Articles by Adrian Pennington

Paralysing piracy: Industry grapples with growing, industrial-scale theft

Although the broadcast industry has been rife with theft since the early days of cable TV, it now faces piracy at an industrial scale and speed. At IBC2025, a panel of security experts warned that illegal streaming is accelerating in scale, sophistication, and impact.

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Behind the scenes: Train Dreams

Editor Parker Laramie explains how frontier drama Train Dreams walks the line between naturalism and magical realism.

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NAB NY: 2024

NAB NY preview: Political backdrop casts long shadow over TV innovation

Buffeted by economics and squeezed by Big Tech, the last thing America’s broadcasters wanted was to have their news operations muzzled or business threatened with political interference, yet that’s the realpolitik of the US TV entering NAB Show NY.

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Pelleas

Behind the scenes: It Was Just an Accident

The Cannes Palme d’Or-winning critique of Iran’s police state was made in secret as an act of defiance. IBC365 sits down with the film’s Editor Amir Etminan to learn more about the fearless filmmakers’ process.

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Behind the Scenes: The Lost Bus

Behind the scenes: The Lost Bus

Editor William Goldenberg and Director Paul Greengrass elaborate on the plot of The Lost Bus, a white-knuckle ride disaster movie with a burning environmental message.

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Nicolas Winding Refn

Nicolas Winding Refn: “If you mass produce nothingness, why would anyone care?”

The Danish auteur is back with a new movie, a prominent role in a computer game, and the same confrontational attitude to formulaic art.

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Behind the scenes: Bulk

For Ben Wheatley’s experimental, low-budget ‘midnight movie’, DoP Nick Gillespie incorporated a mix of formats, DIY effects, and back projection techniques to evoke classic cinema.

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BBC Director General Tim Davie

RTS Cambridge Convention: One last wave of the flag for British news and content

The fate of public service broadcasting was transmuted into an existential threat to British culture, politics, and prosperity at the RTS Cambridge Convention.

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Behind the scenes: Nobody 2

Cinematographer Callan Green breaks down the colourful visual aesthetic of the action-comedy sequel Nobody 2.

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L-R: Marc Aldrich; Martins Magone; Anastasia Melnikova; and Stephen Stewart

IET’s Stephen Stewart: “IP-first infrastructure is beginning to redefine broadcast”

During the Content Everywhere session “Next Gen Streaming Infrastructure: How the Cloud is Coming of Age” at the IBC2025 Conference, key industry players observed that broadcasters are becoming increasingly confident and reliant on the cloud.

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