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Bango Studios for BBC Scotland and BBC1

Editor: Abraham Teweldebrhan

Abraham Teweldebrhan comes back with a comedic and heartwarming twist on the sports doc which he’s so adept at cutting. Following Scotland’s qualification after 28 years, this one-hour single doc from newcomer Bango Studios will get you into the World Cup spirit, as comedian Kevin Bridges embarks on a global adventure to determine whether the beauty of the game is still a part of modern football.

Watch it on BBC Scotland tonight at 9pm or on BBC1 at 10:30pm Sunday 7^th June.

Orchard Studios for ITV1 and ITVX

Execs: Nat Lippiett and Dan Grabiner

Editor: Ian David Smith

Ian ‘Smurf’ Smith makes a foray into reality TV with this new ITV 3-parter fly-on-the-wall series following the daily lives of Rebekah and Jamie Vardy. The series documents their new life in Italy after Jamie signed a one-year deal with the Italian club Cremonese.

Ian first came to the project to cut the sizzle and help pitch it to ITV, however he made such a good impression and got on so well with the team that they brought him back to be offline editor on the entire series. Being able to set the style of a programme is a fulfilling experience and Ian reflected that squeezing a season’s worth of footage and story into 3 episodes was challenging. Nevertheless, it was incredibly rewarding to be able to present a cohesive story at the end of months of hard work.

All three episodes will be airing consecutively on 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th June on ITV1 at 9pm.

BBC Studios for BBC Two

Exec Producer: Jonathan Smith

Editor: Charlie Hawryliw

This one is a long time in the making, Charlie Hawryliw spent a year editing this 3-part factual documentary series based on the hit BBC Sounds podcast ‘Believe in Magic’. Charlie is a master at weaving complex stories from an abundance of footage and this particular project has twists, turns and shocking revelations.

With exclusive access to friends, experts and family, the series tells the story of Megan Bhari, an inspirational 16-year-old girl who, along with her mother Jean, launched Believe in Magic: a charity to grant wishes to seriously ill children. It unravels the disturbing true story behind the eponymous children’s cancer charity and its founders, Megan and Jean Bhari. It investigates how the high-profile charity deceived celebrities and families, spiraling into a massive medical and financial scandal.

Watch the first episode on BBC Two, Sunday 31^st May at 9pm.

Love Monday for Sky Arts

Editors: Matt Scragg and Steve Flatt

Our editors covered both sides of this classical music competition 3-parter for Sky Arts documenting the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition in which 20 young conductors from all across Europe compete for a chance to become assistant conductor for the London Symphony Orchestra.

Matt Scragg edited episode 2 and said this project was a pleasure to work on, despite the challenges of having to squeeze an entire 3 days of competition into 2 x 1hr episodes! The music was relaxing and any classical music fan will most certainly appreciate this. He also had fun spotting one of his friends throughout the footage who is a musician in the London Symphony Orchestra.

This project was gold for Steve Flatt who appreciates music, as a musician himself, and who had a blast working with his wife Naveed. He explained it was a nice change of pace from his usual fact ent work and he thoroughly enjoyed cutting the performance for episode 3 of Making a Maestro.

Prepare your ears for the premiere on 22^nd April at 8pm on Sky Arts.

Studio Ramsay for Fox and Channel 4

Editors: Alex Soskin, Dave Berezai and Sean Schmolz

Satusfaction has a long standing relationship with Studio Ramsay, we’ve been able to provide them with a plethora of talented editors over the years and we’re always excited when they come to us with a brand new series. In Secret Service, Gordon has to fight his own reputation and fame by going undercover and sending spies to assess restaurants and food businesses so he can give them advice on how to improve their service. 

Dave Berezai and Sean Schmolz regularly work with Studio Ramsay and fell back into old habits, enjoying the new format all the while bringing their experience of Gordon’s material to give the series a familiar feel.

For Alex Soskin, it was only his second foray into the Ramsay universe but his experience of working in the US TV industry for 20 years gave him an added advantage and he easily fitted to the FOX style of cutting. Alex commented that ‘it was a fun gig working with the team, the episode I worked on had some high octane Gordon Ramsay, it was an interesting twist on what he does, with the secretive side and Ramsay monitoring from a truck outside and breaking into the restaurant to check it out after hours. The chef was really good and a great character so it was extra nice to see him benefit from Gordon Ramsay coming in, teaching them and elevating the restaurant from what it was.’

This mission, should you choose to accept it, will premiere on Tuesday 14^th April at 10pm on Channel 4.

CPL Productions for TLC

Editors: Creda Wilson and Connor Snedecor

This was Creda and Connor’s first broadcast credit as a job share and they proved what a great team they make, editing two episodes of Zero Stars for CPL Productions.

This popular Danish-originated format travelogue has been picked up in 6 other European countries – the UK being the most recent – and sees two comedians, Sara Pascoe and Roisin Conaty, adventure across the world to try out places to eat, sleep and experience with the worst, funniest and most baffling reviews.

Connor is an experienced comedy editor, familiar with Sara Pascoe’s work and humour from editing various episodes of Last Woman on Earth. His sense of timing and flawless rhythm combined with Creda’s storytelling acumen and snappy, engaging cutting style contribute to the series and make their episodes very entertaining to watch.

