Kate Phillips (Director of Unscripted, and Eurovision Lead for the BBC) will be joined by BBC Studios Entertainment & Music’s Lee Smithurst (Head of Show), Caroline Lloyd (Event Line Producer) and Nikki Parsons (Lead Director) to discuss the creative, technical and logistical feat behind delivering the world’s biggest music event to a global audience of over 160 million.
Ordinary people, like the four girls and a “wee English fella” who form the Derry Girls. The tale of Erin (Saorise Monica-Jackson), Michelle (Jamie-Lee O’Donnell), Orla (Louise Harland), Clare (Nicola Coughlan), and James (Dylan Llewellyn), growing up and navigating sexuality, friendship, and drugged scones has resonated with viewers from the USA, Great Britain, and even Martin Scorsese.
Join us on Friday 23 June to celebrate the best student talent in the UK at the RTS Student Television Awards 2023, sponsored by Kinetic Content.
The awards, hosted by TV and radio presenter Will Njobvu, will take place from 2pm at the BFI Southbank.
See the full list of nominees and find out more about the awards here.
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Zai Bennett
Zai was appointed as Managing Director of Content, Sky UK and Ireland, in June 2019. He is responsible for Sky’s portfolio of entertainment, cinema and kids’ services.
Does its success herald the start of a new era of cross-over IP as these two big sub-sectors of entertainment share stories, technology and talent?
The RTS has brought together a uniquely qualified panel to discuss the increasing creative collaboration between games and TV over the last 30 years. While franchises such as Tomb Raider and Super Mario Bros made it to the big screen, it took the The Last of Us, first co-created by Neil Druckmann and Naughty Dog in 2013, to prove that a game could become a critically acclaimed and popular TV series.
The UK’s rapidly expanding film and TV industry is a substantial contributor to the UK’s GDP, however, widespread skills shortages are being experienced across the UK screen industries.
This RTS event in partnership with Buckinghamshire New University has assembled an expert panel in front of a student and industry audience. Following the discussion, the panel will answer questions from the audience and consider how the screen industries can accelerate their move to becoming an industry that fully represents the UK population.
RTS Ireland has announced winners in 11 categories at this year’s RTS Ireland Television Awards / Gradaim RTS 2023.
The five teams will have to traverse Canada from the very edge of the Pacific Ocean in Vancouver to North America's most easterly city, St John's Newfoundland, all at ground level. And as always, the contestants will have to leave the modern world and all its comforts behind. There will be no air travel, no phones, no internet and no credit cards; just the cash equivalent of the same journey by plane.
