HORRIBLE HISTORIES
PRODUCED BY - LION TELEVISION / CITRUS TELEVISION
(13 x 30min series, CBBC)
Location Director - Dominic Bridgstocke, Studio Director - Steve Connolly
Series Producer: Caroline Norris, Exec Producer: Richard Bradley.
Starring - Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Larry Rickard and Ben Willbond. Bex's sketches also featured David Baddiel, and Lawry Lewin.
Having worked on the first and second series as Script Supervisor, Caroline
and Dominic were supportive in giving Bex the opportunity to direct ten sketches across the series, on location and in studio. All of her sketches were transmitted across the multi-award winning 3rd series on CBBC.
Bex has since worked with many the cast on various different projects as director - with Ben Willbond on her own short film Meeting Daddy and Martha and Ben both for Lee Nelson's Well Good Show.
HORRIBLE HISTORIES 3rd SERIES AWARDS 2011
** WINNER Children’s BAFTA - Best Comedy
** WINNER British Comedy Award - Best Sketch Show
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Acting, Main Cast
** WINNER Kidscreen Award -
Best Kids Non Animation / Mixed Series
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Writing
HORRIBLE HISTORIES
PRODUCED BY - LION TELEVISION / CITRUS TELEVISION
(13 x 30min series, CBBC)
Location Director - Dominic Bridgstocke, Studio Director - Steve Connolly
Series Producer: Caroline Norris, Exec Producer: Richard Bradley.
Starring - Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Larry Rickard and Ben Willbond. Bex's sketches also featured David Baddiel, and Lawry Lewin.
Having worked on the first and second series as Script Supervisor, Caroline
and Dominic were supportive in giving Bex the opportunity to direct ten sketches across the series, on location and in studio. All of her sketches were transmitted across the multi-award winning 3rd series on CBBC.
Bex has since worked with many the cast on various different projects as director - with Ben Willbond on her own short film Meeting Daddy and Martha and Ben both for Lee Nelson's Well Good Show.
HORRIBLE HISTORIES 3rd SERIES AWARDS 2011
** WINNER Children’s BAFTA - Best Comedy
** WINNER British Comedy Award - Best Sketch Show
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Acting, Main Cast
** WINNER Kidscreen Award -
Best Kids Non Animation / Mixed Series
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Writing
HORRIBLE HISTORIES
PRODUCED BY - LION TELEVISION / CITRUS TELEVISION
(13 x 30min series, CBBC)
Location Director - Dominic Bridgstocke, Studio Director - Steve Connolly
Series Producer: Caroline Norris, Exec Producer: Richard Bradley.
Starring - Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Larry Rickard and Ben Willbond. Bex's sketches also featured David Baddiel, and Lawry Lewin.
Having worked on the first and second series as Script Supervisor, Caroline
and Dominic were supportive in giving Bex the opportunity to direct ten sketches across the series, on location and in studio. All of her sketches were transmitted across the multi-award winning 3rd series on CBBC.
Bex has since worked with many the cast on various different projects as director - with Ben Willbond on her own short film Meeting Daddy and Martha and Ben both for Lee Nelson's Well Good Show.
HORRIBLE HISTORIES 3rd SERIES AWARDS 2011
** WINNER Children’s BAFTA - Best Comedy
** WINNER British Comedy Award - Best Sketch Show
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Acting, Main Cast
** WINNER Kidscreen Award -
Best Kids Non Animation / Mixed Series
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Writing
HORRIBLE HISTORIES
PRODUCED BY - LION TELEVISION / CITRUS TELEVISION
(13 x 30min series, CBBC)
Location Director - Dominic Bridgstocke, Studio Director - Steve Connolly
Series Producer: Caroline Norris, Exec Producer: Richard Bradley.
Starring - Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Larry Rickard and Ben Willbond. Bex's sketches also featured David Baddiel, and Lawry Lewin.
Having worked on the first and second series as Script Supervisor, Caroline
and Dominic were supportive in giving Bex the opportunity to direct ten sketches across the series, on location and in studio. All of her sketches were transmitted across the multi-award winning 3rd series on CBBC.
Bex has since worked with many the cast on various different projects as director - with Ben Willbond on her own short film Meeting Daddy and Martha and Ben both for Lee Nelson's Well Good Show.
