At 7pm on BBC2: Michael Smith looks for the positive in what some consider Europe’s most boring city – Birmingham Putting the ‘n’ into ‘BBC cuts’. UPDATE You can see this episode on iPlayer until 7pm on 4 November. It featured The Event (in particular, Creative Machines, Minimalist Sculpture at Curzon Street Station), Eastside Projects … [Read more…]
From p.13 of the BBC’s Delivering Quality First plan: Factual programming for BBC television and Radio 4 would be moved out of Birmingham and consolidated largely to Bristol and Cardiff, though television production investment with independent producers in the Midlands would increase. Substantial network television drama (eg Doctors, Land Girls) and radio drama (The Archers) … [Read more…]
We Are Birmingham team up with Bullring for a very exciting public art project | We Are Birmingham Tom Tebby, Carl Booth, Matt Murtagh and James Thompson are doing something to cover the hoardings while the Spiceal Street development goes on ‘type-writing’ Symposium – good, long, comprehensive write-up of the event from Rachel Marsden, who was … [Read more…]
The folks at In Birmingham have picked up on Andy Burnham MP‘s comments about social mobility and the issues around unpaid internships. Andy Burnham used the BBC to make his point, saying: ‘There are young people working within the BBC for long periods without pay’, he said. ‘This is not fair to them, but more … [Read more…]
The BBC are doing a big season of opera stuff including: a behind-the-scenes look at Graham Vick’s productions of Aida and Othello In fact I’ve just noticed that BOC have announced that: Birmingham Opera Company’s Verdi’s Othello and a documentary on the work of Graham Vick are to be broadcast in June 2010 on BBC … [Read more…]
It’d be pointless me adding to the mounting pile of gushing reviews this performance is receiving, so I’m going to float an idea instead (which should give you an inkling of what I thought of it). Graham Vick is the Artistic Director of Birmingham Opera Company. Year-round he works with the world’s major operas and … [Read more…]
Following a recent announcement that BBC’s drama ‘Survivors’ will relocate to the West Midlands, Screen WM has announced today that they are investing in the next series of Kudos Film and Television’s major international TV drama, Hustle. The investment means that Hustle will relocate to Birmingham, and the city will provide a new backdrop for … [Read more…]
On tonight’s episode of Inside Out (BBC One, 7.30pm) presenter Ashley Blake will be exploring the recent successes in the West Midlands film industry. Ashley Blake goes on set of forthcoming Northern Soul film ‘Souled Out’ during its filming in Stoke-On-Trent, and explores other recent feature films shot in the region such as up-market chiller-horror … [Read more…]