For the first time in Deal or No Deal history, Noel Edmonds, the notorious phone, 22 red boxes and The Banker travelled across the United Kingdom. Trickbox TV provided Remarkable Television, part of Endemol Shine, with specialist outside broadcasting facilities to take the infamous gameshow to 10 iconic and unusual locations over a six-week period.

The brief was to provide a bespoke flyaway solution as traditional outside broadcast trucks would not have worked with all of the locations. Trickbox TV created a flexible solution that enabled rigging, recording and de-rigging within a 12-hour period. The multicamera facilities included up to seven cameras, with one wireless camera system for a Steadicam and different lenses to suit each location. It also provided mirrored recording backups for each programme to limit onsite DIT, as well as offering a level of redundancy for the media.

There were a number of challenges to overcome with complicated locations including access restrictions and a limited timeframe onsite, which resulted in the Trickbox team adapting the technical setup for each location. The locations included: The Eden Project in Cornwall, The Trafford Centre in Manchester, on the moving Flying Scotsman train, a cave at Wookey Hole, Warwick Castle, Longleat Safari Park, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow, top of the Blackpool Tower, Alexandra Palace and finally, on board a Boeing 737.

A spokesperson at Remarkable Television said “With a run of almost 3,000 episodes and more than a decade on UK screens, these games are set to be some of the most exciting and truly unique yet. Trickbox TV allowed us to be creative with the tour’s locations and the sky was quite literally the limit.”

Liam Laminman, Managing Director at Trickbox TV, said; “Taking a show that has been in a studio for over 10 years into an outside broadcast environment was always going to be a challenge. It was really important that at no point, would the production team, crew or Noel, feel like the facilities that Trickbox TV provided would be a compromise from the studio facilities that they had been used to”.

London & Partners, the official promotional company for London, launched its Autumn Season campaign with a series of Facebook Live films with help from Trickbox TV. The campaign aimed to promote London as the world’s leading leisure destination with a focus on the city’s astounding arts, events and entertainment during the Autumn season.

The brief was to use Facebook’s new live streaming platform, Facebook Live, to live stream a series of events taking place in London for people who were unable to attend. Trickbox TV provided crew and facilities for the 20 minute live streams, including live graphics, VT playback, live streaming facilities and bonded cellular connectivity.

The short Facebook Live events were streamed through the ‘Visit London’ Facebook channel. Four events have been successfully streamed to date: The Great Fire 360° on the Balcony of the Tate Modern Gallery, the opening night of the 60th BFI London Film Festival, a concert in the Bascule Chamber of Tower Bridge and the Seven Dials Christmas lights switch on.

Lauranza Harvey, Digital Project Manager at London & Partners commended Trickbox TV, “The team were a pleasure to work with. We had a very quick turnaround from briefing the team to the live event, but they responded professionally and quickly to all requests.”
Harvey added “The Facebook Live series was a great success with perfect video production from the Trickbox team. We also experienced a huge level of social media audience interaction.”

The 2015 campaign reached 67 million people, so London & Partners is hoping for similar results this year.

Liam Laminman, Managing Director of Trickbox TV, commented; “We’re delighted to have been involved in London & Partners’ Autumn Season campaign this year. The combination of presenter led and event coverage was a challenge when live streaming ‘on the move’ and with minimal kit and crew, but the end result was fantastic. We’re always quick to adapt to new and emerging live streaming workflows and platforms, so we were thrilled to provide professional Facebook Live streaming services – and the fact that it was for a campaign to help promote London, was great. We’re really looking forward to seeing the final campaign results.”

Due to the Autumn Seasons campaign’s ongoing success, London & Partners look forward to working with Trickbox TV on future Facebook Live campaigns.

Millions of people watched from across Europe on the 23rd June as the ballot papers came in and the UK’s decision to leave the EU was announced. Those watching via TV 2 News in Denmark would have been kept up to date from a multitude of services from Trickbox TV which provided a platform for the Danish news broadcaster to cover the EU referendum live in full – and for longer than initially expected.

Publicly owned TV 2 has been Denmark’s’ top subscription television station since it was founded in Odense in the late eighties. One of six subsidiary channels as part of the network, TV 2 News launched in 2006 and provides 24-hour news coverage from Denmark and across the globe.

Trickbox TV provided technical support for full coverage of the lead up to and aftermath following the results of the EU referendum. Ideally located next to the offices and studio, the coverage was broadcast from the live position on Potters Fields with an iconic backdrop of Tower Bridge and the City of London financial area. Trickbox TV also arranged local power, as well as filming permits and rain cover.

The broadcast initially planned to only cover events on the 23rd June; however, following the unexpected results, the TV 2 team decided to continue broadcasting throughout the day and evening from London for a further day. Trickbox was able to turn this request around quickly, extending permits and power supplies as well as its support services.