They told us ‘we had such fun working on Zero Stars. There was a fine balance to strike between the concept of the rough, weird, zero star experiences, and still getting the right amount of Sara and Roisin cracking each other up and having a good time (when they did!). Working as a couple on a job share felt like a huge advantage, having two heads to figure out each decision when needed, and we’re happy the director Tom Levinge and CPL Productions went with it. Post-production was so smooth. Our favourite job of the year.’

Premieres on TLC on Sunday 12^th April at 9pm.

Gosh, award season really is here and some congratulations are in order! The nominations for the 2026 News and Documentary Awards have been announced and as always we’d love to congratulate our editors whose work has been mentioned.

After an acclaimed opening at Sundance Film Festival last year, “The Stringer”, the documentary investigating one of the most famous war photographs ‘Napalm Girl’ was edited by Graham Taylor and selected in FOUR separate categories including ‘Outstanding Investigative Documentary’.

“Operation Space Station” is a 2-part historical doc celebrating 25 years of operation for the International Space Station. Additional editing on this film by Maria Valente and Matt Scragg, it was produced by Blink Films and nominated in the ‘Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary’ category.

The heartwarming nature documentary “Secrets of the Penguins” was produced by Talesmith, edited by Kel McKeown and nominated in the ‘Outstanding Nature Documentary’ category.

A nod to Mnidhouse’s “Lockerbie” which was selected in the ‘Outstanding Lighting Direction: Documentary’ category and was edited by Charlie Hawryliw.

We look forward to find out the winners on 27th May 2026 and wish all nominees the very best! Congratulations!

Blink Films for Channel 5

Editors: Mitch Bannon and Richard ‘Huggy’ Lace

Satusfaction favourite, Ben Fogle heads to China for the first time in this epic travelogue which aims to explore one of the most powerful countries in the world from the inside, and give unprecedented insights into its history and rich culture.

Fogle explores its pivotal place in the modern world, as well as its ancient and recent history – how centuries of Imperial rule gave way to Communist revolution under Chairman Mao and the breakneck economic transformation as the state capitalist China of recent years has emerged.

This project was Mitch Bannon’s first presenter-led travelogue series, and being someone who loves travelling himself was really looking forward to getting his teeth into this.  Mitch thought that this series had everything you could possibly want from a feel-good, fun travelogue, whilst also learning about parts of Chinese culture and giving a very interesting history lesson all in one.

This was Mitch’s first project with Blink Films, and he was really impressed at the clockwork level of organisation required to overcome the challenges that come with filming on location in China. Their collaboration with the local government and production companies provided them with exceptional access. Mitch learnt a lot from co-editing episode 2 but he also had a unique overview of the entire series by cutting a 120min reversion which gave him access to the entirety of the footage.

As for Huggy Lace, who co-edited episode 1, he shared with us that ‘it was fun to work on with a great insight into how a Chinese film studio is producing vertical dramas that are sweeping Tik Tok. They’re incredibly cheesy judging by what was shot!’

China with Ben Fogle premiered last night 6^th April on Channel 5, catch parts 2 and 3 tonight 7^th and tomorrow 8^th April at 9pm.

Windfall Films for Channel 4

Editor: Hass Azzoug

Premiere 1^st April at 10pm

Windfall Films collaborates with Hass Azzoug once more to bring you the follow up on the most infamous heist in recent history. Over 10 years after the fact, this one-off documentary reveals what happened to the crew of the 2015 Hatton Garden diamond heist, with interviews from insiders, including one of the members of the original crew.

This story has captured the interest and imagination of many filmmakers and Hass enjoyed the challenge of coming up with a creative new way to tell it, with fun twists and a new angle. His ongoing working relationship with the team at Windfall make him an asset for fast turnaround, collaborative projects such as this.

Watch it at 10pm on Channel 4, Wednesday 1^st April.

Awards season has come around again and we’re delighted to announce that several projects that Satusfaction editors were lucky enough to work on are being honoured with nominations for BAFTA Television Awards.

Would I Lie to You? was nominated this year in the Entertainment category. Comedy editor Gavin Ames  was involved in cutting this series and loved working with the team down at Pinewood, congrats to the production team at Zeppotron!

The very first series of Studio Ramsay’s new culinary series, Knife Edge: Chasing Michelin Stars will take you around the world to discover what it takes to be the best in the restaurant business. It is therefore quite fitting that they would be nominated in the Factual Entertainment category. Well done to Badger Cooper who edited the Chicago episode.

The Undercover Police Scandal: Love & Lies Exposed is getting its second nomination this year, this time in the Factual Series category, and editor Charlie Webb couldn’t be prouder of his work on the series.

As for the Reality category, we have two contenders to cheer for but we don’t pick favourites between the most popular adapted gameshow Squid Game: The Challenge, edited by Tim Fielding, and the audience’s favourite betrayal game Celebrity Traitors, edited by James Sheldon.

We’d also like to make a very special shout out to Jennifer Asheitu Hampson who is nominated for a 2026 BAFTA Television Craft Awards with Samsung OLED in Editing: Factual category for her incredible work on Attack on London: Hunting the 7/7 Bombers.

Congratulations to all nominees, we’ll be sure to cheer for you all during the ceremony which will be hosted by Maisie Adam on Sunday 10th May.