City firm behind cool new TV show; BBC airs Lime Pictures series.Byline: TINA TINA There Is No Alternative TINA Transport Infrastructure Needs Assessment (EU) TINA Truth In Negotiations Act TINA TINA Is No Acronym TINA Telecommunication Information Network Architecture MILES LIVERPOOL TV company Lime Pictures Lime Pictures, formerly known as Mersey Television, is a British television production company, founded by renowned producer and writer Phil Redmond in the early 1980s. Its first major production was the soap opera Brookside has created a new reality series for teenagers. The Childwall-based firm, which produces Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks, filmed the new show, called The Season, for BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. 2. It features a group of young adults as they work at the Val d'Isere ski resort in France and follows the same format as MTV's unscripted un·script·ed adj. Not adhering to or in accordance with a script written beforehand: "his unscripted encounters with the press" Eleanor Clift. series The Hills and Living On The Edge. The Season, which is on air on Saturdays in the BBC Switch BBC Switch is the new brand for BBC content aimed at UK teenagers and pre-teens, from ages 12-16. The brand launched on Saturday 20th October 2007 on BBC Two. It will include a block of television programmes on BBC Two, an online portal, and programming on the BBC's youth radio zone, spans 10 weeks and focuses on 12 main characters. Tony Wood, Lime Pictures' creative director, said: "The Season follows Living On The Edge as the largest of our high-gloss, must-see dramalities. "As the UK market leader in teenage drama, we are delighted to be extending our range to reality programming. Additionally, it is great to continue our relationship with BBC Switch." Lime Pictures' associate company Conker Media recently produced The Well, created by teen novelist Melvin Burgess, for BBC Switch. Co-producer Sarah Dillistone, who produced The Season with Judith Parker, said: "The Season aims to get under the skin of the central characters. "It captures the emotional highs and lows over the season, whether it is finding happiness in a relationship, making lifelong friendships, excelling as a ski instructor ski instructor n → instructor(a) m/f de esquí ski instructor n → moniteur/trice de ski ski instructor ski n or competitor and developing greater independence away from home. "This format has been adapted from the highly original and successful method applied to US shows such as Laguna Beach Laguna Beach (ləg  `nə), city (1990 pop. 23,170), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast; founded 1887, inc. 1927. and The
Hills, which has proved to be hugely popular with young audiences."
The cast includes self-confessed gossip queen Abi, wannabe pro-boarder Sam and his girlfriend Holly, and Tommy and Emily, who went to the ski resort as a couple but have recently split up. Geoffrey Goodwin, head of BBC Switch, said: "This series is perfect for our teen audience - it is distinctive, authentic and features plenty of drama in an aspirational gap-year environment." . The Season is shown at 12.25pm on Saturdays on BBC2. THE CAST: Emily Kaplan, Tommy Williams-Jones, Tom Hall, Hari Martin, James Payne, Abi Sangster, Oscar Balfour-Paul, Hanna Batholomew, Alex Waters, Holly Draper, Sam Baldwin and Henry Wiltshire |
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