Saving the Scottish Wildcat

The Scottish wildcat is so deeply engrained in the history of Scotland, but with less than 100 wildcats left in the Scottish wild according to experts, the breed is facing extinction.

All is not lost however. In a quiet location at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park in the Cairngorms National Park, a dedicated team are hard at work on a mission to save the Scottish Wildcat.

Special breeding enclosures are being built along with a new veterinary unit, and separate large pre-release enclosures where the cats will see no humans (but will be monitored by cameras), to simulate the wild.

In the summer of 2023, the first Wildcats will be released and history will be made.

Midas Media has been granted exclusive access to film behind the scenes of undoubtedly one of the most important conservation projects in the world. Stay tuned…

Tog do Shùil (Painted City)

Coming up on 11th January....BBC ALBA presenter Màiri Rodgers gets under the skin of street art at Aberdeen’s annual Nuart Festival. A self confessed newbie to the scene, she signs up as a volunteer and is encouraged to pick up a spray can to make her own mark on the city. As she says, she's: “letting her inner vandal out”. One to watch! Please share.

“Tog do Shùil (Painted City)” will be on BBC ALBA on Wed 11th January at 9pm (& repeated on Monday 16th Jan at 10.30pm). Also on the BBC iPlayer for 35 days.

Aberdeen: When Oil Came to Town

When Oil Came to Town explores the impact oil has had on the city and its people over the last 50 years.⁠

⁠Very much a social history, not a political one, the special 75-minute film contains remarkable archive footage from the 70’s and 80’s, and illustrates the harsh realities of the early days of this industry which was to prove so vital for the UK economy.⁠

Aberdeen: When Oil Came to Town airs on BBC ALBA on Thursday, March 23 at 9pm and is available to watch on BBC iPlayer for 30 days.⁠

Life on the island of Canna

What is life like on an island with only 16 residents? We spent a year filming on the beautiful island of Canna, see the first of two one hour documentaries tonight on BBC ALBA and on BBC iPlayer for 30 days.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000lcbm

Meet Vraska

Meet Vraska on BBC ALBA tonight. She's 20-months-old and is a Steller's Sea Eagle - the heaviest eagle in the world. She's currently 7kg and will grown heavier as she gains muscle.

New series of "Na Glèidheadairean (The Animal Keepers)" starts at 9pm tonight with the Autumn episode. Winter ep on 14th Jan.

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Blair Drummond Safari Park

Highland Wildlife Park, Kincraig

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0932w2d

Scottish Vets back on screen

Small animals, large animals and very wild animals - and the vets across Scotland who tend to them through rain, hail or shine (as the trailer below shows).

Vets: Gach Creutair Beò returns for series 7 from Tue 29th Sept at 8.30pm on BBC ALBA for eight weeks. Each episode also on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days

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Blair Drummond Safari Park

Five Sisters Zoo

Highland Wildlife Park, Kincraig

Aberdeen Veterinary Referrals

Puirt-adhair - Highland Airports

Fascinating stories of the people who fly gliders, offshore helicopters, air ambulance, scheduled island flights, microlights, gyrocopters, a home-made Eurofox aircraft, a Typhoon and much more... something for everyone in second series of “Puirt-adhair” back on BBC iPlayer now.

8 x half-hour programmes.

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Barra Airport

Benbecula Airport

Stornoway Airport

Wick John O’Groats Airport

Kirkwall Airport

Sumburgh Airport, Shetland

Air Services - Tingwall Airport - Shetland Islands Council

Inverness Airport

Perth Airport

Dundee Airport

Tayside Aviation

Oban Airport

Highland Gliding Club

Cairngorm Gliding Club

Scottish Gliding Centre

Deeside Gliding Club

East of Scotland Microlights

RAF Lossiemouth

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b095vx57

Bliadhna na Sgoile (My School Year)

Hard to think that schooldays could be so different today. Our BBC ALBA doc followed a year in the life of Gilcomstoun School in Aberdeen. A lovely programme showing new starts on P1 and finishing with the P7 leavers moving onto the next chapter in their lives.

