The Orient Express: A Golden Era of Travel. Rumpus Media for Channel 4
Step aboard The Orient Express: A Golden Era of Travel. This four part series follows the classic Orient Express route from London to Istanbul via Paris, Munich, Vienna, Budapest and Sofia. Along the way, the series investigates historical stories and places of interest all connected to the classic Orient Express luxury train service.
Dave edited episodes 1 and 3. He said “It was an absolute pleasure to work on. Really interesting, archive based, historical stories from the golden era of train travel, with stunning footage of all the locations across Europe”.
After drawing in over eight million viewers for Series 1, M&S Dress The Nation is back for a second series this autumn with Episode 2 edited by Dave Berezai.
Hosted by AJ Odudu and Vernon Kay, the hit competition series sees nine contestants compete over five weeks for the chance to win a career-changing mentorship with M&S, and have their winning design sold in selected stores and online.
This season focuses on both womenswear and menswear design, with judges including Maddy Evans (Director of M&S Woman), Lisa Illis (Head of Womenswear Design), Mitch Hughes (Menswear Director), as well as celebrity guests and M&S customers.
With high-stakes challenges, expert guidance and plenty of drama, this season promises to be bigger and bolder than ever. Starts 14th September on ITV1 and ITVX.
Brand-new dating experiment Stranded on Honeymoon Island takes twelve singles looking for lifelong love and throws them into the ultimate test of commitment. After just a five-minute speed date, they’re paired up, married on the spot, and sent off on a three-week honeymoon — stranded together on remote tropical islands.
Hosted by Davina McCall, the series explores whether love can truly blossom when modern-day distractions are stripped away. The couples must rely on each other to survive the challenges of island life, but also get the chance to mix with fellow newlyweds at the shared “Couple’s Cove.”
Behind the scenes, editor Jack Brown helped shape the drama. With a wealth of experience in reality television, Jack’s expertise brings out the heart, humour, and high stakes of this new format. Jack had a great time working on episode 7 which features a “Film Fest” 🍿, an explosive lunch with a key character and an ex-girlfriend…
Watch Stranded on Honeymoon Island from Wednesday 3rd September on BBC One and iPlayer, with new episodes on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
To mark the 40th anniversary of the discovery of the world’s most famous ship, this two-part Channel 4 series dives deep into the incredible story of how the Titanic was finally found after seven decades on the ocean floor. Featuring first-person testimony from those who took part in the historic expedition alongside insights from maritime experts and leading historians.
Editor Melanie Golden said: “This is one of those edits where the more the story unfolds, the more exciting it becomes, I’m grateful to have been part of telling the lesser-known story of finding the Titanic.”
Merging fantasy with reality, strategy, and travel, Destination X is not your average adventure competition. This bold new series takes contestants and viewers on the road trip of a lifetime but with one major twist: nobody knows where they are.
Once aboard the blacked-out Destination X bus, the real game begins. Contestants must use all their intuition, observation, and teamwork to decode clues about their ever-changing, top-secret locations. Each challenge on the journey offers hints and a few strategic red herrings, all building to one burning question: Where in the world are they?
Guiding us through the deception and discovery is Rob Brydon, who serves as both host and master of mischief in this high stakes guessing game.
We’re proud to see so many familiar faces from Satusfaction behind the edit of this epic series. Shout out to the talented team who helped bring the twists and turns to life: James Moriarty, Tim Fielding, Mike Kerr, Dave Berezai, Simon Holmes, Paul Bussey, Harry Anstey, and Sean Siegfried.
Dave Berezai shares that it was fantastic to work on this new competition show. The team shot in some beautiful places around Europe so some of the footage was jaw dropping. I did the finishing across 2 episodes. It was effects heavy, both visually and aurally which made for a very intricate edit and was a lot of fun to put together. The end result; a stylish, exciting, fun elimination show.
Paul Bussey said “What a privilege to be asked to work on Destination X. Right from the off I could see production values were high and this only inspired me to elevate my own input. Everyone who had worked on this smashed it.”
Check out Destination X from 30th July on BBC One, iPlayer and NBC
Phil Bowman directed and edited the next episode due out in Netflix’s Trainwreck anthology which revisits some of the most gripping and bizarre events that once dominated the mainstream media. Back in 2010, Lifetime Channel had a brand new concept of a reality show. It would follow a private investigation agency staffed entirely by suburban ‘soccer moms’. It was a clever twist on the true-crime craze. Cameras rolled, contracts were signed, and the production team geared up for what they were certain would be a breakout hit. But the show never made it to air. As the documentary reveals, things began to unravel quickly on set of Soccer Moms, Private Eyes The moms’ investigations meant to be the heart of the show kept falling apart. Leads dried up. Surveillance missions failed. Key interviews were mysteriously cancelled. The crew began whispering about sabotage. Then, an anonymous tip blew the whole thing wide open. A whistleblower accused the agency’s head, the woman at the center of the show, of running an illegal drug operation using the PI business as a front. Now, 15 years later, this documentary directed and edited by Phil Bowman, uncovers what really happened behind the scene and its far stranger than fiction..
