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Ideas & Development in TV

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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 [...]

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 [...]

Small Piece of Cardboard makes over £155,000 on Ebay!!

This morning I published a graphic bemoaning the time we waste on social media to the detriment of productivity. This evening I offer you an example of how social media can be far more productive than any other kind of marketing!   Following my blog post I got into a Twitter conversation with Julia McGill who told me of her [...]

How To Sell Your TV Show Ideas

How to present ideas for television is another frequently asked question around here. Having an idea for TV is only a fraction of the battle - developing it into a workable format, writing it up, pitching and selling it is where the real work starts. Fortunately a man with a very good understanding of how the process [...]

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 be a Success in TV – From Work Experience to Presenter to Media Mogul!

  If you want to work in TV, whether behind the camera or in front of it, Debbie King’s story will provide plenty of food for thought. Debbie’s career has covered a whole range of TV roles including her main passion, presenting. We like to tell it how it really is on this site and [...]

Stop Stealing my TV Ideas!

So – you’ve got a brilliant idea and you want to make sure no-one steals it off you. That’s the hard part. Now, first of all you need to understand that there is a chance that someone already has a similar idea in development. Anyone who has regularly pitched proposals for TV shows will have [...]

What to do with your Brilliant TV Idea

Do you have a great idea for a new TV programme? You are not alone. There are very many of us with brilliant ideas convinced they are destined to a great – and profitable – future. However getting your idea sold to a TV broadcaster is about as easy as getting a publisher to accept your first manuscript! In [...]

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