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.
It was easier in the old days – if a show was good enough, families in their millions watched it from their living rooms. But as choice, channels and platforms mushroomed, finding an audience for a programme became more complicated. The fight to be heard now requires broadcasters to break out to digital platforms, mobile devices and new audiences – who increasingly receive their recommendations from social media.
This RTS webinar examines how TV viewing has changed in lockdown, what has been working and why, and how broadcasters will sustain their resurgence in an age of streaming.
This RTS webinar investigates how consumers are responding to all this choice, what drives their choice, and investigates how both legacy TV and video brands are tackling the new world and expand their tool kits to stand out find audiences.
Moderator Boyd Hilton, Entertainment Director, Heat and Deputy Editor, Pilot TV Magazine, is joined by Selma Turajlic, Co-founder and Co-CEO, Little Dot Studios, Zaid Al-Qassab, Chief Marketing Officer, Channel 4, and Rob Campbell, Head of Strategy, R/GA EMEA.
“The biggest issue when we started gearing up to re-start production about six weeks ago was fear,” said John Whiston, who as ITV’s managing director of continuing drama is responsible for running flagship soaps Coronation Street and Emmerdale.
He said that production staff and talent needed reassuring after being isolated at home watching news coverage of the pandemic every night for weeks.
