You’ve described an environment at Channel 4 where commissioners shape the shows and even originate the ideas. Do independent producers share your view of this proactive process?
While you finish the remainder of your tasty chocolate snacks, why not sit back, relax and catch up on the TV that you missed while you were napping through the delightfully long Easter weekend.
The BBC’s epic adaptation of John le Carré’s The Night Manager came to an end on Easter Sunday.
The videos allow never-before-seen access to the homes of Mark-Francis Vandelli and Binky Felstead by using cutting edge technologies to put you right in the heart of the action.
The videos have been created by media company Monkey and, says Managing Director David Granger, “introduce the first ever truly immersive reality experience.”
Take a peek at the extended highlights from the Royal Television Society Programme Awards 2016 in partnership with Audio Network at the Grosvenor House Hotel on London's Park Lane.
So before the sun miraculously parts the clouds, the daffodils thrust their heads through the earth and the rain stops, there is just time to catch up on all top TV that you may have missed.
Hello and thank you all for coming. If you are slightly bewildered at finding yourself at the British Museum on a Tuesday evening, I know how you feel. I’m a reluctant interviewee and an even more reluctant speechmaker. Tonight though I have no one to blame but myself. I chose to be here. I chose to be here because I wanted to speak for the first time about something that has mattered as much to me as anything I’ve put on the air at 4. I’m not going to bore you to death on terms of trade reform or the importance of Channel 4’s unique model.
Barbara Slater, the Director of BBC Sport, likes to bang the drum for digital. Even so, last year she found the time to blog on the corporation’s website just six times.
Four of those six posts apologetically explained why the BBC had been forced to cede flagship rights and was likely to make further cuts in the future.
The posts unpicked why the BBC, after six decades, had to surrender Open golf and also give up on a, perhaps vainglorious, bid to roll back the years by making the Beeb the exclusive home of Formula 1.
Subtitles, sass and sex are the latest must-haves for broadcasters who are serious about satisfying their audiences. British viewers’ expanding appetite for foreign-language shows has taken in the mafia in Gomorrah on Sky Atlantic, the chilly Icelandic landscape of Trapped on BBC Four and the visceral drugs drama Prófugos on Channel 4’s new online service, Walter Presents.
Felix Renicks is an interactive news designer at Channel 4 News. Last year he created his first app for the channel.
Here he explains that thinking about which format to use, for example a map or a timeline, is fundamental when making interactive news.
