Does unscripted TV have the talent pool to meet the future head on? And what needs to be done to make sure the people with the best creative, commercial and practical capabilities are working across the full range of unscripted genres from docs to fact-ent to sport to entertainment?

The new ScreenSkills Unscripted TV Skills Fund launches on the 1 June, with the ambition of investing £3 million a year in skills and training by 2024. How can this joint broadcaster/producer initiative go some way to answering these questions?

In this two part session, Vikkie Taggart (Stellify Media) & Sheila Robinson (Leadership Communications Coach) will break down how to stand out, make a good impression and enhance your skills.

First session: 16 June 2021 at 1.30pm-2.00pm

The first session focuses on how individuals can make your own luck, in three objective ways;

On Thursday June 3rd RTS Cymru Wales hosts an online panel discussion titled “The Evolution of the Football Reporter”. 

Devon and Cornwall - one of the most beautiful parts of the UK but in the past perhaps not the first port of call for TV programme makers and commissioners. Lockdown has changed all that. Channel 4’s Devon and Cornwall series made by True North has been pulling in record audiences of over 2 million for the first in series.  South West indies have felt the benefit with a raft of commissions with series like Twofour’s Cornwall and Devon Walks with Julia Bradbury  featuring on ITV .

Our panel will include first-time Director Tash Gaunt, Producer Kandise Abiola, Researcher Taylor Anderson, Executive Producers Tom Currie and Sam Bickley from Dragonfly TV. Chaired by presenter Basma Khalifa.