The Televisual Autumn 2026 issue is out now.

The print edition of the magazine is on its way to subscribers with Televisual+ subscribers able to access it now.

Inside you’ll find the 36th edition of our annual landmark survey into the UK’s television production companies; the results of a Televisual Exchange that brought together leading UK post houses to discuss the value and future of post; our genre report on factual TV; behind the scenes of BBC Studios’ return to the sea in Blue Planet III and on Sid Gentle’s Cold War romcom, Honey plus all the best recent work in post and vfx.

PRODUCTION 100

Pippa Considine introduces Televisual’s Production 100 survey of the indie TV sector and finds producers still searching for light at the end of the tunnel

SUPERINDIES

Profiling the key superindie and studio groups

TRUE INDIES

A look at the producers who really live up to the word independent

BROADCASTERS

Indies on the best PSB and streamer customers to work for right now

PEER POLL

Production companies reveal the rival indie outfits they rate the highest

DISTRIBUTORS

The distribution companies that indies most like to deal with and why

THE P100 LIST

Televisual’s annual showcase of the UK’s top production companies.

THE TELEVISUAL EXCHANGE

The Televisual Exchange report brings together the perspectives of 24 senior executives from many of the UK’s leading film and television post houses with executives from Sohonet to explore what role post plays now and how the business model might evolve over the coming years.

GENRE REPORT: FACTUAL

Factual television producers have felt the squeeze more than most, but they’re finding new formats and funding models and exploiting their IP across digital platforms too. Pippa Considine reports

BIG PICTURE: BLUE PLANET III

Scientific understanding of the world’s oceans has moved on markedly since the last Blue Planet and so has the tech available to bring it to the screen. Jon Creamer reports

BIG PICTURE: HONEY

For Emma Moran’s comedic cold war thriller, Honey produced by Sid Gentle, the team had to recreate 80s East Berlin, much of it in Lithuania. Jon Creamer reports

NEW WORK: VFX AND POST

The best new finishing work in the UK from Goldcrest, Films at 59; The Look and many more

THE TELEVISUAL BULLDOG AWARDS 

See all the nominees for this year’s Televisual Bulldog Awards and have your say about the best of British TV.

Jon Creamer

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