In Depth
30/10/2017
Although still early in his career himself, Brown has been making waves, having won the Bafta New Writing Prize of Drama in 2016, and been runner up in an Idris Elba-fronted writing competition, 'Write to Greenlight'.
Competitions are now key to breaking into the industry as a young writer, he believes. While in the past it was possible to get...
Report
17/10/2017
“It’s important for me to have something to say. We’ve all written stuff that’s competent and empty,” said Sophie Petzal, whose television breakthrough came on CBBC dramas such as Wolfblood and Dangermouse. More recently she has written episodes for Sky Atlantic’s Riviera and BBC Two’s The Last Kingdom, and has original scripts in development with...
Report
11/10/2017
The closing date for entries is Friday 20th October 2017.
RTS Scotland launched the Student Television Awards for their twenty-third year in early October. Lecturers and their students from across Scotland were invited to learn more about these prestigious awards and how to enter, as well as to listen to speakers from the industry share their...
In Brief
27/09/2017
At the late-September session, acquisitions, commissioning, marketing, media law and scheduling – rather than running and researching or presenting and producing – were the subjects for discussion.
Jay Davidson described her route into commissioning as “convoluted”. The BBC Two and BBC Four assistant commissioner moved from record labels to Radio...
In Depth
18/08/2017
You can’t just get up one morning and decide to be an explorer.
Well, you can, but you’re not going to get on television with that attitude. You’ve got to jump through lots of hoops to get there and it’s not just a case of how many countries you’ve been to. You don’t have to join the Army to get into TV, but I think it’s good to have some level of...