Wise Owl Films has been commissioned to make an ITV tribute show in celebration of one of Britain’s most popular entertainers. Rock on, Tommy – The Bobby Ball Story will document the life and work of comedian and actor Bobby Ball, who passed away last month.
Wise Owl Films has won its first BBC2 series commission, following Yorkshire firefighters on and off duty, using the latest technology to bring viewers closer than ever to real emergencies and the men and women dealing with them.
The four-part documentary series has been commissioned by BBC England and BBC Two and follows the work of the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
All six episodes of our new Sky Arts music series “From The Vaults” are now available to watch as a box set on Sky and Now TV.
Elbow frontman and broadcaster Guy Garvey lifts the lid on two decades of TV gold – with era-defining musical performances, long-lost studio appearances and revealing interviews from the archives.
Lime Pictures’ non-scripted label Wise Owl Films has landed its first Sky Arts commission with the six-part music documentary series, Guy Garvey: From The Vaults as part of Sky Arts move to free-to-air later this month.
Elbow frontman Guy Garvey has curated six hours of his favourite artistes and songs from the Seventies and Eighties, with the series uncovering previously unseen performances by rock music icons like Kate Bush. The documentaries will also unearth studio performances, out-takes and revealing interviews that have stayed hidden on the shelves for decades. The series will air on 18th September at 9pm on Sky Arts and NOW TV, as part of a raft of exciting, absorbing and accessible programming for the newly free to air channel.
The series is centred around shows which were made by ITV companies around the country – from Tony Wilson and Granada TV’s So It Goes to Tyne Tees’ ground-breaking Channel 4 series The Tube and LWT’s The London Weekend Show - chronicling not just changing musical tastes but evolution in the UK’s social and cultural history too. The series travels from Punk and New Wave to the birth of ‘Madchester’.
Our new BBC2 documentary “When Bob Marley Came To Britain” was broadcast over the August Bank Holiday weekend and received a host of positive reviews and “pick of the days” in the press, with The Observer calling it “a fascinating and joyous documentary.”
The programme is available to view on the BBC iplayer for 12 months, here.