Published: 10:00 am, 2 April 2026
A ‘recreation’ of the RMS Titanic, staged in Belfast harbour by the use a ‘flotilla’ of virtually 1,000 drones, marks the arrival of BBC’s Made Of Here campaign in Northern Ireland.
The drone display, which came about on Monday 30 March utilizing 950 drones, might be broadcast to audiences as a part of a Made Of Here movie on BBC One Northern Ireland and BBC Two Northern Ireland on Thursday 2 April at 8pm, after EastEnders – the identical time and date the Titanic set sail from Belfast in 1912. Elements of the manufacturing may also function throughout social media platforms and YouTube. The filming of the drone activation was produced by the BBC NI Creative workforce.
The display was impressed by the four-part BBC factual sequence Titanic Sinks Tonight, which was filmed and produced in Northern Ireland by Belfast-based unbiased manufacturing firm Stellify Media.
Titanic Sinks Tonight, which initially aired in December 2025, has turn out to be the BBC’s largest historical past documentary of 2025/26 thus far, with an viewers of greater than two million viewers throughout the UK and virtually half of viewers watching on BBC iPlayer. The docu-drama used private testimony taken from letters, interviews, private memoirs and the accounts of public enquiries to inform the story of the sinking of the Titanic, minute by minute, from the second it hit the iceberg to the second it disappeared under the floor of the ocean.
The BBC’s Made Of Here campaign is a tribute to the hometowns and cities throughout the UK which have impressed a few of the BBC’s most iconic TV exhibits and characters. At the campaign’s coronary heart is a quick movie that highlights the BBC’s distinctive capacity to attach with folks throughout the UK by excellent homegrown storytelling, whether or not that’s in landmark dramas, laugh-out-loud comedies or memorable factual programmes.
Northern Ireland is the most recent location to be spotlit by the campaign, following exercise in Liverpool, Birmingham and Glasgow. The campaign highlights that homegrown creativity, from Cardiff to Belfast and Manchester to the Home Counties, sits on the very core of what the BBC does.
Simon Young, Head of History, BBC Factual Commissioning, mentioned: “We are so proud to have introduced the Titanic again to Belfast in the form of this extraordinary TV sequence. The metropolis took the manufacturing of Titanic Sinks Tonight to its coronary heart, and the result’s a gripping second-by-second examination of the ship’s ultimate hours. There’s no higher technique to mark the development of essentially the most well-known ship in historical past, and the creation of this epic sequence, than by bringing Titanic to life in lights on Belfast harbour.”
Keiran Doherty, co-CEO of Stellify Media who made the Titanic Sinks Tonight sequence, mentioned: “Filming at home in Belfast gave us something special, a connection to the Titanic that goes beyond the visuals. We weren’t just imagining the story, we were standing in it.”
Throughout the month of April, additional BBC programmes made in Northern Ireland will function in the in depth multi-media campaign, which is able to run on billboards, in press and cinema throughout Northern Ireland. Titles set to function in the campaign embody the hit drama sequence Blue Lights, which is at present filming in Belfast, Line Of Duty, which is able to quickly begin manufacturing in Northern Ireland, Hope Street and the award-winning comedy sequence Funboys.
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