell for Channel 4 Factual I Bought a Rain Forest 3 x 60’ Keo Films for BBC Two Welcome To Rio 3 x 60’ Keo Films for BBC Two The Pity Of War 1 x 90’ Chimerica Media for BBC Two Britain’s Great War 4 x 60’ BBC Arts for BBC One Britain and the Sea 4 x 60’ BBC Arts for BBC Two The Lions Raw 2013 1 x 120’ Stamp Productions Shackleton 3 x 60’ RAW TV for Discovery Questioning Darwin 1 x 90’ Rare Day for HBO Richard III: The King In the Carpark 1 x 60’ Darlow Smithson for Channel 4 Westminster Abbey 3 x 60’ BBC Religion for BBC Two How to Build a Bionic Man 1 x 90’ Darlow Smithson for Channel 4 The Town That Caught Tourette’s 1 x 60’ RAW TV for Channel 4 The Business of Comedy 1 x 60’ BBC Comedy for BBC Two The Dark Charisma of Adolf Hitler 3 x 60’ LR History Media for BBC Two Brazil with Michael Palin 2 x 60’ Prominent TV for BBC Two Vikings 3 x 60’ BBC Features for BBC Two Volcano Live 4 x 60’ BBC Science for BBC Two Dispatches: Let Our Dad Die 1 x 30 CTVC for Channel 4 Brian Cox: A Night with the Stars 1 x 60’ BBC Science for BBC Four The World’s First Computer 1 x 90’ Images First for BBC Four / ARTE / NHK China: Triumph and Turmoil 3 x 60’ Chimerica Media for Channel 4 The Churchills 3 x 60’ Red House Dox for Channel 4 Our Food 4 x 60’ BBC Vision for BBC Two Stargazing Live 3 x 60’ BBC Science for BBC Two Stephen Lawrence: Time for Justice 1 x 60’ Mentorn for BBC One Fry’s Planet Word 5 x 60’ Sprout Pictures for BBC Two Shock and Awe: The Story Of Electricty 3 x 60’ BBC Factual for BBC Four Explosions: How We Shook the World 1 x 60’ BBC Science for BBC Four The Search for Drake’s Equation 1 x 60’ BBC Science for BBC Four How to Beat Tough Times: Moneywatch 3 x 60' BBC Business for BBC Two Suchet’s Music Hall Hero 1 x 60’ Mentorn for Channel 4 Horizon 12 x 60’ BBC Science for BBC Two Good Dog, Bad Dog 1 x 60’ Mentorn Media for Channel 4 Panorama: An Election Special 1 x 60’ BBC Vision for BBC One How Safe are our Skies? 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