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Sky Entertainment

Various studio and OB shows for Sky Arts, Sky Atlantic, etc.

Thronecast - Sky Atlantic

Studio 4/5

Fan spin-off show hosted by Sue Perkins. Fascinating, in depth, hillerious. And of course, the chance to win a Volvo each week… Broadcast live immediatly after the first showing of each hotly-awaited episode of Game of Thrones
(final series after being requested from the beginning but wasn’t able to be released until then due conflicting with MNF. Iain Davidson’s retirement, however, forced a reassement of this restriction.)

Richard took Iain Davidson’s KOI-award winning lighting design, and evolved it further - initially with the use of VL-1100 as keylights to address a challening fast studio turn-around for the first few episodes, and then with the use of two large sets of xmas fairy lights, used to change the tone as the discussion changed when Winter (finally…) Came… and then Winter Had Gone… To keep the fans excited in the empty year before the final season, there was a special one-off quiz show Gameshow of Thrones .

Westword - Sky Atlantic

Studio F

Came-in for the final few episodes of this short-lived series.

Another of Jason Underwood’s sets, which somehow captured the slightly wierd, edgy, slightly disconcerting world of the HBO production. Except with less killer robots.

DC Heroes - Sky One

Studio G

A fan-show for Batman / Arrow /The Flash.

Notable in particular for one of Jason Underwood’s finest sets; it was so good, it convinced some Exec Producers from the States that it must have been one of their sets…!

And… the CosPlay audience…

Sky Sessions - Sky Arts

Bands on their way back from Glastonbury (etc) stopped-off for half a day, which gave them time for 4 songs (3 broadcast) as full production Live recordings, interspersed with talking about themselves - no presenter, just their music and words.

Season 1 : Studio F

The first series was done on an absolute shoe-string of a budget, squashed into Studio F almost knocking their heads on the Sharpie Washes. Jason Underwood did one of his classic sets, complete with giant rusty nuts (of course…).
Martin Profession very kindly loaned some Vi+-pers to add the basic rig of SharpieWashes and Generics, together with LED Creative’s tubes, which the cameras loved shooting through and around. Andy Harris joined with his Vector, and did a sterling job programming all the lights.

Season 2 : Studio 4/5

A year later, there was a better budget - and then some more was found, which gave enough for each act to have their own lighting “special” to give each their own look - from giant hanging bulbs to MORE sharpies, etc 🎉🥳 🍾. And this time, upgraded to the biggest studio, which was much better to rig moving lights in, as well as a decent ceiling height! This time could afford two dek operators, so Andy concentrated on the faces and the LED tubes, with the great (…and greatly missed…) Alan Boyd joining to do all the movers on a GrandMA 2.

The best Studio 4/5 has ever looked and sounded!

This 2 week period remains the only time this studio has ever had the substantial live music performances it was partly conceived to have, top credits to Alex May, the Sound Supervisor, for doing a great job from the middle of the studio floor, mixing monitors and live sound with all the different mixes.

Sky Cinema - Oscars Nomination & Awards Coverage (various)

Oscars wrap-around live build-up and coverage - needed not only to provide context and chat, but to fill the many american advery breask - sadly done in chilly west london not california.

Various years and studios

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The Great Culture Quiz- Sky Arts

Studio F

One-off series of an Arts-orientated quiz show.
Featured two rival teams (similar to University CHallenge)

Internal Corporates

Sky Central, The Hub, other buildings…

Confidentially means can’t share images of these, but… here’s an undercover picture of the tables being set for refreshments at the side of the room! Holy secret image capture, Batman! Also shown is part of the way Richard spread the Sky Spectrum branding around the entire room in 360-degrees.