Articles by Adrian Pennington
Esports World Cup 2025

Esports World Cup plans biggest video game tournament ever staged

Returning to Riyadh this month for its second outing, the Esports World Cup is being billed as the most ambitious and technologically advanced global competitive event in history.

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UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 will be held in Switzerland

BBC goes hybrid for coverage of UEFA Women’s Euros

A hybrid remote and on-site production with Sunset+Vine, editorial about alpine bees and a deluxe Swiss chalet on the banks of Lake Lucerne. The BBC is ready for the Lionesses to defend their trophy.

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Tour de France

BTS: Tour de France 2025

How wind tunnel data, official route topography, multi-screen live feeds and 21 daily outside broadcasts combine to bring the most brutally mountainous Tour De France ever to cycling fans on their sofa.

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First look at Dept Q

Behind the scenes: Dept. Q

Netflix's latest police procedural is a love letter to hardboiled noir and classic British TV crime drama, says showrunner Scott Frank.

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Sheffield DocFest: Panellists scold media for succumbing to ‘climate of fear’

Investigative documentary filmmakers take broadcasters and streamers to task for being complicit in the rise of authoritarianism and muzzling the Palestinian experience in Gaza.

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Director Dean DeBlois

Behind the scenes: How to Train Your Dragon

This remake of a classic animation works from Roger Deakins’ original lighting design, a colour palette plucked from the Faroe Islands, and puppeteered dragons, explains DoP Bill Pope.

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Resistance may be futile: Animators unite to fight and work with AI

What happens when the tortoise of animation meets the hare of artificial intelligence? Speed is AI’s superpower but it threatens to wipe away jobs and craft. IBC365 is on the ground at the Animation Film Festival in Annecy.

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Hollywood is over: Time for creators to take charge

Film and TV professionals, studio executives and kit manufacturers are urged to open up to the creator economy or face ruin.

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Behind the Scenes: Andor

Behind the scenes: Andor

“We’re not writing to the headlines, but you see this sort of conflict and empire building happen over and over again in history”, says John Gilroy, lead editor and executive producer of Star Wars spy thriller Andor.

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The Bends

The Bends: Hollywood studios unite to fast-track Veo 3 education

Google’s generative filmmaking tool Veo 3 sparks Hollywood exploration but creative ownership remains in flux.

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