December 2017

Second year running a Studio Lambert exec wins best producer award at WFTV Awards

Studio Lambert head of drama Sue Hogg won the Envy Producer Award at the Women in Film and TV Awards at the London Hilton this week.  Last year, the same award was won by Tania Alexander for her work on Gogglebox.

Sue’s award was primarily for her work on the acclaimed BBC One miniseries Three Girls made by Studio Lambert in association with BBC Studios.

In an unprecedented coup at the WFTV Awards, the writer, director and editor awards all went to women who had worked in those roles on Three Girls; screenwriter Nicole Taylor was presented with the Creative Skillset Writing Award, Philippa Lowthorpe won the Deluxe Director Award and Una Ni Dhonghaile won the Technicolor Creative Technology Award.

November 2017

Three Girls takes home two Royal Television Society Craft Awards

Last night (Monday 27th November) Three Girls took home two awards from the Royal Television Society Craft Awards. The ceremony which celebrates excellence in broadcast television and the huge variety of skills involved in programme production awarded the Studio Lambert drama awards in the categories of Editing and Director of Photography.

This brings the total awards won by the production to eight since it aired on BBC One earlier this year.

Three Girls is a three-part drama based on the true stories of victims of grooming and sexual abuse in Rochdale.

November 2017

All-star cast for Celebrity Gogglebox for Stand Up To Cancer

Celebrity Gogglebox returns once again this week with a star-studded cast.  Music superstar Ed Sheeran along with fellow musician pals Example and Big Narstie complete the line-up that includes Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and comedy actress Jessica Hynes, rock star Liam Gallagher, his mum Peggy and son Gene, rock royalty Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne and sporting legends and good friends Freddie Flintoff and Jamie Redknapp.

This is the fourth time famous faces have agreed to take part in a special version of the show to raise money for Stand Up to Cancer.

October 2017

Three Girls awarded best film dealing with modern slavery

Three Girls won the award for best film dealing with modern day slavery at the Anti- Slavery Day Awards, an event which takes place at Speaker’s House.

The Human Trafficking Foundation hosts the Anti-Slavery Day Awards each year to recognise journalists, filmmakers and broadcasters who have exposed issues of modern slavery, and to celebrate organisations and individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the fight against modern slavery.

October 2017

Gogglebox, Four In A Bed and Three Girls Nominated for National Television Awards

Three of Studio Lambert’s productions have been nominated at the long-listing stage of The National Television Awards.

‘Gogglebox’ has been nominated in the Factual Entertainment category while ‘Four In A Bed’ is up for an award in the category of best Daytime programme. Additionally, Three Girls has been nominated in the category of ‘Best Drama’ while Maxine Peake is up for best ‘Drama Performance’ for her role as Sara Rowbotham in the Studio Lambert produced Drama for BBC.

September 2017

Channel 4 commissions daytime entertainment format, Buy It Now

Britain’s inventors, makers, and licensees of products are being given the chance to sell their new wares in front of potential customers and the buyers of major retailers in new Channel 4 series Buy It Now w/t, presented by actor, singer, presenter and comedian Brian Conley, it was announced today.

The new 30×30’ daytime series produced by Studio Lambert will invite individual sellers to showcase their product to an audience of potential customers. Pitching anything from toys to clothes to gadgets, each seller has only 90 seconds to get the customers interested – and retain them when they reveal the price of their product – as the customers will be parting with their personal money for the product.

Buy It Now is produced by Studio Lambert and was commissioned by Gill Wilson, Head of Features for Channel 4 and Tim Hancock, Commissioning Editor for Features and Daytime for Channel 4. Tim Harcourt and Cat Lawson are the executive producers for Studio Lambert.

September 2017

All 4 Commissions observational documentary, ‘Sketch’s Prison Ink’

All 4 has commissioned Studio Lambert to explore the culture of tattoos in Britain’s prisons in Sketch’s Prison Ink.

Fronted by Tattoo Fixers tattoo artist Sketch, the 8×11’ observational documentary series will follow him as he immerses himself in the meaning and culture of prison tattoos. Sketch will meet people who were tattooists inside, others who got inked, and the guards who try to stop this dangerous practice.

