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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

Series 2 of our CBBC medical series Operation Ouch! has been nominated in the Best Factual category of the British Academy Children’s Awards (the Children’s BAFTAs). Operation Ouch! won the category last year and garnered public and critical acclaim for it’s fun and fact-packed exploration of the human body. The show follows twin medics Dr. Chris and Dr. Xand Van… Continue reading ‘operation ouch!’ nominated for a children’s bafta and ‘growing up downs’ gets a cdn nomination

Chrisley Knows Best season two premiered with two back-to-back episodes on Tuesday, October 14th. The real-life family comedy follows the entertaining lives of Atlanta-based outspoken and overprotective, but very loving husband and father, Todd Chrisley and his colorful clan, including his lovely wife Julie, and their charming, yet scheming expansive brood. The buzzy series struck… Continue reading Chrisley knows best season 2

Stephen Fry: Out There has been shortlisted for a 2014 Grierson Award with Stephen nominated in the ‘Documentary Presenter of the Year’ category.  The two-part BBC2 documentary saw Stephen travelling across the globe to find out what it means to be gay in countries such as Uganda, America, Russia, Brazil and India. Along the way he encountered some of the… Continue reading Grierson award nomination

Maverick have been shortlisted in the prestigious 2014 Mind Media Awards. Embarrassing Bodies: Live From the Clinic has been nominated in the entertainment category for its weekly segment on mental health which featured eight short films, each following someone battling a different condition. The broadcast content was also supported by My MindChecker, a suite of online mental health… Continue reading Mind awards nomination