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.

Get in the mince pies, mull that wine, and dust down your festive glad rags, as impressionist and standup comedian Darren Altman once again returns with another edition of the Royal Television Society's very own Big Telly Quiz. Brought to you by the RTS Nations & Regions: London, Yorkshire, Midlands, and East Anglia. 

Taking an in-depth look at his body of work including Guantanamo, In This World, Welcome to Sarajevo, and 24 Hour Party People, as well as his recent retelling of the Coronavirus pandemic in the brutally honest This England, the Q&A will reflect on the highlights of his incredible career so far.

Hosted by Stephen Armstrong, this Q&A will be published online on the Wednesday 7 December. 

This England synopsis:  

Watch the event from 1pm below.

Set and filmed in Scotland, Mayflies is a co-commission with BBC Scotland in association with All3Media International with support from Screen Scotland.

More and more brands are proving that it’s possible to create their own ‘Netflix-style’ binge-worthy content, which customers want to watch and commands their attention. In the advertising arena, ‘attention’ is a diminishing resource in an increasingly cluttered marketing and advertising ecosystem. It matters more than ever, and it’s even harder to achieve.

This is your chance to impress your colleagues and friends with your detailed and impressive knowledge of the TV industry. 

Tickets are free for RTS members but cost £5 for non-members. 

Note: You will need to book tickets in advance
So get together with up to five colleagues and friends to form a team (due to the venue layout teams will be limited to five people each).