Sundog Pictures is a retained client and we have enjoyed a fruitful relationship for the past 3 years - working with them on this acclaimed BBC show had it's unique set of challenges. Chicago is officially the most violent city in the US so Remote Trauma's experience and expertise in special training, high-risk advise and equipment provision was key to a safer series of shoots.
Modern day treasure hunter Drew Pritchard is one of the UK's top decorative antique dealers. Always on the hunt for that elusive gem, Drew travels the length and breadth of the country in search of weird and wonderful objects. The bigger the hoard of forgotten antiques and dusty furniture, the happier Drew is! And with a host of clients from all walks of life - from royalty to Hollywood stars, - Drew's work is never done. Building on a childhood love of visiting car scrapyards to unearth rare and beautiful items, Drew has turned his lifelong passion into a thriving international business enterprise. Over 20 years of business, Drew and his specialist team of experts have restored an incredibly diverse range of items, from fireplaces, doors, lighting, gardern ornaments, to cars, paintings, jewellery and wooden artefacts. (Courtesy - Quest TV)
In the last decade, two million Americans have attempted to leave behind civilization in favor of life off-the-grid - but most have failed. For the hundreds of families who decide to become homesteaders, the learning curve is a steep one. Now comes new series HOMESTEAD RESCUE. In the series, struggling homesteaders across the country are turning expert homesteader Marty Raney - along with his daughter Misty Raney, a farmer, and son Matt Raney, a hunter and fisherman - to teach them the necessary skills to survive the wilderness. The stakes are high, but the Raney family is determined to prepare these families for nature's worst and set them up for success. Each family faces the ultimate decision: will they tough out their first year or pack up and return to civilization? (Written by Discovery Channel)
The world's best survival show returns to Channel 4 for a new season - Bear Grylls strands groups of regular folk on a remote island to see how they will not only stay alive but attempt to thrive in a deceptively hostile environment.
TEN’s spectacular new family entertainment series is set on the stunning and rugged South Pacific island of Samoa, where contestants will be deprived of basic comforts and must build their own shelter, light their own fires, gather their own food and fend for themselves. (Courtesy of Ten Entertainment)
Marcella Backland left the Metropolitan Police for the sake of her family, only to have her husband leave her. She returns to her job on the murder squad, investigating a case that seems disturbingly familiar to her. (Source: IMDB)
Renowned as the toughest of all special forces the SAS inspired the second season of this reality challenge - SAS Who Dares Wins which sees twenty five men from regular life put through the gruelling SAS selection process. Selection takes place over period of several days in a variety of ultra challenging environments that put the participants through extremes of physical and mental endurance. As specialists, Remote Trauma were called upon not only to to provide a comprehensive risk management package but also complete on and off-screen medical support - no mean feat for a show such as this! For more information on the full production go to: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/sas-who-dares-wins or if you'd like to discuss your own production requirements, speak to a Remote Trauma professional - contact us via phone, email or any of our social channels.
The Island with Bear Grylls is probably the toughest show on television, so it stands to reason you are going to need the best risk management company to support you. Channel 4's annual Stand Up to Cancer is back to raise funds up and down the UK for groundbreaking new cancer treatments. And this year part of the programming will show viewers what happened when a group of celebrities were left stranded on a deserted island in the pacific ocean. Remote Trauma provided on location supported with a team of four specialist safety, medical, survival and power boat drivers. having previously worked with British, French, Americans, Dutch and Norwegians on their versions of The Island. It made sense to employ the same specialist team on an equally hard challenge.
Sunset+Vine, the multi-award winning UK independent TV sports production and media company, part of the Tinopolis Group, has followed up its recent win of the ICC’s Live Events Production Services contract 2016-2019, with the award of the ICC’s Non Live Programming contract for the same period. The Non Live Programming contract covers twenty programming elements, and includes the ICC’s flagship magazine programme, ICC Cricket 360⁰, as well as pre- event promotional content which will be aired by the ICC’s global broadcasters. The contract covers both men’s and women’s programming over a four year period, starting with immediate effect.It also covers the production of the Official Highlights and Official Film, for each major event. (Source: Tinopolis)
The VSquared team has been involved with production of the Tour de France since 1986 when commissioned to make daily highlights programmes for Channel 4 Television. With its iconic Pete Shelley title music, the Tour stayed with the channel until 2001 when it moved to ITV, where it has been ever since. Production has moved from highlights only to live coverage every day. VSquared have been at the forefront of innovation, both technical and creative, working with the ITV interactive team to supply podcasts, exclusive web content and mobile phone streaming to sit alongside the broadcast programmes. (Source: VSquared)
Five children travel across the world to live and work alongside the people who make the everyday items they take for granted. (Source: BBC)
Science monkey superhero Dr Brain pits children and CBBC celebrities against one another in a series of science-based tasks and conundrums designed to discover the 'Ultimate Brain'. (Source: BBC)
Highly gifted children aged between 7 to 12 take part in a competition, run in association with British Mensa, to find the UK's annual child genius (Source: Channel 4)
Unreported World is a foreign affair programme produced by Quicksilver Media Productions and broadcast by C4 in the United Kingdom. Over the course of its thirty-one series, reporters have travelled to dangerous locations all over the world in an attempt to uncover stories usually ignored by the world media.
