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DogsClub.tv Presenter Application – Terms & Conditions

DogsClub.tv Presenter Applications Details and Terms & Conditions   To apply you must be over 18 years of age. Your application should include a copy of your CV or a biography, your contact details and a short account of why you feel you are suited to the role. Any material/videos should be your own work [...]

What Does a TV Presenter Do Between Jobs…?

… create their own media, of course!   Working in TV is fun but very fickle, as anyone currently in between jobs and worrying about where the next one is coming from will know! My advice has always been to spend those dry times working on your own ideas, your own media or art. Not [...]

Should You Ever Give Up on Your Dream (To Work in TV)?

My sister watched her husband die this month. Such moments get you thinking about death and of course it’s precursor – LIFE. Excuse the dark opening to this post but death is one of the most effective ways to make you stop and consider where your life is leading and what you want from it. [...]

Free Video Training & Work Experience

Are you aged 18 – 25, unemployed and looking to get some hands-on experience and training in video production? Then this programme may be of interest to you – and it’s FREE. The deadline is Monday January 14th so if you’re keen you need to apply NOW. The programme offers TV production training and work [...]

New Year – New TV Opportunities

Happy New Year – and may it bring whatever opportunities you desire in the world of TV and creative media! Talking of opportunities, I thought we should start the year by highlighting a few – for both the experienced producer and director and those looking for work placements, plus a chance to win Amazon vouchers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Are You Wasting Your Work Time on Social Media?

Social media, eh… Where would we be without it?   And what a great resource it is for TV work – finding case studies, jobs, stories and the rest of it.  Most TV employers are very relaxed about employees using social media. You are after all working in a media environment.  Of course social media can get you [...]

WIN £100 IN VIDEO COMPETITION

Let’s talk video. Everyone’s at it and you certainly should be if you are studying, loving, working in TV!  Making films for your own website, for YouTube or anywhere for that matter is a great way to practise your media-making skills and advertise them. One of our gang, Ash Bhardwaj, has recently written about the role of YouTube in [...]

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