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The Story of Panto with Gyles Brandreth on Sky Arts 7pm 15th December.

Lisa Fairbank

Oct 31 min read

The Story of Panto with Gyles Brandreth on Sky Arts 7pm 15th December.

Gyles Brandreth, Presenter of The Story of Panto - Sky Arts 15th December, 7pm. Our one-off special The Story of Panto with Gyles...

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Sky Arts announces five new commissions - including a series from Factory

Lisa Fairbank

Aug 221 min read

Sky Arts announces five new commissions - including a series from Factory

https://www.televisual.com/news/sky-arts-announces-five-new-commissions/ Sky Arts has announced five new Sky Originals with iconic women...

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Lisa Fairbank

Jul 311 min read

What's behind the yellow door?

Factory is excited to announce that we're moving into a new office tomorrow, 1st August at WRAP, just a stone's throw from Brighton...

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Up next - Sky unveils host of new unscripted commissions across Sky Documentaries and Sky Arts

Lisa Fairbank

Feb 221 min read

Up next - Sky unveils host of new unscripted commissions across Sky Documentaries and Sky Arts

Art historian and curator Kate Bryan fully immerses herself in the life and work of Maggi Hambling, an iconic tour de force known as much...

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Development Producer, Harry in BBC Writers Room

Lisa Fairbank

Jun 27, 20231 min read

Development Producer, Harry in BBC Writers Room

Our brilliant friend and colleague, Harry Smyth has been announced as a participant in the BBC writers' room - well done Harry. To find...

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Development Producer, Harry :"TV is like a magic trick."

Lisa Fairbank

Jun 19, 20231 min read

Development Producer, Harry :"TV is like a magic trick."

In the next episode of our podcast, Is TV for Me? we talk to Development Producer, Harry Smyth about the highs and lows of developing and...

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Lisa Fairbank

Jun 13, 20232 min read

Factory's new podcast - Is TV for Me?

Is TV for Me? Podcast: https://shows.acast.com/is-tv-for-me/episodes I’m Bena Jones, Production Assistant, Social Media Manager and...

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Lisa Fairbank

Apr 11, 20231 min read

NOMINATED for an RTS Southern Award!

Team Factory are pleased to announce that we have scored a nomination for an RTS Southern award 🙌 Our documentary 'Sing When You're...

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How saying “No” has helped us to grow our business - Talented Ladies Club

Lisa Fairbank

Feb 16, 20231 min read

How saying “No” has helped us to grow our business - Talented Ladies Club

Hannah from the Talented Ladies Club interviewed one of our Co-Founders, Lisa Fairbank. "When we started Factory 10 years ago from a...

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Lisa Fairbank

Jan 9, 20231 min read

The Best TV of 2022 you never watched

The brilliant series we made with English National Opera for Sky Arts, Anyone Can Sing was named at the end of last year alongside some...

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Sing When You're Winning - How Football Fans Became an Opera Chorus...

Lisa Fairbank

Oct 24, 20221 min read

Sing When You're Winning - How Football Fans Became an Opera Chorus...

Tune into Sky Arts on November 10th at 8pm to watch our brand new documentary Sing When You're Winning and find out how 40 Football Fans...

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Opera tunes that inspired Gods of the Game

Lisa Fairbank

Oct 13, 20221 min read

Opera tunes that inspired Gods of the Game

When we started working on Gods of the Game we wanted to incorporate some of the most famous opera arias routinely used as chants at...

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Lisa Fairbank

Oct 7, 20221 min read

THE 'GODS OF THE GAME' OPENING NIGHT

Last night was the opening night - and world premiere of Gods of the Game - the opera commissioned by Sky Arts and performed at Grange...

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TICKETS ON SALE NOW... for GODS OF THE GAME

Lisa Fairbank

Sep 15, 20221 min read

TICKETS ON SALE NOW... for GODS OF THE GAME

We are just a few short weeks away from the world premiere of our football opera - Gods of the Game at Grange Park Opera, Surrey. With...

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Lisa Fairbank

Aug 17, 20221 min read

FOOTY OPERA KICKS OFF!

The Factory team had a great weekend with the Footy Fan Chorus of our new opera Gods of the Game at the weekend. We were hosted warmly by...

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intern2216

Jul 7, 20222 min read

Being An Intern At Factory Films.

I'm Max, I've been here for a week and a half, and I can already say I've loved it! I didn’t really know what to expect from this...

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Lisa Fairbank

May 30, 20221 min read

Do you love football... and singing?

Allez, allez, allez! If you like belting out a tune in the stands... if love to sing and love football, then we're looking for you! We're...

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"Tune in for Happiness".... Anyone Can Sing a hit with the critics

Lisa Fairbank

Apr 1, 20222 min read

"Tune in for Happiness".... Anyone Can Sing a hit with the critics

Episode one of our lovely series, ANYONE CAN SING went out on Sky Arts this week and we've had some great feedback which we thought we'd...

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Anyone Can Sing is on Sky Arts this week!

Lisa Fairbank

Mar 25, 20221 min read

Anyone Can Sing is on Sky Arts this week!

Team Factory are super-excited that the time has now come to share ANYONE CAN SING with you all - on Wednesday night at 8pm on Sky...

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We're kicking off our football opera project, GODS OF THE GAME

Lisa Fairbank

Feb 9, 20221 min read

We're kicking off our football opera project, GODS OF THE GAME

We're excited to announce that our football opera project, in partnership with Grange Park Opera, Surrey and Sky Arts is well underway....

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