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Making TV
Get Interesting Stories onto TV – Making Documentaries with a Difference.
Making TV is all about creativity – plus someone who can organise the ideas and put the practicalities into place to get it to screen – not all creatives can do that. Those that struggle with the practical need to join forces with a business-minded friend/colleague. Anyway the marriage of creativity and business is a [...]
How to Get a TV Exec to Commission Your Reality TV Idea
I get a lot of questions about how to pitch new television programme ideas so when Mark Marinaccio got in touch to ask if we’d like some information on pitching reality TV ideas, I grabbed the opportunity to pass on the benefit of his experience. Mark Marinaccio is an Executive Producer, Creator and Showrunner (American [...]
IMPORTANT NEWS FOR WRITERS & THOSE INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING IDEAS FOR TV!
Some very important dates for your diary: Writers First off, the BBC Writers Room have opened a window of opportunity for anyone to submit unsolicited scripts. It’s called The Writers Room. They’ve changed from a rolling submissions system to one with specific windows when they will accept writers’ work so you need to get [...]
How This Morning ‘ambushed’ David Cameron
It’s all over the online news – and will be all over the headlines tomorrow – Phillip Schofield handed prime minster David Cameron a list of suspected Tory paedophiles during a live interview on ITV’s daytime show “This Morning”. With the Jimmy Savile investigation in full swing, the show was following up rumours that senior [...]
TV Producers: WIN Cash to Develop & Pitch your Factual Series Idea
Are you a a television producer with a strong idea that just know would make a wonderful factual series with global appeal? Then this may be of interest to you – a chance to win £2500 towards developing and pitching it. There is only a week left until the deadline for your initial pitch document so you’d have to put your [...]
How To Get Into Wildlife TV Filming
Some time ago one of our blog or Twitter followers asked about wildlife programming and what a producer did in that type of TV production – sorry, I forget who it is was! Anyway we went in search of an answer and found Mike Linley at Wildeye – an international school of wildlife filming. Mike [...]
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Phillip Schofield, David Cameron and THAT List
Otherwise entitled, The Production, The Presenter & The Press Part 2 (part one is here!). Was Phillip Schofield to blame for the way in which ITV’s This Morning programme handled the interview with Prime Minister David Cameron? I won’t rehash the details – they are available all over the Internet if you want to [...]