In Association with ‘Bang Said the Gun!’ we produced a series of 5 short films based around Spoken Word performers for Channel 4’s radical Arts series, ‘Random Acts’. Poet, Kate Tempest’s performance captured over 800,000 viewers in an 11pm slot, the second highest rating film of the whole series and trended world wide on Twitter.
The Mob have just completed our third TV miniseries ‘Going Postal’ in our Terry Pratchett franchise for SKY 1HD. Watch the trailer above.
Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic premiered over Easter 2008 on Sky One and is The Mob Film Company’s second collaboration with Sky One and RHI Entertainment.
The show featured an incredible international cast and starred David Jason (Only Fools and Horses, Frost, Open All Hours), Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings, The Goonies) and Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Show, Valiant). Supporting were an array of actors such as Nigel Planer, Jeremy Irons and David Bradley. The programme also saw a number of re-occurring faces from Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather such as Stephen Marcus, Arthur White and Nicolas Tennant.
The Colour of Magic was the second live action adaptation by The Mob Film Company of one of Terry Pratchett’s best selling Discworld novels. As before the programme was adapted and directed by Vadim Jean and produced by Ian Sharples and Rod Brown.
Hogfather picked up its second BAFTA award when Aidan Conway, Giles Pooley, Rod Brown and Ian Sharples were awarded the prize for ‘interactivity’. The Hogfather came up against stiff competition from Dispatches (C4), The Big Climate Change Experiment (BBC) and The Secret Policeman’s Ball (C4) in order to triumph at the awards.
The programme, which was aired on Sky One last Christmas, has thus far received high acclaim from a number of institutions. In February this year the programme won its first BAFTA for the stunning Visual Effects used throughout the film. The Hogfather has also won the Multichannel Award from the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards, and has been nominated for a RTS Award for ‘Best Drama Serial’.
The Hogfather, based on the Terry Pratchett Discworld novel, was a joint venture between The Mob Film Company and Sky One, and was directed by Vadim Jean whose showreel contains films including ‘Leon the Pig Farmer’, ‘One more Kiss’ and ‘Clockwork Mice’.
This documentary follows the international football star Michael Owen on his road to recovery from a career threatening cruciate injury, which occurred in 2006 playing for England at the World Cup, and also his dream to establish his own racehorse stables.
Shot in high definition this documentary is an opportunity for the audience to have unique access to one of modern footballs most private footballers and his family.
Directed and written by Rod Brown and produced by John Brocklehurst, ‘Michael Owen: A Year in the Life’ premiered on Sky One in September 2007. The programme was greatly received becoming the second most watched documentary on Sky One throughout 2007.