HORRIBLE HISTORIES 3rd SERIES AWARDS 2011
** WINNER Children’s BAFTA - Best Comedy
** WINNER British Comedy Award - Best Sketch Show
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Acting, Main Cast
** WINNER Kidscreen Award -
Best Kids Non Animation / Mixed Series
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Writing
HORRIBLE HISTORIES
PRODUCED BY - LION TELEVISION / CITRUS TELEVISION
(13 x 30min series, CBBC)
Location Director - Dominic Bridgstocke, Studio Director - Steve Connolly
Series Producer: Caroline Norris, Exec Producer: Richard Bradley.
Starring - Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Larry Rickard and Ben Willbond. Bex's sketches also featured David Baddiel, and Lawry Lewin.
Having worked on the first and second series as Script Supervisor, Caroline
and Dominic were supportive in giving Bex the opportunity to direct ten sketches across the series, on location and in studio. All of her sketches were transmitted across the multi-award winning 3rd series on CBBC.
Bex has since worked with many the cast on various different projects as director - with Ben Willbond on her own short film Meeting Daddy and Martha and Ben both for Lee Nelson's Well Good Show.
HORRIBLE HISTORIES 3rd SERIES AWARDS 2011
** WINNER Children’s BAFTA - Best Comedy
** WINNER British Comedy Award - Best Sketch Show
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Acting, Main Cast
** WINNER Kidscreen Award -
Best Kids Non Animation / Mixed Series
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Writing
HORRIBLE HISTORIES
PRODUCED BY - LION TELEVISION / CITRUS TELEVISION
(13 x 30min series, CBBC)
Location Director - Dominic Bridgstocke, Studio Director - Steve Connolly
Series Producer: Caroline Norris, Exec Producer: Richard Bradley.
Starring - Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Larry Rickard and Ben Willbond. Bex's sketches also featured David Baddiel, and Lawry Lewin.
Having worked on the first and second series as Script Supervisor, Caroline
and Dominic were supportive in giving Bex the opportunity to direct ten sketches across the series, on location and in studio. All of her sketches were transmitted across the multi-award winning 3rd series on CBBC.
Bex has since worked with many the cast on various different projects as director - with Ben Willbond on her own short film Meeting Daddy and Martha and Ben both for Lee Nelson's Well Good Show.
HORRIBLE HISTORIES 3rd SERIES AWARDS 2011
** WINNER Children’s BAFTA - Best Comedy
** WINNER British Comedy Award - Best Sketch Show
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Acting, Main Cast
** WINNER Kidscreen Award -
Best Kids Non Animation / Mixed Series
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Writing
HORRIBLE HISTORIES
PRODUCED BY - LION TELEVISION / CITRUS TELEVISION
(13 x 30min series, CBBC)
Location Director - Dominic Bridgstocke, Studio Director - Steve Connolly
Series Producer: Caroline Norris, Exec Producer: Richard Bradley.
Starring - Mat Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Larry Rickard and Ben Willbond. Bex's sketches also featured David Baddiel, and Lawry Lewin.
Having worked on the first and second series as Script Supervisor, Caroline
and Dominic were supportive in giving Bex the opportunity to direct ten sketches across the series, on location and in studio. All of her sketches were transmitted across the multi-award winning 3rd series on CBBC.
Bex has since worked with many the cast on various different projects as director - with Ben Willbond on her own short film Meeting Daddy and Martha and Ben both for Lee Nelson's Well Good Show.