Phil said “It’s been an absolute privilege to contribute to the ‘Trainwreck’ brand, especially with a project as unique and fun as ‘Trainwreck: P.I. Moms’. The documentary dives deep into the chaotic story behind the scenes of what was truly the greatest reality TV show that never made it to air. It’s a fun journey, and I can’t wait for Netflix audiences to experience it. Thanks to the teams at Raw TV and Satusfaction for their invaluable support.”
Don’t miss the premiere of this unbelievable story, streaming on Netflix from 22nd July.
New series Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters is making waves. It puts a group of celebrities who have a fear of sharks into the deep blue sea with some of the ocean’s most misunderstood predators.
This cross between an entertainment and natural history programme see’s Sir Lenny Henry, Rachel Riley, Ade Adepitan, Ross Noble, Dougie Poynter, Lucy Punch, and Helen George swap red carpets for wetsuits as they travel to the Bahamas. Their mission is simple: face their fears and get closer than ever to sharks. It’s not all sunshine and snorkels. Things get real, very quickly when shark attack survivor and marine expert Paul de Gelder who lost an arm and a leg to a bull shark reveals that their very first challenge is to get in the water with… bull sharks!
Belle Borgeaud, edited the final episode she said “ It was a lovely team to work with at Plimsoll Productions and there was some outstanding underwater footage to cut”Steve Flattedited episode 4 and really enjoyed working on it.
Don’t miss the premiere of Shark! Celebrity Infested Waters tonight 9pm ITV1 and available to steam on ITVX.
Mr and Mrs Murder. Plum Pictures for Hulu and Disney+
Mr. & Mrs. Murder is a gripping four-part true crime docuseries, set in Tallahassee, Florida, it follows two seemingly inseparable couples: Kathy and Brian Winchester, and their close friends Mike and Denise Williams. Church-going and outdoorsy, they were pillars of their social circle until Mike vanished without a trace in 2000 during a duck-hunting trip. At first, it was believed to be a tragic accident. But when Brian divorced Kathy and later married Mike’s widow, Denise, suspicions mounted. What followed was a decades-long unravelling of lies, with a determined Kathy at its core, fighting for answers, justice, and the truth.
While many true-crime series rely on heavy drama reconstructions Mr. & Mrs. Murder takes a different route. Editor Franco Bogino shares insight into the documentary’s aesthetic: “There was no drama recon, just some vignettes that we called ‘haunted portraits’. They were moody, slightly surreal sets that represented a section of the story in an abstract kind of way. They were used very sparingly across the series and had no actors. The rest was purely interviews, beautiful GVs and lots of archive, mostly personal archive, and news archive from periods where the story was being covered. The story covers a 20-year span.”
Franco also praised the collaborative approach in the edit: “The director was a real pleasure to work with, he had a really clear vision but was flexible and open to suggestions. Once we’d done the first round of editing, he was very collaborative in bringing together differing creative ideas. The editor for episode 1 helped set the tone across the series and was great fun to work with. He and the director have worked together for years, so there was a real shared vision.”
Despite the challenges of working on such a layered story with a tight schedule, Franco reflects on the experience positively “This story had so much good material that it was hard getting it down to time. But having the EP01 editor available across all episodes made a huge difference. Plum Pictures were also really good to work with friendly, supportive, practical. A pleasant experience all round. And it’s not often I say that”
Mr and Mrs Murder will be streaming from the 30th July on Hulu and Disney+
The new instalment of this series is Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 edited by Charlie Webb. Back in 2019, 20-year-old Matty Roberts created a joke Facebook event titled “Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us.” What started as a tongue-in-cheek post quickly spiralled out of control. As the event went viral, with millions of people marking themselves as “going,” the U.S. Air Force and FBI swiftly responded with serious warnings. Trespassing on military property, they reminded everyone, could be met with deadly force. It didn’t stop the internet. Memes exploded. Plans were drawn to “Naruto-run” past bullets. People dressed up in sexy alien costumes and festival-style raves were planned in the Nevada desert.
This drama-documentary is packed with high-energy VFX, blending interviews with viral YouTubers, military commanders, and UFO hunters. Editor Charlie Webb said “I really enjoyed working with the team. The characters in the series are larger than life , almost comic book like and the story is just absurd. So we really leaned into that visually and tonally . We also worked very hard to capture the craziness of the internet and what was going on in people’s minds throughout, so it is vfx heavy. I’m really excited for people to finally see it as it’s very different to what else is out there”
Trainwreck: Storm Area 51 drops on Netflix on the 29th July.
This new series follows farmer and wildlife advocate Jimmy Doherty as he works with an extraordinary team working to save bears in need. At his Suffolk farm and wildlife refuge, he welcomes some homeless polar bears, a pack of wolves, and two brown bears looking for their forever homes.
Adam Mitchell edited episode 2 ‘Wolves’. Adam said “It was a real joy to work on Jimmy Saves the Bears. And it was wonderful to be back working with Red Sky. It was challenging to re-work the programme from already edited footage but the end result speaks volumes of the team effort from all involved in the production”.
Jimmy Doherty’s Big Bear Rescue premieres this Sunday 6th July at 8pm on Channel 4