Trickbox TV provided facilities helping deliver BBC online coverage of League of Legends, a popular online multiplayer strategy game, throughout its annual world esports championship competition this year. Following ten teams from across Asia, Europe and North America, the top three advanced to the quarter finals that were hosted at Wembley Arena in London on 15th October 2015.

Covering the competition for the first time, the live event was broadcast by BBC Sport on BBC Three through transmission to Salford BBC via IP which was streamed to the online channels. Trickbox TV built a temporary flyaway control room, with talkback to BBC Salford and a listen feed of talkback from the host broadcaster in LA.

With three incoming host broadcaster feeds, Trickbox TV location facilities aided in providing coverage of the event using two Sony HDC-1500 camera channels, an EVS and other equipment including a Trilogy Messenger talkback system.

“With such a wide global audience for the League of Legends championships, it’s important that there is online coverage for anyone across the world to access,” said Liam Laminman, Managing Director of Trickbox TV, “It’s a delight to be able to provide broadcasting services for such an exciting and popular live event.”

You can view more on the event here.

The Roux Scholarship is Britain’s foremost annual culinary contest offering young cooks aged between 22-30 the opportunity to win an all expenses paid, work placement at a three star Michelin restaurant, which could be located anywhere across the world. The competition aims to kick-start their career as a professional chef and earns them invaluable experience working alongside some of the UK’s greatest gastronomic masterminds.

Since 1984, members of the Roux family and high profile chefs judge the applicants on technical skill, a strong palate and deep appreciation and understanding of the history of classical cooking as they undergo a series of culinary tests. The competition has gathered substantial interest across the food industry since it began over 30 years ago, today incorporating a highly successful digital media following that includes social sharing platforms distributing content from the competitions across YouTube and Twitter.

Each year, the Roux family reveals the name of the winning scholar in front of a large audience of prestigious guests, high profile chefs and leading figures from across the industry in an award ceremony held at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Hyde Park in London. In an exciting innovation to provide content for the growing digital need, this years’ award ceremony saw a live feed of the announcement of the winner for the first time since the competition began, streamed directly into the Roux Scholarship’s YouTube channel. Alain and Michel Roux Jr’s announcement of the winner went out to the live-streamed audience.

London-based independent production company Cactus TV, which specialises in entertainment and TV Events, has worked alongside the Roux Scholarship since 2010. Initially commissioned to stage and film the competition finals, Cactus TV has gone on to producemultiple TV series for the prestigious competition . This year, Cactus TV turned to Trickbox TV to provide the live streaming facilities for the 45-minute winner announcement that took place in early April.

“Providing live coverage and working on such a prestigious event can be challenging, which is why we turned to Trickbox TV to provide the live streaming facilities. They have experience working on a wide variety of live events across a multitude of different industries,” said Lucy Eagle of Cactus TV. “It’s always a privilege to work with such talented people, whether they be world-renowned chefs or an excellent flyaway production team!”

Harry Guy of Eden Hotel Collection, Stratford-Upon-Avon cooked his way to first place in this year’s competition, walking away with a placement at an esteemed three star Michelin restaurant.

For those that couldn’t get enough of the ‘socially elite’ 20-somethings that inhabit the reality show Made In Chelsea, help was at hand this season in the form of an internet-only spin-off show – Mad on Chelsea.

The weekly 20 minute live streamed part of the show was hosted by two cast members each week discussing the latest dramas on the show.

Production company Monkey Kingdom approached Trickbox TV to provide live streaming facilities for the show and an engineer to ensure it ran smoothly.

“Trickbox TV worked with us and Channel 4 to test the stream in the two weeks leading up to the first live stream, integrating with Channel 4’s live streaming and on-demand platform,” says Katie O’Hanlon, Production Manager on the show. “They also provided the equipment to enable us to have on-screen graphics, including a lower third featuring a Twitter hashtag to prompt viewers to tweet in with questions for the cast. We couldn’t have made this work without Trickbox.”

The web series, which ran for 11 weeks, was well received by fans and there are plans for further internet-based shows alongside the next series of Made In Chelsea.

During the lead up to the UK’s decision to leave the EU earlier this year, social media served as the perfect platform as an accessible format for young people to access debates and panels and have questions answered on the upcoming vote.

A couple of weeks prior to the vote and subsequent results, David Cameron, Nicola Sturgeon, Nigel Farage and Penny Mordaunt answered readers’ questions at a series of live town hall meetings hosted by a well-known social news/entertainment company and Facebook Live at the Facebook offices in London.

