A television channel looking for investment has filmed its first pilot children’s show.
Channel Macclesfield Broadcasting Company (MBC), which is based at Brookside Mill, Brook Lane, Macclesfield, was started by former pop star and music producer Mark Duffy and cameraman Richard Battaglia last year.
Mark and the team at MBC filmed a reading of Little Red Riding Hood with pupils from Alderley Edge School for Girls.
And staff at the channel say the show, which they hope to pitch to national broadcasters, is just the start of a host of new programmes they hope to film and launch in 2014.
Charlotte Fellows, an MBC presenter who anchored the pilot, said: “Filming the show was lots of fun and now we’re looking to show it to national broadcasters who may want to invest in MBC.
“So far the channel has produced a few shows but in the next few months we’re hoping to start on a lot more. We’re interviewing Lucy Kuy from Take Me Out in March and then we plan on doing a show about Cheshire’s haunted places and another about people’s crazy pets.
Former Falibroome Academy student Charlotte, 23, trained at the Manchester School of Acting, and recently appeared in ITV’s real life crime series Britain’s Darkest Taboos. She lives on Redruth Avenue in Macclesfield.
She said: “This summer the channel is planning to cover lots of festivals, and we’re also starting on a documentary about an eight-year-old girl who is waiting for a kidney transplant.
“At the minute MBC is only available online but Mark has applied for a broadcasting licence so we can start broadcasting on digital later this year and we will be launching our own app soon so you can get MBC on your iPad and iPhone.”
If you’d like to know more about the channel then visit its website at channelmbc.com.
