RTS News
03/07/2019
The awards celebrate the best of student television talent, showcasing undergraduate and postgraduate films from 23 universities.
The films were awarded in the categories Animation, Comedy & Entertainment, Drama, Factual, News and Short Form, as well as the craft skills categories Camerawork, Editing, Production Design, Sound and Writing.
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16/05/2019
“When you’re young, you’re going to do your best work – you’re fearless and you take risks that you wouldn’t take when you’re older,” said David Henshaw, a former BBC reporter and producer who has run his own indie, Hardcash Productions, for almost three decades.
"It’s always going to be risky and you only get the really good stuff by taking risks...
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09/05/2019
Dave’s new sitcom stars Kayo – he co-wrote it with Phil Bowker, who also produces – and White Gold’s Theo Barklem-Biggs as two hapless drivers, Joshua and Ricky, who deliver pizza to their larger-than-life customers on the estates of Peckham.
Kayo, Bowker and Barklem-Biggs were speaking at an RTS Futures event in early May, which screened the...
In Brief
10/05/2019
The All Voices initiative will offer 12 year-long placements across multiple UKTV Original productions for new entrants, mid-level professionals and returners to the television industry.
Placements will be paid at standard industry rates and will cover all areas of production from running, sound recording, production accounting, production...
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04/04/2019
A packed RTS Futures event, Pitching Script to Screen, offered tips on how aspiring writers and producers should sell and hone their ideas.
Leading the expert panel of comedy and entertainment practitioners was Tom Davis, the star of the Bafta-award winning BBC Three sitcom, Murder in Successville.
Throughout the session he stressed there was no...