HORRIBLE HISTORIES 3rd SERIES AWARDS 2011
** WINNER Children’s BAFTA - Best Comedy
** WINNER British Comedy Award - Best Sketch Show
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Acting, Main Cast
** WINNER Kidscreen Award -
Best Kids Non Animation / Mixed Series
** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Writing
GAP YEAR
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AWARDS & FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
MALORY TOWERS
**Nominated Rose D'or - Best Children & Youth 2020
SMILE LOVE IT MIGHT NEVER HAPPEN - Eggs Collective
**Nominated Royal Television Society NW - Best Comedy Programme 2019
**Nominated for Inspiring Innovation - Manchester Culture Awards 2019
THE ATHENA
**Nominated Broadcast Award - Best Children's Programme 2020
**Nominated BAFTA - Best Children's Drama 2019
**Nominated Broadcast Digital Award - Best Digital Children's Content 2019
BUCKET
** Selected Broadcast Award - People’s Choice Award 2017
SO AWKWARD
*** WINNER Broadcast Award - Best Children's Fiction 2016
** Nominated BAFTA - Best Children's Comedy 2016
HORRIBLE HISTORIES - Series 3
*** WINNER Children’s BAFTA - Best Comedy 2011
*** WINNER British Comedy Award - Best Sketch Show 2011
*** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Acting - Main Cast 2011
*** WINNER Kidscreen Award - Best Kids Non Animation Series 2011
GAP YEAR
** Selected Broadcast Award - People’s Choice Award 2017
SUNNY D
**Nominated British Comedy Guide - Best New Comedy 2016
HANK ZIPZER - THE WORLD'S GREATEST UNDERACHIEVER
** Nominated International Emmy - Kids Series - 2016
** Nominated RTS Award - Children’s Best Fiction - 2015
** Nominated BANF Best Rookie Nominee - Children’s comedy - 2014
MEETING DADDY
** Selected for the Southwark Arts Forum - London Shorts Programme 2014
** Selected for the Atlanta Film Festival - BBC America - Narrative Shorts programme 2012
PRESS
MALORY TOWERS
4 STARS - THE GUARDIAN - Lucy Mangan
‘Midnight Feasts and horrid sneaks make for a ripping Blyton Yarn’
PICK OF THE WEEK - THE SUNDAY TIMES - Victoria Segal
What a gift this is: released on the iPlayer when schools closed, this adaptation of Enid Blyton’s boarding-school stories debuts on CBBC in a tumble of lacrosse nets and pillow feathers. Absolutely true to the spirit of the originals, the series follows 12-year-old Darrell Rivers (Ella Bright, pictured) as she starts her first term at the girls’ school, meeting the madcap Alicia Johns (Zoey Siewert), mousy Mary-Lou (Imogen Lamb), absent-minded Irene (Natasha Raphael) and imperious Gwendoline (Dänya Griver) on the way. Some are bricks and some are beasts; there are mysteries and a strong moral code, as well as plenty of pranks. With This Country’s Ashley McGuire playing the irascible Matron and Jennifer Wigmore as the stately headmistress Miss Grayling, it’s a world away from online learning platforms — escapist, nostalgic and as glorious a treat as a midnight feast.
⭐⭐⭐⭐Mail on Sunday
4 STARS - DAILY MAIL - Libby Purves
‘Such a jolly escape!’
GUARDIAN - ‘Downton for Kids’
DAILY MAIL
INDEPENDENT - A thoroughly modern take on a Classic Enid Blyton series
https://inews.co.uk/culture/malory-towers-cbbc-review-enid-blyton-2516495
Good HouseKeeping
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a31892161/bbc-malory-towers-adaption-iplayer/
The Daily Telegraph
‘New Enid Blyton drama is modern and empowering for girls, says BBC’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/03/21/new-enid-blyton-drama-modern-empowering-girlssays-bbc/
BUCKET
THE TELEGRAPH
Bucket: tenderness, fury, and lashings of gynaecology - review ****
THE DAILY MAIL
Forget Peter Kay. It's more fun to car share with Miriam Margolyes ****
BEYOND THE JOKE
Was worried this was going to be soppy, sentimental and full of growing old disgracefully cliches. And while there is certainly plenty of that, there is much more edge and depth to it than expected. Never mind seizing the day, just seize the TV remote and tune in on Thursdays at 10pm.
GAP YEAR
THE GUARDIAN
Gap Year is very silly and very puerile, and I mean both in a good way. A Plebs way.
RADIO TIMES
Angst, laughs and fun in the sun with E4's Gap Year
SUNNY D
THE GUARDIAN
Sunny D – Dane Baptiste's sitcom is dizzyingly hilarious
BEYOND THE JOKE
What is important is that there are laughs, which there are. Hopefully the BBC will make more.
SO AWKWARD
BROADCAST AWARD WINNER 2016
This was delivered with a lightness of touch and a slick filming style, including some imaginative and heightened pre-title sequences that impressed the judges. “It’s really funny, smart and witty, with a real spark to it,”
JAMILLAH & ALADDIN
THE INDEPENDENT
Of course, it’s just a TV programme and we shouldn’t over-blow its importance,
But, if we continue with positive, diverse programming, then it can play a role in shaping the next generation’s belief systems, values and morals.
HANK ZIPZER - THE WORLD'S GREATEST UNDERACHIEVER
Here are some great reviews for the first series. It originally aired Jan 2014, and has since gone on to create three further acclaimed series, and a final Christmas Special for CBBC.
As mentioned previously the final episode directed by Bex, 'First Date Dilemma' written by Joe Williams was nominated for Best Fiction at the Royal Television Society Awards, 2015.
