So You Want to Work in TV
Factual 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 [...]
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 Write a Television Brief & More
Barney Newman worked his way from television researcher to producer in entertainment and factual entertainment programming. He is ideally placed to talk about the responsibilities and duties that researchers and assistant producers are required to perform. His last post explained the difference between the two roles (you can read that here: http://wanttoworkintelevision.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/from-tv-researcher-to-assistant-producer/), Now Barney gets into the detail of the jobs: Compiling Celebrity and Production Item Briefs “These [...]
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Samantha Brick and a Tale of Shoddy Journalism
Samantha Brick, TV producer and journalist, writes a feature for the Daily Mail entitled ‘Why Do Women Hate Me For Being Beautiful?’ A headline ideally suited to the Daily Mail agenda. It’s easy journalism too – write about yourself and there’s no need to do any research for the story. Some deemed it a journalistic [...]