TV production is evolving, with technological advancements creating new roles and opportunities to explore. Join our panel of experts to learn more about the growing impact of Virtual Production, the overlap with traditional production and VFX, and the new careers and specialisms emerging in this exciting new sector of TV production.
Panellists
"Good afternoon everyone, it’s brilliant to be here with you today.
I know you hear from newly appointed Cabinet Ministers that becoming Culture Secretary is a dream job.
But in the last few months I’ve had the chance to meet some of the most creative people I’ve ever met in my life. And to see what they’re building and creating in every single part of the UK.
And that’s just Hacker T Dog.
Seriously though. There was a reason my first meeting with the BBC was with Hacker T in Salford.
RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Alan Carr and Graham Norton will all be returning to judge, but as always, they will need some celebs to give them a helping hand.
Alexandra Burke has caught the Drag Race bug after taking part in a Snatch Game last series (Snatch Game is a mock game show where the queens compete in character as an iconic celebrity), and will now be joining the show as the queens’ vocal coach. Her services will be required in iconic challenges such as the Ru-sical and the Girl Group Challenge.
Taking place on Tuesday 17th September at Kings Place London, David Beckham has joined the line-up of high-profile industry leaders speaking at the event, where he will be in conversation with Co-Founder and CCO of SISTER, Jane Featherstone.
New speakers for the one-day event include:
David Beckham, Former Athlete, Football Club Owner, Entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Studio 99
Rachel Corp, CEO, ITN
Dame Melanie Dawes, Chief Executive, Ofcom
Casting Director Shaheen Baig is renowned for her ability to find and nurture new and diverse acting talent and rising new filmmakers for both film and television.
Her many credits across the industry include How to Build a Girl, Everybody’s Talking about Jamie, Calm with Horses, The Nest, Three Girls, Black Mirror, The Third Day National Treasure and Strike.
She is also the casting director for all seasons of Peaky Blinders and Man Like Mobeen.
The Sir Ambrose Fleming Memorial Award is a special award which recognises an outstanding and enduring contribution to television in the West of England.
RTS West of England is delighted to present the 2024 award to director and writer Philippa Lowthorpe at a special early evening event at Watershed, with Philippa in conversation with centre chair Lynn Barlow.
Phillippa is a director of both feature films and groundbreaking documentary, and some of the most powerful TV drama series of recent times.
With British celebs such as Ekin-Su and John Bercow heading across the pond for The Traitors US, it’s no surprise that the BBC has chosen to commission a celebrity series for the UK.
A father and son fishing for crab, we gather, as the man gifts his catch to the boy in a loving gesture punctuated by a burst of colour. The crab’s orange shell is the only splash of it in this world of monochrome masculine conformity, the intimidating scale of which is illustrated in the mechanical sequence that follows. We see a conveyor belt of countless identical men crab farming, binge drinking and arm wrestling, like cogs in an alpha male machine, while the son looks on, blankly.
