How DAZN created ‘more than football’ documentary Club Ibiza: The Sessions

Co-director and executive producer, as well as DAZN SVP original programming, Grant Best, explained to Broadcast Sport how they built a documentary around Ibiza’s small football club DAZN released Club Ibiza: The Sessions last month, a documentary focusing on Spanish third tier football side UD Ibiza. Filmed almost entirely before Covid restrictions were announced, it […]

How BT Sport created football doc Ours mid-pandemic

Executive producer Sally Brown, director Tom Boswell, and journalist Mike Calvin told Broadcast Sport about what it took to create Ours “The last day of filming was also the day Boris cancelled Christmas, we were driving home from Bury thinking about what we were going back into.” BT Sport producer/director Tom Boswell, along with journalist […]

Behind-the-scenes: A Question of Sport returns with some Covid tweaks

A Question of Sport executive producer Gareth Edwards reveals the changes made to shoot the new series at Dock 10 studios. A Question of Sport returned to dock10 studios this month to record 10 episodes – it’s first since lockdown. Coronavirus shooting guidelines meant the show had to shoot without an audience for the first […]

Creative Spotlight: Tiger Woods: Back (Sky Sports)

Behind-the-scenes during the post-production on Sky Sports’ recent 120-minute Sky Original documentary, Tiger Woods: Back. Sky Production Services (SPS), Sky’s in-house production wing, was commissioned by Sky Sports to provide offline/online, grading, and audio mixing on Tiger Wood: Back, a 120-min Sky Original charting the rise, fall, and comeback of the golf icon for Sky’s […]

NHL to remotely produce live and behind-the-scenes content using Blackbird

Quick turnaround content will be streamed on its digital and social outlets, and distributed internally for re-purposing. The National Hockey League (NHL) is remotely producing live and behind-the-scenes content as it returns to live sport, using cloud video editing platform Blackbird. For the NHL’s 2020 Stanley Cup Qualifiers and 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the NHL […]

Behind-the-scenes: Producing Match of the Day in lockdown

BBC lead executive Steve Rudge goes behind-the-scenes to find Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Ian Wright putting on their own makeup.Producing Match of the Day during the pandemic has meant new ways of working to meet strict health and safety guidelines for production. “The teams at dock10 and the BBC, and the technical teams behind […]

Dugout to live stream behind-the-scenes football and esports content

The content provider’s live streams will include pre- and post-match interviews, action from the training ground and off-field activities. Football content specialist Dugout is launching its first live streaming service. The company, which is co-owned by a long list of many of the world’s biggest football clubs, is best known for providing ‘club-safe’ archive, behind-the-scenes […]

Behind the scenes: Sunset+Vine reveals how it makes shows during lockdown

Production house reveals the innovative way it is embracing live remote TV production during the Covid-19 crisis. This short video, presented by Sunset+Vine executive producer Stephen Booth, explains in 2m21s exactly how the producer has made remote production with presenters and crew at home the “new normal.”

Sports Illustrated signs up to Dugout for archive and BTS football content

US publisher to provide football fans with exclusive video content from more than 100 football clubs. Football content platform Dugout has inked a deal with Maven, the publisher of Sports Illustrated, to provide archive and behind-the-scenes video content to US-based football fans. The content comes from 100+ football clubs, national football federations and leagues, and […]