RTS National Event

With host Boyd Hilton are executive producer Jeff Pope, writer Neil McKay and cast members Stephen Merchant and Jaime Winstone. 

Watch this Q&A here from Thursday 30 December.

Series Synopsis

As the sun rises in Saint Marie, BBC One’s ratings-winning crime drama Death in Paradise returns to our screens for its much-anticipated eleventh series.

Joining Kay Ribiero are executive producer Tim Key and cast members Ralf Little, Don Warrington, Josie Jobert, Shantol Jackson, Tahj Miles and Elizabeth Bourgine as they discuss the Christmas Special and look ahead to series 11.

Image Credit: BBC / Red Planet / Amelia Troubridge

This talk, delivered by Tony Orme and the RTS Thames Valley Creative Technology Centre, provides an overview of machine learning specifically for broadcasters, it’s applications and why it works, and will answer the questions:

Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with the key cast and creatives from behind the series, including Nina Sosanya (Leigh), Faraz Ayub (Ali), Laura Checkley (Jackie), Stephen Wight (Gary), Ron Donachie (Don), writer and creator Rob Williams and executive producer Sarah Brown.

Refreshments are available from 9.30am before the screening starts at 10.00am. 

Synopis:

Speakers:

• Dawn Airey, Chair, Barclays FA Women's Super League and FA Women's Championship Sports 
• Philip Bernie, Head of TV, BBC Sport
• Andrew Georgiou, President of Sports, Discovery
• Eddie Hearn, Chairman Matchroom Sport and Prof Darts Corporation
• Chaired by Mina Rzouki – Sports Presenter 

From Grayson Perry to the Proms on the PSBs, to dedicated services such as Sky Arts and Marquee TV, the viewer has never had so much choice of arts on television.   

In this session we meet some of the key decision makers and ask how they decide what we see, how they commission, what the future holds and how you can pitch to them.

Join writer, broadcaster and art historian, Tim Marlow, in an exploration of the relationship between Television and the Arts.

Speakers:

Mark Bell, Commissioning Editor, BBC

Speaking with host Yasmin Evans are the creator and writer, Ben Richards, director Zara Hayes and stars Celine Bucken (Talitha Campbell) and Tracy Ifeachor (Cleo Roberts).

Series Synopsis

There’ll be an opportunity to enjoy some exclusive clips from the WW2 episode of the series, featuring Germany’s comedy ambassador to the UK, Henning Wehn, before Al will be joined on stage by German historian and author Katja Hoyer to record a LIVE episode of his critically-acclaimed podcast: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk

The evening will be wrapped up by a Q&A with Al and Katja, together with VP Programming at A+E Networks UK, Dan Korn, and Series Exec Producer from Avalon TV, Jay Taylor.

From Netflix trailblazers Making A Murderer, Don’t F**k with Cats and Night Stalker, and ITV’s true crime dramas such as The Pembrokeshire Murders and latterly Stephen, to Des, Manhunt and the upcoming Social Media Murders, audiences are more transfixed than ever by the twists and turns of complex murder investigations and the quirks of fate and happenstance by which normal, everyday lives can be transformed, in the blink of an eye, to tragedy.