Reggie Yates gets up close and personal with three very different communities in contemporary Russia, exploring what it's like for young people there, 24 years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Every city has a drug scene. But when big holiday events happen, drug dealers have to work overtime. Whether it's a coke-fuelled Spring Break in Florida, a heroin odyssey on New Year’s Eve in New York, or a Mardi Gras Molly-fest, the heat is on: out-of-town rivals, dealers selling fake product – and the cops on high alert. Meanwhile five shows chase the product from origin to sale. Featuring extreme access filming in Peru, in Mexico, and in the former Soviet Union we chart the supply chains of the world’s most dangerous drugs, their economic and health impact – and what law enforcement is doing to stop them.
The show follows 10 celebrities who attempt to make it to the North Cape at 71 degrees north. At the end of each episode, the celebrity who performed worst on that day's challenge was eliminated.
Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty return for a third series celebrating great food. Jamie and Jimmy grew up sharing a love of food and, at their cafe at the end of Southend pier, they create blow-out feasts designed to add some serious culinary wow factor to your weekends. Jamie cooks show-stopping dishes to share with friends and family, meanwhile Jimmy explores the foods we buy in the supermarkets that we could actually be making at home – not only will they taste better but you’ll also know exactly what’s in them. Plus there are a host of celeb friends popping in to learn how to cook a favourite dish. And the boys are back on the road to continue their fight against food waste.
A major new ten-part series telling the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day, for the first time on a global scale. The BBC has announced the commission of Civilisations, It is now nearly half a century since Kenneth Clark’s series Civilisation thrilled audiences with its authoritative interpretation of the glories of Western art. Inspired by that groundbreaking programme, the new series of Civilisations on BBC Two will introduce a new generation to the great masterworks of beauty, ingenuity and illumination created across the continents. Civilisations will explore the visual culture of societies from around the globe, revealing alongside the magnificent objects made in the West the wealth of treasures created by other cultures, from the landscape scrolls of classical China and the sculpture of the Olmecs to African bronzes, Japanese prints and Mughal miniatures.
This ten part series follows some of the world’s wealthiest and most successful business people as they go undercover to make a tangible difference in the lives of underprivileged communities across the globe. Their mission? Rather than simply hand out money, they must use their business skills to create lasting change. The benefactors leave behind their own comfortable and sometimes luxurious environments, to experience life within very different communities and cultures. With a limited amount of time and stripped of their usual support systems, they are tasked with identifying a need within the community, and finding a viable way to create a lasting legacy.
New BBC One adventure game show hosted by Emma Willis and Reggie Yates. Ten couples compete on different continents to win £100,000. They’re Prized Apart but in it together.
Is it possible to “surf” a train at over 120mph? Can you really ski down the longest escalator in Europe? What happens when you put a man in a 100m catapult and let go? Welcome to the most incredible clips on the planet! Men and women cheating death. Some are real, some are just very sophisticated hoaxes, but each gets millions of views… Now, unruly engineer Tim Shaw and his daredevil best friend Buddy Munro are tracking down these internet daredevils in order to explore their feats in the most hair-raising and explosive way possible: by re-creating each and every one of them, themselves! On location (or via Skype), they cross examine the creators, before drawing on engineering support and using real world locations to recreate the clips. If it’s a hoax, they prove it once and for all — and then demonstrate how it could be done. Each hour-long show sees our presenters take on 3 or 4 stunts. Punctuating the adventure throughout will be a number of the wildest, wackiest clips
Two Presenter-led teams explored the long-term effects of radiation on living creatures in Chernobyl’s highly contaminated Exclusion Zone in a race against time.
In this new series, Ben Fogle is on an epic South American adventure from the Equator to the Tropic of Capricorn, supported by teams of deserving heroes who will help him take on the world's toughest environments. Ben's journey begins in Ecuador where he leads his team through the Avenue of Volcanoes to summit Mount Chimborazo - the closest point to the sun on Earth. Ben and his team of heroes launch their summit attempt in darkness on the final day but with icy blizzard conditions battering the team and the constant threat of debilitating altitude sickness, it's one of Ben's most challenging expeditions.
Ethiopia's Danakil Depression has one of the most extreme climates found on Earth – yet even here, life has found a way. The Sun scorches the cracked earth, a wavering mirage confuses the eye, and dry air and dust suck the moisture from your mouth and eyes. Ethiopia's Danakil Depression is one of the hottest, driest and lowest places on the planet.
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