On the BBC iPlayer now, link below.

BBC ALBA Aberdeen Gilcomstoun Primary School

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0000l95

BrewDog documentary airs

BrewDog founders James Watt & Martin Dickie tell us their story in their own words in our latest documentary "The BrewDog Story (Na Grùdairean)" - on BBC ALBA UK-wide on Wednesday 18th March 9pm-10pm (& then on the BBC iPlayer for 30 days) BBC ALBA BrewDog

The story of how two local guys followed their passion & made their fortune while following a very unconventional path to global success.

Here kitty kitty!

Chan the male snow leopard at Highland Wildlife Park, Kincraig was having some tests done today by the Vet. What a privilege to get so close to film such a striking endangered wild animal. 

We are currently in post production for season six of our highly popular vets series for BBC ALBA.

On Air

Another chance to see our first series of Puirt-adhair (Highland Airports) on BBC ALBA from Monday 18th February at 7pm. Each episode in the 8-part series will be shown on Mondays and Wednesdays at 7pm and will be on BBC iPlayer for 30 days. 

A busy start to 2018

It has been a busy start to 2018.

On the television front our edit suite is working flat out finishing season five of our popular Vets series "Gach Creutair Beò" for BBC ALBA (TX 21st May 2018) and filming has just begun for series six which will air early in 2019.

Pre production work is underway on an exciting new food and drink series and we're about to start filming a documentary following the work of some of the world's top street artists!

On the corporate side, we've been working offshore with Petrofac on a new safety induction film, we've been in Stavangar working with new client COSL, in London with Nexen and we're delighted to be working with the NHS, media training some of their top consultants.

No sleep for the Midas team :o) 

New volume deal confirmed with BBC ALBA

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded a new four year volume deal to produce television content for BBC ALBA.

Vets: Gach Creutair Beò

Join us on BBC ALBA every Monday evening at 20:30 for the brand new series of Vets: Gach Creutair Béo.

The series is on air for 12 weeks and follows the work of Scottish vets as they tend to small, large and wild animals.

The Midas Touch continues with new tv commissions

With ten hours of new tv commissions this year, we are busy busy busy right now!

Filming is almost complete on season 4 of our very successful vets series for BBC ALBA and we're flying high once again as we start filming for our second "Highland Airports" series.

While we can't reveal too much about our other television work just yet, let's just say we'll be "all at sea".

Stay tuned, more follows shortly!

Our new airports series for BBC ALBA goes on air!

Our new Airports series "Puirt-adhair" starts on BBC ALBA on Mon 25th April at 8.30pm and repeats every Fri at 9pm. Great behind the scenes insight. Great watch.

We're off to a flying start in 2016

We're off to a flying start in 2016 as work continues on our new Scottish aviation series for the BBC.

Vets post production

The post production editing continues on our Vets series in tandem with our filming schedule.  For those with interest in the technical side, we offline on Avid and we have developed a neat workflow that allows the producer to send guide voiceovers to the editor regardless of where she is in the world. 

She records them on her Mac laptop using QuickTime’s audio recording, and because it goes straight into Avid the editor can work with the MPEG4 files which saves her having to convert them to AIFF files (which she used to do in iTunes using her previous workflow).

Busy July

Vets’ filming continues with our focus on more severe or specialist small animal cases that have been referred from other vets practices.  We spend a few days at Dick Vets School in Edinburgh, and at Vets Now’s referral centre in Glasgow.

And, our team is beavering away on the pre-production phase of our new airports TV series – watch this space!

It has also been a very busy month on the corporate front as work finishes on a major offshore video induction for one of our oil & gas clients. 

May Media Training

The Midas Media team has been busy running several media training courses this month for oil operators.  Despite the downturn in the oil price, our clients understand the importance of reputation management and how critical it is to practice their skills. 

And, how media in the 21st century has changed: with the growth of social media and smartphones - everyone is a reporter!

Our trainers still actively work in the media and have numerous offshore trips to rigs, platforms and FPSO’s under their belt, which helps us deliver authentic and credible training to our oil & gas clients (UK and worldwide).