AUTUMN 2021 CONTENTS


06 IN POST Recent work from Cinesite, Molinare, MPC and more


22 FACTUAL GENRE REPORT Factual TV demand is shifting to the big, the bold and the box set with plenty of new customers now coming online.


P01 PRODUCTION 100 Tim Dams introduces Televisual’s Production 100 survey of the indie television sector and finds an industry in resurgence after the hiatus of 2020


16 STORYBOARD Creative from Nexus, Blinkink, Aardman and more


30 BIG PICTURE Inside Nutopia’s epic Netflix mafia documentary, Vendetta.


34 VFX: THE SUPER STARS Vfx supers tell Jon Creamer about their craft and how they achieve the jaw-dropping sequences in projects like Tenet, Ex Machina, The Dark Knight and His Dark Materials


P14 PEER POLL Production companies reveal the rival indie outfits they rate and respect


P15 THE P100 LIST Televisual’s showcase of the UK’s top 100 production companies. From Aardman to Zinc, who’s number one this year?


P35 TRUE INDIES A look at the producers who really live up to the word independent


54 THE INSIDE JOB With the demand for HETV flooding post houses, in-house facilities are plugging the gaps.


THE TELEVISUAL BULLDOG AWARDS Head to the special supplement to see all the nominees for this year’s Televisual Bulldog Awards and have your say about the best of British TV.


P39 SUPERINDIES Profiling the key superindie and studio groups, and the labels they own


42 POST: ALL CHANGE? Post production companies have had to revolutionise the way they work during Covid. But what changes are here for good?


P45 RATING BROADCASTERS Indies on the best PSB and SVOD customers to work for


82 IN MY VIEW Zoe McGivern, head of


60 THE NEW POWER IN POST As the sheer scale and complexity of HETV shows grows, the role of the post production supervisor is becoming more important. Michael Burns reports


P51 DISTRIBUTOR RANKINGS The distribution companies that indies like to deal with


P53 FUNDING MODELS How robust is ad funded TV?


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