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Kate Beal
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Breaking the taboo: How do we navigate mental health in TV?
Mental ill-health in the TV sector is an unspoken reality for many working in the…
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Discovery serves up Woodcut’s ‘British Police: Our Toughest Cases’
Discovery has commissioned Woodcut Media for a Quest Red series on the British police, and…
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Avalon Factual Television exec moves to Woodcut
Avalon Factual Television features and daytime chief Matthew Gordon is moving to another UK prodco,…
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Prison sells
Prisons have long been a source of fascination for TV producers – as illustrated by…
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TBI Formats: Drinking tea with gangsters
Kate Beal, CEO & joint creative director, Woodcut Media Over the years I’ve filmed with…
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TV’s Big Questions: has 4K truly broken through?
There was a buzz around ultra-high definition television coming into 2015, but did the medium…
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Keshet plots crime move with Woodcut deal
Israel’s Keshet International is getting into unscripted crime programming distribution following a deal with UK…
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TV’s Big Questions: what is shaping the world of content?
Platforms, technology and marketing aside, what really drives the international TV industry is content. We…
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Woodcut poaches A+E commissioner
Woodcut Media has poached A+E Networks UK buyer Jinal Patel to become its joint creative…
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Guilty pleasures
Murder. Bloodlust. Revenge. Jesse Whittock listens to testimony from leading executives and gathers evidence to…
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UK indie Woodcut hires production boss
UK independent producer Woodcut Media has recruited Jenni Day as head of production. Day, previously…
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2014 Year in Review, part one
In the first part of a three-part special on the moments of 2014 and those…
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Kate Beal: the work experience experience
Work Experience – it’s that rite of passage into the mystical world of TV. We…
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Viewpoint: the work experience ‘experience’
Work experience – it’s that rite of passage into the mystical world of TV. We…
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London Live’s Lawford joins Beal’s Woodcut
Former BBC Worldwide iPlayer exec Derren Lawford has joined Kate Beal’s new indie, Woodcut Media,…