The Winter Issue

The Televisual Winter 2025 issue is out now.

The print edition of the magazine is on its way to subscribers with Televisual+ subscribers able to access it now.

Inside you’ll find our landmark 2025 Facilities 50 survey; our genre report on TV drama TV, a feature on the TV producers teaming with brands for shows; features on production design, cinematography, and editing, the pictures from The Bulldog Awards Winners’ Dinner; behind the scenes of Apple TV’s Born to be Wild plus all the best recent work in post and vfx.

 

The Televisual Facilities 50

  • Jon Creamer introduces the 38th annual Facilities 50 Survey
  • Producer Poll – Which post houses do their producer clients rate most highly?
  • Peer Poll – Post houses vote for the rivals they admire the most?
  • Tech Trends – The technology that’s currently front of mind for post production
  • New builds – A snapshot of post investment and building in 2025
  • The top facilities – Who’s up and who’s down in this year’s Facilities 50 survey?

 

Genre Report: DRAMA

While the demand is still there for TV drama, budgets for scripted across the board are down. Producers are having to work smart to get their shows to screen. Pippa Considine reports

 

Point of view: Cinematography

Michael Burns asks the cinematographers behind movie Die My Love; Sky Atlantic’s Amadeus and long running spy thriller Slow Horses how they helped make their projects shine through

 

Set for action

Top Production Designers who have been responsible for building the worlds of major films and TV series explain how they transform scripts into physical reality. Jon Creamer reports

 

In focus: Brand awareness

Getting a major brand on board to help fund TV shows is nothing new, but it is now an increasingly well worn route to making a budget work. Pippa Considine asks those with a head for business how it’s done.

 

Cutting it fine: Editing

The editors behind The Ballad of Wallis Island; BBC police series Blue Lights and Sally Wainwright’s Riot Women tell Michael Burns how they created the perfect cut

 

Bulldogs Winners’ Dinner

The winners of this year’s Televisual Bulldogs picked up their awards at the winners’ dinner. See the pictures here

 

Big picture: Born to be Wild

The makers of Apple TV’s series on returning endangered animals to their habitats, explain how the show was parented to adulthood.

 

New work: VFX and post

The best new finishing work in the UK from Company 3, Framestore, 1920, Envy, Harbor and many more

 

To read the full Winter 2025 issue, along with all of Televisual’s industry leading content and reports from the last five years, subscribe at https://televisual.plus