Vertigo climbs the Televisual Production 100 rankings

Televisual Magazine has announced this year’s Production 100 list, outlining the biggest production companies in the UK. Vertigo was listed third in the ‘True Indies’ rankings (up from fifth last year), and 20 (up from 25) in the overall list.

Bulletproof nominated for Broadcast Digital Award

Bulletproof has been shortlisted in the Best Drama category in this year’s Broadcast Digital Awards! The show is nominated alongside Clique, Deep State, Flack, In My Skin and Killed By My Debt. The full awards shortlist is here, with the ceremony being held on Wednesday 3rd July. Good luck to all the nominees!  

Britannia shortlisted for BAFTA TV Craft Awards

Britannia has been shortlisted in the Special, Visual and Graphics Effects category for 2019’s BAFTA TV Craft Awards! The show is nominated alongside Troy: Fall Of A City, Bandersnatch and The Alienist. The full awards shortlist can be seen here. The ceremony will be held on Sunday 29th April at The Brewery.

Britannia shortlisted for 2019 Broadcast Award

Britannia has been shortlisted in the Best International Sales category for 2019’s Broadcast Awards alongside Abandoned Engineering, All Together Now, Catastrophe, Gunpowder and Liar. The full awards shortlist can be seen here. The ceremony will be held on 6th February 2019 at the Grosvenor Hotel.

Vertigo Enters Televisual’s Production 100 at No. 5

Vertigo is a new entrant to the Production 100 this year, making a top ten entrance thanks to big budget dramas Britannia and Bulletproof Published in the September, 2018 Televisual edition: http://www.televisual.com/reports-surveys.html

Bulletproof hits the target with record views and a second series on the way

Stars Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters will return as cop-buddy duo Bishop and Pike, who in series one saw family, friendships and loyalty put to the test in six episodes full of humour, emotion and action. Not to mention all the car chases. Blasting onto screens in May, the first episode of Bulletproof had a […]

Sky One Renews Buddy Cop Drama ‘Bulletproof’ For Second Season

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Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters are set to return for a second season of Sky One’s buddy cop drama Bulletproof. Sky said that the first episode of the show, which launched in May, had a total audience of 1.59M viewers, making it the biggest Sky One audience of the year. Clarke and Walters star as Bishop and Pike, who in […]

Bulletproof Boosts Sky 1’s Youth Share

Vertigo Films and Company Pictures’ six-part action drama launched ahead of the channel’s Strike Back: Retribution’s 205,000 (0.9%) in the same primetime slot in November. However, it was no match for Sky’s recent dramas Delicious (281,000 / 1.4% in January) and Jamestown (403,000 / 1.9% in May 2017), each of which played out at 9pm […]

Bulletproof wouldn’t have aired 5 years ago “because it’s two black leads”

Sky One’s new cop thriller Bulletproof was originally developed almost a decade ago – but according to its leads Noel Clarke and Ashley Walters, bringing the show to TV would’ve been “an impossibility a few years ago”. The pair told Digital Spy that the six-part series was originally inspired by US cop shows and movies like the Bad Boys franchise. “I […]

Britannia Set for Second Season

Britannia is getting a second season on Sky Atlantic and the streaming service NOW TV. Filming is set to begin in spring for a two-season-two debut in 2019. Britannia was created by Jez Butterworth (Spectre), Tom Butterworth (Tin Star) and James Richardson (Monsters). Season two will be written by Jez, Tom and John-Henry. All nine […]