Archive for May, 2009

Weird & Wonderful Website
/ May 29, 2009 4:54 pm

Weird & Wonderful Website

On Sunday, our team at Chief Productions are setting off on the first leg of a round the world shoot for our forthcoming television series, Weird & Wonderful Hotels. To celebrate, we’ve today launched a brand new website where you can learn more about the show, and keep up with all the latest production news. Head over to www.weirdandwonderfulhotels.com to

Manchester 20/05/09
/ May 21, 2009 9:29 am

Manchester 20/05/09

Patrick Egerton (Chief Productions) and Neal Clark (Sleepydog) meet with writer,  Matt Baker to discuss the development of their latest TV project

Triumph
/ May 18, 2009 4:33 pm

Triumph

Working for the past few months immersed in a science fiction show has been a lot of fun. Lots of work too, of course, but when a big part of the research has been revisiting shows that ran and ran such as Mission: Impossible, Columbo and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. it’s not the kind of work day that you drag

Social Media Greenroom
/ May 18, 2009 2:33 pm

Social Media Greenroom

Building on some initial forays into politics and social media that myself and Christian Payne made last year, the Sleepydog team have been playing an advisory/brainstorming role with Thomson Reuters that evolved into something we like to call a social media greenroom. So far we’d used a combination of Twitter and LifeCast to pull in questions / feedback and then

/ May 14, 2009 9:51 am

Anything but Sleepy

My name’s Mike Atherton, but most people know me as Sizemore. I have nothing to do with cricket or helping Tom Hanks win World War II (but occasionally get email intended for both of those guys anyway). I have a blog over here, but this guy called me nine kinds of wrong so you may want to skip that. I’m

/ May 12, 2009 8:36 am

We ♥ Robots

We can’t get enough of robots at Sleepydog and were blown away by this new motorbike commercial in which everything you see is CGI.  Congrats to Visual Effects Supervisor, Diego Vazquez Lozano and everyone at Glassworks for doing such an amazing job

Congrats To Chief
/ May 11, 2009 7:46 am

Congrats To Chief

Congratulations to Colin Offland and everyone at Chief Productions for their recent success at the Roses Advertising Awards!

Dublin 07/05/09
/ May 11, 2009 7:04 am

Dublin 07/05/09

Colin Offland (Chief Productions) Ciaran Donnelly and Mark Hilton discussing the Irish/Canadian co-production of ‘Slingers&#

Guitar Hero TV?
/ May 8, 2009 2:25 am

Guitar Hero TV?

We’re big fans of Guitar Hero at Sleepydog, and like nothing better than to fire up the office Xbox for a lunch time jamming session (although Jimi Hendrix I am not).  So I was intrigued to read a Reuters report today that suggested Guitar Hero might be coming to television. Will be interesting to see how the game is translated

/ May 8, 2009 1:16 am

A Glimpse Of The Future

We’ve recently been working with Arran and Corran Brownlee, a pair of hugely talented artists who are helping to visualise our forthcoming sci-fi drama series. This is just one of the many incredible images they’ve produced for us so far, we’ll post more highlights in the coming weeks