The Spring Issue

The Televisual Spring 2025 issue is out now.

Inside you’ll find our landmark 2025 Commercials 30 survey; five heads of some of the UK’s biggest drama indies giving their thoughts on the genre’s future, our report on the UK’s film studios sector; a feature with documentarians on covering conflict; an interview with Charlie Brooker on the new Black Mirror season; a report on driving efficiency in TV production; Televisual’s annual top 10 cameras survey; a feature on the post sector’s deep dive into immersive and experiential content; a look behind the scenes of four new Televisual films that quiz the makers of Race Across the World, Drive to Survive, Vietnam: The War that Changed America and Devil in the Family on their secrets for success plus all the best recent work in post and vfx.

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THE COMMERCIALS 30 SURVEY

Jon Creamer introduces Televisual’s 31st exclusive annual survey of the best ad makers in the business

BEST IN SHOW – The industry’s favourite directors, ads, agencies, post houses and more

THE TOP 30 – The top commercials houses in the UK and their thoughts on the year ahead.

DRAMA’S NEW NARRATIVE ARC

With domestic television drama in particular facing a funding crisis right now, Televisual asked five of the CEOs and founders of some of the biggest UK drama independents  about the current state, and the future fortunes, of the genre. Pippa Considine reports

FILM STUDIOS: SET IN MOTION

After years of boom time building in the film studios sector followed by the bust brought on by the strikes, Pippa Considine takes the temperature of a business that is feeling a little more hopeful, and just a little more settled

WAR STORIES

Programme makers are facing a battle to patch together budgets that will allow them to bring stories of conflict to the screen. Pippa Considine reports

BLACK MIRROR S7

Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, is back for its seventh season with another six episodes and, for the first time, a sequel.

SCREEN SMARTS

With the broadcast industry facing financial challenges, independent TV production companies are looking smarter ways of working to make tight budgets stretch further

THE PRODUCERS

A look behind the scenes of five new Televisual films that quiz the makers of Race Across the World, Drive to Survive, Vietnam: The War that Changed America and Devil in the Family on their secrets for success

THE TOP TEN CAMERAS

Televisual’s annual list of the UK’s most hired pro cameras is now in its 19th year. Jon Creamer counts down the most in-demand models

ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?

Michael Burns discovers how picture and audio post and vfx houses are wowing audiences with ever more stunning immersive experiences

IN POST & STORYBOARD

Recent work from Harbor, Absolute, Company3 and more

 

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