Officers were relying on old-fashioned detective work - boots on the ground, human intelligence, witnesses and fingerprints. We wanted to tell the story of the police officers desperate to find this man while also fearing for their own families.”

Here's what ITN Productions director Chris Hackett had to say about our true crime doc charting the police manhunt in 1984 for ‘The Fox’: “This was one of the last big police manhunts before the introduction of DNA analysis...

Back in the summer, we went on set with Jeremy Daldry, executive producer, Audrey Neil, series producer, and Joanna Traill, production manager to find out... 👏🏼 to all the BM crew

It might look effortless on screen, but how does a modern take on a formatted fact ent show with so many moving parts come together?

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Michael Palin in Venezuela, 9pm on Tuesday, Channel 5, produced by ITN Productions

Catch up on episode 1: www.channel5.com/show/michael...

Watch the video to find out how series producer/director Neil Ferguson captured the epic - and frankly quite terrifying - sequence where Michael and the crew are deposited by helicopter at the base of the falls.

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