Anita Rani

Riding the audio wave: How podcasts are taking the media world by storm

This session explores the deepening relationship between the podcast and TV industries. Hearing from commissioning, production and IP experts from both the UK and US, the panel explores the latest trends, how to convert an idea from one medium to the other, how to commercialise content and what the future looks like for these industries.

Chaired by broadcaster and podcaster Anita Rani.

Panel

Declan Moore - Head of International Wondery

Louise Kattenhorn - Commissioning Ed, Podcasts BBC

Darrell Brown - MD What’s the Story

ITV announces new quiz show spin-off Fastest Finger First

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Presented by Anita Rani, Fastest Finger First will give contestants a chance to win a prize money can’t buy, a guaranteed place on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire...? and the possibility of winning a million pounds. 

Every year, so many people apply to be on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire…? that getting onto the show is a win in itself.

The new show will see five contestants take it in turns to try and get as high as possible up the question ladder.

Anita Rani's TV Diary

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Well, I only went and won an RTS! What a wonderful, unexpected bonus after making the most important piece of TV I’ve ever made. My Family, Partition and Me told the story of the Partition of India, the brutal end of the Raj. Not only my story, the story of millions. My motivation for making it was realising, based on the reaction to my Who Do You Think You Are?, how little people know about this momentous period in history.

Winners of the RTS Programme Awards 2018 announced

Anita Rani picked up the presenter award (Credit: RTS/Richard Kendal)

The RTS Programme Awards, chaired by Wayne Garvie, honours excellence across all genres of television programming and recognise exceptional actors, presenters, writers and production teams, as well as the programmes themselves.

The BBC scooped 17 awards for its programmes and talent, and also won the coveted RTS Channel of the Year award.

Sherlock, Jago: A Life Underwater & Planet Earth II win big at the RTS Bristol Awards 2017

The Royal Television Society West of England Awards in association with Evolutions Bristol took place at the Bristol Old Vic on Sunday 19th March with a gala ceremony hosted by Countryfile’s Anita Rani.

Guests included Nick Knowles and Mark Millar from DIY SOS, writer, chef and broadcaster Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, CBBC favourites Andy Day and Naomi Wilkinson, broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby and actor Susan Wokoma (Crazyhead).

Event report: Countryfile: anatomy of a hit

“The journalism within Countryfile is the heartbeat of the programme,” said executive editor Bill Lyons, who was talking to a full house at the Everyman Cinema for an RTS Bristol Centre event celebrating the long-running BBC One magazine programme.

Over the years, Countryfile has investigated the countryside protest marches, foot and mouth disease, and rural domestic violence. “We don’t shy away from the grittiness of the countryside,” said Joanna Brame, who produces the series for BBC Bristol.

This week's top TV: 18 - 24 July

Monday

Eden

Channel 4

9pm

What would life be like if we could start again? That is the question posed by Channel 4's new reality series Eden. Ten women and 13 men, including four embedded camera crew, try their hand at living without modern conveniences as they build a community from scratch. Using only the tools they can carry, and some initial provisions, the group will live a year in isolation from the rest of the world and attempt to establish a peaceful relationship with their natural surroundings.

Who Do You Think You Are? line up announced

Mark Gatiss

The twelfth series of the genealogy programme will touch on almost a thousand years of history from the Tower of London to the Punjab in India, via the Wild West of the US.

Actor Sir Derek Jacobi uncovers a background of contrast, from humble roots in Walthamstow to the excesses of Louis XIV's royal court in France, while model Jerry Hall traces her pioneering ancestors from the cotton mills of Oldham to the plains of Texas.