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Broadcast Production
Screenhouse is an award-winning producer with over 30 years broadcast experience, making series and single films for UK and US broadcasters.
We’ve worked for the main UK channels, and Discovery in the US. Our programmes range from current affairs to children’s, science, history, education, space and the arts. View here
We’re proud to be a supplier of films to The One Show, BBC1’s flagship early evening show, regularly reaching audiences of 3-5 million viewers.
Our films this year included the amazing Dame Stephanie Shirley; a pioneering engineer who helped save the Spitfire and founded an all-women software company that created 70 millionaires, and an experiment where we got first-timers to overcome fear and jump off a 10-metre diving board.
Award winners
We have received many awards for our programmes, including for Timewatch: The Hidden Children, our revealing and moving film taking four survivors to re-live their perilous wartime adventures in France.
Screenhouse itself was RTS Independent of the Year, and Creative Director Paul Bader received the top prize for his personal contribution to the public understanding of science.
rts independent production company of the year
rts yorkshire centre
cine golden eagle award for
timewatch: the hidden children
Programme Archive
The Clock That Changed The World
Recently discovered wooden clock that casts new light on the amazing story of John Harrison, the man who solved the ‘longitude’ problem.
Beeching’s Tracks
Adam Hart-Davis takes a journey that used to be possible by train. The story of ‘Beeching’s axe’, the dramatic ripping up of hundreds of railway lines in the 1960s, and the impact still being felt today.
The Cosmos: A Beginner’s Guide
Six part series shown on BBC2 that tackles some of the really big questions about the universe.
Britain’s Tallest Teens
The highs and lows in the lives of three incredibly tall teenagers. Moving and entertaining, this was a top-rated 9pm documentary on ITV1.
Timewatch: The Hidden Children
Moving documentary about four children saved from death by being secretly hidden from the Nazis. Follows what happens when they return to the places in rural France where they had been secretly hidden 60 years before.
Zapped
Science Stunts special: what happens when humans meet electricity? Someone's going to get Zapped...
Stardate
Astronomy event series for the BBC (some for Discovery Science). Takes viewers to the heart of the action, and lets them take part...
The Man Who Invented The Aeroplane
The Man Who Invented the Aeroplane: the untold story of Sir George Cayley.
Science Shack series 2
After the huge success of the first series Adam Hart-Davis and his team attempt six more challenges.
Walk The Line
An historian, a scientist and a geologist take on the challenge of walking as the crow flies along lines that cross our towns and countryside.
Science Shack
A prime time BBC2 series in which Adam Hart Davis answers your questions about science.
Einstein TV
A long run of 5 minute inserts featuring current, popular science stories.
Snapshots
What do scientists actually do? We followed a few to find out.
After The Genome
The book of the human genome has now been read. What happens next?
Object Lessons
A series of 5 minute shorts about scientists and the quirky things they study.
Local Heroes
Long running iconic series with Adam Hart-Davis about pioneers of science.
History Quest
Take an investigative trip into history with Rory Mcgrath.
Hart-Davis On History
Adam Hart-Davis and Jayne Constantinis travel the country revealing historical gems.
On The Edge
The science of the seashore, with Adam Hart-Davis on that fluorescent bike.