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How to get started in TV comedy

Funny ha ha? The serious business of working in TV comedy” offered invaluable advice to an audience of wannabe comedy producers and writers. The panellists, expertly chaired by Rick Edwards, the writer and presenter of ITV2 panel show Safeword, demonstrated that there are many routes into the genre.

BBC Comedy head of talent Daniell Morrisey started out in TV as a trainee floor manager on BBC One drama Casualty. He recalled this being “a massive baptism of fire at the age of 20”.

RTS Futures Summer Party - Early Career Mistakes

RTS Futures pairs up with the Edinburgh International Television Festival Talent Schemes for a second year to host their annual Summer Party.

Evening Standard TV Editor, Toby Earle presents the panel on early career mistakes at the beautiful Kings Place canal-side venue.

Pokémon Go creators develop TV drama

Niantic, Inc. is the developer of hit AR games Pokémon Go and Ingress. The formerly Google-owned developer was spun out of the company in October 2015. In March 2015 Google announced that the software developer was working on adapting Ingress for television.

RTS Midlands Centre Awards 2016

MIDLANDS AWARD CATEGORIES 2016

Best Promotional Programme

This Award recognises production excellence and creativity in programmes intended either for general or specialised audiences made either for corporate purposes or retail/mail order sale.
They may have promotional, public information, training, educational, entertainment, special interest or other purposes.
They must not have been broadcast other than as an insert to a separate programme

RTS bursary student receives funding from Solent TV

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David Zohan, a student at Southampton Solent University, is making a film about a former military tank commander.

The short film is inspired by personal training facility CrossFit Connect who specialise in strengthening athletes and military personnel.

An evening with Kirsty Wark

Tips in 60 seconds... Getting into interactive news

Felix Renicks is an interactive news designer at Channel 4 News. Last year he created his first app for the channel.

Here he explains that thinking about which format to use, for example a map or a timeline, is fundamental when making interactive news.

Watch RTS North West Student Awards Conference: Engaging with the media

A panel informed budding students about how to break into the media industry.

BBC's Arif Ansari said: "Identify one or two reporters who you admire and try to work what they do and how do they put their pieces together.

"Try to be as flexible as you can be about where you're willing to work."

Tips in 60 seconds... Becoming an actor

Tyger Drew-Honey is an actor and documentary presenter. He is famous for his role as Jake in BBC One's Outnumbered.

He currently stars in BBC sitcom series, Cuckoo as Dylan Thompson.

Here he explains what it takes to become an actor.

Top TV ideas are everywhere

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Ideas for great TV are everywhere. The concept for Channel 4’s Gogglebox is believed to have come from a runner.

A researcher is said to have thought of the idea that became ITV’s Saturday Night Takeaway.

At an RTS Futures event, Introduction to TV Development, a panel of top development executives gave tips on how to develop and pitch ideas.

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