Tara Conlan
Media Reporter and Column Writer at The Guardian
Journalist writing about media for The Guardian & others since all this was just Gracie Fields. Ex-Daily Mail TV Editor.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
Doctors and whistleblowers who featured in a much-delayed Gaza documentary that the corporation was accused of and other cultural figures, are threatening to withdraw their consent due to the continued refusal to broadcast the film.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
I’ve been under work pressure many times before, but nothing has prepared me for this. In Alberta, Canada on a palaeontology dig being filmed for the return of the BBC series Walking with Dinosaurs, I have been allowed to unearth a dinosaur bone. It has not seen the light of day for about 73m years, and now, armed with just a hammer, awl and brush, I am chipping away at the rock around it to bring it to human eyes for the first time.
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2 months ago |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
A team of independent TV producers who spent their life savings developing a documentary about the UK debt crisis, which they had pitched to the actor Michael Sheen, have questioned the originality of a separate project the Welsh star later made with Channel 4 on the same issue.
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Mar 2, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
A new TV show based on the children’s party game musical chairs is set to hit screens, tapping into viewers’ cravings for nostalgia and happy childhood memories. The company behind Big Brother, Masterchef and Peaky Blinders is launching the elimination gameshow Game of Chairs – a series in which 10 contestants move around a circle of nine coloured chairs and aim to land on a seat when the music stops.
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Feb 2, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Tara Conlan
The producers behind a show about immigration have denied accusations it platforms racists, saying the “voices you hear within the series are the voices we were hearing up and down the country as we were casting”. Channel 4’s immigration series Go Back to Where You Came From features six participants, some of whom hold anti-immigration views, following in the footsteps of refugees making the journey from Syria and Somalia to the UK.
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Talks over scope of Gary Lineker’s future at BBC beyond Match of the Day following his reposting of a video about Zionism containing rat image as post emerges of Lineker appearing to comment on a decision by the BBC to delay a documentary about Gaza https://t.co/B75QQEOl6p
RT @themediaclubpod: What will Trump’s movie tariffs mean for UK film & TV? Media journalist @taraconlan joins TV exec Peter Fincham on Th…
James Bond’s next adventure may be more geographically-limited then: From Texas with Love anyone? So many questions incl what happens if a producer needs to film a specific foreign landmark eg Eiffel Tower? Does that count? Will it be cheaper for producers to just CGI it in? 🤯
US tariffs, coming after Covid and the recent slowdown, could deal a knock-out blow to an industry that is only just recovering and will be really worrying news for tens of thousands of skilled freelancers who make films in the UK @philippachilds
