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Voting is now open for the 2015 Televisual Bulldog Awards. Maverick Television and Dartmouth Films’ Growing Up Down’s is nominated for Best Single Documentary – you can vote for all the winners on the Bulldogs website. In a film that aims to redefine perceptions and explode the myths about Down’s Syndrome, Growing Up Down’s follows the incredible journey… Continue reading Televisual awards nomination for growing up down’s

Maverick enjoyed a successful night at the 2015 Broadcast Awards with two of our shows receiving recognition. ‘Operation Ouch! Goes Back in Time’, the special World War One edition of our CBBC medical show, won the award for ‘Best Children’s Programme’ whilst ‘Growing Up Down’s’, our BBC Three film following a group of young Down’s… Continue reading Broadcast award recognition for operation ouch and growing up down’s

The royal family may have some stiff competition as the Chrisleys jump the pond and pay London a visit! USA Network announced today an additional six-episode pickup to extend the third season of the buzzy, breakout hit reality series Chrisley Knows Best. This brings the third season order to 18 episodes, which will air in two-parts.… Continue reading The chrisleys are coming to london, and pick up us reality tv award

Our innovative mobile game for Stand Up To Cancer has been recognised in the 2014 Nominet Trust 100 – a list of the world’s most inspiring ventures that use digital technology as a tool for social change that also includes Google’s self-driving car and a version of Minecraft for teaching children. The game was produced alongside Chunk… Continue reading Reverse the odds named in 2014 nominet trust 100

Maverick have picked up two nominations in the hotly contested 2015 Broadcast awards. Our CBBC children’s medical show  Operation Ouch! Goes Back In Time  is up for for Best Children’s Programme whilst our BBC Three documentary Growing Up Down’s (co-produced with Dartmouth Films) has been nominated for Best Documentary Programme. The awards will be announced at the… Continue reading Maverick secure two broadcast award nominations

Maverick’s CBBC medical series has won at the Children’a BAFTAs for the second year in a row. The show picked up the award for ‘Best Factual’,  repeating last year’s win. Presenters Dr. Chris and Dr. Xand Van Tulleken were on hand to pick up the award along with members of the production team. The show… Continue reading Bafta win for operation ouch

Maverick’s cutting-edge live medical series ‘Embarrassing Bodies: Live From the Clinic’ has achieved recognition at the 2014 Mind Media Awards. The show won the ‘Entertainment’ category for a series of films featured within the programme which told mental health stories. During the show, doctors Dawn, Christian and Pixie then encouraged viewers to think about their own mental… Continue reading Embarrassing bodies: live from the clinic scoops a mind media award

Growing Up Down’s, a film co-produced by Maverick and Dartmouth Films for BBC Three, won the Groundbreaking Programme category in last night’s Creative Diversity Network Awards. The one-off documentary  followed a touring production of Hamlet, staged by Blue Apple Theatre Company, all of whose members all have learning disabilities. It was the first broadcast documentary… Continue reading ‘growing up down’s’ wins a creative diversity network award

Maverick brought home an RTS Award last night for ‘Best Digital Innovation’ at the 2014 Royal Television Society Midlands Centre Awards. We won the category with My Mindchecker –  our ground-breaking suite of eight online tests, located on the Embarrassing Bodies website, designed to measure your risk of developing or suffering from a variety of mental health conditions, including… Continue reading My mindchecker scoops rts award