In conversation with Tim Marshall, Jeff Foulser, Executive Chairman, Sunset and Vine, talks about his life in sports TV and how the industry has changed, both in terms of technology and business over the past decade.
Welsh journalist, broadcaster, weather presenter and drummer Owain Wyn Evans discusses his career with RTS Cymru.
ITV News Anglia presenter Becky Jago speaks with Hannah Ingram-Moore, Sir Captain Tom Moore's daughter and a marketing and strategy expert, and Rebecca Haworth, the first journalist to meet Sir Tom. They discuss the Bedfordshire veteran's headline-making lockdown campaign.
BBC Radio 2's Richie Anderson talks to Dancing on Ice's Executive Producer Clodagh O’Donoghue, Series Editor Sam Rees Jones and Creative Producer, Sita Patel to find out what it takes to make the programme, what it’s like filming on ice, what happens when there are slip ups, how the team revived the show and their most enjoyable moments.
Hear the inside story of production in lockdown in Bristol and how our Indies see the months ahead.
Lynn Barlow, chair, RTS WoE, is joined by Wendy Darke, CEO True to Nature Productions, Grant Mansfield, CEO Plimsoll Productions, Mike Jenkins, Founder, Blak Wave Productions, and Sacha Mirzoeff, Channel 4 Commissioner, Bristol Creative Hub.
Rylan Clark-Neal chairs this panel event about why we love reality television.
“Twenty years ago everyone thought reality TV was a flash in the pan, but it’s become a fixed item on traditional TV channels and on-demand services like Netflix who’ve recently had huge success with Too Hot To Handle,” said Rick Murray, managing director, Manchester-based Workerbee, which makes new Channel 4’s reality show, The Bridge, based on a Spanish format.
Television cannot be accused of ignoring the environment. Our destruction of the planet has long been a staple of serious TV documentaries. And in drama, zombies, pandemics and nuclear catastrophe offer stark visions of our future if humanity fails to mend its ways.
According to Richard Curtis, however, environmental programming doesn’t have to be “boring, didactic or terrifying”. The UK’s king of comedy reckoned it can also be “funny, interesting, educational and personal”.
An expert panel discuss how the innovative ways broadcasters, programme makers and the wider sports industry adapted to the challenging circumstances of the Covid-19 outbreak and the value new and existing technology delivered.
A panel discuss how difficult it is to define diversity in the TV industry and debate how much progress has been made in terms of diversity in the UK TV industry.
