Contract negotiations with the BBC broke down when the corporation reportedly wouldn't match Channel 4's offer.
The shock announcement was followed by the news that presenters Sue Perkins and Mel Giedroyc would not be following the show after it left BBC One. Star judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood have not yet confirmed if they will stay with the production.
This is your chance to meet the NHU face to face; view excerpts from and discuss their latest visual feast, 'Life in the Air'; and find out more about wildlife film-making by putting questions to some of their most experienced producers on anything from innovative shooting techniques and specialist equipment to their approach to ethical issues and social media.
This conference will consider the portrayal of poverty on television; it is being held by the BBC, The Royal Television Society, NCVO and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Who Benefits? will be chaired by BBC Breakfast presenter, Louise Minchin. We'll be looking at some of the reality TV and documentary programmes that have been made in poorer communities: what they are, how they are made, and why audiences watch them.
From drumsticks to diary entries, new BBC Four series the People’s History of Pop (PHOP) will look at the evolution of music through the eyes of its fans.
The series will be split into four episodes, to air throughout 2016, each focusing on a different decade of pop history.
In an industry first, production company 7 Wonder is working with Historypin, a user-generated digital archive of historical artefacts, to collate music memorabilia from fans across the country.
Campbell Swinton was one of Scotland’s pioneers of television technology whose legacy RTS continues to celebrate with a series of high level lectures. The last two speakers were then SNP leader Alex Salmond and BBC Scotland Director Ken MacQuarrie.
Rising above the political fray in Westminster and Holyrood, Claire Enders will explain the purpose and foundations of the PSB system of producing and commissioning news and current affairs, quality entertainment and documentaries, sustained by the BBC, C4, ITV, STV and C5.
The challenges of a shifting TV landscape will be discussed by television executives at this year's RTS Cambridge Convention, chaired by BBC Director-General Tony Hall.
Click here for the latest programme and news about Cambridge 2015
Nearly 45 years on, the climax of the Iranian Embassy siege in London on 5 May 1980 still excites TV producers and authors. Paramount+ is streaming Operation Nimrod, a documentary narrated by Tom Hardy and produced by Scottish indie Two Rivers. Ben Macintyre’s book The Siege, published last year, is being adapted for TV. And, by my count, this will be the fifth drama or documentary on the subject.
Using the verb “to dig” with the meaning to like or understand something was first identified by lexicographers in the late 1930s, coincidentally the era in which an Anglo-Saxon burial boat was uncovered by archaeologists at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. Subsequently, British TV viewers have really dug shows about digs. Currently, BBC Two viewers are enthused by Digging for Britain, reporting from old and new excavations, and Britain’s Biggest Dig, in which the gouging out of England for the HS2 rail route finds the past beneath the grass.
All of Us Strangers’ Jamie Bell will star as Niall, the estranged brother of Ruben, played by Gadd. The story will follow their tumultuous relationship while dissecting the meaning of ‘manhood’, starting with an apocalyptic row at Niall’s wedding. The narrative then rockets backwards, covering 40 years of their relationship, beginning with the two as teens in the 1980s.
Playing the two in their younger years will be Mitchell Robertson (Curfew) and Stuart Campbell (SAS Rogue Heroes) as Niall and Ruben respectively.
Join RTS NW for a FREE exclusive preview screening of episode one of This City Is Ours, the brand-new crime drama from Stephen Butchard (The Good Mothers, The Last Kingdom, Five Daughters), directed by BAFTA award-winning Saul Dibb (The Salisbury Poisonings, The Sixth Commandment), John Hayes (Nightsleeper, Dublin Murders), and Eshref Reybrouck (Undercover).
