ITV's Keep It In The Family Returns To BBC Elstree

BBC Studios and Post Production (BBC S&PP) welcomes ITV Studios' and Over The Top Productions primetime family game show, Keep It In The Family, back to Elstree. For the second series, BBC S&PP is providing fully integrated studios and post production services.

The scale and complexity of the extensive Keep It In The Family set, which sees a large revolving area used during the family and celebrity face-offs, pushes the creative and technical capabilities of the production team and flexibility of the studio space.

All the action in BBC S&PP's 11,800 sq ft Studio D, is captured on a standard 10 camera set-up in front of an audience of 400, making full use of Studio D's fixed seating area and enabling the production to efficiently maximise the studio floor space. The full breadth of Studio D's ancillary facilities, including HD production galleries that are specifically designed to support large scale TV productions, were also utilised. Up to 20 radio mics were used for the extensive numbers of contestants, celebrities, and the musical numbers featured in the show.

To accommodate the fast turnaround post production demands of handling around 40 hours per episode, BBC S&PP deployed a tapeless workflow. Material from the studio floor was ingested with an EVS IP Director video production management system and stored on an Avid ISIS | 7000 shared storage system. The series was edited and finished on Avid Symphony and mixed in Avid Pro Tools, before being sent via an Aspera transfer to ITV as DPP AS-11 files.

"Returning large-scale productions like Keep It In The Family are a credit to the years of experience our team has behind them. Combined with the latest investments in technology, we're able to continue to push the boundaries of creativity with every production on our roster," said Meryl McLaren, Commercial Manager at BBC S&PP.

Keep It In The Family is the unconventional game show that lets the kids call the shots, meaning anything can happen as two rival families' battle it out for the chance to win amazing prizes. Presented by Bradley Walsh, the families also play to win in head-to-heads with celebrities from various hit shows, including The X Factor and Emmerdale.