I grew up watching a lot of BBC programmes. Horizon, Panorama, Top Gear (ever since Jeremy Clarkson was a pimpled-faced-poofy-haired-adolescent), and Mastermind are some that I recall enjoying a lot. Since I moved out of BBC's reach I haven't seen much of quality TV productions, especially documentaries. I have always been very curious about BBC's production methods. How much research they do? How many people are involved in a production? How many and how long are the interviews for each program? Well, recently I stumbled on BBC's latest production called Digital Revolution. It is indeed a revolution in TV programming. The entire process is open and transparent. Online research they have done for the program is available at delicious, there is a blog that reports on the progress, a Twitter feed for your "real-time" needs, and raw, uncut film footage of interviews with web pioneers, a mashup contest of some sort using these footage, etc. The program is not finished yet but there is already amble content on their site to keep me busy. One of the interesting interviews is the one with Estonian President discussing the cyber attack on Estonia.

Entire site is worth spending some time on, so go check it out!