Happy times at Landmark. We're nearing the end of a six part, glossy series for Sky Atlantic about stately homes and their sometimes eccentric - and often hard-up - owners. We're really proud of it: it has been a joy to make - great characters and some truly beautiful photography. The series will air on Sky Atlantic in the spring.
We've a major new three part series about to start production with BBC2 and new projects in development with Channel 4 and BBC3 so it's an exciting time.
Our recent productions have gone down well. In September, BBC1 transmitted our film Hedge Wars - a wry look at the British and their hedges - clocking up 2.4m viewers and comfortably winning its slot. The bloke from The Guardian certainly enjoyed his hedges, writing: "I expected the usual neighbours-from-hell documentary – then something wonderful happened". The same month, Sky Living started airing our film about the UK's freestyle dance scene, Disco Diva Mums - a warm, entertaining and visually dazzling portrait of three mum and daughter pairs competing in the UK's fastest growing dance craze.
There was also terrific press coverage and audiences for our BBC2 3 x 60' series Children's Craniofacial Surgery which aired earlier last year on the extraordinary work done by the cranio facial surgery team at the Children's Hospital here in Oxford: The Sunday Times called it "this dazzling series" and The Times described the first episode as "astonishing." The Guardian praised it as "compulsive viewing"; the Glasgow Herald called it "heart-rending but uplifting" and Mumsnet described the series as "heart-stoppingly good" which maybe isn't the most felicitous epithet to apply to a series about high-stakes surgery but there we go. They are the kinds of films we love making, showing human beings at their most amazing and inspiring.
In June, we completed a ten minute corporate film for Oxford's Biomedical Research Council which formed part of the BRC's ultimately succesful pitch for their next five years of funding. We were delighted to be selected to make the film and it gave us an insight into some truly fascinating work taking place right on our doorstep in Oxford.
We're always on the lookout for new director and AP talent so, if you're new and bright and you have a belting docco idea that's sharply focused - about specific people, places and events - feels funny and fresh then get in touch.
We're especially keen to meet people who live in or around Oxford or who are thinking of moving to this part of the world.

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