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Digital gurus hail 'most exciting time' for online video

YouTube and Facebook, which between them boast 19 billion daily views worldwide, offer huge online platforms to video content producers but television is also entering the market.

Sky’s new TV service Sky Q includes an online video section, bringing together content from many digital creators, including Barcroft Media, Red Bull Media House and GoPro. And youth brand Vice recently announced that its first European linear TV channel, Viceland, would launch in September.

In Conversation with Sky's Gary Davey

Sky's Managing Director of Content Gary Davey will be in conversation with Managing Director of Sugar Films, Pat Younge.

For the last year Gary Davey has been responsible for Sky’s entertainment, movies and news channels in the UK – as well as overseeing the entire entertainment offering of Sky Deutschland.

Gary’s long career in pay TV has seen him occupy senior roles in Italy, Hong Kong and the USA – as well as a previous stint at Sky. 

Sky releases long-awaited trailer for The Last of Us series two

Fans celebrate 26 September as The Last of Us day, as the cordyceps virus infected their apocalyptic dystopian world on 26 September 2003 and kicked off the events of the series. To commemorate, Sky has released the trailer for The Last of Us series two, featuring Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey reprising their roles as Joel and Ellie.

How To Win TV Audiences And Influence Them | RTS London Convention 2024

Executives from Sky, Warner Bros. Discovery, The Walt Disney Company and Paramount debate their approaches to production, streaming, and winning audiences and subscribers.

Speakers: Cécile Frot-Coutaz – CEO, Sky Studios and Chief Content Officer, Sky

Andrew Georgiou – President & MD, Warner Bros. Discovery UK & Ireland and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports Europe

Nami Patel – Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, The Walt Disney Company EMEA

Sarah Rose – President, Channel 5 and UK Regional Lead, Paramount

Meet the RTS bursary pioneers 10 years on

It has been 10 years since the Societys Royal Patron – then HRH The Prince of Wales, now HM King Charles III – launched the RTS bursary scheme.

To celebrate, we caught up with three of the very first cohort to hear some of our scholarsmany success stories. Their career paths have led them in diverse directions, from reporting in war zones to spinning tunes on Radio 1, to making a mark in childrens TV…

Yellowstone’s Kelly Reilly lines up Sky thriller

Under Salt Marsh is set in Morfa Halen, a fictional Welsh town (that translates to ‘salt marsh’). Nestled between mountains and the unforgiving sea, the tight-knit residents are under threat from their very surroundings.

Reilly’s character, Jackie Ellis, enters as a former detective turned teacher. As a brewing storm comes towards Morfa Halen, Ellis discovers the body of one of her pupils, an eight-year-old called Cefin.

Q&A with Jonah Hauer-King, Melanie Lynskey and the cast and crew of The Tattooist of Auschwitz

We gathered the stars and creators of Sky's upcoming drama The Tattooist of Auschwitz, to hear how they delicately adapted Heather Morris' bestselling novel about finding love in the darkest of places.

Stars Jonah Hauer-King, Anna Prochniak, Jonas Nay and Melanie Lynskey were all on the panel, as well as director Tali Shalom Ezer and Executive Producer Claire Mundell of Synchronicity Films. 

The event was hosted by Jason Solomons.