Aside from the creative decisions, there are also budgets to stick to and legal difficulties to swerve.
At an RTS Northern Ireland online event last month, “Clearing music for TV and film: the lowdown”, music consultant and supervisor Catherine Grimes and Juliette Squair, co-founder of music library The Nerve, offered advice based on more than 30 years of experience each in music and TV.
The series will see celebrities team up with their family members to try and win cash for a charity of their choice.
Though the adult children provide the answers, it’s the parents picking the questions. Contestants will need to hope mum or dad know them well enough to choose ones their child can answer, and avoid ones they can’t.
Whichever team gets the biggest pile of cash will go through to the final, where they will have the chance to double their winnings.
Ranganathan first began his misadventures when his producers challenged him to step out of his holiday comfort zone back in 2018, where he travelled to Haiti. Through three series of The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan, he has travelled to some of the most naturally beautiful, but sometimes misunderstood places including Bosnia, Zimbabwe and Columbia.
The first series saw Ranganathan star as an unhealthily conflict-avoidant man doing his utmost to avoid dealing with his recent break-up. Rather than telling his young son Spencer (Kieran Logendra) that his parents are splitting up, Jonathan (Ranganathan) took him to hide out with his sister and her wife.
Plot details are scarce, but the release hints at a brighter series two "about falling in love, messy reconciliation and a baby."
A League of Their Own sees sports stars and comedians compete in a series of rounds designed to test their sporting knowledge. In teams of three, they have to answer hard-hitting questions such as: "which of these three sports people’s wives charges the most for perfume?" Or, "can you arrange David James’ haircuts in chronological order?"
In the final round, one of the teammates tries to sustain a physical task whilst the other two answer as many questions as they can, before their teammate admits defeat.
Misadventures sees Ranganathan travel to some unusual tourist destinations and challenge his preconceived ideas and stereotypes of the countries and the people that live there, whilst finding some hidden gems along the way. Across the three new parts, he will be travelling to Uganda, Rwanda and Madagascar on an adventure through central Africa.
The new episodes of Misinvestigations cover the shooting of hip hop star Tupac Shakur, and the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of Nancy Spungen, the girlfriend of Sex Pistols Bassist Sid Vicious.
Over six parts, Romantic Getaway will follow Alison (Ryan) and Deacon's (Ranganathan) desperate attempts to conceive. After countless IVF failures, they begin to wrestle with the idea that it might not happen.
But when they run out of money to afford more rounds, and the pressure mounts on their relationship, they resort to stealing.
Created alongside Benjamin Green (An Idiot Abroad), who also directs the series, Ranganathan leads Avoidance as Jonathan, a man with severe conflict avoidance issues whose life revolves around his nine-year-old son Spencer.
Having always deferred any decision, big or small, to his partner Claire (Jessica Knappett, Ghosts), Jonathan is finally forced to face conflict when Claire asks him to leave. With no home, no friends and no ambition, Jonathan has only one goal: to preserve his son’s happiness in the wake of his parents’ break-up.
The satirical comedy series will see Channel 4 ask comedian, creator and star of Chicken Shop Date, Amelia Dimoldenberg, to help change the public perception of some of their biggest stars by giving them a total rebrand.
The six-part series will see the celebrity guests undertake a series of unexpected brand exercises to help them connect to a wider audience, but to the celebrities’ horror, they unfortunately backfire.
It’s been a year since we saw “geezer diva” Gary King (played by co-creator and co-writer Tom Davis) attempt to take over his father’s building business and stay a doting father and loving partner, all the while appointing himself as the central figure of Butterchurn Crescent.
Centred on an alpha male who lacks the alpha-ness the role requires, the layered sitcom spoke volumes about modern-day masculinity, the working class, new money and family dynamics.
