The famous British TV cook and  cookery book writer Nigella Lawson returns for a very special Christmas treat when she travels to Amsterdam to enjoy the festive season in the Venice of the North. With family ties to Amsterdam that go back generations, Nigella has fond… Read More

The French documentary production company Les Films d’Ici is asked by ARTE to produce a series of nature documentaries about how humans and human behaviour are influencing nature and animals. One of the episodes is Quand passant les oiseaux (When the birds go by), a… Read More

The British production company Wall to Wall produces ‘Fining My Family: Holocaust’, a two-part series for BBC 1 which will follow the British families of those who experienced the Holocaust re-trace their parents and grandparents’ steps. Watford Grammar schoolgirl Maggie Fleet, 14, accompanied her “opa”,… Read More

During Champions League football matches Sony launches a Twitter campaign called the ‘Champions Sofa’ to promote the Sony Experia smart phone, showing supporters on their sofa at home during all the matches. Firecracker Films produces the footage and WorldFixer.com organises the fixers to find fans… Read More

Canadian documentary maker Sheona McDonald from Dimestore Productions got a commission to make a pilot for a documentary about Woman and porn. Over the last years woman became much more active in the porn industry. As producers and as end users. After the sudden success… Read More

The Maasstad hospital in Rotterdam has been in the news since June last year after the outbreak of an antibiotic bacterium named Klebsiella Oxa-48 that has likely caused the death of 78 people. Question arises on how this new bacterium could appear in the Netherlands…. Read More

While in Switzerland the reception of asylum seekers is organised in a very decentralised and bureaucratic way, the Netherlands totally revised its asylum seekers system over the years. Procedures are as short as possible and the asylum seekers are housed in central reception centres. The… Read More

The Scottish BBC program Eòrpa has been filming in Romania to cover the problems the country has to enter the Schengen treaty, making free transport of persons and goods possible. There were notable objections from the Dutch and Finnish foreign ministers. For this background reportage… Read More

All parliaments of the EU member states have to officially agree to the new European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF). Just after the Dutch parliament okayed the EFSF, the Europe correspondent of the Japanese public TV channel NHK wants the reaction of the Dutch minister of… Read More

After arriving on Amsterdam Airport Schiphol it turns out the airliner lost the tripod of a BBC Panorama crew that has an interview at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The BBC needs a replacement tripod within an hour, the interview at the… Read More

Preceding the European elections the first German public TV channel ARD makes a tour through the neighbouring countries to measure the European political temperature. The tour ends in Amsterdam. The evening program Tagesthemen broadcasts live from the centre of Amsterdam. Dutch historian, writer and documentary… Read More

Preceding the European elections the first German public TV channel ARD makes a tour through the neighboring countries to measure the European political temperature. The tour ends in Amsterdam. The morning program Morgenmagazin broadcasts live from the Amstel river in the centre of Amsterdam. A… Read More