Editorial and technical experts from the BBC and ITV discuss their careers and how best to get your foot in the newsroom door. Host Nesta McGregor, BBC Senior Sports Journalist is joined by Rajiv Popat, ITV News Central On-Screen Journalist, Kath Stanczyszyn, BBC Political Reporter, Lucy Kapasi, ITV News Central Content Editor, and Sam Hughes, BBC Technical Operator.
Riches follows the life and business of the wealthy Richards family, with father Stephen Richards at the helm of a multi-million pound cosmetics empire.
After 20 years of success, Stephen’s reaping the rewards of his business acumen. In his eyes, “no one who knows anything about black women and their commitment to looking good would think there’s anything high risk about my ambitions.”
The four-part series has been written by RTS-Award winning writer Danny Brocklehurst (Brassic).
No Return follows Kathy (Smith) and Martin who are enjoying a blissful holiday in Turkey with their son Noah and younger daughter Jess. Unbeknownst to the family, a horrific ordeal is about to tear their worlds apart.
The Chief Executive of ITV said that the coronavirus epidemic had “brought home to a lot of people” the importance of having “a trusted [TV] source, [with no] disinformation”.
But she warned: “A lot of the stuff that goes on air would not be made if it wasn’t for the fact that there are public service broadcasters.”
McCall called for public service broadcasting, which is currently being reviewed by both media regulator Ofcom and the DCMS committee, to be treated fairly.
Replacing Meghan Trainor, global singer-songwriter Anne-Marie will take her place alongside returning coaches Sir Tom Jones, will.i.am and Olly Murs.
Anne-Marie became the highest-selling debut artist of 2018 with her debut album Speak Your Mind. The BRIT Award nominee is currently working on her follow-up.
Anne-Marie said: “I am SO excited to join Sir Tom, will.i.am and Olly as the new coach on The Voice UK. I can’t wait to work with incredible undiscovered talent! Wahoooooo!”
Carolyn McCall, CEO of ITV, joins Charlene White in conversation as part of the RTS Digital Convention 2020.
Carolyn discusses the importance of PSBs to audiences, BritBox and making on demand bigger and better, the returning market for advertising and how ITV is tackling diversity.
Watch the full session here.
The Hitchcockian style thriller sees Joanne Froggatt play suburban London housewife Angela Black, who on the surface seems to have the perfect life.
Angela's life revolves around volunteering at a dogs home, caring for her two angelic sons and a marriage to a charismatic and hard-working husband Oliver (Michiel Huisman).
However, this perfect life is a lie, as Angela is a victim of domestic abuse and feels trapped in a situation she can’t escape.
If you thought that defining diversity was easy, think again. As the chair of a stimulating and thought-provoking RTS event, Aaqil Ahmed, formerly the head of religion and ethics at the BBC, concluded: “Diversity in itself is diverse. For me, that understanding of it isn’t there for a lot of people.… It’s not a numbers game… diversity is very complicated.”
Throughout the “Defining diversity? That’s easy” session, attempts to provide a definition that all the panel could agree on proved elusive.
The new cast members will guest feature as suspects in the first film of the Bath-based detective drama series, currently filming, alongside leads Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia.
Gouveia and Watkins will reprise their roles as the unlikely pairing of the gutsy DCI McDonald and the humble DS Dodds.
James Murray also returns as Chief Superintendent Houseman, handing McDonald and Dodds three new murder mysteries to solve. Lily Sacofsky joins as DC Milena Pachiorkowski.
It was almost 15 years ago that writer Hughes saw Banaz Mahmod’s face in the newspaper, a victim of a so-called honour killing.
In 2006, Mahmod was raped and murdered in a plot initiated by her own father and uncle, for falling in love with a man her family hadn’t chosen, following a divorce from her violent husband 10 years her senior.
For Hughes, after watching the documentary Banaz: A Love Story, she knew she needed to turn the story into a drama.
