Report
13/05/2020
Edi Smockum was offering advice on how to break into the television industry at an RTS Futures webinar in mid-May, held during the coronavirus lockdown.
The Managing Director of ThinkBigger!, which runs new entrant schemes for the independent producers’ association Pact and Channel 4, admitted that entry schemes are highly competitive. But she...
Report
06/05/2020
“I’ve seen a tonne of people in these last few weeks reinvent themselves and how they’re doing things … At Nutopia, we’ve been working on amazing remote filming kits.
“Creative people are the most adaptable, so I’m very optimistic.”
The head of talent at factual producer Nutopia was part of a panel of talent executives talking at RTS Futures’...
Report
13/02/2020
Voltage Television executive producer Amanda Lyon, who looks after BBC Two hit Inside the Factory: said: “I’ve never felt I’ve missed out on anything by being female.”
She was talking at the “Wonder women” session, which brought together successful female TV executives in conversation with presenter Ria Hebden.
But Lyon added that a gender split...
RTS News
09/01/2020
The Royal Television Society (RTS) is the UK and Ireland’s leading forum for television and related media. The RTS website has become a hub for TV-related news and features, building on the Society’s long history of awards and agenda-setting events.
Previous interns have gone on to work for the BBC, Radio Times, Renegade Pictures and Warner Bros....
24/12/2019
Comedian Tom Allen tells us his favourite things about Christmas in our festive quiz.