First commission for indie centres on a Liverpool beauty parlour<\/p>\n
Indie Twenty Six 03 Entertainment has landed its first commission: a BBC3 entertainment tx pilot filmed in a Liverpool beauty salon.<\/p>\n
Beauty Blowout: The Races (1 x 60) will follow the experts and stylists in the salon as they prepare clients for Ladies Day at the Grand National.<\/p>\n
Treatments will range from Botox to non-surgical bottom lifts and clients will then be followed to the racecourse and the ensuing after-race parties.<\/p>\n
The commission is the first for the indie set up last year by former Britain\u2019s Got Talent commissioner Gray and backed by Canadian firm Cineflix Media. Dinner Date co-creator Jimmy Baker joined Cineflix earlier this year to help develop formats with Gray.<\/p>\n
The pilot is part of BBC3\u2019s new wing of fact ent programming, revealed earlier this year by controller Damian Kavanagh as part of a \u00a310m-a-year spending boon for the web-only channel.<\/p>\n
BBC entertainment commissioning editor Rachel Ashdown ordered the pilot, which will be exec produced by Gray and Twenty Six 03 managing director Antonia Hurford-Jones.<\/p>\n
Ashdown said: \u201cBeauty Blowout is peppered with great characters and intriguing stories both humorous and heartfelt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rival youth channel E4 last week announced its own beauty parlour format, Super Salon, which is being filmed in Sheffield.<\/p>\n
Comedy shorts<\/strong><\/p>\n BBC3 will air the pilot later this month, along with short-form Australian comedy 600 Bottles of Wine, which has been acquired for the channel from Escapade Media by Kavanagh and BBC head of programme acquisitions Sue Deeks.<\/p>\n The four-parter will star Australian blogger Grace Rouvray, who is flung back into the dating scene after breaking up with her long-term boyfriend.<\/p>\n– Broadcast<\/em>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First commission for indie centres on a Liverpool beauty parlour Indie Twenty Six 03 Entertainment has landed its first commission: a BBC3 entertainment tx pilot filmed in a Liverpool beauty salon. Beauty Blowout: The Races (1 x 60) will follow the experts and stylists in the salon as they prepare clients for Ladies Day at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-broadcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":841,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentysix03.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}