The four-hour discussion allowed a live audience to ask the panel questions which was streamed live into Facebook using the Facebook Live streaming platform. Trickbox TV provided an OB service for the entire event, building two temporary studios within 24 hours that were set up to run simultaneously. A main host studio covered the main debate with a second studio used with a magazine style show which fed back into the main studio. As with the fast turnaround of events prior to the referendum, Trickbox TV designed and planned the entire studio space in just three days.

The main studio featured six Sony HDC-2500 camera channels, four Vinten Quartz pedestals and a Steadicam, whereas the second studio benefit from four Sony HDC-2500 camera channels and three Vinten Quartz pedestals. Both studios had a digital talkback system with 16 key panels across both facilities, with a six channel EVS in the main studio.

Capital Radio DJs Dave Berry and Lisa Snowden presented the switch-on of the 2015 Oxford Street Christmas lights by global superstar Kyle Minogue to a street full of thousands of fans. Trickbox TV provided multi-camera coverage for the glittering festive event that took place on 1st November 2015.

On the day, Trickbox TV rigged and built a temporary flyaway in a tent on the street itself, providing a feed to a Sky uplink truck. The setup included five Sony HDC-2500 camera channels and a jimmy JIb. The media was sent to broadcasters immediately after the event, ensuring a fast turnaround time.

“It was a privilege to help broadcast the big moment when 445 gold baubles lit up the busiest street in London,” commented Trickbox TV’s Managing Director, Liam Laminman. “As a time sensitive and high profile event, ensuring smooth and efficient multi-camera coverage was paramount, and everything went off without a hitch.”

Alongside the festive ice-skating arena, further entertainment during the day on Oxford Street included an exclusive performance of the musical, Matilda, and music from Fleur East, Foxes, Gabrielle Aplin and X-factor winner Ben Haenow.

You can view a video of the switch on here.

Award-winning Internet icons Dan Howel and Phil Lester, better know as Dan & Phil, rose to fame after video blogging on Youtube and progressed to hosting their own programme on BBC Radio 1. Last year they travelled across the UK to present their first ever live show entitled “Dan & Phil – The Amazing Tour is Not On Fire” named after Dan’s Youtube pseudonym Dan is not on Fire. Alongside audience interaction and ‘some surprises’, each evening of entertainment promised to combine the pair’s best sketches and anecdotes from their book, Youtube channel, radio shows and online videos.

Having worked with Dan & Phil’s manager in the past, Princess Productions was commissioned to film the comedy duo’s finale show at the London Palladium and turned to Trickbox TV to provide cost-effective multi-camera capabilities for both the matinee and evening performance. Due to a tight 24-hour turnaround, Trickbox TV needed to work around the clock rigging and de-rigging the venue overnight.

Laura Green, Production Executive at Princess Productions noted, “We principally chose to work with Trickbox TV as it is a reliable and trusted company that really understands the way we work and the budget constraints we have.”

Trickbox TV provided Princess Productions with a multi-camera flyaway solution, including nine Sony HDC-2500 cameras and five Canon XJ86 box lenses. Alongside the equipment provided by Trickbox TV, the production also included a jib, a telescopic tracking dolly, a remote pan and tilt head and PGM record and full camera ISO record as well as a Trilogy Messenger digital talkback system.

With around 25 people working on the production including Trickbox staff, the event ran smoothly on the day, with the team overcoming several lighting technicalities and managing to deliver the footage immediately after the performance.

“Working alongside Trickbox TV is always great because they are fully accommodating to our needs, really appreciating the particular requirements of each individual production,” continued Laura. “They always go out of their way to be able to deliver exactly what we need.”

They say never work with animals, but in summer 2015 Trickbox TV provided an HD multi-camera flyaway facility for Flockstars, Liberty Bell’s new primetime knockout competition for ITV that saw a group of eight stars learning to herd sheep (and ducks) and take part in sheepdog trials. The 8x30min show went live on ITV on 30 July.

The competition was filmed over a nine day period at an equestrian centre in East Sussex. Trickbox TV worked with Liberty Bell for two months prior to the shoot to meticulously plan the production workflow, and supplied and installed seven Sony HDC-1500 camera channels, a six-channel EVS server and a flyaway control room, with 10 operational positions. Trickbox TV also supplied on-site technical support staff throughout the production.

The core brief was that the production team was producing a studio show that just happened to be an outside broadcast, so the Trickbox TV team paid specific attention to providing all the features and functions that would be expected in a studio – everything from the control room lighting, to air-con, to OLED monitors throughout.

Verity Jackson, Line Producer on Flockstars, said, “The Trickbox TV team worked incredibly hard in pre-production and during the set-up to ensure that the production would run without any issues, and it all worked fantastically well in an unusual and complicated location. We greatly appreciated their attention to detail and calmness throughout, it gave us great confidence that the technical side was taken care of.”