Watch highlights from RTS comedy panel
Get an idea of what was discussed about comedy on television at the RTS No Laughing Matter event
Channel 4
No Laughing Matter: How does comedy fight back?
Panellists BBC Comedy's Gregor Sharp, UKTV's Simon Lupton, Comedy actor Jessica Knappett, Channel 4's Nerys Evans were asked by Heat magazine's Boyd Hilton about the future of comedy.
Here they reveal the interest that remains in comedy and whether the genre will work online.
'Great comedy will always find an audience' says BBC's Gregor Sharp at RTS event
Plans to put BBC Three online could rob a new generation of comedy writers and performers of the opportunity to find an audience, said Jessica Knappett, creator of E4 sitcom Drifters.
Knappett, who writes and stars in the series said: "I feel like BBC Three going online is a door closing, it's an opportunity that's been taken away from me. I feel personally it's exactly the sort of channel I would write for and I found it difficult enough to get an audience on E4."
Humans: Anatomy of a Hit
Produced by Kudos for Channel 4 and AMC, innovative drama Humans imagines an alternative present where 'synths' have been developed to mimic their human counterparts.
Tips in 60 Seconds... How to avoid being sued for libel
Heather Jackson is one of Channel 4’s media lawyers.
Here she explains the importance of understanding libel when producing television programmes. Libel is “a published false statement damaging to a person's, company’s or organisation’s reputation.”
In pictures: RTS Cambridge Convention 2015
The RTS Cambridge Convention 2015 took place from Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 September, seeing senior leaders from the television industry on both sides of the Atlantic converge on the city.
The topics covered over the three days ranged from the importance of the BBC worldwide, to a debate about the lessons learnt from the General Election 2015, to the continued challenge that the television industry faces with the rise of video content emerging on digital platforms.
No laughing matter: how does comedy fight back?
Key industry players provide an insight into the evolution of sitcoms and discuss whether the genre has become more risk averse because of the pressure to land a hit, or simply evolved to meet the changing taste of viewers. We also examine if money is being redirected into genres that are cheaper and easier to make, how BBC Three moving online might affect the development and growth of new comedies, and who is putting their head above the parapet and trying to put scripted comedy back at the heart of TV viewing.
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This Week’s Top TV: 14-20 September
Monday
Girls Can Code
BBC Three
9pm
Television and radio presenter Alice Levine finds girls who complete computer coding in a male dominant industry. She takes Ellie, Daisy, Neelam, Tolani and Arooj to meet the UK’s most powerful women in technology. The girls are given a five-day task to invent a start up piece of technology.
Tuesday
Battle of Britain: Return of the Spitfires
Channel 4
8pm
Tips in 60 seconds... How to pitch for specialist factual
John Hay is the Commissioning Editor of Specialist Factual at Channel 4. This includes documentaries that focus on religion, the arts, history and science. He has commissioned a variety of programmes such as RTS Award Grayson Perry’s Dream House. Here he explains that the trick to pitching an idea is to find a new angle of what is happening in the world.
This is England final instalment returns
The eagerly awaited final chapter of This Is England ’90 will return to screens this Sunday.
Following on from the critically acclaimed This Is England feature film, the final instalment of Shane Meadows’ award-winning series will be set in the 1990s.
Channel 4’s extension, This Is England ’86 focused on the Mod revival, following with Christmas special This Is England ’88.
Set two years after the troubled '80s era, the new series focuses on the heady scenes of '90s raving era.