In recent years these industries have delivered more economic value than the life sciences, aerospace and automotive sectors combined. But skills are currently the biggest single inhibitor to growth (Seetha Kumar, ScreenSkills)
Esteemed Executive Producer Will Trotter will give us a fascinating insight into the world of TV Drama produced in the Midlands and talk about his life developing such favourites as Land Girls, Doctors, Father Brown and Sister Boniface Mysteries and share his life behind the scenes.
Fire, fog, supernatural mystery, massive oil rigs, explosions, giant underwater anomalies and more Scottish stars than you can shake a stick at! When it comes to drama - The Rig went Big!
Simon Bird (the nerdy Will from The Inbetweeners) plays a Christian patriarch convinced of an incoming apocalypse in this new six-part comedy.
The awards, for both news and current affairs, seek to recognise creative and excellent journalism by organisations whose broadcasts are transmitted on a UK based platform, such as Freeview, Freesat, Sky or Virgin or who create online video content from a UK production base.
For bookings, please contact Kirsty Whittaker.
Sam Ryder gave the UK its best score since 1998, with the third-highest jury vote in Eurovision history of 283 points. His performance also gave the UK its highest viewing figures since 2011, a decade that otherwise saw some of its lowest vote rankings. The Grand Final was the second-most-watched programme in Britain (8.9 million viewers), behind only the Platinum Party at the Palace, at which Sam Ryder also performed.
The TV Sports Documentary genre is enjoying a golden age across the world, with all broadcasters and content platforms commissioning a continuous flow of new programmes in this area; historical, observational, investigative or more traditional profiles, Sports Docs are everywhere you look.
And the genre has exploded in Wales too, with the S4C, BBC and ITV schedules all bursting with feature length one-off sports stories and docu-series, plus many of our Indies have been busy making docs for network channels and the streaming platforms.
Ad revenue for the UK podcast industry was valued at £40m in 2021 and estimated to rise £60m by 2025 (PWC). A huge variety of high quality, lively and innovative audio content has sprung up from sports to satire; dating to drama; crime to cookery and everything else in between. Podcasts are now providing a vast pool of ideas, talent and IP ripe for development for the television industry, and with listeners on the whole younger than those watching TV, the medium is also a live litmus test for topics, people and formats which engage this hard-won audience.
Charlie Mackesy's comfort blanket of a picture book is brought to wonderful, wintery life in this faithfully animated short film.