Sketch: Prison Ink is produced by Studio Lambert and was commissioned by Thom Gulseven, Commissioning Editor and Daisy Mount, Editor for All 4. Jack Burgess, Matt J. Smith and Niall O’Driscoll are the executive producers for Studio Lambert.

September 2017

BBC commissions ‘Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge’

Up and coming amateur food producers from across Britain will promote and sell their delicious wares in a real shop in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales in a new BBC Two series presented by two-Michelin starred chef and presenter Tom Kerridge.

The new 8×60’ series, Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge produced by Studio Lambert gives these passionate kitchen table producers an opportunity to showcase their produce to real customers as well as two expert judges as they attempt to convince them that their product is the best and deserves a permanent space on our shelves.

Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge was commissioned by Patrick Holland, Controller of BBC Two and David Brindley, Head of Popular Factual and Factual Entertainment and the Commissioning Editor is Catherine Catton. The series is being produced by Studio Lambert where Tom Garland and Tim Harcourt are executive producers, Gary Broadhurst is series editor and Zoe Page is the series producer.

Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge will air in 2018.

September 2017

Three Girls win at La Rochelle Festival de la Fiction

Three Girls took home the Special Jury prize for Best European Drama at the Festival de la Fiction TV. During the festival, the Three Girls screening was in such demand that a second screening room was opened to accommodate viewers.

The La Rochelle Festival de la Fiction TV celebrates French and international television and film productions. It takes place every year in September at La Rochelle, France.

August 2017

Body Fixers returns to E4

Body Fixers returned to E4 with its top team of beauty professionals from the world of cosmetics, dentistry, hair and beauty on August 10th, 2017.

Award-winning cosmetic doctor, Dr Esho, award-winning hair stylist Daniel Granger, top make-up artist Alex Henry, and beautician April DeAustin were joined this series by hair stylist Danny Richo, and cosmetic dentist Dr Nina, as they tackle and transform clients from across the country in the state-of-the-art Body Fixers clinic.

Bigger, bolder and more extreme than before, whether it’s botox and fillers gone wrong; excessive body hair; or home hair dye disasters, this series  fixes any faux-pas, turn catastrophes into solutions, and re-install some much needed confidence back into people’s lives.

June 2017

Spa Wars launches on ITVBe and Naked Attraction returns to Channel 4

Spa Wars, a new series in which owners of beauty saloons try each other’s services and rate them, launches on ITVBe on the 28th June which is the same day that the second series of Naked Attraction launches on Channel 4.

Both series are executive produced by Mike Cotton.

May 2017

Vlogglebox to launch on E4

Studio Lambert has continued to tap into the success of Gogglebox, securing a second spin-off series which will revolve around a cast of teenagers.

The first 6 x 60-minute series of Vlogglebox will air on E4 from 18 June and follow the reactions of a group of 16 to 24-year-old viewers as they watch the latest online videos via their phones, laptops and tablets.

May 2017

Three Girls to air across the week on BBC One

Three Girls, the 3 x 60’ BBC Studios/Studio Lambert drama series written by Nicole Taylor and starring Maxine Peake, will air on BBC One at 9pm for three consecutive nights from Tuesday 16th May to Thursday 18th May.

May 2017

Second Wives Club premieres on E! 4 May

Studio Lambert USA’ new series for E! Premieres on 4 May.

The show documents the personal and professional lives of a group of several women who are or to become the second or third fourth or fifth wives, to wealthy and successful men.

April 2017

New tattoo competition show launches on E4

Studio Lambert’s competition to find the best tattoo artist has launched on E4. It is hosted by Tattoo Fixers regulars Jay Hutton and Rose Hardy.

March 2017

BBC One orders second series of Doctor in the House

A new series of Doctor in the House has been ordered by BBC One. In the new series Dr Rangan Chatterjee observes in each episode the daily routines of two families with a chronic health complaint.  

January 2017

The Great Interior Design Challenge moves to 8pm

The fourth series of The Great Interior Design Challenge has started airing on BBC Two in a new 8pm midweek slot.

Joining the judging panel this series is design guru Kelly Hoppen.

January 2017

Googlebox hat-trick at the NTAs

Googlebox won the Best Factual Entertainment Award for the third year in a row at the National Television Awards.