Big studio shows in specially constructed television studios are always fun and have an ‘electricity’ all of their own. When Gameface’s pilot of Britains Brightest Family was commissioned into 3 annual series for ITV1, the best place to record the tournament of 37 x 1/2hr tests of mental agility, courage and knowledge was one of the larger studios at Mediacity’s Dock10.
Presented by Countdown’s Anne Hegarty, produced by Adam Adler , Directed by Deraldine Dowd, Ollie Bartlett and Richard Van’t Riet and lit by Gurdip Mahal (”17 & ’18) and Max Conwell (’19), Media IP’s Rupert Kelly configured and Vision Operated the 8 full studio cameras for all three series.